Items tagged with: Hemmings Daily

Former Walter P. Chrysler Museum to become Maserati’s U.S. headquarters

Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In November 2016, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) announced that the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, located on the automaker’s Auburn Hills campus, would...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1976 Lancia Fulvia

From the seller’s description: For sale is a numbers matching 1976 Lancia Fulvia 1.3S Series II Coupe 3 in excellent overall condition. This car was originally delivered in Chieti, Abruzzo Italy and ...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Ford Super DeLuxe convertible

From the seller’s description: 1947 Ford Super Deluxe Factory Convertible added Wood *Over $50,000 Invested (Minus the Labor on Wood) “First and Only made”- “I made it” 1950 Mercury V8 Flathead Motor...

Restoration of Josef Ganz-built Beetle predecessor begins with crowdsourcing campaign

Photos courtesy Paul Schilperoord and Lorenz Schmid. These days it looks more like a child’s drawing of a genericar come to life with its inartful blend of boxy body and round hood, but a pair of Eur...

Reminiscing – Dana’s Cobra

Photo courtesy Charles Rosenblum. As a teenager in a small Ohio town, I had plenty of enthusiasm for cars, but not much exposure to exciting ones. In the early 1980s, long before the internet, inform...

Redesigned ribbon-facade Petersen Museum selected for architecture award

Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Polarizing? Sure. Criticized? Of course. But the Petersen Automotive Museum’s undulating steel ribbon facade can now be described as award-winning after th...

Open Diff: What’s the best road trip car?

1990 Ford Mustang LX 5.0. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Hitting the open road in the family car used to be an American institution, and for many, a rite of passage. Today, cheap airfare and ever...

Ferrari marks its first seven decades throughout 2017

Old and new: A 125 S replica and a 2017 La Ferrari Aperta outside the factory. Images courtesy Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari never envisioned himself an industrialist. He was, first and foremost, a driver, w...

Driving with Disney

Still image from video hosted on the Internet Archive. Most drivers’ educational films of the 1960s that I’m familiar with were produced by smaller companies and they sustained a serious tone, which ...

As Burt Munro’s World’s Fastest Indian record turns 50, it remains unbroken

Photo via E Hayes Motorworks Collection. Partly the result of rulebook changes, partly the result of Burt Munro’s sheer determination and resourcesfulness, and maybe partly the result of the respect ...

Two of the oldest unrestored Mustangs anchor museum’s new pony car exhibit

Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Both were built to entice the general public into buying a Ford Mustang. Both have gone 50-plus years without a restoration. And both...

ECTA postpones racing until fall at the earliest as search for new track continues

Photo courtesy East Coast Timing Association. Industrial parks may take the place of airstrips in the East Coast Timing Association’s ongoing search for a new venue – a search that has now postponed ...

MotorCities National Heritage Area under risk of defunding in proposed federal budget

The Ford Piquette Avenue plant, one of the beneficiaries of the MotorCities National Heritage Area. Photo courtesy FordPiquetteAvenuePlant.org. A decades-long effort to preserve some of southeastern ...

“Detroit Underdogs” come to the AACA Museum

1970 Ford Maverick, to be featured in the upcoming Detroit Underdogs exhibit. Photo courtesy AACA Museum. American automakers occasionally hit an out-of-the-park home run, producing cars with appeal ...

Pumpkin Seed streamliner up for induction in Dry Lakes Racing Hall of Fame

Pumpkin Seed at Bonneville in 2006. Photos by the author, except where noted. It put multiple racers in the 200-mph Club. It’s had multiple land-speed racing luminaries in its cockpit between two sti...

Pumpkinseed streamliner up for induction in Dry Lakes Racing Hall of Fame

Pumpkin Seed at Bonneville in 2006. Photos by the author, except where noted. It put multiple racers in the 200 MPH Club. It’s had multiple land-speed racing luminaries in its cockpit between two sti...

Registration opens for the London to Brighton Run

Photo courtesy Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. The Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is the world’s longest-running motoring event, and an annual celebration of the gift of freed...

Series 1 E-type is “Reborn,” thanks to Jaguar Classic

1965 Jaguar E-type Series 1 fixed head coupe, the latest in Jaguar’s “Reborn” program. Photo courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Following the successful launch of factory-restored Land Rover Series I and Ra...

Ford to launch e-Dsel electric vehicle division

Ford Motor Company is poised to launch a new division to build fully electric vehicles, Hemmings Motor News News has learned. The new division will be called e-Dsel, putting a high-tech spin on a wid...

FDR’s Packard removed from museum for preservation, parade duty

Photos courtesy New York governor’s office. Rather than peruse the latest executive cars and limousines for its officials and diplomats to wave at crowds in future parades, the state of New York deci...

Bloodhound delay brings a harsh reminder of the funding challenges for land-speed record attempts

“It will be a sorry day when we no longer do something for the hell of it,” Donald Campbell said as he eyed another run at the world land-speed record in 1960. Then again, Campbell had the backing of...

On 75th anniversary of Cleveland bomber and tank plant, military vehicles to report there for convention

M4 Shermans at the Cleveland Tank Plant. For an event that some are describing as the largest-ever (peacetime, presumably) gathering of armored military vehicles, the Military Vehicle Preservation As...

Automotive Hall of Fame to induct tractor-trailer pioneer Fruehauf

Image courtesy Fruehauf Trailer Historical Society. The man who lent his name to the General Motors of the trailer industry will also take a place among the automobile industry’s pioneers later this ...

Cleveland Homecoming car show invites all Northeast Ohio-built vehicles

1932 Peerless V-16 prototype. Photo by the author. From the birth of the American auto industry to the coming of the Model T, Detroit played second fiddle to Cleveland when it came to auto manufactur...

1966 Chevrolet Corvair homecoming – the turning point

On the trailer going to the shop. Just love those narrow whitewalls! Photos by author. I have come to and passed the turning point in the Corvair project: More things are now going in or on the car t...

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