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Photos courtesy Tommy Ivo A consummate showman, “TV Tommy” Ivo can’t seem to stay out of the spotlight. After a recent Tom Cotter-penned biography and the sale of his most infamous dragster, Ivo will celebrate a couple of career anniversaries later this year by serving as the grand marshal for Read more
Where exactly this street scene – which we found on the Duke University Libraries’ online archive – took place, we can only guess. The license plates appear to be California black plates, but there isn’t quite enough resolution to see them or the street sign in the distance in detail. Read more
Modifying a car doesn’t necessarily mean spoiling it. Take, for instance, this 1960 Lotus Elite for sale on Hemmings.com, a stunning little car with tasteful modifications selected to help keep the car on the road and active, a goal we can all agree on. In addition, the seller’s made available Read more
Everybody’s sure to have their own opinion on which car is the most American. The Ford Model T certainly ranks up there, along with many muscle cars, any AMC painted in the red/white/blue scheme, the Corvette, and the chromemobiles of the 1950s. The Impala SS certainly deserves a spot in Read more
We enjoyed David Rose’s take on one of the earlier Hemmings cruise nights, so we were excited to see him filming again at our June 28 cruise night for his HittingRedline.com. Let us know what you think of his videos, and for still shots of the same cruise night, hit Read more
While the Hemmings Blog is your go-to source for all things collector car, did you know that we’re also on Facebook and Twitter? Pinterest, too, for that matter. And we’re pretty popular around the ol’ social media watering hole – we’re closing in on 3,000 Facebook followers and a whopping Read more
Finished in that shade of Old English White with whitewalls, we can’t help but think of Mark Twain when we see this 1954 MG TF for sale on Hemmings.com. It needs a bushy white mustache to go with it, which wouldn’t distract at all from what looks like a spectacular Read more
While it’s more common to see the KA24DE (Nissan’s fuel-injected double overhead-camshaft 2.4L four-cylinder engine) swapped into 510s and Zs, it’s also not entirely unexpected to find one under the hood of this 1968 Datsun 1600 for sale on Hemmings.com. The engine looks like a snug but natural fit in Read more
While digging up the photos for the story on Rutland, Vermont’s dealership row on the University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program a few weeks back, we came upon plenty of street scenes from all around Rutland from roughly the same time, late 1960s through early 1970s, and thought a few Read more
Terry Shea just forwarded this excellent video by YouTuber nothinghereok of a Triumph Spitfire engine rebuild, shot in an entirely unorthodox and infinitely more entertaining manner than most engine rebuild videos we’ve seen.