Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
While it’s tough not to appreciate any FJ40, despite the extent of trail-preparedness thrown on top of it, it’s not every day you come across one that’s been restored back to stock, like this 1966 FJ40 for sale on Hemmings.com. Take those hubcaps, for example: I’m sure everybody in their Read more
This should probably be a Save These Cars post, but this assemblage of cars down in Woodstock, Connecticut, recently appeared on Hemmings.com. Unlike most personal accumulations of old cars, this one seems to range over several different marques and includes many desirable cars – from a quick scan, we see Read more
As much as the automobile has changed since the days of the horseless carriage, one thing has remained the same – they all run on gasoline. But gasoline today is far different from the gasoline that was used decades ago, as Jerry Heasley wrote in his Half-Hour History of gasoline Read more
While it looks more like some hot little Italian barchetta with confused coloring, this is indeed a 1964 Morgan, one of the 26 Plus 4 Pluses built in the mid-1960s. They weren’t very popular while new, thus the rarity; on the one hand, I’d take this sexy little thing over Read more
* Bob Gurr previously sent us several of his photos from old L.A. area used car dealerships, so we were pleased to see Dean’s Garage’s quick profile on Gurr, the designer and Disney Imagineer, this week. Some of those designs look like something somebody with metalshaping talent could bring to Read more
If you can’t get past the color choice, please try – this Murray-bodied V-12 1933 Lincoln KB would still be a striking car in the blandest of hues. Of course, whether the purple complements it or simply gets in the way of true appreciation of the Full Classic is debatable. Read more
Mercury is dead, long live Mercury! You’ve probably by now seen no less than a dozen tributes to Mercury history following yesterday’s news that Ford axed the marque. We’ll pay tribute in our own way, by checking out one of the hottest vintage Mercury vehicles for sale on Hemmings.com, this Read more
As our own Richard Lentinello often points out, vehicles like this 1959 Ford F250 are desirable because they’re honest. There’s nothing hiding under a cheap respray – no Bondo, no pop-riveted patch panels – and there’s no elevated expectations. You can lean against it in your riveted jeans and not Read more
On first glance, this 1969 Camaro for sale on Hemmings.com doesn’t look like a COPO Camaro – no dig-dish hubcaps on steelies, and it has those fine stripes. But we already know that a plain-jane look isn’t necessarily a hallmark of a COPO Camaro: COPO was just a sneaky way Read more
Not much of a description to go along with this rolling antique store 1912 IH, but it certainly has charm, if not character. Presumably, the highwheeler is stock, but that doesn’t tell us exactly which engine it had: From our reference books, we see that IH used a water-cooled and Read more