Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
A Kansas City Automotive Museum event at Union Station. Images courtesy of Kansas City Automotive Museum. Three years ago, the idea of a premier automotive museum in Kansas City seemed like a distant dream. In a promotional video, the group behind the museum spoke of using a temporary space in Read more
Ferrari Mondial Cabriolet. Photo by Flickr user L2F1. As the 1970s gave way to the 1980s, Ferrari needed a four-seat replacement for its aging and controversially styled 308 GT4 2+2 coupe. Turning once again to styling house Pininfarina (as opposed to Bertone, which had penned the 308 GT4), Ferrari envisioned Read more
Equipped with the original flathead Ford V-8 and the optional two-speed Ford-O-Matic transmission, the current owner of this 1951 Ford Custom DeLuxe Country Squire for sale on Hemmings.com describes the car as “mostly original,” except for the electric fuel pump that has been added to boost the car’s up-time. Some Read more
Up until the latter few decades, truck bodies – typically sourced from a local or regional shop – were never all that standardized, which led to an almost infinite array of bodies even for purposes as seemingly narrow as transporting dogs and other animals. Of course, the variety comes from Read more
* We always enjoy hearing about high school auto shop classes taking on restoration projects, like the one at Bettendorf High School in Bettendorf, Iowa, focused on teacher Joe Phillips’s 1928 Buick, a car that his grandfather once owned. * The New York Times had a brief story this week Read more
2015 Ford Mustang GT. Images courtesy of Ford Motor Company. As a general rule, we don’t cover new cars on the Hemmings Daily; after all, there are plenty of interesting cars from years past to discuss, as well as plenty of media sites that cover the latest rolling smartphones in Read more
One must ask oneself, in considering Hiro Yamagata’s “Earthly Paradise,” whether the 1952 Mercedes-Benz 220a cabriolet upon which he depicted flowers and butterflies serves merely as a canvas or as a function of the artist’s statement, and if the latter then whether it makes any difference that Yamagata fully restored Read more
Monkeemobile number two, sold by Barrett-Jackson in 2008. Image courtesy of Barrett-Jackson. As rock and roll began continued to explode in popularity in the mid-1960s, Hollywood decided it wanted in on the action. Launched in 1966, the television series The Monkees followed the adventures of an at-first-fictional rock band struggling Read more
Sotheby’s and RM Auctions used Sotheby’s 10th floor exhibit space to display more than 30 vehicles for auction in a gallery setting. Photos by Terry Shea. Perhaps the least automobile-friendly city in the U.S. may seem a strange place to hold an automobile auction, but the combined event from Sotheby’s Read more
Recent findings conducted by the National Car Care Council revealed that 86 percent of the cars they randomly checked during state vehicle inspections, had at least one item that would cause the car to fail. Fifteen percent of these cars had low, contaminated or worn-out brake fluid. To put this Read more