Hemmings Auto Blog

Under the skin it’s a Buick, sure, but this 1922 Buick Battistini speedster comes with a very handsome body, coachbuilt by William Moal (grandfather of Steve Moal), and a very fleshed out and entertaining history on the seller’s website. From the seller’s description: This 1922 Battistini Buick Sports Convertible features Read more

Pretty much all we ever see anymore of L’Universelle, the GM concept truck of 1955, is the same color photograph and the same brief one-paragraph description, usually contained within broader articles about GM show cars. We almost never see any in-depth treatment of L’Universelle, establishing the concepts behind it and Read more

Researching the Isdera Commendatore 112i is a daunting task. Isdera is a company that seems to thrive on mystery and make it as difficult as possible to extract any information out of them. It doesn’t help that this Commendatore for sale on Hemmings.com appears to be a one-off version of Read more

* BigLorryBlog has been on a bit of an art kick lately, what with their post on Bohn’s futuristic truck designs, and with their scans from some sort of Autocar brochure or advertisement. * We came across Blog dos Carros Antigos’s post on Brazilian Ford truck conversions early in the Read more

The D stands for Delight, apparently. As a wagon, which I can’t recall once seeing in person, this 1966 1100D out of Connecticut certainly looks delightful, like something you’d see in the background of a Sean Connery-era James Bond scene set in an Alpine vilage. From the seller’s description: Rare Read more

Mark McCourt and I have been back from the big import show in Carlisle since Sunday night, but what with deadlines and all, I haven’t had a chance to go through my photos until now. You can’t talk about Carlisle without talking about the weather, and we were lucky there Read more

While I’m sure there are plenty of people in the United States who would love to have a Ute, they seem to be even rarer here than other Oz-only vehicles. Understandably so: If you’re going to go through the expense and hassle of shipping an Australian car over here, you’d Read more

For the longest time, I’ve wanted to build a cab-over-engine truck into a nice street truck, placed on a 1/2-ton chassis with a nice older stepside bed. Nothing fancy, like many of the street rod haulers you see nowadays, just something simple, light-duty and quirky. Nor am I the only Read more

There’s a collector up in New Hampshire, John Muir, who’s put together an A-Z collection – that is, a collection of cars with model names starting with every letter of the alphabet. I’m sure I’m not the first person who, upon hearing him describe the collection, immediately asked what he Read more

In all my years of studying hot rods, I can’t say that I’ve once seen somebody combine the nose from a ‘38 Ford DeLuxe with a fenderless roadster body, as done with this rod. Elephant seal looks aside, that is the kind of junkyard parts-mixing you’d see in an early Read more