Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
I bought my ‘83 Pontiac winter beater a month ago, and I hated those heavy, rattly wire wheel hubcaps it came with. I’m going to find a set of Rally IIs for the nicer weather, but while I was running a full set of snow tires, I thought I’d find Read more
1989 Nissan Skyline GT-R BNR32 OK, I made that Ocho part up. But you Skyline guys are free to use it, my little gift to you. With the 1989 R32 series, the Skyline reached new performance heights, led by the resurrection of the GT-R badge after a 16-year absence. The Read more
We have our chums at BigLorryBlog to thank for not only visiting the Bovington Tank Museum late last year (see parts 1, 2, 3, and 4), but also for highlighting one of the rarest British military vehicles ever, the TV1000 Rhino. Developed in 1959 (some sources say 1956-1957) by the Read more
Even in Mexico, it’s uncommon to see a tripleheader of Volkswagen Beetles waiting at the same traffic light, despite the “Vocho’s” assured status as a Mexican icon. I grabbed a photo of these three at an intersection along a Puerto Vallara boulevard during last week’s Hemmings Cruise to Mexico. A Read more
Other than the Sherman tank, I didn’t see many other military vehicles currently on Hemmings.com to highlight for the March Military Campaign. Of the ones I saw, perhaps the most interesting one was this six-wheeled 1952 Dodge Power Wagon with a three-axle trailer. It appears as though it wasn’t originally Read more
1985 Skyline GT Passage Twin-cam KRR31 After the success of the R30 sixth generation, Nissan didn’t make many external changes to the new R31 series. But they did introduce new DOHC engines, and while the GT-R wasn’t back in name, it was back in spirit in the top-of-the line GTS-R. Read more
For aficionados of the two-wheel mode of transportation, we bring you a couple of ads from 1970, complete with a stiff jab against one competitor, at a time when most magazines sold page space to companies deeply rooted in four-wheeled motivation. And while Yamaha may have sprung for color, Kawasaki Read more
What a perfect HFOD to help kick off this year’s March Military Campaign – a 1944 Sherman M4A2E8 tank for sale on Hemmings.com. Any ad that includes the phrase “This is no joke” is gold in our books. Please, please, please, whoever buys this, take it to your local cruise-in Read more
1981 Nissan Skyline 2000GT-EX HR30 That’s not Newman as in muffin tops, that’s Newman as in Paul. The 1981 R30 was a watershed for the Skyline, emerging from the dark Seventies with a wedgy new design, lighter chassis and a series of increasingly powerful engines, in both four and six Read more
Commenter Timothy Wade chided us earlier this year (good-naturedly, of course) for not doing our research on the Mack T8 double-ender tank transporter that we linked to on BigLorryBlog. Well, the perfect time to present the findings of said research is now, the day we kick off our fourth annual Read more