Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Ah, here we are, a nice, unassuming little lodge straddling the California-Nevada state line on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Nothing unseemly here, just good clean family fun. For the late 1950s, a time when the Cal-Neva Lodge and Casino hosted plenty of big-name celebrities and socialites, the parking lot Read more
Photo by James Rodgers. Though the company called Kalamazoo home and the club includes members all around the world, New York City is the place that made the Checker as recognizable as it is today, and to the Big Apple the Checker Car Club of America will travel for its Read more
Carroll Shelby poses with a trio of Cobras outside the company’s Venice headquarters. Photo courtesy Ford Media. In 1962, the industrial building at 1042 Princeton Drive in Venice, California (now Marina del Rey) housed the offices and production facilities of start-up automaker Shelby American. The one-time production facility for the Read more
We recently spotted a new batch of imaginative photochops from HarborIndiana over on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool worth pointing out, some of them a little more grounded, some of them not so much. Either way, we like the way the guy thinks. In the latter camp we see the Read more
One aspect of La Carrera Panamericana that keeps the competitors returning – other than the license to drive as fast as they can on public roads, of course – is the support they receive along the way. The police make sure the roads are clear, plenty of locals show up Read more
From Florida Memory comes today’s carspotting exercise – a July 1961 Joseph Steinmetz photo of a Publix Market in Sarasota, Florida. Steinmetz, we see, went inside for plenty of photos of that day’s shoppers (and spent some time shooting outhouses around Sarasota – exciting!), but we’re more interested in what Read more
It takes decades out in the sun, maybe a few close encounters with a DA, and the occasional wind, rain or snowstorm to get the kind of patina artists seem to like nowadays, the kind of patina slathered all over this 1953 Chrysler New Yorker Town and Country station wagon Read more
The Asteroid in street trim, post-restoration. After-restoration photos by Leonard Wiggins. Though “subtle” is not an adjective often associated with George Barris and his automotive creations, his 1963 “Asteroid” Corvette, built for offshore powerboat racer and airline equipment mogul Bob Nordskog, is, perhaps, one of the more understated creations to Read more
Hurley Haywood. Photo courtesy Simeone Foundation. Each year, the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum hosts an annual fundraiser that echoes the theme of the foundation itself, “the spirit of competition.” The evening also includes the presentation of the Spirit of Competition Award, given to a driver who embodies the theme with Read more
Porsche’s 1973 FLA study. Photo courtesy Porsche AG. In the early 1970s, the environmental movement was gaining traction the world over. After decades of indifference, industrial manufacturers (including automakers) were forced to face the fact that the planet’s supply of raw materials, clean air and clean water was not endless. Read more