Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
1929 Bentley 4 1/2 Liter Supercharged single-seater. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In June of 2012, the 1929 Bentley 4 1/2 Liter supercharged single-seater – once piloted by Sir Henry “Tim” Birkin to a Brooklands Outer Loop record-breaking speed of more than 137 MPH – sold for 5,042,000 British pounds ($7,907,530) Read more
Photos courtesy MidAmerica Auctions. The fifth annual MidAmerica Pebble Beach Motorcycle Market Place and Online Auction will return to the Monterey weekend with several Vincents, a 1951 Rapide and a 1954 Black Shadow, as well as many vintage Indians and Harley-Davidsons. What struck us from the pre-auction list was the Read more
1987 Porsche 924S. Images courtesy of Porsche AG. The Porsche 924, which first demonstrated that the German automaker could design and market cars with a front-engine layout, was the sports car that almost wasn’t. Originally designed by Porsche with funding from Volkswagen, VW exited the project (after investing an estimated Read more
It’s hard not to make comparisons between certain Russian vehicles and the Packards that, er, inspired them, and for his article in SIA #153, May 1996, Bill Schwartzberg ran down all the ways in which the circa 1960s Chaika M-13 four-door convertible (phaeton?) that he came across stacked up against Read more
While true bargains among collector cars are few and far between, sometimes finding a deal requires thinking outside the box. A late 1970s full-size Pontiac may not top anyone’s list of “must have” collector cars or Pro Touring projects, but this 1977 Pontiac LeMans for sale on Hemmings.com offers some Read more
* We all know that Porsche built the 914 with a four-cylinder or with a six-cylinder, right? Well, what about the two that Porsche (actually Ferdinand Piëch) built with a Porsche 908′s flat-eight? MotoIQ has the story. (via) * This is the magic that happens when you take back roads Read more
Thursday night cruise-ins at the Hemmings world headquarters draw everything from the sublime to the outright bizarre. While we’ve previously seen vehicles like a bobbed deuce-and-a-half grace our parking lot, we’ve never had a a Citroen CX-based Heuliez ambulance parked on our pavement. Until last night, that is. Owned by Read more
Now called the Hollywood Freeway, at the time Gus Newman took this photo for the Los Angeles Examiner – in November 1952 – it went by the name Cahuenga Freeway or Cahuenga Pass Freeway. Though the USC Digital Library, where we found the photo, doesn’t mention it, the photo depicts Read more
If you’re going to build a clone of the Doane Spencer Deuce, one of the most highly praised 1932 Ford hot rod roadsters (and the car that won the first hot rod class at Pebble Beach back in 1997), you better get your ducks in a row, and it appears Read more
The second Doane Spencer Thunderbird, constructed from parts stripped from the original. Photo courtesy Auctions America. Renowned for building a 1932 Ford roadster that many consider to be the most iconic hot rod of the era, Southern California hot rod legend Doane Spencer also had a reputation for building both fast Read more