Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
I first met Paul Howard in, I think, 2005, when he and a couple other hot rodders stopped by Hemmings HQ on their way back from the Rolling Bones open house to his house in Massachusetts. He noted me ogling his Model A with a flathead V-8, sitting tall, black, Read more
Hmmm… the press release we received this week from (German-owned) British luxury carmaker Bentley was very intriguing, but unfortunately, left us with as many questions as answers. According to the release, four-time World Rally champion Juha Kankkunen of Finland piloted a Bentley Continental Supersports convertible to a record setting 205.48 Read more
From last week’s post on David Greenlees and his cohorts over at The Old Motor, you might get the impression they focus mostly on mid-century automotive photography, which is certainly not the case. Still, we can’t help but notice some of the more intriguing items from that period they’ve so Read more
photo courtesy landspeed.com The Bloodhound SSC effort may have the goal of 1,000 MPH in mind, but it’s certainly not the only team that is currently working to break the world land-speed record. Aside from two Australian teams – the Silver Bullet-RV1 project and the Aussie Invader 5R project – Read more
While guys restoring a Model T won’t mind one bit that this Ford film showing how factory workers assembled the rolling chassis is entirely silent, the rest of us may like a little musical accompaniment. What sort of tunes would you suggest to go along with it? (via)
It’s almost a foregone conclusion that this 1956 Cadillac Series 62 with such a low asking price will wind up as a parts car for somebody restoring another 1956 Cadillac. Or is it? A rust-free 55-year-old car in New Jersey is rather a rare sight, and you’d sit just as Read more
Aside from giving away a copy of my interior restoration guide a couple years ago, we haven’t really run any giveaway contests here on the Hemmings Blog, though that’s not for a lack of stuff around the office that we have to give away. Take, for instance, this Chevrolet Camaro Read more
Since November, UK resident and slot car enthusiast Emigre has been working on one heck of a project: Re-creating the chase scene from Bullitt in stop-motion with slot cars. Simple? Hardly. He’s also building from scratch almost the entire late 1960s San Francisco background scenery in 1/32 scale. He anticipates Read more
We do know that in 1925 Ford offered a grain truck body for its ton truck, but the cab on this 1925 Ford Model TT grain truck seemed unusual, so we contacted James Wagner, Ford truck historian, for his expert opinion. He said he believes both cab and body are Read more
Blue body color with a gold stripe and gold interior at first blush doesn’t seem like a color combination that really works outside of high school pep rallies, but on this 1965 Plymouth Barracuda, it doesn’t look so bad. Kind of accents some of the European-ish design elements of the Read more