Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Hemmings Nation acolyte and nationally acclaimed railroad photographer Jim Shaughnessy hasn’t just witnessed the last of big American steam assaulting the Rockies. He’s now also gotten an eyeful of something that 99 percent of Earth’s population, more or less, has never seen: A brace of big Bentleys, the 3.0-liter variety Read more
A fire truck is a fire truck, right? Except when it’s a triple, or a quad, or in active versus reserve duty. Dig below the surface of red paint and wailing sirens, as Donald Wood did for his article on fire engines in SIA #62, April 1981, and you’ll find Read more
* Okay, so I got a little stupid for six-wheelers this past week. Believe me, I could have dug much deeper into the topic, as the folks behind oto6.fr have done. Their only objective: To collect as many photos and as much information possible on six-wheeled cars and trucks. To Read more
We’re assuming the “H.Duval, 93 Rue Thiers, Boulogne/Siene” on the coachbuilder’s plate attached to this 1924 Amilcar C4 currently for sale on Hemmings.com is the same Carrosserie Charles Duval in Boulogne-sur-Seine that made a name for itself building roadster bodies for Amilcars (as well as Derbies, Tractas, Bugattis, and Chenard-Walckers) Read more
Just as we here at Hemmings take pride in the Hemmings Nation of readers, commenters and contributors, our friends across the pond over at BigLorryBlog take equal pride in their Anorak Army of readers and contributors, many of whom actually had seat time in the trucks, lorries, utes, semis and Read more
Let’s try something different this week. Throughout the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge, we’ve always focused on how the cars and the companies that built them can be connected. But we’ve yet to examine how the people who worked for those companies can be connected. Focusing on the Read more
What would you pay for a Tatra? We ask simply because the Chicago-based seller of this 1940 Tatra T87 has listed his example on Hemmings.com sans price, and quite frankly, when was the last time you saw one of these sell at auction? From the seller’s description: four door Sedan,3 Read more
One of the hottest cars to grace the cover of Hemmings Muscle Machines in recent months (and I say that not just because I took the photos) was Mike Musto’s and Todd Ford’s 1969 Daytona clone, which Mike made absolutely intimidating with one-off wheels, a beefed drivetrain, a tuned suspension Read more
While researching our recent post on six-wheeled automobiles, LaChance recalled another such automobile – actually, three of them – that would be worth investigating. These, however, differ from the Pullman, the Pratt and the Reeves substantially; where the latter three were conceived to tame the horrible roads of the early Read more
For a car that wasn’t around all that long, La Salle had a strong, impressive history at the Indianapolis 500, serving as pace car three different times – its first year, 1927; in 1934 and here, for the silver anniversary race in 1937. A couple of images from the vast Indianapolis Read more