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| ANNOUNCEMENTS There will be no Hemmings Daily on Monday, February 20, in observance of Presidents Day. Our Sunday edition will publish as scheduled, then we'll be back on Tuesday, February 21. | Rare coachbuilt aerodynamic coupes to appear together at Concours d'Elegance of America
Posted by Daniel Strohl - 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C2300 by Viotti. Photos courtesy Concours d'Elegance of America, except where noted. Arturo and Deborah Keller's collection contains not just many of Europe's most prestigious automobiles, but also some of the sleekest and rarest coachbuilt cars of the streamline era, so as part of the Concours d'Elegance of America's celebration of the couple as its Collectors of the Year, the Kellers will display five of their most striking aerodynamic coupes together. Based in Petaluma, California, the Kell... Read More | | | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1964 Volvo 1800S Posted by Kurt Ernst - >From the seller's description: 1964 Volvo P1800S, 4 speed manual with electric overdrive. Original and excellent drive train, red leather interior and carpets, original blue faced instruments. This car is rust free and in exceptional condition, much of the car is original. It comes with its factory manuals, tool roll, jack and spare wheel and tire. This car is fitted with Dayton wire wheels. This car could be driven anywhere, and has been regularly driven by us. No evidence of prior crash damage. Find m...Read More | Hemi Dart pair headlines Mecum LA sale Posted by Mike McNessor - 1968 Hemi Darts. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Pomona, California, is synonymous with NHRA drag racing, as host city to both the season-opening Winternationals and the season-ending NHRA Finals. Pomona's Fairplex, where Pomona Raceway is located, is also home to the Wally Parks NHRA Museum. Lot 120, the Mickey Weise Hemi Dart. So, when Mecum Auctions announced it was taking its traveling show to the Fairplex this weekend, you had to imagine there'd be a significant drag car or two on the docket. Loo...Read More | | | The $5,000 Challenge, bathtub, Buick and zombie edition Posted by Kurt Ernst - There are many reasons why automotive restoration projects don't always succeed. Sometimes, the hobbyist finds himself over his (or her) head, and frustration overwhelms interest in finishing the car. Other times, it's a loss of funding, since a new roof takes priority over a weekend driver. Unrealistic expectations are an issue, too, since the joy of rebuilding a project car on one's own often ends with the first frozen nut, snapped stud or no-longer available part. The candidates in this edition of the $5,000 C...Read More | Malaga, Andalusia, Spain Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1960s Location: Plaza de Andalusia, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain Source: Forum-auto.com What do you see here?...Read More | | |
| THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY | 2/17/1911: | Charles Kettering's revolutionary self-starter is first installed on a production car, a 1912 Cadillac. | | 2/17/1934: | The first high-school driver's ed class is held in State College, PA. | | 2/17/1972: | The Beetle overtakes the Model T as world's best-selling car, with 15,007,034 sold. |
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February 24, 2017 - San Diego, CA
10th Annual Race & Performance Expo
February 25, 2017 - Schaumburg, IL
Winter Classic Motorsports Expo
February 25, 2017 - Columbus, OH
Florida Mopars 8th Annual Car Show
February 25, 2017 - Panama City, FL
Gateway Classic Cars Ribbon Cutting Ceremony of Dallas Fort Worth
February 25, 2017 - - Select City -, TX
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WEEK IN REVIEW | | Thursday, February 16, 2017 | One of 16 built, 1957 Jaguar XKSS could top $16 million at Amelia Island sale Posted by Kurt Ernst - Photos of XKSS 716 by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1956, near the peak of the D-Type's success in international sports car racing, Jaguar made the corporate decision to withdraw from motorsports and focus on its road car business. That left 25 D-Types potentially without buyers, but Sir William Lyons had a brilliant idea: With a few modifications, the D-Type became the road-and-track-ready XKSS, targeted to buyers in the United States. Just 16 were completed before a fire ...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Posted by Kurt Ernst - >From the seller's description: 1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Sport Sedan. The big one. Very low 59K ORIGINAL miles. Solid original unmolested complete antique. There is no rust. Decent chrome. An expensive repaint of the original light green with a white top. No body repairs needed. If one wants to complete restoration, this Lincoln is a prime example of how it came from the factory. Nothing has been changed, except repaint. The interior has a perfect headliner and door panels. No mice problems. The seats are cloth and...Read More | Could Excelsior-Henderson be poised for (another) rebirth? Posted by Kurt Ernst - 2000 Excelsior-Henderson Super X. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. On December 21, 1999, the Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle Company, a revival of a once-storied American brand, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after just two model years of production. Now, as RevZilla reports, a Denver-based investment firm believes the time is right for another attempt at an all-new Excelsior-Henderson, which would go head-to-head for market share against Harley-Davidson and the Polaris-owned Indian Motorcycle. In 1928, the Exce...Read More | Bold and Baroque: 1981 Imperial brochure Posted by Mark J. McCourt - Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Didthe late 1970s represent the peak of "personal luxury" coupe ownership in America? It's true that, 40 years ago, big, plush two-doors sold in vast numbers, and were considered perfectly reasonable family cars (look, Ma, no AWD "crossovers"!). The early 1980s brought new financial challenges, along with new trends in automotive design, but the Big Three wasn't willing to give up on big flagship coupes yet- in 1981, Cadilla...Read More | New York City, 1963 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1963 Location: New York City Source: Settestrada, December 1963; courtesy Mauro B. What do you see here? ...Read More | | Wednesday, February 15, 2017 | A sports car with a hot rod's heart - 1950 Allard K1/2 Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1950 Allard K1/2. