Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Among C. William Brubaker’s photos of Chicago, we’ve seen more American Motors products than in most of the other street scenes we’ve examined. Chalk it up to regional affinity, what with Kenosha closer than Detroit. That may explain why we see at least three AMCs in today’s Brubaker shot of Read more
It’s been a while since we checked in with Josh Clason’s Depth of Speed video series, so let’s take a look at this Depth of Speed profile on Roger Gisseman and his son Rob, British car enthusiasts who have wonderfully twisty canyon roads on which to drive their MGs.
Even without hitting up Google Street View, I can attest that this circa 1956 view of South Sandusky Street looking north in Delaware, Ohio, found on PhotOhio.org, hasn’t changed too much over the last 50-something years: To the right of the photo lays the academic side of Ohio Wesleyan University’s Read more
Ah, the New England estate auction. Musty, dusty, rusty farm implements in the barn and acres of lace curtains and collector plates in the house. Despite that, there’s still treasures to be found if you can get there early enough and elbow your way to the front of the crowd. Read more
This 1970 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale is not what one would expect from an Oldsmobile of the era. Let’s start with that rather spry blue paint instead of some dull earth-tone brown or green. Very attractive. Then there’s the 455 under the hood with (if we’re reading this right) 390 Read more
Restoring a rare car can be a daunting challenge if it’s incomplete, but that’s apparently not the case with this 1934 De Soto Airflow coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. While it is disassembled and in need of cosmetic and mechanical attention, its restoration should be more like piecing together a Read more
The Boss 351 version of the 351 Cleveland in its natural habitat, under the Ram Air hood of a 1971 Boss 351. Photo by Jeff Koch The birthplace and namesake of one of the muscle car era’s most powerful small-block V-8s will soon close. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported this Read more
Tony Lapine and the Porsche 944. Photos courtesy Porsche Less than a month after the passing of Ferdinand Alexander “Butzi” Porsche, Porsche adherents have lost another of their heroes with the death earlier this week of former Porsche chief designer Anatole “Tony” Lapine. Lapine died Sunday, April 29, at the Read more
Become an Amphicar, maybe? Apparently, abusing your compact car was the in thing to do in the 1960s, as we saw from last week’s Volvo commercial and now this promo video for the Corvair. Dig the so-called “Holden Special” prototype Corvair getting wrung out in the first third of the Read more
Even though the caption for this photo from the USC Digital Library photo archive tells us that it was taken in June 1959 somewhere on the Bayshore Freeway in San Francisco, we can’t quite peg exactly where along that route the photo was taken. Still, it offers plenty of interesting Read more