Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Unlike the Chevrolet Corvettes they (loosely) resembled, Opel GT coupes did not have a body made from fiberglass. Instead, the Opel’s body was made of steel particularly attractive to tinworm, meaning that few of the compact coupes survive today. Based upon comments to our recent post on the Opel GT, Read more
* Based on most reports, one wouldn’t expect to see much of a car culture in North Korea, and indeed, “Thaddeus Stapleton’s” report from North Korea – published this week on Jalopnik – shows a lot of empty roads, but as a car enthusiast, he kept a keen eye out Read more
Images courtesy of Tom and Ellen Demarest, and Volvo Cars North America Every car nut worth the motor oil running through his or her veins knows the story of Irv Gordon, the retired science teacher from East Patchogue, New York, who put an astounding 3,000,000 miles on the Volvo 1800 Read more
True, pickups were far less prevalent on the road in the Fifties, but one would expect to see at least one or two (or even a station wagon or two) in the parking lot of the Lowe’s – presumably the same hardware store chain we’re familiar with nowadays, which was Read more
Mini Moke in Mauritius. Photo by Dave Chapman. The British military’s loss was the motoring public’s gain. While Alec Issigonis, the designer of the Mini, thought that the British Motor Corporation might be able to take some business away from Land Rover by building a rugged, Mini-based, air-droppable utility vehicle Read more
Route 66 near Truxton, Arizona. Photo by Miguel Montesinos. Sometimes a luxury, sometimes a necessity, traveling the American open road has inspired generations of writers, artists, filmmakers and adventure seekers. In homage to the road trip, Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Harley-Davidson Museum has opened a new exhibit entitled The American Road, which Read more
[Editor’s Note: Reader Gary Swiatowy recently wrote up the below article on the restoration of a 1964 Chevrolet Corvair Spyder that Carl Sagan once owned for the July/August issue of the Corvair Society of America‘s Corsa Communique and thought we’d be interested in it as well.] Provenance (from the French Read more
Photos by the author. “Check out the Maverick,” I said as we got out of the rental car upon our arrival at the Ramada. Juxtaposed against a backdrop of the premium-priced automotive exotica that characterizes the Monterey auctions held each summer during the weeklong lead-up to the Pebble Beach Concours Read more
With permission from the Nick DeWolf photo archive, today we’re running several of his photos, all taken in an unidentified junkyard in Emeryville, California, in 1971. What led DeWolf to the junkyard, we don’t know, but there’s carspotting aplenty here, with ‘em stacked seven or eight tall. What do you Read more
The DUKW Amphibious Truck, or “Duck” as it’s more commonly known. Photos courtesy Auctions America. When the military vehicles from the Littlefield Collection cross the stage this weekend, the lot names will read more like a farm’s accounting record than a quartermaster’s inventory list. American wheeled vehicles set to go Read more