Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
The constant research here at the Hemmings offices takes some of us to odd little corners of the Internet, and sometimes those corners are full of little wonders. For instance, I recently came across the Making of Modern Michigan online photo archive, described as a collaborative project involving 52 Michigan Read more…
In response to Richard Lentinello’s post featuring myself, Jim and Terry hard at work: That’s Rich behind the lens, with Jim at the reflector, clicking off a detail shot of the 150hp straight-eight under the hood of Ryan Newman’s 1949 Roadmaster convertible (or Model 76C for the diehard Buick enthusiast). Read more…
…yet when I put this in the back of my Grand Caravan, I got slower! I keed, I keed. But the 360 seen here, is more or less complete, cost me $400, and after a quickie refresh will get dropped into my Dart. I’m aiming for about 300hp at the Read more…
I mentioned a few days ago that I’ve been getting my garage in order in preparation for the eventual day when we have warm weather again in Vermont, and one task that I’ve busied myself with lately is the rehab of an old Speedaire compressor that Lentinello gave me a Read more…
If you are between 30 and 40 years old, and sniffed around the post-new-wave alternative-music scene in your high school and college years, you may have heard, or heard of, Laibach, the Slovenian high-art agit-prop band perhaps best known in this country for its series of covers (Opus’ Life is Life got the Read more…
The 2009 edition of the Spring Charlotte Auto Fair has quickly come and gone. Aside from a damp Thursday, the weather during the rest of the event was simply stunning; sunny skies and mid seventy temperatures, which were far nicer than the inch or two of snow our Bennington, Vermont, Read more…
You wouldn’t think I’d visit Las Vegas without hitting up the Imperial Palace collection, would you? The last time I visited the town, I kicked myself for not making the time to see it, especially considering the fact that I stayed in the hotel immediately next to the Imperial Palace, Read more…
I’m one to talk. For years, even before coming to the fine Hemmings family of magazines, I’ve expounded upon the importance of getting out there and just driving your car – that the thrill of ownership is being behind the wheel and going for a cruise, enjoying the day with Read more…
That Heather, she’s a good wife. For my recent 30th birthday, she took me to Las Vegas. It was just the getouttatown vacation we needed, and unsurprisingly, I came across a few old car-related items I thought worth sharing. For instance, while checking out Hoover Dam, we spotted this Ford Read more…
Name the event: Answer and photo credit. Via Greg.org.