Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
We’ve seen a number of these Fox-body Mustang pace cars – at times it seems like every single one of them must have been socked away and given much better treatment than so many other Fox-body Mustangs – but this 1979 Ford Mustang pace car edition for sale on Hemmings.com Read more
Though Japanese automaker Isuzu has been absent from the United States market since 2008 (excluding the brand’s commercial trucks), the marque once enjoyed a product line that stretched from compact cars (like the I-Mark, originally sold as the “Opel by Isuzu”) to Lotus-enhanced sport coupes, compact pickups and sturdy SUVs. Read more
As any car collector will be quick to point out, buying a vintage racer with a significant and documented history costs serious money, but as this 1963 Ford Galaxie for sale on Hemmings.com clearly demonstrates, it’s possible to enjoy a tribute race car for a far more reasonable price. Built Read more
Though the 1957 Buicks got plenty of flak for their styling, one of two Buick models for that year that escaped the majority of the criticism was the Caballero (technically the Buick Century Riviera Caballero Estate Wagon) as Alex Meredith wrote in his profile of the still-highly stylized four-door-hardtop station Read more
It’s not every day we come across a 1968 Kaiser Jeep M725 Ambulance, like this example currently for sale on Hemmings.com, and it’s even rarer to find one in decent shape. With less than 25,000 miles on the odometer, this Jeep still has plenty of life left in it, and Read more
* Scarlett Gurr of Surrey, UK, is one lucky kid. As the Metro reported earlier this week, her father, Stuart, scratchbuilt a half-scale 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO for her to drive around in, possibly in the Little Big Man race at Le Mans this summer. * In 1991, Mazda engineers Read more
Over on the My Hemmings pages, reader Alex Suriana asks whether he should restore his 1967 Dodge Coronet convertible, a car that his grandmother bought new. As Alex describes the car, it remains in original condition (apart from the radio) and runs well, but has rust issues. Alex wrote: I Read more
We can always count on the postcards from the 1950s to offer sunny skies, brightly colored cars and bustling downtowns, and this postcard photo of Second Street looking east in Pomona, California, offers all of the above. According to a commenter on Flickr user it’s better than bad‘s upload of Read more
Chevrolet built just two Corvettes with the famed ZL-1 all-aluminum 427-cu.in. engine. This 1969 Chevrolet Corvette convertible for sale on Hemmings.com is not one of them. Instead, it was built to appear as one, inspired by the discovery of an actual ZL-1 engine block holding up a World War II Read more
The first Vespa 50cc model, launched in 1963. Images courtesy of Vespa USA. Vespa motor scooters have been manufactured by Piaggio since 1946, but 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the brand’s most popular models: the “small frame” 50cc motor scooter that made urban commuting cost-effective for generations Read more