Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Comics have traditionally not been a rich source of car fun, but there’s an occasional mention, enough for me to have a couple comic art blogs in my reading list. The best of these, Golden Age Comic Book Stories, popped up a couple of winners recently in a post about Read more
For their 15th anniversary, the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance is featuring a one-off roadster, “originally conceived and built by a widely-respected and distinguished automotive engineer.” The catch is, they’re not saying who, but we’re betting this will be child’s play for you folks; if not, they’ll be releasing full details Read more
Why, why, why, why, haven’t I thought of this until now? In all the months we’ve been playing the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge, we’ve yet to work the Bacon in there. Not Kevin Bacon, but the product of the Bacon Motors Corporation, an actual company named after Read more
All this talk of movie cars this week has me looking through the Hemmings.com classifieds for more. I see some Bentleys and Rolls-Royces owned by movie studio executives, Miley Cyrus’s Mini, Bruce Willis’s 1988 Lincoln limousine, a 1960 Ford Country Squire that appeared in Oliver Stone’s “The Doors,” a 1950 Read more
You know Martha’s Vineyard – it’s that island off Massachusetts where the rich and famous go to make a big show of dodging the paparazzi for a couple of weeks each summer. So what’s the likes of me doing there? I got an invitation from our pals at the Cape Read more
This is a brochure for a Nissan Sunny Vanette. From what little we can make out of the date coding on the back of it, we’d say late 80s/early 90s, but it seems a lot older than that. Doesn’t it? We plucked it out of the trash over on 6420 Read more
Our friend Geoff Hacker would like to know more about this image of a pontoon-fendered roadster that he found (the image, not the roadster, though I have no doubt of his ability to turn up the car itself someday) in the John Bond collection in Kettering University’s Scharchburg Archives. All Read more
I see in TA’s post on movie and TV cars that nobody’s yet mentioned the Bugaloo dune buggy, based on a Barris-designed 1971 Asve. Sandy Johnston’s Bugaloo fan site has more on the buggy used in the show, which now appears to be in Europe somewhere, but apparently, Barris built Read more
While not all of the Lee clan seem to be as car nutty as a couple of its members, Jim and John, they’re at least as entertaining, with plenty of car memories among the 10 of them (five boys, five girls). In response to our recent requests for family album Read more