Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
From the photos of this estate auction advertised on Hemmings.com, it appears that all the parts are fairly well organized, or at least sorted, which, taken with the Pennsylvania location of the auction, makes me wonder if the seller/recently deceased had vended at Hershey and/or Carlisle. From the auctioneer’s description: Read more
The 1924 Doble profiled in this driveReport from SIA #71, October 1982, as we come to learn by the end of the article, has a curious link to the SE-101 steam-powered Grand Prix we included a photograph of here a couple weeks ago, but that’s just one of the many Read more
As a dedicated fan of inline-sixes, it always burns me just a little bit to see one get yanked due to the “just stick a V-8 in it” mentality, but the fact that the sellers of this 1967 Pontiac OHC six-cylinder decided to sell the engine rather than just send Read more
* Josh over at the AMC Javelin Trans Am Registry just emailed us this week to let us know that the registry’s new website is up, and contains just about everything you need to know about the cars, including an interview with Ronnie Kaplan. * Continuing his obsession with gas-turbine-powered Read more
In older photos, it’s not uncommon to see cars like this 1923 Lincoln – once proud and elegant luxury cars converted into service vehicles or tow trucks due to their stout chassis and powerful engines. In fact, they’re all over the place in the 1930s, yet you rarely, if ever, Read more
Bill Schulz recently sent along this photo which he inherited, but which came with absolutely no information that would help him identify the car in it. Bill writes: If the photo’s from my mother’s side, it’s probably in the Kerhonkson, NY, area. If my father’s, probably somewhere around Poughkeepsie/Pleasant Valley, Read more
What I wouldn’t give to spend a couple hours (days/weeks) studying this 1989 Audi 200 Quattro Trans-Am car. Really, it’s the same reason I’d love to study any race car – everything has a function and a purpose – but this car in particular actually succeeded in its purpose, which Read more
A couple months back, when Automodello sent us one of their 1/43rd-scale Griffith Series 200 models to review, they also sent us an original ad, below, for the Griffith, which came from Gene’s Foreign Car Service at 329 South Court Street in Rockford, Illinois. The last time the Google Street Read more
I recall as a kid wondering why the new vehicles my dad bought had a few miles on them when we picked them up from the dealership. It was my strong (perhaps OCD-influenced) belief that a brand-new car should have zero miles on it, no more. Dad explained that the Read more
Should you buy this 1964 Rambler American taxi, be prepared to confuse people left and right. While the “Anywhere, U.S.A.” bit should be enough to tell people that this isn’t really a working cab (nor, likely, was it ever one), and should be enough to keep people on the street Read more