Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
If you haven’t noticed, lowrider culture has started to come in from the cold, so to speak, with the traditional collector car community. It still has a long way to go, and it’s still very regional – if there’s a lowrider at all in the Northeast, I’d be shocked – Read more
Plenty of people don’t like the boattail Riviera one bit. I am not one of those people – I think it’s an awesome car, with just enough throwback design elements, but not so many to turn it into a garish exercise in rose-colored glasses nostalgia. I’m sure plenty of people Read more
Claims of survivor automobiles can often be debunked by the tell-tale trail of an orbital sander, or yellowed plastic interior bits that belie the like-new condition of the exterior paint. Worse yet is a glaring tin-pot head of a modern grade zero hardware store bolt holding on a fender. Not Read more
Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com Looking back over the vehicles we’ve so far selected for the Class of 1986, we can pretty quickly come to a couple conclusions about the vehicles in showrooms that year. One, it was a year that saw great downsizing, thanks in part to the previous decade’s fuel Read more
Over at The Old Motor, contributor Ivan Pozega recently shared a couple photos of the Giants Despair hillclimb in Pennsylvania, circa 1959, showing a Lotus 11 and a pair of Elvas above and Roger Penske in a Porsche RSK below. See how many other cars you can identify. UPDATE: As Read more
One of the cars that will debut with BMW’s recently announced i sub-brand will be a small, smart/iQ-sized urban runabout called the i3. While it will inevitably present a compact, eco-friendly footprint that will likely seat two adults and a midget or two, you can already find most of those Read more
Last week we took a look at “Sorcerer,” and this week, BigLorryBlog turned us on to another truckin’ film, Cy Endfield’s “Hell Drivers” from 1957. What at first seems to be typical mid-1950s B-movie fare actually has plenty of good reviews, based more on the plot (ex-con takes a job Read more
On Wednesday, March 16, the collector-car community lost one of its most colorful characters, Billy Thompson, of White Post Restorations. Billy was well known not only for the fine restorations that his company produced and the many thousands of brake cylinders that they rebuilt, but for his humor, honesty and Read more
Let’s say you were a twentysomething mullet-head just when Ronald Reagan was getting comfortable in the White House. You therefore have to remember the big kaboom that resulted when Chevrolet unveiled its third-generation Camaro. The aftermarket for body add-ons swelled to the proportions of a Baltic GDP. So we know Read more
If you have any aspirations of joining a scooter gang, then you need more than just the leather jacket, jack boots and brass knuckles – you need a bad motor scooter, something like this 1961 Cushman Super Eagle with its 8hp engine and Mikuni carburetor. From the seller’s description and Read more