Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Restored 1952 Willys pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: History is known since new! Purchased new by California Pacific Gas and Electric. PGE sold it at auction to a local car dealer in SF area who sold it to a Walnut Orchard owner in Upper Lake, CA. Read more
How does one amass a collection of more than 13,000 automotive brochures from around the world while living in Manhattan? Ask collector Steve Hayes, as the New York Times did this past week as he prepares to sell most of the collection at auction. * The Henry Ford might write Read more
Story and photos by Joe Essid. A year after buying my 1974 Buick, and half a year after getting it back on the road, the old Apollo wears not 50, but three shades of gray primer and still sports an interior that Dr. Frankenstein would love. At the casual glace, Read more
Refurbished 1961 Chrysler New Yorker hardtop station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is without question, one of the nicest wagons on the planet. Several factors determined that statement. First being the rarity of this highly optioned, top of the line Chrysler New Yorker 9-passenger wagon. Read more
Bobby Unser’s 1968 Indy 500-winning Eagle-Offy. Photo by Zach Todd, courtesy Canepa. Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has a more than 50-year track record of taking on the world and winning. From being the only American-built Formula 1 race winner of the modern era-with Gurney at the wheel, no less-to Read more
Photos by author. Today’s auto manufacturers limit color choices to mainly boring-looking silvers and grays, along with equally uninspiring dark blues, black and white, but back in the 1950s new car buyers were given so many color choices they were able to create a car that was a one-of-one specimen. Read more
The Ken Miles (L), Allen Grant (C) and Dan Gurney (R) Sebring Edition Cobras. Photos courtesy Superformance. From a results perspective, the 1963 12 Hours of Sebring was a disappointing outing for Shelby American and its (relatively) new Cobras. Of three team cars entered, two retired early with mechanical ills Read more
Date: circa 1960s Location: Main Street, Waukesha, Wisconsin Source: Waukesha County Museum, courtesy Bill Schley What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: Selling my 1954 Packard Henney Junior Ambulance, the car is partially finished and I’ve done the hard work of finding all the obscure and impossible to find parts. As great as this car is, I haven’t had the time to work on it over the past Read more
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Mecum’s 2017 Kissimmee auction featured no shortage of blue-chip muscle cars from collectors like Don Fazell, Jackie and Gary Runyon, Dale Reed and Tim and Pam Wellborn. Of the purpose-built production racers that crossed the block, none outperformed Fezell’s Old Reliable IV, the very first RPO Read more