The 2016 Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival to honor South Carolina's own Anderson Motor Company

Posted by Kurt Ernst - John Gary Anderson knew his automobiles could never compete against those produced by manufacturing giants like Ford on price. Instead, the South Carolina carriage builder focused on hand-crafted quality and Southern pride to sell Anderson automobiles, with some success, from 1916 until 1925. Of the roughly 6,000 examples built, a dozen survive today, and "several" will be on hand for the Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance, taking place from November 4-6 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. As Ron Chepesiuk... Read More

Hemmings Find of the Day - 1967 Plymouth Barracuda convertible

Posted by Kurt Ernst - >From the seller's description: Beautifully restored 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Convertible. 273 Commando V8, Buckets, 904 Auto, 7 1/4 rear w/ 2:94 gear, build sheet, Chrysler historical info, and complete owner history. This particular car is very special. Delivered new to Pleasant Hill California, outside of San Francisco, the car went to the Houston Texas, and now in South Florida in the beautiful Sarasota area. You cant get a more solid car than this one! This was Plymouth's 1st year for the barracuda convertible o...Read More

Cadillac's first front-wheel drive production car, the 1967 Eldorado, turns 50

Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1967 Cadillac Eldorado. Photos by Jeff Koch. On October 6, 1966, Cadillac debuted an entirely new class of automobile, albeit one with a familiar name. Designed as the brand's first entry into the personal luxury coupe market, the E-body Eldorado was advertised as, "the first motor car in the world to combine the precision of front-wheel drive with the maneuverability of variable ratio power steering and the balance of Automatic Level Control." On its 50th birthday, here's a look back at this revolutionary, ye...Read More

MG halts assembly of cars in Great Britain

Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1948 MG TC hood ornament. Photo by Jill Reger. At its peak in the late 1960s, the automobile assembly plant in Longbridge, Birmingham, England, employed an estimated 25,000 workers, building a range of vehicles sold under the British Leyland banner. Today the plant occupies less than half of its former 400 acres and employs roughly 500 workers (including those in research and development), but it still handles final assembly of certain MG automobiles for parent company Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SA...Read More

Reminiscing - I love Edsel

Posted by Richard Lentinello - In the summer of 1957, right around my 6th birthday, I first got wind of the Edsel. I liked looking at my Dad's magazines: Popular Science and Business Week. The June 22 cover showed James Nance, posed in front of a shrouded car with a peculiar E on the side of the tarp. Split windshield? Strange slot in the front? And that boy-are-we-screwed look on his face, although I couldn't have known that at the time. I loved cars. All us boys did. I loved cars up until 1969 or '70 when, for some insane reaso...Read More

Las Vegas, 1955

Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1955 Location: Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?...Read More

THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY

10/6/1955:	Lincoln Continental MK II introduced at Paris Auto Show
10/6/1966:	Cadillac debuts the front wheel drive Eldorado

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