Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
* Over at Custom Car Chronicle, Rik Hoving pulled several photos from the Larry Watson archives showing some of the Skittles-like paint schemes that Watson applied to a few customers’ cars in the Seventies. Taste the rainbow! * Russian V. Kurunkov wanted a car he could drive on land, snow, Read more
From the Swedish website Klassiker.nu comes this video focusing on Mexico-born artist Gabriel Orozco’s La DS, a Citroen DS that he and assistant Philippe Picoli converted into a super-narrow tandem-seater in order to explore ideas about space and perception. In the process he made it no longer driveable. The New Read more
It’s pretty difficult to see much of the John Sexton Building – which still stands today – from where C. William Brubaker photographed it sometime in 1978 at the corner of West Hubbard and North Orleans in Chicago, mostly because a more modern building now stands where the parking lot Read more
To make a small fortune in racing, it’s said, it’s best to start with a large one. Even at the amateur level, most forms of motorsport have grown exponentially in cost over the past few decades, though there are still ways to keep racing affordable. This 1961 Austin-Healey Mk. II Read more
Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. After much speculation as to the fate of the eight Corvettes damaged in the sinkhole that formed under the National Corvette Museum earlier this week, General Motors announced yesterday that it will oversee restoration efforts for all eight cars. That would mean that all eight Read more
1968 Porsche 907LH, chassis 005. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding and Company. In February of 1968, a Porsche 907 “longtail” took the checkered flag at the 24 Hours of Daytona, having completed 673 laps in the round-the-clock endurance race. That was enough to hand Porsche its first overall win Read more
Photos by Don Chamberlain, courtesy Jeff McKay. All too often we’re left either without a clue about many of the homebuilt sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s, or else we’re left piecing together their histories from breadcrumbs and moldering photos. Not so with the Don Chamberlain Special, which we Read more
Eddie Stakes is still playing with old toys. While the last toy AMX he showed us had photovoltaic cells atop the roof that apparently were used to guide the battery-powered car around, the latest two use pneumatic steering controls. Eddie explains: Eldon AMC AMX 69-70 steerable air car. Battery powered, Read more
According to the captions for these two David Falconer photos, taken in September and December of 1973 for the Documerica project, we see darkened neon and other commercial signs due to the ongoing energy shortages at that time. But car guys don’t need neon signs to identify the cars and Read more
If we need any further proof that station wagons were the SUVs of their day, often loaded to the gills to show the Smiths and the Joneses and the rest of the suburban neighbors that your family was truly doing well and living the American Dream, consider this 1964 Ford Read more