Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
No cars wear two-tones quite like cars from the mid-1950s. Take, for instance, this 1955 Oldsmobile 98 Starfire convertible for sale on Hemmings.com, displaying a combination of Coral and Polar White, as specified on its body tag. Sure, it’s not a color combination for shrinking violets, but nobody who drives Read more
While we all know the Bugatti Veyron is swift, and sure to boost your self-esteem, its rarity means it will have no more than a cultus following, and in metro areas you’ll be able to manage little more than short sprints. Firefly! (via)
We suppose it’s only appropriate that this 1950 Buick Super Estate Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com sports that loaded luggage rack and those travel decals in the rear windows – after all, according to the well researched history of the wagon, it’s been all over the country, and it appears Read more
All too often we forget that old cars are still cars, meant to be driven on a regular basis, so we’re more than pleased to see this 1965 BMW 700LS for sale on Hemmings.com still on the road (in Austria) as a daily driver. Not just a weathered old car Read more
Despite its appearance in the photos, this 1954 Plymouth Belvedere for sale on Hemmings.com is reportedly solid and runs and drives. Still, it has its issues, ranging from missing parts to that fried paint, so it sits somewhere between absolute beater and driveable dream. What would you do with it? Read more
* We all know that Volkswagen built Syncro Vanagons, but as Ronan Glon at Ran When Parked showed this week, a couple engineers at Volkswagen pushed to adapt four-wheel-drive to the Volkswagen Type 2 in the Seventies, with just five prototypes as a result. * Speaking of off-road Volkswagen vans, Read more
This Jam Handy Chevrolet video from 1937 – uploaded to YouTube by USAutoIndustry – has received a lot of attention over the years, in part because it does such an excellent job of explaining the inner workings of a differential, going through each and every step from the problem (how Read more
We know that a Tucker once ran in NASCAR, but this little piece of news beats that by a country mile. As Autoweek recently found out, a pair of Citroën ID-19s finished 18th and 19th overall in the Crown America 500, held June 1, 1958, at Riverside, which gave them Read more
It occurred to me recently that I’d stashed away plenty of pictures of the Seattle monorail for the carspotting series (and already included it once), so why not blow ‘em all out in one post? This first one doesn’t much look like the monorail that Seattle ended up with, but Read more