Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Al Robinson, the longtime racing journalist, broadcaster, announcer and PR chief at Dover International Speedway and for NASCAR, was leveled by a massive stroke in May of 2011, and had been confined to an upstate New York nursing home ever since. He wanted to go back to his childhood home, Read more
Parnelli Jones at Daytona Beach, 2010. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. In the world of contemporary motorsports, finding success in any given series takes near maniacal dedication to a single goal, countless hours of training and practice and more than a small bit of luck. In that regard, reaching the Read more
If you’ll recall the post featuring all the Falcons on a truck, we had a good discussion about body lengths and how the cars fit on transporters. With that in mind, we came across these two photos on How to Build a Time Machine of nearly a dozen Hudson bodies Read more
For those who pooh-pooh the excesses of the Fifties – the chrome, the bright paint, the in-your-face design elements – just take a look at this photo of the Monroeville Shopping Center (now apparently the Miracle Mile Shopping Center) that we found on it’s better than bad‘s Flickr stream and Read more
We have a feeling that most of these personal luxury coupes of the late 1970s were relatively well kept to begin with – when was the last time you saw one in tatters trailing a cloud of blue smoke down the highway? – but this 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix LJ Read more
The Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills, Michigan, recently opened its doors to the public as part of the annual Chrysler Employee Motorsport Association (CEMA) gathering, and when we first reported on the event, there was reason to believe that the museum may be opening its doors to the Read more
Photos courtesy D.E. Foeller Sales. An unusual 1969 Shelby G.T. 350 – said to have once belonged to former Shelby American Chief Engineer Fred Goodell – will cross the block at the D.E. Foeller Sales Collector Car Auction in Denver, Colorado, July 19-20. What makes the car interesting is that Read more
1980 Dodge Mirada, owned by Dave Powers and featured in the June 2007 issue of Hemmings Classic Car. Photo by David LaChance. Though this may be hard to fathom in today’s compact-crossover driven marketplace, personal luxury coupes were once seen as an essential component in any automaker’s catalog. Ford seemingly Read more
Sixth-generation Ford F-Series pickups hardly fall into the “easy to find” category these days; most were used up by original and subsequent owners, then pulled, pushed or towed to the nearest junkyard for scrap value. Finding one in passable condition is tough enough, but finding one in above-average shape with Read more
Though better known for his work in other areas of industrial design, Normal Bel Geddes still dabbled in auto and truck design during the 1930s, advancing his ideas of a streamlined future even more futuristic than many. Perhaps his best known design for ground transportation was the Texaco Doodlebug, a Read more