Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
While researching Frank Kurtis’s life for an upcoming Hot Rod Hero article in Hemmings Muscle Machines, Donnelly lent me Gordon Eliot White’s book, “Kurtis-Kraft: Masterworks of Speed and Style,” which detailed Kurtis’s life and achievements. Of course, what interested me quite a bit were the various locations mentioned in the Read more
I spent a good part of the weekend, and nearly all of my day off Monday, getting bits and pieces of the Rover reassembled. I had rebuilt the carburetors months ago, but that’s only half the battle – I also had to reinstall them on the intake manifold, reassemble the Read more
Multiple layers of paint, blotches of rust, spotty primer, dry-rot tires and fogged glass. Must be a “barn find.” Permanently chained down to a trailer at a swap meet, to boot. Fall Carlisle, to be exact, back in 2007. According to the card stock on the passenger window, this is Read more
When discussing GM’s bankruptcy yesterday, Obama again mentioned that he wants to have a cash for clunkers program (though he used the pseudonym “fleet modernization program”) in place soon to help GM through their bankruptcy. So the Senate seems to be jumping all over itself trying to get a c4c Read more
We (okay, Dave LaChance) actually wrote about this one three years ago, but I neglected to ask Dave the exact location and subsequently let it slip my mind. No need to ask him now, thanks to reader Gene Herman of Brattleboro, Vermont, who sent us a couple pictures of the Read more
While recently traveling the NYS Thruway (Interstate 87 for you who have not traveled up in the neck of the woods) I stopped at one of the rest areas in the Catskills and they were handing out this free postcard at the visitor’s center. The picture looks very much like Read more
In May, we schlepped ourselves down the 12-hour super slab run to the southern Piedmont and to AutoFair at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. One of the highlights there was the Tom Mack Classics auction, which may have assembled the biggest collection of American Motors products ever sold at a single event, Read more
F.A.S.T. racer, in repose I always take a couple thousand photos at Musclepalooza, partly because I have diarrhea of the shutter finger, but mostly because there’s so much happening at the event. You have the show field, the drag race action, the staging lanes, the F.A.S.T. guys, the awards ceremony Read more
Okay, that earlier Lost and Found overflow was a bust. My apologies. Then again, Lost and Found is often just an excuse to look at old photos with cars in ‘em, so to make up for that last one, here are a couple others that are already identified, making them Read more
Are you one of those guys: the guy who springs automotive trivia on an unsuspecting friend every time you see something vintage roll by? The guy who knows the visual differences between a 1951 and a 1952 Buick or a 1968 and 1969 Corvette? The guy who knows exactly what Read more