Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
From the seller’s description: 1964 BUICK ELECTRA 225 four door thin-pillar Sedan The Wildcat 445 engine has 235 horsepower in the “401-4″ V-8 engine specifically 401 cubic inches, 4-stroke and 10.25 compression ratio. OEM transmission is an automatic three-speed Super Turbine. HISTORY . ELECTRA was the name of a sister-in-law Read more
While the Toyota 2JZ isn’t quite the ubiquitous engine swap as the SBC or the LS, the straight-six still manages to make its way in between the frame rails of a good diversity of cars, trucks, and other vehicles, as this recent roundup from Stance is Everything shows. Mustangs, rat Read more
Text courtesy Joe Essid. Photos courtesy Marty Martino and GM Media. Marty Martino, owner of Martino Productions, should be known by now to Hemmings readers for his work on restoring several 1950s GM concept vehicles and creating The PsyClone, a tribute to Harley Earl’s 1959 Cadillac XP-74 Cyclone. Now Marty Read more
Date: circa 1960s Location: Harderwijk, Holland Source: via Ran When Parked What do you see here?
1964 Volvo 122S for sale. From the seller’s description: This rust-free original 2-dr coupe, still with its original California black plates, has been in SoCal all its life. I bought in June for the 2016 Hemmings Great Race rally (when my first car broke!). It was a trooper, and carried Read more
Peter Gleeson with his 1939 Lincoln Zephyr street rod. Images courtesy Le May – America’s Car Museum. As a child, self-proclaimed “street urchin from South London” Peter Gleeson stared in awe at drivers of expensive sports cars. Knowing from an early age that success meant hard work, Gleeson began his Read more
The beauty of the old car hobby is this: There’s something to interest just about everyone, across a wide variety of price points. Most editions of the $5,000 Challenge have focused on automobiles from the 1940s to the 1990s, but this edition stretches things back a bit further to include Read more
Photos by Mark McCourt. Editor’s note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the November 2016 edition of Hemmings Motor News. Walter P. Chrysler introduced Plymouth to his new conglomerate as a value line, positioned to go bumper-to-bumper with Ford and Chevrolet. Chrysler succeeded, although he barely Read more
Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. Don Fezell didn’t build his collection for the fame of it. He didn’t go hog the spotlight at televised collector car auctions. He didn’t build a personal museum for the cars. He didn’t send press releases to the magazines begging for coverage whenever he added another Read more
Date: May 1972 Location: Luanda, Angola Source: Manuel Resende Ferreira via Jay Nel on Facebook. From Manuel: “I fondly remember those races. In later years Luanda had one of the best racing tracks in the whole continent, opened in 1972. My father was involved as a sponsor and used to Read more