Items tagged with: Hemmings Daily

Game changers: Four times automakers bucked tradition (for better and for worse)

Photo courtesy of Chevrolet You don’t mess with tradition, unless you’re starting a new tradition. In the car world, no institution is safe from the ravages of new technology, economic pressure, or q...

Raisin’ the bars

Every once in awhile, we come across an old snapshot that gives us pause. Makes us stop everything else and just stare. Put down the other three screens and really concentrate on all the wee details....

VIDEO: Can’t get enough vintage drags!

When is too much, too much? When it comes to vintage drag racing 8mm filmstrips, we say, “NEVER.” It’s never too much. Sure, the weird soundtracks that are usually put to them when they’re transferre...

This 17-ton Volvo truck is actually a million-dollar piece of art

Photos courtesy Bonhams. If there’s any better indicator that we’ve reached peak Banksy, no less than three well-respected and long-established auction houses will go head-to-head-to-head with compet...

Auction Alert: Bid on a 1971 Judge and 1960 Triumph TR6C before they end today

Bidding will end later today on two lots from the Hemmings Auctions page. Today, a documented 1971 Pontiac GTO Judge will see the gavel fall, and the cream of the Triumph Scramblers, a TR6C will be t...

Open Diff: The list

2001 Chevrolet Corvette Z06. Photo courtesy Chevrolet. Those of us in the car hobby may not agree on everything, but one thing typically binds us together: “the list.” We all have “the list,” one tha...

Worth the wait: Six Pack Super Bee takes Best in Show at Musclepalooza 30

Photo by Terry McGean. Just two days. That’s how long Ed Sawlit had owned his 1965½ Six Pack Super Bee prior to winning Best in Show at our Musclepalooza 30 this past weekend at Lebanon Valley Dragwa...

Bathurst plans a second, dedicated racing circuit next to legendary Australian track Mount Panorama

Artist’s rendering of the second circuit at Bathurst, via Bathurst Regional Council. Much like the Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans, Bathurst’s Mount Panorama circuit relies on roads open to the publi...

An affordable classic: Chevrolet’s second-generation Corvair

1966 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa convertible. Photo by Jeff Koch. Chevrolet’s redesigned-for-1965 Corvair debuted to high praise from the automotive press, with Car and Driver’s David E. Davis, Jr. decla...

Back from the un-dead: Original Dragula dusted off for another turn in the spotlight

Photos courtesy Profiles in History, except where noted. For appearing in one episode of a 50-year-old television show, Grampa Munster’s Dragula has gone on to inspire a disproportionate following, b...

Lost dream cars: The 1959 Oldsmobile F88 Mk III

1959 Oldsmobile F88 Mk III dream car. Photos courtesy GM Media Archives unless otherwise noted. Harley Earl was a big man, well over six-foot-six. He was not only physically imposing, but a towering ...

WATCH THIS: the real-world Stranger Things

What’s more awesome than an early Fox-body Mustang? An early Fox-body Mercury Capri, of course! And to celebrate the auction we’re hosting of one very cool and very red-pleathered, t-topped, low-mile...

Strato-Streak Star: 1955 Pontiac full-line brochure

Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The Pontiac division of General Motors has been gone for a decade, but even today, it is remembered for its 1960s persona of youth-orien...

The Fastest Woman on Four Wheels: Jessi Combs, 1980-2019

“It may seem a little crazy to walk directly into the line of fire… those who are willing, are those who achieve great things. People say I’m crazy. I say thank you.” Jessi Combs wrote this on her In...

Racer Jessi Combs dies in land-racing record attempt crash

Photo courtesy North American Eagle Facebook page. Just over a year after the North American Eagle land-speed racing team lost one of its two co-drivers, Ed Shadle, and vowed to continue his quest to...

Speedy metal: Metallica’s James Hetfield donates 10 of his custom hot rods to the Petersen

Black Pearl. Photo courtesy Goodguys. In the band’s entire 38-year discography, Metallica has mentioned in its lyrics the Great Old One Cthulhu more times than it has name-dropped any automobile bran...

On the ground at the 2019 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion

The views from atop Corkscrew Hill are simply amazing. Here the Group 2A machines, 1955-’61 Sports Cars, make a warm-up lap behind the pace car. Photos by David Conwill. “Pebble Beach,” as Monterey C...

Bureau of Land Management removes long-standing sign from out front of the Bonneville Salt Flats

The sign in 2006. Photo by the author. Other than the long dark lines that racers follow on their quests for speed and a few drainage ditches, the Bonneville Salt Flats differs from other federal lan...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1983 BMW R80ST

From the seller’s description: Rare 1983 BMW R80ST with Hannigan STe fairing Here is BMW’s best handling – and very rare – air-head motorcycle matched with Hannigan’s famous sport-touring fairing, ma...

Open Diff – Hello from the new guy, Mike Austin

Photo by Murilee Martin I’ve loved cars since before I knew what they were, playing with a pile of Hot Wheels as a toddler, and I’ve been reading about cars almost as long as I could sound out the wo...

World’s largest collection of British cars closes after museum founder dies

Photos courtesy British Car Museum. The question of which assemblage of vehicles from Old Blighty warrants the title of world’s largest British car collection may now be a moot point with the closing...

Is now the time to buy a 1990-’96 Nissan 300ZX?

1992 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. All photos courtesy Nissan Motor Corporation. By the time Nissan introduced an all-new 300ZX, the Z32 variant, for the 1990 model year, the once game-changing sports car...

My Triumph Obsession: Part V, rebuilding the 1960 TR3A body

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...

Open Diff – Handing over the keys

Photo by psyberartist. Since joining Hemmings in April 2013, I’ve penned over 3,300 articles for the Hemmings Daily, plus many more for our monthly print magazines. That’s on top of the 15,000 or so ...