Items tagged with: Hemmings Daily

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Oldsmobile Model 66 four-door station wagon custom

1947 Oldsmobile Model 66 four-door station wagon custom for sale. From the seller’s description: This rare, highly desirable, “Woody”, is one of a kind – sporting classic looks and tons of power. The...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 2001 Dodge Viper GTS

2001 Dodge Viper GTS for sale. From the seller’s description: This car is my personal pride and joy. I have owned it for 8 years, everything in the car works. There are no problems with it at all. Al...

Designer Jeff Teague, son of Dick Teague, dies at 59

Jeff Teague and his AMX/4 rendering. Like any of us, Jeff Teague could have become anything he wanted, but with a father as passionate about cars – particularly older cars and auto design – as legend...

Harley Earl’s vision of the future, the Buick Y-Job, added to National Historic Vehicle Register

Photos courtesy GM Media. Most show cars make a big splash on their introduction, maybe tour the country or a few different countries for a year or so, then descend into warehouse purgatory until the...

The $5,000 Challenge, from four wheels to two edition

Since starting this series in 2014, we’ve received more than a few requests to broaden our horizons and include motorcycles in the $5,000 Challenge. As someone who once counted a bike as his only mot...

New Mexico museum exhibit takes comprehensive look at “lowriding capital of the world”

1963 Chevrolet Impala, Owner Lee Cordova of Alcalde, New Mexico, 1998. Photo by Jack Parsons, courtesy New Mexico Digital Collections. In the mid-Eighties, MTV descended on the northern New Mexico ci...

Liberated from an Ohio garage, Tucker 1044 to appear at Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show

Tucker 1044, at rest in its former Ohio home. Photos courtesy Mark Lieberman. Mark Lieberman knows a thing or two about Tuckers; he’s owned three, two of which have gone on to set record prices in pr...

After war, the Yugo, and 60 years, Serbia’s Zastava shuts down

Hemmings archive photo. One would presume that a company that not only built the Yugo but also withstood international sanctions and a NATO bombing campaign and nevertheless continued to build cars c...

Speed Mechanics magazine Volume 1, Issue 1, January 1953

Photography by author. One additional item I found at the flea market, in the pile of boxes destined for the dumpster that I discussed in An emergency automobilia and tool rescue effort, was deservin...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1937 GMC Touring Bus

From the seller’s description: 1937 GMC Open Touring Bus , 6 cylinder, Oldsmobile engine. Seats 15- 20 passengers. Been in storage under cover since 2005. At that time, it had new tires, brake shoes,...

A collection nearly 40 years in the making, the contents of the Normandy Tank Museum head to auction

An M4 Sherman tank, displayed on the grounds of the Normandy Tank Museum. Photos courtesy Artcurial. In 2013, military vehicle collector Patrick Nerrant opened the Normandy Tank Museum in Catz, Franc...

From Metropolitans to Kenosha Cadillacs: Nash turns 100

1946 Nash Ambassador. Photo by the author. Charles Nash, by most accounts, got along all right with Charles Durant. He just knew he couldn’t continue to work with the man who’d brought him into the a...

An emergency automobilia and tool rescue effort

Photography by author. In “A Dog’s Life,” an episode of the classic TV show The Honeymooners, Alice adopts a dog from the pound without Ralph’s knowledge. Foraging for a snack in the icebox, neighbor...

Completed Crosley club youth project car awarded to its 16-year-old restorer

Photo courtesy Crosley Automobile Club. Not all youth project cars like the one sponsored by the Crosley Automobile Club end in success, which was why the members of the club, upon the completion of ...

Go-Fast Goodies from the 1932 Auburn

1933 Auburn advertisement, courtesy of OldCarAdvertising.com Certain parts have entered the collective consciousness as quintessential automotive hardware above and beyond their status as original eq...

One of three Peugeot-powered CD Le Mans racers receives FIVA Preservation Award

Photo by Eli Solomon, courtesy FIVA. In neither of its two entries in the 24 Hours of Le Mans did the severely aerodynamic CD SP66 No. 52 actually finish the race, but that hasn’t stopped the current...

A ’62 Ford Galaxie 500 gives a second chance at a first car

Jack and Donna Bakewell with their 1962 Ford Galaxie 500. Photos by author. Jack Bakewell’s first new car was a 1962 Ford Galaxie 500 with a 390 beneath the hood, shifting through a four-speed transm...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1966 Dodge Charger

From the seller’s description: 1966 Dodge Charger fifty year anniversary. This is one car I will miss. It has been well taken care of throughout its lifetime. It runs great. There is no rust. It has ...

It came from outer space and landed in Detroit. But what is it?

The latest Forgotten Fiberglass mystery car. Photos by author. I’ve always been a fan of the space age era from cool plastic stereos and wild “biomorphic” designs. This interest crystallized when I w...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Plymouth Valiant Signet convertible

From the seller’s description: Up for sale is a beautiful 1965 Valiant Signet V8 convertible with Barracuda grill from the rare Acapulco trim model. This original California car is virtually rust-fre...

Found at a library book sale – “The Great Racing Cars and Drivers”

Photography by author. As I’ve said in the past, sometimes good car stuff turns up where you least expect it to be. My latest fun find was at my local library’s book sale. I know: big surprise to fin...

The King Midget makes a return, sort of, for its 70th anniversary

Provided photo. No factory has been constructed. No supplies stockpiled. No new engines developed, not even an LLC formed. Still, an effort to revive the two-seater King Midget will launch next month...

Moving Pictures: The WeatherTech International Challenge at Road America

Vintage race cars roar into the Village of Elkhart Lake under police escort for the Nationwide Insurance Concours d’Elegance. By William Hall. Photos by the author. The pinnacle of vintage motorsport...

The $5,000 Challenge, adventure-filled road trip edition

No great road trip story ever ended with, “…and absolutely nothing went wrong on the entire trip.” Epic stories are filled with drama, punctuated with intervals of sheer terror, and wrapped up with a...

Dragster pioneer Art Chrisman dies at 86

Photo courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Legendary drag racer, hot rodder, and land-speed racer Art Chrisman – whose dragster set the pattern for many other quarter-mile conquerors and who racked u...

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