Hemmings Auto Blog

Divco experts, feel free to chime in here, but we don’t see any mention of the company ever using Chevrolet six-cylinder engines. Continentals and Herculeseseses and, in the 1960s, Nash overhead-valve sixes, but no bowties. Yet the Chevrolet six-cylinder in this 1955 Divco Model 334 for sale on Hemmings.com looks Read more

There’s plenty of cheap biker movies out there, but how many of them are groovy British zombie biker movies? The only one we’ve yet come across is “Psychomania,” later renamed “The Death Wheelers.” Thanks to Marc Tyler for the tip!

We thought we had canvassed the entire history of mystery monowheels several months ago with our post on the Motoruota, but as this recent photo from the Steampunk Vehicles tumblr blog shows, we haven’t yet seen them all. As is typical with tumblogs, the image came without any information, so Read more

From the looks of this 1968 Porsche 912 Targa for sale on Hemmings.com, we’d hazard a guess that somebody had embarked on a course of modifications on this car before abandoning the project. Sure, you could build on the previous owner’s modifications, or you could reverse them to restore the Read more

There once was a time and place when many of the great cars we now consider big-C Classics sat around on side streets and behind garages, when trios of Cords sat on used car lots, available for a song, or maybe a second shot at fame. Yet as Terry Boyce Read more

Once was a time when this land was awash in flathead Ford V-8s, and not under the hood of cars where they belonged. Nowadays, thanks to the traditional hot rod scene, we won’t say that flathead Ford V-8s have become scarce, but they’re certainly not littering the landscape anymore. So Read more

I plan to expand on this notion in a future column in Hemmings Motor News, but the other day I defended my attraction to oddball cars not necessarily as an appreciation of the aesthetics and the ideas expressed in those cars, rather as an appreciation of the philosophy inherent in Read more

After the Jeep, perhaps the most beloved Army vehicle – at least among those who served in the military – is the deuce-and-a-half, originally built by Reo (as the M34) before the Army awarded contracts to build it to Kaiser and AM General (as the M35 and its variants). When Read more

From the first time it appeared in print about 110 years ago, Packard’s “Ask The Man Who Owns One” slogan was recognized as one of the great selling lines of all time. Reportedly the result of a casual conversation between J.W. Packard and a spectator who asked him, “Is the Read more

Over at The Old Motor, David Greenlees recently posted this mystery engine, unique in so many ways. First, it’s a three-cylinder, air-cooled engine, one that looks rather experimental, judging from its heavy pipe exhaust tubes. Notice also the finned chambers that seem to be separate from the fined cylinders. We Read more