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A short film from the recent Scene Media x Players BBQ held at Meguiars HQ in the UK .. fantastic afternoon with some cool cars, cool people and good food ! Music - DJ Fresh : Louder available from w...
A short film from the recent Scene Media x Players BBQ held at Meguiars HQ in the UK .. fantastic afternoon with some cool cars, cool people and good food ! Music - DJ Fresh : Louder available from w...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. The last time we talked, I set priorities for the mechanical work on a 1974 Buick Apollo, the same year and model of my first car. For those novices to restoration, I h...
In 1958, Pontiac’s optional “Sportable” transistor AM radio could be slid out from the dash to be taken anywhere. It operated on its own batteries and had its own antenna. When it was returned to the...
One benefit to leaving cars unrestored and unaltered is that they more clearly tell the stories of the people who previously owned them. Take, for instance, this 1955 Buick Special Estate Wagon for s...
That didn’t take long. Just a day after we featured an unusual 1950 Buick Roadmaster-turned-wrecker as our Hemmings Find of the Day — and in turn touched off a mile of speculation about the car’s ori...
Caffeine & Carburetors is a gathering of automotive enthusiasts. We meet at Zumbach’s Gourmet Coffee or Waveny Park in New Canaan, CT to enjoy their cars, trucks and motorcycles, and share them with ...
The phenomenon of converting used luxury cars into wreckers more or less ended with the Depression, but as we can see from this 1950 Buick Roadmaster -based wrecker for sale on Hemmings.com, the idea...
Servicing a Ferrari can sometimes cost as much as an entirely new car. And then there’s their apparent propensity to catch fire. But out of adversity comes opportunity, and Eric Hutchinson embraced t...
1965 Buick Riviera “Clamshell” headlamps doors closed and open; images by Jeff Koch Simply put, the 1965 model year is the quintessential Riviera among collectors and enthusiasts alike. Much has been...
Ed Welburn. Photos courtesy General Motors. Inspired by cars seen at the Philadelphia Auto Show, like the Cadillac Cyclone concept and the 1959 Corvette, 11-year-old Ed Welburn sent a letter to Gener...
1961 Buick Invicta instrument panel; image by the author. Buick’s full-size lineup for 1961 had been dramatically restyled–a crisp, sleek look, thanks to the elimination of what they called the Delta...
1950 Buick grille; image by the author. If 1949 was the year that put Buick at the forefront of elegant, modern, post-war design, then 1950 has to be the year that should have seen–if anything–mild f...
Buick’s limited-production, two-year only Reatta convertible always struck us as a car that should be more popular than it is among collectors. Though styling is subjective, it’s certainly not a bad-...
1958 Lincoln Premiere; image by the author. The Lincoln marque can invoke a variety of opinions regarding its status in the domestic luxury car market, especially the Continentals. First-person accou...
Not much in the description of this 1968 Buick Riviera for sale on Hemmings.com to tell us how much work it’s taken to get it to this point, but with less than 75,000 miles on the clock, we can presu...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. In the first two parts of Project Apollo, I discussed finding, buying, and shipping my vintage car. That part of the story had largely been out of my hands, but once th...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. In part one, I looked at the reasons I decided to hunt down a rather mundane car from the Malaise Era, a ’74 Buick Apollo coupe that had features my first car, also a ’...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. Hemmings writers really should be more careful with the $5,000 Challenge. In my case, that regular feature of the blog led me to buy a car I’d never imagined owning aga...
Monza! Gut, da zeigt Buick in Detroit also das Avista Concept, ein 2+2-Coupé in ziemlich fröhlicher Form. Das sind ja schon mal «good news», aber weil es sich bei Buick ja um eine GM-Tochter handelt,...
Photos by the author, except where noted. It could be argued that the muscle car era drew much of its inspiration and style from the American West. Try this on for size: The cowboy hat exudes the sam...