Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
While our main focus here at Hemmings Motor News has always been collector cars, we’ve long had a section for boats toward the back of the big brown book that’s mostly populated with beautiful wooden boats such as this 1929 Chris-Craft Model 7. After all, even us hopeless landlubbers can Read more
Looking for a poster for your garage wall? Check out Hemmings Nation Flickr pool member 1968 Dodge Charger R/T’s homage to the B.F.Goodrich Radial T/A tire ads from a few years back, incorporating a quote from (we believe) Anthony Young’s book, “Mighty Mopars, 1960-1974,” and one of those “massive metal Read more
Photo courtesy Los Angeles Public Library After the success of last year’s inaugural National Collector Car Appreciation Day, the day set aside to recognize and raise awareness of the role automotive restoration and collecting plays in American society, it has now become an annual event, with July 8 designated as Read more
As a neat companion to our post on the Ford GPA launching into the Detroit River from Ford’s River Rouge plant, here’s a couple photos of the plant from the landward side of things, both courtesy The Old Motor. Above, the plant in 1932, during a hunger march, and below, Read more
Those following the new car scene at Switzerland’s Geneva Motor Show have surely seen the bold and controversial new Saab PhoeniX concept, created by Jason Castriota’s design team (see: “Looking Back, Moving Forward,” HS&EC #63, November 2010) to signal the new design direction of Sweden’s freshly independent automaker. One of the hallmarks Read more
I admit that I could count on one hand how many camping trips I endured in my youth – in fact, I would not need the use of all five digits. That aside, I can’t ever recall seeing – or hearing – of anyone who selected the Hutch option for Read more
Of the very short-lived vansploitation trend of late 1970s film, “Supervan” is perhaps the best known. And as we see from the world’s greatest chase scene above, the van in question – Vandora – was equipped with lasers. Looks like somebody had a little bit of Star Wars envy in Read more
With rampant unemployment, house prices taking a nosedive and a rapidly aging population here in the United States, it seems like the only thing preventing many people from ditching their static lives and roaming the roads in RVs and travel trailers is the escalating price of gas. Answer? Streamline your Read more
The blackwalls will certainly make Lentinello happy. Really, what do you need to enjoy an old car? Do you need glossy paint? Brilliant chrome? No, you just need it to run, steer, and stop, and the seller of this 1951 Studebaker Champion seems to promise all that, plus a new Read more
* The announcement of the Springfield Vintage Grand Prix earlier this week neatly coincided with a post on The Chicane on the Fred Wacker Allard J2 that competed in the 1952 Watkins Glen road races and contributed to the end of organized road racing in the United States. * If Read more