Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Ah, we meet again, Mr. Waibel. I last saw your Porsche prototype in the Imperial Palace’s collection in April, for sale for $275,000, and it seems you found a buyer, because now Cooper Classics in New York has your prototype for sale on Hemmings.com for an undisclosed sum. From Cooper’s Read more
Times are still hard in Detroit, folks, cold and dark. When I was looking through publications of the Oughts, Teens, Twenties and Thirties for the following, it really got me down for a while. But we will emerge from this, and we will emerge stronger than before, smarter than before Read more
Some old-car enthusiasts dig old car wreck photos. I don’t. It’s not that I’m psychologically scarred by an old crash; it’s not that I don’t want to see imperfect representations of the cars we normally enjoy seeing in pristine condition. It’s not that I have a weak constitution and am Read more
Sitting somewhere between the end of the car corral and the beginning of the swap meet at Hershey this year was this delightfully themed AD Suburban, decked out with period fishing rods and accessories and looking more like it belongs on display in an Orvis retail store than in inland Read more
In the December issue, I ran an Under Restoration story on a Commander that our good friend Bob Sekelsky was restoring. At the time, the owner wanted it black: “Black shows everything,” said Bob. “We’ll have to pay lots of attention to getting every little thing straight.” But the car Read more
Anybody who ever compared the early histories of the Corvette and Thunderbird had to wonder, if only briefly and for the exercise of thought, whether Chevrolet at least considered a four-seater Corvette after Ford found much success with the four-seater 1958 Thunderbird. For those wonderers, here’s your answer, courtesy Michael Read more
* New blogs are always welcome in my RSS reader, and one that I’ve added this week is DieselPunk, where I came across the above photo of Aurel Persu’s Automobilul Aerodinamic Perfect, the rear-engined vehicle on which he refined his aerodynamic principles. I’m gonna dig this blog. (via) * Our Read more
Just a quick note this morning to let you faithful Hemmings Nation readers know that we’re taking the day off to spend with our families. Here’s hoping you find something cool under the tree today – something like this Moskvitch pedal car that Hugo90 found at the Museum of American Read more
It’s alright, I know you had to take care of buying gifts for your wife, kids, parents, secretary, dog and barista first. It’s okay that you didn’t think of getting a Christmas gift for your favorite blog editor until just now, when I brought it up. *sniff* But it’s fine, Read more
Dan’s Bugazzi post last week inspired a lot of, well, there’s no other way to say it: hate. I was reminded of another little gem I saw about four years back at the Kruse auction in Phoenix, Wayne Newton’s 1981 Mercedes-Benz 380SL. It was described as a “Niko-Michael Custom.” From Read more