My grandfather’s 1987 Buick Regal Turbo-T, circa 2015 I recently lost my grandfather about two weeks ago and was not able to attend his services due to COVID-19. In this crazy pandemic everything in ...
I need a vintage four-wheel-drive in my life. But do I want a truck, a wagon, or a CJ? This was the Willys lineup for 1951: Truck, Station Wagon, and CJ3B. Images via The Old Car Manual Project, and ...
This is what organization looks like. I have never been this organized in the garage. Like single socks that disappear in the laundry, nuts, bolts, and fasteners have a way of walking off when you’re...
Ever like a car so much that you wanted to buy its replacement, only to find that the car company never bothered to make a replacement? I’ve done this. Three times now. First was with my ’92 Nissan N...
It was almost 15 years ago that I was sitting in my apartment in Queens, New York. A foot of snow was on the ground and, at the time, I was getting my feet wet in the automotive industry. A few years...
The turning of the calendar is chance to start the year anew. Sure it’s just an arbitrary point in the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, like any other day, but you have to start somewhere. My main autom...
Building an engine is the pinnacle of automotive wrenching. Nothing else is so essential to the soul of a car. It’s a straightforward, yet intricate, puzzle. Putting an engine together correctly is m...
Add a pair of SUVs, and winter garage space is… tight. Photo by author. Winter has already descended on southwestern Vermont, weeks before the calendar makes it official. The convertible is already t...
Once upon a time, when you sold a car, that was the end of it. You said goodbye, it was traded in, you exchanged cash for a title from a newspaper ad, and you never saw it again. Or so I thought. Isn...
Work on cars long enough, and eventually you’ll want some kind of automatic lift that offers freedom from the floor jack and jack stand shuffle every time you want to wrench. The gold standard is the...
With my 1960 TR3A’s body structure ready to be primed, I applied two double-wet coats of epoxy primer on a warm, dry September day. All the time-consuming preparation was well worth the effort as the...
Looking past the multi-color exterior and partially disassembled body lies a car that is fairly solid and very straight. Always look beyond the obvious in order to see a car’s true potential. Photogr...
My daily-beater van has a factory-equipped set of 17×7 aluminum wheels. They’re a twin-five-spoke variety, with polished face and grey-painted inner, to really make those spokes pop. I’d say they’re ...
A 15-foot U-Haul was the perfect size to transport the Triumph TR3A body shell to and from the restorer. Returning only 12-miles per gallon, it cost about $240 in gas alone. Photography by author. La...
Cadillac Style honored by the Cadillac La Salle Club By Richard Lentinello At the recent Cadillac La Salle Club’s Grand National Meet held in Louisville, Kentucky, I had the distinct honor of being a...
Neat setup, right? Not with those matching front and rear tires, it’s not! This just will not stand… If you’ve been following along with Hemmings’ digital content and stories, you may have spied a pa...
The Miata in winter storage. Photo by author. It’s been a long, cold winter here in Vermont, and if history is any indicator, it isn’t over quite yet. While my own seasonal car isn’t a collector’s it...
Whether you call it a suicide ball, or a necker, granny, or Brodie knob, it’s all the same thing: a free-spinning knob affixed to a steering wheel designed to help drivers more quickly and easily mus...
Whether you call it a suicide ball, or a necker, granny, or Brodie knob, it’s all the same thing: a free-spinning knob affixed to a steering wheel designed to help drivers more quickly and easily mus...
WE’RE BACK! I know it’s been a way-too-long hiatus between chapters of the Stoner T, but that’s just par for the course with this car. Since the day I started collecting the pile of parts that ultima...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this bulletin! The origin of the alien device that was discovered last December and has since been variously referred to as “Arc 2 D 2” ...
What looks like an R2-D2 pulled up from a saltwater sea, weighs as much as the Death Star, and has enough firepower to — literally — fuse together two Tie-Fighter’s? No, it’s not something from the S...
New $34.99 ignition coil from NAPA. Photos by the author. With Lucas electrics being the butt of jokes for decades, it’s time we give credit where credit is due. A few weeks ago, while heading out fo...
A close encounter with a sapling near the driveway led to a dent and paint failure. Can Dupli-Color’s Scratch Fix All-in-1 system save the day? Photos by the writer. Last fall, while backing out of m...
Owning an out-of-the-ordinary classic, like my 1990 Nissan Skyline GT-R NISMO, brings lots of questions–usually the same ones over and over again. Photography by the author. It’s well over a year sin...