Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Here’s both a notification of a cool indoor showing of racing cars and a shout-out looking for participants. Promoter and entrepreneur Bob Miller has presented the IRCO Dirt Track Heroes Car Show at New Jersey’s Phillipsburg Mall for the past seven years, kind of a late-winter kicker to ignite passions Read more
Photos courtesy Suzuki. To be clear, the 1985 Suzuki GSX-R750 was not the first repli-racer offered to the riding public, an honor that some would argue belongs to BSA’s late 1950s Gold Star models, available from the dealership with features like clip-on handlebars, finned brakes for cooling, polished gas tank Read more
Seeing an opportunity to launch a mid-engine sports car of its own, Lancia positioned the Scorpion as an upscale alternative to the Fiat X1/9, and sold the car alongside its front-engine, rear drive Beta coupe. As the Scorpion only lasted from 1976 until 1978 in the U.S. market, sales of Read more
While Arch Brown didn’t quite answer the question he raised of Lee Iacocca’s role in the parentage of the 1981-1983 Imperial in his article for SIA #16, January 1999, he did give a full account of the luxury trappings that allowed the Imperial to live up to the promise of Read more
As the name implies, the Amphicar was designed as a multipurpose vehicle, capable of navigating both roads and bodies of water. As a car, its 1147cc Triumph four-cylinder produced a modest 47 horsepower, giving it leisurely acceleration and a top speed of just 70 MPH. On the water, the Amphicar Read more
* Low, sleek, chock full of advanced technology: the Dodge Charger III could have easily served as a prop for a futuristic sci-fi TV show or movie, but instead debuted as an idea car at the Chicago Motor Show in 1968. CarDesignNews has more on it and its post-show circuit Read more
1970 Hurst Grand Prix SSJ. Photo by the author. In the late 1980s, we were in the midst of the first muscle car craze, when selling prices were soaring on just about any model from the era, and there were stories circulating of some of the rarest examples being purchased Read more
As long as we’re focusing on wintertime carspotting scenes, we can’t forget the Chicagoland area and one of our favorite chroniclers of the area, C. William Brubaker, who took these three photos of East Chicago sometime in 1972. Above, Main Street looking north from between 138th and Broadway, below, two Read more
The seller of this 1955 Packard 400 for sale on Hemmings.com claims the car still wears the same paint and interior it left the factory with 58 years ago. The FrigiKing air conditioning system came later, but in-period, reportedly added in 1958. Assuming the information provided checks out, that makes Read more
Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. In the 1960s, there likely wasn’t a car-crazed kid who didn’t build a scale-model copy of Monogram’s Li’l Coffin show rod, the candy apple red Ford two-door sedan with a cantilevered roof accompanied by a relaxed skeleton on the box-top art. Count Ron Kilmer among those ranks, Read more