Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor There was an outlier on the shelf, among the brochures for Skylarks/Gran Sports, LeSabres, Wildcats, Electras, and Rivieras, just as there was an outlier sitting on the showroom floor, among vehicles nearly twice its size and Read more
Date: circa 1959 to 1960 Location: U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Source: Architect of the Capitol on Flickr What do you see in the parking lot here? UPDATE: Flipped the photo back around. Now the UFO is on the left side. And the watermark is backwards.
Dean Batchelor’s completely handbuilt 1956 Silver Bomb for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The Silver Bomb represents one of the first American Special creations with proven success of the formula in Sports car racing of the time continuing to vintage and period races now. Dean Batchelor, credited as Read more
Graham Hill drives his Lotus Type 49 to victory in the 1968 Spanish Grand Prix. Photo courtesy Ford Motorsports. Throughout much of the sport’s history, the evolution of the Formula 1 racing car has been a gradual process. In 1967, Lotus shattered that perception with the debut of the Type Read more
1954 Kleinschnittger F125. Photos by Robert Dening, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Like Henry Ford, German engineer Paul Kleinschnittger wanted to park a car, or more accurately, a four-wheeled scooter, in every driveway. After a decade of dreaming, he constructed a prototype from salvaged pots, scrapped aircraft and wrecked military vehicles in Read more
By William Hall. Photos by the author. The Drive Home II, the LeMay-America’s Car Museum’s classic car expedition to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, has stuck to a grueling schedule and Saturday’s early morning start upheld the pace. The team began a leg that would take them Read more
By William Hall. Photos by the author. Seeing the 1961 Chrysler 300G again was like being reunited with your high school girlfriend after she spent the summer in Europe. Something in her had changed, but you just couldn’t put your finger on it. Was she still the same girl? Did Read more
Photos by Jake Schreiber. It’s been a while since we’ve run an installment in the “From the Toolbox” series, but we recently received a pair of photos from reader Jake Schreiber that, quite frankly, has us baffled. As Jake writes, …the tool that is shown in the two photos… may Read more
From the seller’s description: Up for sale is a very rare 1970 Buick LeSabre Custom 4 door Sedan. The car is all original and is in a great condition for being 46 years old. The engine starts right up and the transmission shift smoothly. Check out my youtube test drive Read more
Photos by the author and Mike McNessor. Though both Checker Motor and International Harvester operated in entirely different segments of the auto market, a newly discovered document from the Sixties suggested that a merger of the two would prove beneficial to the two bulwarks of utilitarianism. “There seems to be Read more