As our own Jeff Koch can attest, Southern California is an easy place to have your collector car jacked. One of the latest victims turned up on our My Hemmings pages a couple of days ago.
Robert ushered in the New Year in the worst way imaginable: Waking up to find his 1956 Nomad hotrod gone. […]
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 […]
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 […]
* 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 […]
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 […]
There’s a huge slate of auctions this June, and no way I could fit everything in. I was really hoping that this one for Christie’s sale at Greenwich would run, but it didn’t. There’s also a great sale of Henry Seagrave memorabilia from Bonham’s that deserves a mention, and while I’m at it, here’s your […]
David Cammack owns what is undoubtedly the single best collection of Tuckers and Tucker memorabilia in existence, and he’s happy to show visitors around, if they call first. Last fall, he graciously gave us a tour of his collection, for an article that will appear in the June issue of Hemmings Classic Car. While I […]
Ya gotta wonder. I mean, I know that the manufacturers have time schedules, and they usually prefer to introduce cars on weekends versus weekdays and there must be a billion other reasons for it. But 37 years later, every AMC faithful knows the exact date that Kenosha introduced the Gremlin - April 1, 1970. Which […]
Mention the letters “HO” and everybody’s going to automatically know you’re either talking about model trains or bland, mushy farina cereal. They might not know, though, that you could also be discussing scale automotive models. Sure, HO is by far the most popular scale for railroad modelers (about 85 percent of them pick HO), but […]
I seldom put up anything from my own collection, partly because I’m inherently lazy but mostly because it’s a pain in the butt if I have to scan something on a Mac in the Art Department and somehow get it to my PC, not that you care.
But now that we’re back online after a cut […]
It’s not uncommon for a long-time reader to call me up and say that they’ve been subscribing to our magazines since Special Interest Autos #1, way back in 1970. It’s also not uncommon for me to come across die-hard gearheads who’ve never heard of SIA, the forerunner to Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and […]
Okay, it’s a little late in coming, but I hereby declare this month to be military March. Or at least this week.
Tom Wilson, of the Davis Registry, after perusing the military vehicles category, emailed to remind me that we hadn’t yet mentioned the Davis military vehicle, serial 494X1, that he and friends are restoring up […]
Found this terrific Chevrolet promotional film about the 1960 Corvair on YouTube. It’s a 6-minute-plus answer to the musical question, “Is the Corvair the new compact that can deliver the goods?”
They drove it along a river bank, at Lime Rock Park, and across a fair amount of the unpaved part of the U.S., and topped […]
I’ve still got the scars from my childhood explorations into the melting point of copper, and to this day it’s my material of choice when the need to bend some metal strikes. I’m not the only one, with copper choppers and hotrod detail work showing up among those who don’t mind a streak of green […]
Every now and then, you just gotta go back to the dealer intros for a fresh perspective on an old car. Like it or not, 1970s cars will continue to rise in popularity over the next several years as more people entering the old car hobby find that they can’t afford the 1950s and 1960s […]
What’s more fun than a sunny day, a few inches of fresh snow, an iced-over lake and a bunch of Model T snowmobiles? How about doing donuts on said lake with one of the said Ts? About a dozen of the snowmobiles showing up for the annual Model T Snowmobile Club meet at Lake George […]
Came across this mystery model in the collection of radio-guy, also known as Steve Erenberg. According to the description on Steve’s website, it’s a hand-made 1953 Packard design model with metal details. Nothing else.
From my quick research, I couldn’t come up with any production model that followed, nor could I come up with any full-scale […]
I’ve been looking for this photo for months, and it finally surfaced just recently. To tell the truth, I had absolutely no good reason to be looking for it save to post it here, and after discovering the Beast, it just seemed natural that this would turn up. Back in ‘05, just after LaChance started […]
While we were roaming the machine shop during our visit to David Greenlees were came upon this interesting buffing stand. Instead of spending $50 on a standard cast-iron stand, David visited his local salvage yard and bought this discarded beefy crankshaft that was once used in a commercial truck for practically pennies. He welded a […]