Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Until somebody figures out how to build a car that doesn’t rely on a battery, dead batteries will remain the bane of all motorists. While we recently discussed how to choose the right replacement battery for your car, properly maintaining and charging your car’s battery will prevent battery failures and Read more
Porsche Type 904. Still image taken from Vimeo video. Next month, the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) will debut an exhibit celebrating Porsche’s history and legacy of racing victories. Entitled Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed, the exhibit will feature a wide range of both road and track-going Porsche models, ranging Read more
Found floating on the web, we traced this photo to a website for the Class of 1965 at the Bishop Kelley High School in Boise, Idaho. We’re presuming – with everybody parking in the grass and a couple suits in the photo – that this wasn’t an ordinary school day, Read more
That bit about the 100hp Mercury V-8 being optional in Fords in 1940 is new to us, but considering that this 1940 Ford DeLuxe for sale on Hemmings.com has been researched and restored by “the foremost authority on 1940 Fords” – and that the rest of the car, inside and Read more
The Dick Skipworth Ecurie Ecosse Collection heads to auction. Photo courtesy Bonhams. Over a span of nearly 20 years, Scottish racing team Ecurie Ecosse fielded an almost countless number and variety of cars in Formula One, Formula Two, and sports car racing, and many of them hailed from Coventry or Read more
Brock Yates’s Eliminator at Mecum’s Monterey Auction. Photo by Kurt Ernst. Over his remarkable career, esteemed automotive journalist Brock Yates collected many things, including (reportedly) motel keys, matchbooks, photographs and automobiles. Two of the latter with rather significant ties to Yates’s career recently crossed the block at Mecum’s Monterey auction, Read more
Jody Schekter drives the Elf-Tyrell P34 at the 1976 German Grand Prix. Photo courtesy Lothar Spurzem. In Formula 1, arguably racing’s highest level of evolution, the difference between victory and defeat is often measured in fractions of a second. This has been the case for most of the sport’s history, Read more
As part of the lead-up to the Ford Mustang’s 50th anniversary celebrations next year, Ford’s been releasing quite a bit of material, including video profile of the 1962 Ford Mustang I, the first concept car to carry that name. While the video tries (strains?) to draw a direct line between Read more
As part of the lead-up to the Ford Mustang’s 50th anniversary celebrations next year, Ford’s been releasing quite a bit of material, including video profile of the 1962 Ford Mustang I, the first concept car to carry that name. While the video tries (strains?) to draw a direct line between Read more
We’re not exactly certain of the date on this photo of Binion’s Auto Sales at the intersection of Highway 190 and North College Street in Killeen, Texas, which we came across over on Annualmobiles, but given the number of muscle and pony cars that Binion’s had on the lot, we’re Read more