After a short period of rest, submissions to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool have picked up again over the last couple weeks, and it’s some nifty stuff. Take, for instance, the photo above from gravlguts, which nicely captures an assortment of spark plugs installed in an old straight eight of some sort. Or his other […]
Way back in April, I showed a shot of the FilterMag that we had planned on testing on the HMX’s engine, once I had it running. Took eight months, but whatever.
So the last part of the camshaft break-in process is changing the oil. I figured we could then whack open the old oil filter and […]
When Frank Ruff left his comment on the previous Cadillacamino post, we just had to know what a Caribou conversion was. And see pics, of course. Well, Frank followed through on the pics of his 1978 Caribou-converted Cadillac…
… but Caribou, of Grover City, California, still seems to be a bit of a mystery. According to […]
Mike Spurgeon, like us, wondered exactly who built this solid-tire well-drilling truck, currently sitting alongside the road in Acampo, California, so he shot some pics, none of which put us any closer to identifying it. One would think the headlamps faired into the grille shell would give it away…
I get back from an outta-town trip and this is the first thing I see in my inbox. Full press release:
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – January 9, 2008 – Officials with the Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. LLC, today announced that a settlement was reached on Jan. 7, 2008, in a suit filed against David L. Clabuesch in U.S. […]
As with the AMX/3 pushmobile story, there’s always something good to be found in American Motoring, the club publication for the American Motors Owners Association. From Darryl Salisbury’s column in the September/October 2007 issue (yeah, we’re a little behind, but it’s still worth highlighting) came a history of the Budd XR-400, a sports-car-with-a-back-seat design proposal […]
Never expected this.
While wandering the rows at Hershey last year, I ducked into one tent just to escape the rain for a few minutes and came across a table full of tether cars of all sorts and shapes. Snapped a pic, went on my way, and I didn’t think to get the vendor’s name or […]
Fred Gibb with the Gibb-sponsored, Harrell-driven ZL-1 Camaro
I’ve been on a big dealership history kick lately, so I thought it interesting that I’d get the chance to write about Fred Gibb for an upcoming issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines. Usually the least-known of the popular Chevrolet muscle car tuners, it’s because he didn’t really build […]
Quick, what car beat the Corvette to the punch as America’s first modern sports car and at the same time brought down 30 miles to the gallon? Okay, so the picture above gives it away: the 1949-52 Crosley Hot Shot/Super Sports. Too many people overlook the tiny Crosley sports car because of its size or […]
A few weeks back, we brought you the (alleged) 376 mpg Opel, noting that it (allegedly) was the result of a (unconfirmed) Shell ultra-mileage test on (clandestine) superheated vapor fuel technology, similar to the technology that Smokey Yunick (did indeed) patent and install on a 1984 Fiero. We noted that other (supposed) test vehicles in […]
So yesterday’s photo shoot took me to Brattleboro, Vermont, to shoot this 1912 Simplex for Hemmings Classic Car. Gorgeous and massive car that we took all throughout the dirt backroads in search of photo locations. Finally found a good one in front of a covered bridge. Nobody to shoo us away, nobody to claim that […]
From the National Press Photographers Association:
Photojournalists clearly have a Constitutional right guaranteed by the First Amendment to make photographs in public places. But often law enforcement officials and security agencies believe – wrongly so – that in the name of homeland defense there are new federal laws that somehow give them additional rights to restrict […]
Prepping for Musclepalooza V (this Sunday - you coming?), George realized it’s about time to get the Hemmings Muscle Machines Chevelle inspected. The paint’s getting a bit long in the tooth and the engine bay could stand some detailing, but it fired right up this morning as we pulled it out of the Sibley Shop […]
* Is it a shame to have used NOS Econoline sheetmetal to form this custom bar in a vanner’s basement? Where’s the soul to it then? Where are the stories that start, “This was once my daily driver”? Then again, as Cap’n Scurvy himself notes, no vans were harmed in the making of this bar. […]
Spent part of the day yesterday visiting with John Scales at Packard Motor Car Service in South Windsor, Connecticut. I thought the location seemed rather odd - John’s located right smack dab in the middle of an anonymous corporate/industrial park, and the only way you can find his place is to look for the small […]
I’ll return to the normal SIA Flashback custom of progressing through the issues next week, but thought that because I celebrated my birthday last week, I’ll pick an article from the SIA issue closest to my birth, SIA #50, April 1979. It’s interesting to see how things changed so much from SIA #3 to #50 […]
Who knew that Orange Crush has been around for so long? I’m quickly realizing that I receive way more submissions for Lost and Found in Hemmings Classic Car than I can possibly run, so I’ll place some of them here in hopes that I’ll get some sort of identification to go with the submissions.
This picture […]
Sometimes we just need to get out of the office. Such was the case yesterday, when the bulk of editorial made a field trip to the New York International Auto Show. Sure, we don’t cover new cars, but we still have to maintain our contacts, as Fitzgerald did with his buddies from Ferrari.
And there’s the […]
Not all land-speed racing takes place out West. For the last few years, the East Coast Timing Association has overtaken a one-mile landing strip outside Maxton, North Carolina, for those folks who either can’t get out to or can’t wait for Bonneville or El Mirage. Scott H from the H.A.M.B. took some pictures over the […]
Finally had a weekend warm enough to throw open the garage doors and blow off some stink. Though, of course, to blow off all of the stink would take a little more than a weekend and a slight breeze.
When I tore down the engine that would become the 4.6 stroker, I figured I would still […]