Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Don’t hate the player. Especially when he drives a neoclassic such as this 1974 Stutz Black Hawk for sale on Hemmings.com, a fine example of the genre that just needs a little love. From the seller’s description: Bought from original owner in 2000. AT, AC. Sunroof, leather. Power windows, brakes, Read more
One could easily spend days browsing slot car track videos online – there seems to be an endless supply of extremely inventive slot car enthusiasts showing off tracks such as the one shown here, inspired by Ken Block’s gymkhana videos and built by Youtuber sigfurniture.
From the Seattle Municipal Archives on Flickr, a shot of 76th Street and Aurora Avenue looking north, dated October 6, 1953. I never knew anybody needed herring at two in the morning until now. What do you see here?
A gathering of some of coolest looking vintage commercial trucks we’ve seen took place July 21-22 on the Maine coast. This was the annual meet of the Pine Tree Chapter of the American Truck Historical Society and the Maine Antique Tractor Club that is held at the wonderful Owls Head Read more
The Pavlovian response most people have upon seeing a woodie is to think of Southern California surf culture, but if we are to presume this excellent LeRoy Grannis photo of San Onofre Beach, shot in 1963 (promoting Taschen’s book on Grannis’s photography, found at Retro World) was representative of a Read more
Yes, that Peter Brock, apparently. How much wrenching on important cars went on in the garage at Peter Brock’s Redmond, Washington, house, we can only imagine, but we see that the legend had equally good taste in automobiles and architecture. From the seller’s description: Harmony and serenity await you at Read more
Seven years separate the traffic jam shots we showed a few weeks ago and today’s set, all found at the Los Angeles Public Library‘s online photo archive, and we don’t see that traffic’s improved one bit. Here, the jam has moved to the Harbor Freeway just south of the Santa Read more
Bonhams set several records at its Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on June 29, headlined by Tim Birkin’s 1929 4-1/2-Litre supercharged blower Bentley single seater. When it sold for £4.5 million (with premium £5,042,000 or US$7,907,530), it became not only the world’s most expensive Bentley, but also the most expensive British Read more
Seriously, who keeps a CJ-7 this nice? If any vehicle out there begs to be used hard and never treated with kid gloves, it’s a Jeep CJ. Not that we’re complaining that this 1979 Jeep CJ-7 Renegade for sale on Hemmings.com has been pampered and hardly driven and looks like Read more
It’s easy enough to find half-completed kit cars out there with questionable worksmanship that one can pick up for cheap. The trade-off, however, comes in the headaches involved in sorting out – and oftentimes reversing – the previous owner’s work. However, fully completed kit cars, such as this 1975 Sterling Read more