Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Yes, another Power Wagon, but this one’s a little different. Where the previous one used a civilian Power Wagon body atop a military Dodge chassis, this Dodge Power Wagon advertised on Hemmings.com goes the other way around, placing a military Power Wagon body on a civilian Dodge chassis. Barrett-Jackson plans Read more
We tried this variation a few weeks ago with Carroll Shelby and Dick Teague, so let’s try it again, this time with another couple of automotive personalities you should all be familiar with – Andy Granatelli and John DeLorean. Neither man could, in any terms, be considered a wallflower, and Read more
Where, in stock form, the bugeye Sprite is hardly peppy enough and the Miata has the spirit but not the charm of an old British sports car, combining the two seems the most logical thing to do. Thus, we applaud the seller of this 1965 Austin-Healey Sprite, who swapped in Read more
While we were in Long Beach, waiting for our ship to come in, we strolled past the city’s convention center where we came upon some sort of comic-con, or more accurately, a set of TV and movie cars helping to promote the comic-con. I’d seen the Obi-Shawn Del Sol around Read more
From the same Yardley, Pennsylvania, based seller of the 1943 White from the other day comes this 1944 Ford M20. This one I had to look up in Crismon, where I see that the M20 was also designated the T26 and was based on the Ford T22 Armored Car. The Read more
While most of the rest of the Hemmings staff who took the latest Hemmings cruise to the Mexican Riviera spent a couple days prior to the cruise bopping around Los Angeles, taking in museums and seeing the sights, Heather and I stayed in Long Beach, visiting friends and enjoying the Read more
The writers for RM are usually great about filling us in on the details of the cars they auction off, but the story behind this 1948 Mercury ute is rather thin. Over on the RM Fort Lauderdale site we see that it’s from the John O’Quinn collection (and that it’s Read more
It appears I was mistaken when I said last week that I’d plumbed the depths of military vehicles for sale on Hemmings.com. Jeremy, our in-house web dude, located a few others, starting with this 1943 White M3A1 halftrack, for sale out of Yardley, Pennsylvania. The seller writes: restored, top speed Read more
As long as our automobiles run on gasoline, and as long as gasoline remains something that doesn’t rain freely from the skies, there will be “entrepreneurs” looking to make a buck by selling gas-saving gadgets. In SIA #64, August 1981, Roy Ames gives us the lowdown on the early history Read more
* While Shorpy has no shortage of photos of World War II servicemen posing in uniform, there’s relatively few photos of them posing near their military vehicles, such as this recent submission to the site, taken in Foggia, Italy, in 1943 or 1944. *In the Netherlands early next month and Read more