Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
It’s been a while since we highlighted the ever expanding Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, in which we can reliably find some cool odd stuff, such as the 1934 Goliath Atlas that dave_7 discovered in the Lane Motor Museum. Thought the Isetta was the only front-doored vehicle, didja? I gave up Read more…
By now, you’ve all heard the news of Pontiac’s death sentence, made official earlier this week. We’ve seen plenty of tributes to the best and worst Pontiacs, and all sorts of dining-room-table historians come out of the woodwork to explain the marque’s downfall. Instead, we thought the most appropriate words Read more…
Heading down to Long Island to spend the Easter holiday with the family, I stopped off in Long Island City, Queens, that Saturday, April 11, because my good friend Ducati Lou was putting together an informal get-together of Ducati motorcycles. But not just any Ducati was invited, only TT-spec competition Read more…
Quick, what type of engine powered the Aerovette? Having a hard time deciding whether it was a four-rotor Wankel or a small-block V-8? Understandable: It used both. See, it started life as the XP-882, a mid-engine design with a 400-cu.in. small-block V-8 mated to a TH425 out of a Toronado. Read more…
Don’t blame us. We’re not the ones who took the bottle of shoe polish and smeared “Rat Rod Special” across the windshield of this horribly scarred 1958 Chevrolet station wagon. We presume that this wretch, which managed to make it all the way from West Virginia to AutoFair in Charlotte Read more…
It took all winter, but I finally freed up enough cash for a new carpet set from ACC recently. While the carpet sets normally come with the shredded rags-type backing glued to the carpet, a friend of mine recommended specifying that they not include any type of backing, especially with Read more…
Driver Jim Menneto gives the Speedster a last walk around before loading up for Joplin. I have posted numerous times about the improvements and repairs we completed on the Hemmings Speedster over the long cold Vermont months (which may be over by Memorial Day). Bloggers and subscribers alike have been asking Read more…
If you happened to check the Making of Modern Michigan photo archive after we mentioned it in our recent post, and if you happened to search for dealerships as we did, then you probably saw a preponderance of Packard purveyorships in the results. Why so many Packard dealership photos and Read more…
While we’ve outlined the proposed federal cash for clunkers program and we’ve looked at several similar programs outside America, the fight against these programs should not stop there. In fact, there’s probably a greater threat of seeing one of these bills passed on the state level than there is of Read more…
Earlier this week, a lot of play was given to the Mythbusters episode that tried to pancake a Fiesta out in the desert, which was rather entertaining, but last night’s episode pissed me off just a little bit: As part of Alaska week, the Mythbusters B-team decided to test some Read more…