View in Browser | Subscribe | | Wayne Carini, host of "Chasing Classic Cars," to headline 2017 Hemmings Motor News Concours d'Elegance
Posted by Matt Litwin - Wayne Carini at the 2014 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty. Image courtesy of Tommy Lee Byrd. Accomplished automotive restorer and host of the popular television show Chasing Classic Cars, Wayne Carini has been named Honorary Chairman and Keynote Speaker for this year's 11th annual Hemmings Motor News Concours d'Elegance. A resident of Connecticut, Wayne has been immersed in the collector car hobby since childhood. At age nine he received his first ride in a Ferrari - a 1960 Rosso Chiaro 250 ... Read More | | | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1949 Willys Jeep Delivery Posted by Daniel Strohl - Complete but unrestored 1949 Willys Jeep Delivery for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: Very original, relatively rare 4x2 Willys Panel Wagon in "All There" condition, owned by the same family since 1959. Original California vehicle, it was parked in 1963 in Hollywood, California by the second owner. In 2009, to avert a sale to the junk yard, another family member moved it to a garage in Duarte, California in 2009, with the goal of fully restoring it, but time and space are simply not resources a...Read More | 1970 Daytona 500 Champion Pete Hamilton passes Posted by Matt Litwin - Pete Hamilton with his Petty Enterprises Plymouth Superbird prior to the start of the 1970 Daytona 500. Photo by Skeensss. Pete Hamilton, winner of the 1970 Daytona 500, passed away earlier this week at the age of 74. A native of Dedham, Massachusetts, Hamilton began his racing career in 1962 at the age of 19, where he competed weekly at the now defunct Norwood Arena (a 1/4-mile paved oval in Norwood, Massachusetts, where NASCAR legend Ralph Moody also began his driving career). His talent behind the wheel of ...Read More | | | This or That: 1969 Hurst/Olds 455 versus 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler Posted by Matt Litwin - 1969 Hurst/Olds 455 (top); 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler (bottom). Images by the author. Editor's note: This or Thatis not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us, in an idyllic world, to add a collectible vehicle into our dream garage on a weekly basis, but with a catch: We can only pick one vehicle fromthis pairing and it has to be for enjoyment purposes rather than as an investment. This episode of This or That explores the mid-priced muscle car market via the choi...Read More | Butler, Pennsylvania, 1960s Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1960s Location: Butler, Pennsylvania Source: Robert Amigh, via Paul D. Johnston Jr. What do you see here?...Read More | | |
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WEEK IN REVIEW | | Thursday, March 23, 2017 | Multiple state, federal bills introduced to stop the spread of E15 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by Kurt Haubrich. Despite the ongoing rollout of E15 fuel nationwide, a handful of bills introduced in legislatures in D.C. and elsewhere aim to put a halt to sale of the fuel blamed for causing damage to older vehicles. The most extreme of those bills, H.R. 1314, which Virginia Representative Robert Goodlatte introduced, calls for the elimination of the Renewable Fuel Standard, the portion of the Clean Air Act enacted in 2005 that provides for minimum volumes of renewable fuels - everything from corn-ba...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1982 Checker A11 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Propane-powered 1982 Checker A11 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: This car was purchased new in 1982 by the Checker Cab Company of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. It was ordered with a 3.8l V6 Chevy engine and the rare option of factory propane. A special car ordered in the last year of production this cab was treated as "the Pride of the Fleet" and only saw light day time service for 5 years and was retired in 1987. In 2001 it became the focus of an extensive frame-off restoration. Compl...Read More | Mario Andretti to receive the 2017 Argetsinger Award from the IMRRC Posted by Kurt Ernst - Mario Andretti at the 1969 Indianapolis 500. