Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
There are many times when disassembling old parts that you end up stripping a bolt or nut and ruining your whole day. New shiny replacement hardware is often available, but looks 50 years newer than the piece you are attaching it to, and a lot of original hardware items are Read more
The Duke and Duchess Daytona, now fully restored. Photos courtesy Corey Owens. When auto restorer and Mopar specialist Corey Owens acquired the 1969 Dodge Daytona once owned by legendary street racer Big Willie Robinson, the car was a sun-bleached, rust-eaten shell of its former self. Now, roughly $30,000 in parts Read more
Getting decals are Hemmings’s 1932 Ford Speedster and Hagerty’s 1917 Peerless. Although the start of the Great Race is still two days away, there is plenty happening for the 109 teams entered in this year’s time/distance rally. Registration and inspection started promptly at 7 a.m. Thursday at the Ogunquit Welcome Read more
The Orange County Archives tells us that Henry’s Spanish Food and Steaks resided on the corner of Bristol Street and Newport Boulevard in Costa Mesa, and the photo of Henry’s from the archives leads us to believe it was a rather popular place (or that the photo was taken during Read more
According to the car’s Marti Report, of the 117 Torino Cobras that Ford built in 1971 with the 429-cu.in. Cobra Jet V-8 and the four-speed manual transmission, only one came in Grabber Blue with a vinyl bench seat and air conditioning. That makes this 1971 Ford Torino Cobra for sale Read more
Photo courtesy AACA Museum. At the same time, the Tucker “Tin Goose” prototype proved a boon and a bane to Preston Tucker’s dreams: It showed that Tucker could build the car that he hyped up so much, but it also became the lightning rod for the many claims that Tucker Read more
Hot Rods Forever stamps. Photo and image courtesy United States Post Office. Recognizing that hot rods have long been an iconic representation of American culture, freedom and ingenuity, the United States Post Office has unveiled a pair of new “Forever” stamps, each honoring the iconic and easily modified 1932 Ford Read more
Lance Reventlow. Photo courtesy Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. If Lance Reventlow’s life were a work of fiction, readers would find the details of his story too fantastic to believe. Born into a family of enormous wealth with ties to nobility, Reventlow would go on to success as a racing Read more
GM press photo. I like animals just as much as the next person. I grew up with cats, dogs and tropical fish in the house most of the time. When I became a teenager, however, I developed allergies and one was to pet dander. While I haven’t been able to Read more
More parking lot scenery from the St. Louis University campus in the early 1960s, though as opposed to the previous photo of cars taking up whatever space they could in a field, this photo from the Vintage St. Louis Facebook page – looking west toward DuBourg Hall, not far from Read more