Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Shirley Muldowney talks about her drive to win. Still image from Vimeo video. Those seeking a high-resolution, in-depth look at the state of drag racing in 1973 will probably be disappointed by Burn On, a 16-minute film shot at the AHRA Grand American race at the New England Dragway in Read more
Drew Ford, the dealership on the billboard in this photo we came across on the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections, not only remains in business today on La Mesa Boulevard in La Mesa, just outside of San Diego, it also still appears to sell cars out of its “roundhouse of Read more
Ford built 6,066 Galaxie 500XL convertibles for the 1968 model year, but the Marti Report included with this 1968 Ford Galaxie 500XL convertible for sale on Hemmings.com documents that this is the only example built in this particular configuration. Factor in the car’s optional 325 horsepower, 390-cu.in. V-8 and claimed Read more
Former Durant factory in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Photo courtesy Ray Homiski. While efforts to save a number of landmark automotive factories – the Packard plant in Detroit, the Ford factory in Highland Park, and the massive Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti – have received quite a bit of press over Read more
1969 Ski-Doo Olympic 320 A/S. Images courtesy of the AACA Museum. Ask a dozen experts about the history of the snowmobile, and you’re likely to get a dozen different answers. Though the birth, and to some degree, evolution, of the modern snowmobile remains clouded in a fair amount of controversy, Read more
1983 Cadillac Cimarron. Photos courtesy GM Media Archives. Desperate times, it’s often said, call for desperate measures. In that regard, perhaps Cadillac’s logic behind the launch of its 1982 Cimarron compact sedan can be understood and even forgiven, although the compact sedan will forever carry the stigma of being the Read more
Equipped with the 90-horsepower, 239.2-cu.in. L-head inline-six engine and three-speed column shift manual transmission, this 1941 Pontiac Streamliner Torpedo won’t turn the rear tires (or tire, given its open differential) into clouds of expensive tire smoke, but that misses the point of the Pontiac entirely. Now, as then, this car Read more
In the waning days before World War II caused the U.S. automakers to shut down automobile production entirely, there still remained a few luxury cars on the market, including the Lincoln Zephyr and the Packard One-Sixty, and Arch Brown and Bud Juneau gathered a convertible version of each to compare Read more
* As Japanese Nostalgic Car noted this past week, last month marked the semi-centennial of Honda’s first passenger car, the S-series (S500, S600, S800) sports car. To commemorate the anniversary, Honda even apparently put together a replica of an S360, the planned-but-never-produced precursor to the S500, seen right up front Read more
Fittingly, given how much rain they saw at the beginning of the race, rain had wetted the streets of Zacatecas as this year’s La Carrera Panamericana contestants rolled across the finish line. Though the cars look no worse for the wear in Steve’s photos here, it took plenty of wrenching Read more