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby's. Sydney Allard's apprenticeship with a London dealer selling both Daimlers and Buicks left him with a thorough understanding of the differences between British and American cars, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each. By the time he began building cars of his own in the late 1930s, his preference was for a light and nimble chassis, typically infused with flathead Ford V-8 power. One such example, a unique 1950 Allard K1/2, is set to cross...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1955 Packard Four-Hundred Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1955 Packard Four-Hundred for sale. From the seller's description: The first owner purchased this car new from Packard of New Haven, CT. He owned it for quite a few years and sold it to a good friend of the third owner. By then, the car was a used up Packard and probably would have been put out to pasture. The second owner sat on the car for a few years when the third owner kept pressing to get it. The step daughter tells me that her step Dad was a self taught mechanic and car restorer. He worked as a machinist and...Read More | AACA and CCCA announce first-ever joint meeting Posted by Daniel Strohl - 1947 Chrysler Town and Country sedan. Photo courtesy Classic Car Club of America. Sixty-five years. The Antique Automobile Club of America and the Classic Car Club of America have co-existed for long enough to reach retirement age themselves and yet the two most prominent clubs for car collectors in the United States have never held a joint meeting. At least, not until May, when the two clubs will get together for the first time. "This was way overdue, and it makes sense," Steve Moskowitz, the executive direct...Read More | The largest North American Citroen exhibit ever organized comes to the Mullin Museum Posted by Kurt Ernst - Images courtesy the Mullin Automotive Museum. Though largely unknown to contemporary consumers in the United States, French automaker Citroen is beloved in much of the world for its innovative designs and unique Gallic sense of style. On March 11, the Mullin Museum in Oxnard, California, will debut an exhibit honoring the brand, and Citroen: The Man, The Marque, The Mystique aims to be "the most comprehensive look at the history of the famed French automaker ever attempted in North America." 1938 Citroen T...Read More | Las Vegas, 1983 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: August 1983 Location: Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?...Read More | | Tuesday, February 14, 2017 | Route 66 suggested for country's next National Historic Trail Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by Rachel Knickmayer. On the heels of a bill intended to preserve Route 66 comes another piece of legislation that would secure National Historic Trail status for Route 66 and that would theoretically help preserve and rejuvenate the Mother Road. H.R. 801, which Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois introduced earlier this month, would amend the National Trails System Act of 1968 to include Route 66 as the country's 20th National Historic Trail. According to a statement LaHood released regarding the bi...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1980 Chevrolet Corvette Posted by Kurt Ernst - >From the seller's description: 1980 Chevrolet Corvette This car is a low mileage gem, showing just over 27,000 on its odometer. It is factory stock Tuxedo Black with red leather seats and new, matching carpeting and floor mats. The car has mirror-tinted glass t-tops and a nice case to store them in while you are out enjoying the sunshine. The engine is the L-82, 350-cubic-inch, numbers-matching, original V-8 with a Turbo Hydra-Matic. It has been upgraded with a four-barrel Quick Fuel carb, Edelbrock intake ma...Read More | Oregon's $1,000 impact tax on 20-year-old vehicles spiked soon after introduction Posted by Daniel Strohl - Chevrolet pickup in northeast Portland, Oregon. Photo by Tony Webster. Multiple Oregon state legislators said over the weekend that they would not allow a bill that would introduce a $1,000 impact tax on any vehicle older than 20 years to become law. Introduced by the state's House Committee on Revenue last Thursday, H.B. 2877 would have imposed the tax every five years on 20-year-old and older vehicles registered in the state. The only exemption the bill made was for vehicles registered as antiques. Revenue f...Read More | Open Diff: The repair path of least resistance Posted by Kurt Ernst - 2000 BMW R1100R instrument panel. Photo by the author. In a perfect world, replacement parts for all our vehicles would remain available indefinitely. Ours, however, is not a perfect world. Last summer, the analog clock on my 2000 BMW R1100R, positioned above and between the speedometer and tachometer, stopped working. Were the hands frozen in place, this would prove to be a minor annoyance, but instead, the hour and minute hands seem to have taken on a mind of their own, jerking, dancing and moving unpredicta...Read More | Amherst, Massachusetts, 1950s Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa late 1950s Location: North Pleasant and Amity/Main streets, Amherst, Massachusetts Source: via Mike Burke What do you see here?...Read More | | Monday, February 13, 2017 | Museum programs examine role of cars in civil rights history and of blacks in shaping automotive history Posted by Daniel Strohl - The Rosa Parks bus at The Henry Ford, part of a collection of newly digitized videos by The Henry Ford. A spate of museum programs scheduled for this month aim to explore the confluences of African-American history and automotive history, specifically how black pioneers influenced the cars we drive and how cars helped empower the civil rights movement. "The car was pretty important in the last century-plus and has had a role in all sorts of different things," Jason Hartwig, the Petersen Automotive Museum's edu...