Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
TC, TD, or TF? While similar enough from 1,000 yards, MG’s T-series cars exhibit more than enough differences up close to warrant a comparison test, but rather than just drive an example of each back-to-back-to-back, Richard Lentinello took a different approach for the article in SIA #173, September 1999: He Read more
Introduced in 1980 as a replacement to Toyota’s utilitarian, five-passenger FJ55 Land Cruiser, the FJ60 series Land Cruisers were meant to bring a bit of civility and creature comfort into the off-road equation. Though not quite as popular as the smaller, iconic FJ40 Land Cruiser, FJ60 models, like this 1987 Read more
* Think that Plymouth pioneered the concept behind the Mod Top? Maybe not, as we see from these photos on the All-GM Blog depicting a selection of five groovy designer convertible tops proposed sometime in the early 1960s, at least for a Buick Electra 225. (via) * Over at The Read more
Screen grab from The Other Fellow video. Road rage is something most of us equate to being a hazard of modern life. Too many cars, too many inattentive drivers, and too little open space produce a dangerous combination, occasionally turning the average Dr. Jekyll into a sinister Mr. Hyde, at Read more
The McNamara Corvette, a big-block 1967 coupe with just 2,996 miles. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Anybody who’s spent any amount of time in the collector car hobby by now has seen plenty of cars advertised as “low mileage” and “all original,” but in the case of the Read more
Moonshadow, Josh Malks’s 1936 Cord 810 Westchester sedan. Photos courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. It’s been called “The Single Most Beautiful American Car” by Forbes American Heritage magazine, and it has been driven on three continents. Now, the 1936 Cord 810 Westchester sedan once owned by noted Cord expert Read more
If the Mazda Cosmo and Toyota 2000GT aren’t two of Japan’s best sports cars, they’re at least two of the most significant, having shown American buyers and the rest of the world what the Japanese auto industry was capable of just as it really began its postwar reach beyond the Read more
Photo by kustommghia. Quite a few of the comments in the 8,000-car Hemmings Find of the Day surprised me. I fully expected the attempts to pool our money and buy the Idaho salvage yard, but didn’t expect so many to simply calculate the value of all that scrap metal and Read more
I promise I won’t go snow crazy with carspotting photos like I did earlier this winter, but might as well post another one today with winter still lingering. This one from the late 1950s showing Edmonton Motors at Jasper Avenue and 115th Street in Edmonton, Alberta, comes from Darrell on Read more
There’s probably not one of us reading this who hasn’t at one point dreamed (or still does dream) about owning a salvage yard. The possibilities for vehicular mayhem and resurrection are just about endless, and you’d have plenty of places to stash your project cars under the guise of a Read more