Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Michael Vojtasko poses with the AACA Museum’s 1930 Cord L-29 convertible. Photo courtesy AACA Museum. Michael Vojtasko is passionate about cars. With an interest in automobiles dating back to his childhood, he has owned two Corvettes, a few mid-1950s Fords, some 1960s Plymouth B-bodies, a 1957 Nash Rambler, a few Read more
Photos courtesy Tom Luce. Last year, you’ll recall, we reported on a spate of speedway and drag strips that were threatened with shutdown in Southern California. One of them was Orange Show Stadium in San Bernardino, which hosted a final race on pavement late last year, seemingly the last ever, Read more
Once you leave the pavement, pretty much all of your on-road driving techniques become null and void. Off-road driving takes a completely different mindset and skillset, the basics of which this Land Rover-produced video – uploaded to YouTube by Anderzander in two parts – aims to teach. Not only does Read more
My father’s maternal grandfather was an entrepreneur in my hometown; not only did he establish a bakery and a dry goods store, he built the brick Western Avenue Garage, which he rented out to local mechanics. We found some neat late-1910s-early 1920s photos of this garage -which was later used as the firehouse and is Read more
Normally, we try not to exploit people’s bad days for our entertainment, even if the bad day took place more than 50 years ago. So let’s try to find something positive about this Portal to Texas History photo of a car-bus incident from February 1957 at the corner of Burnett Read more
Some people feel the need to name their cars. The only names I assign to my cars tend to be four letters long and bestowed while underneath them. This 1955 Buick Special for sale on Hemmings.com, on the other hand, has a much more pleasant name – Miss Molly – Read more
1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” racer. Image courtesy of Mecum Auctions. When the ex-Briggs Cunningham 1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “birdcage” earned the Best in Show European award over the weekend at the Keels and Wheels Concours d’Elegance, it was surely recognized for its advanced engineering and svelte aluminum body, not Read more
Thomas Edison’s 1889 Electric Runabout. Images courtesy Automotive Hall of Fame. Today, electric cars are seen by most consumers as an expensive novelty, delivering modest driving ranges, long recharging times and unattractive sticker prices compared to fossil-fueled alternatives. At the dawn of the 20th century, however, electric cars represented a Read more
1969 Chevrolet Corvair Coupe. Photo courtesy GM Media. It was Shakespeare who penned the words, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Though spoken in regard to Hamlet’s Denmark, the same sentiment applies to a car that may be both beloved and reviled in equal Read more
It’s easy to get jaded in this job. The rigors of our work demanding that we drive nearly everything we photograph, in order to fill a story format that demands we bring machines to life using only words and photos. Oh! the cool cars we’re forced to evaluate. Oh! the Read more