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1972 BMW 2002 Posted by Kurt Ernst - >From the seller's description: 1972 BMW 2002 looking for a new home. The car, affectionately known as Beanie within our family, has been owned by us since new, and mileage now stands at 50,280 miles. The car underwent a full external and engine restoration by reknowned BMW specialists 2002AD in 2012 and was repainted in BMW Rosso Red, the same color as our European E34 BMW M5 Limited Edition. The restoration included a newly rebuilt engine, a Weber progressive 32/36 carburetor, replaced suspension and bushings, a 3...Read More | National Corvette Museum begins restoration of final sinkhole-damaged Corvette Posted by Kurt Ernst - Moving the '62 Corvette off the Skydome floor on February 9. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. In the three years since the February 12, 2014, sinkhole collapse of the Skydome floor at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, two of the eight cars damaged have been restored. Another five had been deemed beyond repair, which left the 1962 Corvette donated to the museum in 2011 by David Donoho as the sole rescued car awaiting restoration. In honor of the third anniversary of the sinkhole ope...Read More | Affordable Collectibles: Trucks of the '70s Posted by Dan Stoner - Hard to believe for some, but pickup trucks built in the '70s are becoming collectible. One of the coolest - yet most overlooked - categories of the era, light-duty trucks, are some of the most affordable classics around. And remember: we're talking about the Seventies, so when you start really looking, get ready to stumble across some of the weirdest special editions and greatest model names not seen before or after those years. Chances are, you'll probably find the trucks still in regular use and not only are m...Read More | Chicago, 1950s Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1950s Location: Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois Source: carboardamerica on Flickr What do you see here?...Read More | | Sunday, February 12, 2017 | How Marcello Gandini almost singlehandedly created "the greatest rally weapon ever," Lancia's Stratos HF Posted by Hemmings contributor - Photo via Archivio Stile Bertone. If the main purpose of the Lancia Stratos Zero concept prototype was to catch the attention of the people at Lancia it did not seem to happen at the 1970 edition of the Turin Auto Show at least not officially. No one from Lancia, except motorsport boss Cesare Fiorio, came across and had a proper look at the space machine. The show closed by mid-November, the concept car went back to Bertone, the year ended, but there was no call, or reaction from Lancia. It was some tw...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1990 Ford Mustang GT Posted by Kurt Ernst - >From the seller's description: 1990 Mustang GT 5.0 Coupe 25th anniversary. Car is red with manual trans. Just less than 52,000 miles. Car has never seen snow and very little rain. Garage kept. Bottom is as clean as top. I am original owner. Some part changed out but original parts come with car. Find more Fords for sale on Hemmings.com....Read More | Four-Links - Owens-Corning racing, Predicta, Pacerchop, crash-test Minis Posted by Daniel Strohl - Taking a break from excoriating just about everybody in Detroit, Peter DeLorenzo has spent some time recently telling the story of Owens-Corning's involvement in sports car racing in the Sixties and Seventies. * There's only one Predicta, but there have been plenty of scale models of the famous Darryl Starbird custom built over the years. Mark Gustavson has set out not only to build his definitive model of the Predicta, but to document the car's history in both full-size and scale-model forms. * Mike C...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1981 DMC De Lorean Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1981 DMC De Lorean for sale. From the seller's description: Stainless steel, dealer-painted Ferrari red w/Grey interior. Five-speed. Near mint condition. This car was brought to the United States in 1992. Windows work smoothly, doors fit tight, engine idles great, exhaust system has no leaks and the car has no rattles. Upholstery is starting to show slight signs of wear, but is completely serviceable. I have had no significant trouble with this car except that the mechanism that holds up the hood is broken. I have ...Read More | LAST WEEK'S MOST READ A Hine's with "25 Varieties" - Oliver Hine's 1933 Ford five-window coupe Posted by Kurt Ernst - Photos by Jim Coventry, courtesy Auctions America. Oliver Hine didn't set out to build a custom that would set the show world on fire and continue to win awards nearly six decades after it was built. Instead, he wanted a car to go drag racing, but by 1953 it was clear that his 1933 Ford five-window coupe was destined for glory in another arena. Nicknamed 25 Varieties, a spin on his name, the number of cars that contributed to the build and condiment maker Heinz's famed "57 Varieties," the distinctive custom heads...Read More | LAST WEEK'S BEST DISCUSSION Multiple states look to amend license plate laws for historic vehicles Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by the author. About a month into the new legislative session for many states, at least six have introduced bills that would provide for greater freedom for displaying license plates on older vehicles. Of the six, five would allow single license plates while the other would provide for historical plates: New York's Senate Bill 832, introduced January 5, would introduce an exemption to the state's two-plate standard only for historical vehicles registered as such that weren't "manufactured with a num...Read More |
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