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 […]
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 […]
Any Crosley devotee knows that the CoBra four-cylinder engine that powered the post-war Crosleys was essentially repurposed from its use in generators that provided many an Allied war unit with necessary electricity. But Powel Crosley tried to offer plenty more assistance in the war effort.
For example, Crosley built at least a couple different three-wheeled prototypes, […]
Los cholo locos at tha Jalop’ are having some fun with our bud Bruce Weiner’s “Whattadrag” Chevy 502-powered Isetta, and we’re lovers of all things microcar around here, too.
Whattadrag is often confused with the “Urkel Dragster,” but it ain’t the same car. In fact, we last saw the Isetta Roketta in Branson a year and […]
It’s no big secret that Raymond Loewy gave Albrecht Graf von Goertz his big break when Loewy arranged for his job at the Studebaker design studio. As the story goes, Goertz used that position to establish his own business in the 1950s, through which he met Max Hoffman and eventually came to design the BMW […]
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, I’m reminded that there’s more to old cars than the old cars themselves. It’s easy to forget the human interest stories that accompany the cars in light of high-horsepower engines, screaming paint jobs and limited production numbers. Every time I need a reminder, I think about Mel Valentine’s AMX.
To our Hemmings […]