Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
It’s interesting what causes some people to buy certain cars. Take, for instance, the 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS that Arch Brown and Bud Juneau profiled for SIA #170, March 1999, which the original owner bought because his wife wanted their next new car to have bucket seats like their Corvair Read more
William C. Durant’s automotive ambitions did not end when he was forced out of General Motors (for the second time) in 1920. By 1921, the automotive entrpreneur was back with Durant Motors, a company that included such brands as Durant, Star, Eagle and Flint. This 1924 Flint E-55 touring for Read more
* How can one man own every model Mercedes ever built? Easy: He owns every (scale) model Mercedes ever built. What’s more, Mihail Neagu has taken to photographing them all, Michael Paul Smith style, and creating tiny people to populate his 1/18-scale worlds. (via) * As we noted a few Read more
Eddie Stakes has been cleaning out his toy closets lately and came up with this little gem, an AMX – naturally – but one with a nifty trick up its sleeve: Kenner Light Beam Solar Powered AMX. Like AMC, way ahead of it’s time, these came out in 1969 and Read more
Another non-Halifax carspotting scene from frequent contributor Mac Mackay, though this one’s a little closer to home than Pittsburgh. As Mac describes the August 1973 shot, he was trying to get a good photo of the laker HILDA MARJANNE while taking the St. Lawrence ferry between St-Joseph-de-la-Rive and Ile-aux-Coudres, and Read more
This 1962 Datsun Bluebird station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com was never an official U.S. import. Sold in Mexico City, this example was later refurbished and repainted south of the border in what the current owner describes as a “10-foot” restoration. Currently, it’s titled and licensed in California, so those Read more
The legendary 426 Hemi. Photos courtesy Chrysler. In February 1964 at the Daytona 500, Chrysler unleashed a new engine for teams running Dodge and Plymouth cars in NASCAR’s Grand National series. Though the Chrysler-powered racers had previously been uncompetitive on superspeedways, the new 426-cu.in. Hemi V-8 was a game-changer, and Read more
The 2009 Fur Rondy Grand Prix. Photo by Mikhail Siskoff, used with permission. Among the world’s great motorsports events, the Anchorage, Alaska, Fur Rondy Grand Prix may not carry the same prestige as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Indianapolis 500 or the Dakar Rally, but that doesn’t mean Read more
While recently in search of something completely different, I ran across a January 1952 issue of Mechanix Illustrated on my desk and realized that I had intended to scan the two-and-a-half-page article by Michael Stern, covering what appears to be the initial outing of Piero Taruffi’s Italcorsa/Tarf II bisiluro on Read more
As truck manufacturers in the United States began to adopt diesel engines in the early to mid-1930s, partly thanks to the popularization efforts of Clessie Cummins, so did they also begin to realize their limitations, particularly their colossal weight and their need for efficient scavenging. Proposed fixes for those issues Read more