Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
I have to admit, when I read the words “long-wheelbase Bugeye Sprite” in the email from David Silberkleit, a Bugeye specialist in Connecticut, I had my doubts. Was this some kind of a Top Gear-style joke, a mockery of what Donald Healey and his team had created? If I had Read more
When he was six years old, reader Jay Levy’s father packed up the family in their then-new 1965 Plymouth Barracuda and drove from Miami to New York City to take in the sights. “All four of us in a two-door car with no A/C!” Jay wrote. ‘Two years later we Read more
After Cadillac pioneered air suspension on its 1957 Eldorado Brougham, other divisions within GM got a crack at it too. For 1958, Oldsmobile introduced the New-Matic air suspension, Buick offered the Air-Poise Suspension, and Pontiac made optional the Ever-Level air suspension, designed as the name implied to keep the car Read more
Lance Miller with the 1960 Le Mans class-winning Corvette in a still from The Quest. As if the days leading up to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance weren’t already chock full of events and activities, now there’s one more event that fans of automobiles, racing and road trips will want Read more
1978 Jaguar XJS, XJR-3. Photo by Tim Scott for RM Auctions. From the 1960s into the 1980s, Bob Tullius’s Group 44 racing fielded some of the best-prepared and most visually appealing cars to run in the IMSA GTO, IMSA GTP and SCCA Trans-Am series. Though Group 44 fielded cars as Read more
Big Willie Robinson. Image courtesy of the International Brotherhood of Street Racers. In motorsports, physical size is often seen as a disadvantage, as the days of fat drivers and skinny tires are now but a memory of the distant past. Whether it’s road racing, oval track racing or drag racing, Read more
Photography by Mark J. McCourt; additional images courtesy Volkswagen. When you mention “sporty Volkswagen” to your average car enthusiast, they’ll likely react, “GTI!” Some of the elder respondents might bring up the Scirocco. The fact that those are the default answers aren’t surprising, as those models have enjoyed long runs Read more
We’d have run this circa-1980 image of Jones Used Cars at 1335 Manheim Pike in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (which we found on Alden Jewell’s Flickr photostream) as part of our Lost Dealerships series, but Jones appears to still be around, doing just fine, in the same location, so let’s make-believe we Read more
At the bare minimum, there are some things you’ll need to replace on your car after nearly 50 years. Tires, hoses, batteries, these things are essentially consumables, so it’s entirely legitimate to still call a car that’s had them and nothing else replaced – as is the case with this Read more
All photos courtesy Joe Bortz. Just one General Motors Motorama dream car is enough to draw sizable crowds, so imagine what four of the Fifties flashmobiles would do when gathered in one place. Such a sight doesn’t take place that often, but will next month at the Geneva Concours d’Elegance. Read more