Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Photos by the author. Any Northeasterner into AMCs must have seen Bob Majeski’s 1958 Rambler Ambassador over the last 14 years: In the time that he’s owned it, Bob has put 34,000 miles on it driving it to pretty much every major AMC show in the region. Now Bob is Read more
While the Denver Public Library doesn’t say on its digital collections page exactly where in Golden, Colorado, mining company AMAX’s apparently recently built offices were in this September 1980 photo, we think they’re in the same office park as the address for the company’s current headquarters, and specifically, we believe Read more
While the seller of this 1974 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna Type S-3 for sale on Hemmings.com lists all sorts of performance modifications to both the car’s engine and its chassis, seemingly giving it the performance potential of some latter-day muscle cars, it still looks like a stock restored S-3, and given Read more
Photos by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy RM Auctions. Despite a 20-plus-year pursuit, Roy Gullickson has yet to realize his multi-million-dollar dream of putting the Packard name back into production. From that pursuit, however, he did end up with a roadworthy Packard revival prototype, perhaps the last car ever built to bear Read more
Photos courtesy SVRA. You can feel the past coursing through you, an unseen force of history, anytime you’re at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The ghosts of yesteryear live there, inhabit the property, from Ray Harroun to Louis Meyer to Jim Clark, and hundreds more. If you understand the sport, you Read more
When first published back in 1978, Healey, The Handsome Brute was one of the first of a series of hardcover books penned by Chris Harvey that helped jump-start the publishing of in-depth automotive books on a specific model. During that most prolific period of his, Harvey’s other popular titles were Read more
Photo by the author. Detroit has this terrific habit of not actually giving up on any of its engines or chassis architecture. For those trying to keep their cars alive, it’s a terrific boon. But it’s also an easy source of updating and modernizing older cars. I was reminded this Read more
While the seller makes no mention of the condition of this 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham listed on Hemmings.com, leaving the photos of the car to speak to that aspect, it’s hard to imagine any Brougham in anything less than the spotless condition as described. These were, after all, exclusive (and Read more
Herb Thomas (left) and Marshall Teague with their Fabulous Hudson Hornets. To battle the latest overhead-valve V-8s in stock car racing the early 1950s, one didn’t need correlating power. Rather, it took innovative chassis design, an unconventional engine builder and one of the most dominant drivers in stock car history, Read more
The Packer Pontiac “Swiss cheese” Catalina. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. It took more than just horsepower to push Detroit’s full-size cars into the 12s in the early 1960s – it also took some extreme weight-saving measures, perhaps none more extreme than Pontiac’s “Swiss cheese” approach. But it Read more