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Established in 2014 and named for the man who brought motor racing to Watkins Glen, the Cameron R. Argetsinger Award is presented annually by the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMMRC) to the "person in the motorsports industry who is recognized universally for having advanced and improved the sport," and "brings prestige to motorsports and demonstrates commitment to the future of racing." For 2017, the IMMRC has ...Read More | Family albums n four-speeds: 1964 Ford Country Sedan receipts Posted by Mark J. McCourt - Photos courtesy of the Hemmings files; receipts from the author's family archives My mother and aunt were recently going through some old files in my grandparents' home when they found some fascinating automotive paperwork, which they put aside for me. Among various registration documents for my grandfather's antique Fords were a couple of receipts dealing with a new-car purchase in the mid-1960s- specifically, a six-passenger 1964 Ford Country Sedan. That station wagon replaced another in the family driveway-...Read More | Anaheim, California, 1958 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: 1958 Location: Katella Avenue, Anaheim, California Source: via Charles Phoenix What do you see here?...Read More | | Wednesday, March 22, 2017 | Fifty years later, Baja 1000 remains one of the world's most demanding races Posted by Daniel Strohl - James Garner's Baja-modified 1969 AMC SC/Rambler. It started out as little more than a lark, an informal competition among off-road racers to see who could make it from one end of the Baja peninsula to the other the quickest. And while big sponsor dollars - and big-money race rigs - have become part and parcel of the Baja 1000 over the intervening 50 years, it still remains one of the most grueling races on the planet. As described in the mid- to late 1960s, whatever roads ultimately connected Ensenada, about ...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1974 Plymouth Road Runner Posted by Kurt Ernst - From the seller's description: 1974 Plymouth Road Runner. This is one of only 280 cars built in 1974 with a big-block 400 Magnum engine. The 280 cars were equipped with either a 4-speed or automatic transmission. Well preserved. Air conditioning and Sport Handling suspension. This car has seen limited use in the last 25 years. The tires date decades ago and are half worn. This car retains much of its originality that it was born with. It has recently been repainted to a high quality. The sides are laser strai...Read More | Upcoming Simeone Demo Day reveals the secrets behind a quartet of automotive discoveries Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe. Photos courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Sometimes, the joy of acquiring a collector car is not in the actual purchase, but in the hunt itself. While all the cars in the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have stories to tell, a few stand out as much for the story behind their acquisition as for their place in automotive or racing history. This Saturday, March 25, the Simeone will present a "Car Detectives" Demonstration Day, featuring...Read More | Does Alfa Romeo's new Giulia Quadrifoglio live up to the brand's performance legacy? Posted by Kurt Ernst - Photos by Terry Shea and Kurt Ernst. Alfa Romeo hasn't offered a sedan in the U.S. market since 1995, the final year its 164 was sold on these shores. Though the brand has offered niche-market sports cars to American customers (on and off) since 2008, it's been slow to market a mainstream vehicle on these shores. In the words of Alfa Romeo's Berj Alexanian, "We knew we had just one chance to get it right with the Giulia sedan," which launched in late 2016. At Amelia Island, we had a chance to (briefly) drive the ...Read More | Miami Beach, Florida, 1950s Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1950s Location: 17th Street and A1A, Miami Beach, Florida Source: via The Old Motor What do you see here?...Read More | | Tuesday, March 21, 2017 | Gypsy Rose lowrider heads up trio of modified cars to appear on the National Mall Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Aside from a few cars built for racing, the National Historic Vehicle Register has yet to include any modified cars, an omission that the Historic Vehicle Association will reverse next month when, ahead of joining the register, three of the most widely recognized lowriders, hot rods and customs will go on display on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. "The register celebrates automotive heritage as well as automotive culture, and modified vehicles are a distinct ...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1939 E.R.A. Raymond Mays Posted by Daniel Strohl - One-off V-8-powered 1939 E.R.A. Raymond Mays sports car for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: The works car that competed in the 1939 RAC rally driven by "Bentley Boy" S.C.H ( Sammy ) Davis before being driven around the outer circuit at Brooklands by A.F. Rivers Fletcher at 110 m.p.h prior to WW2 ending all motorsport activities and car production in the U.K. being suspended. Raymond Mays was one of the world's most famous racing drivers, breaking records from the Twenties in his Bugatti and the...Read More | A Hellcat of a different sort: Buick's 1944 76-mm Gun Motor Carriage M18 Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1944 Buick M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer. Photos by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Auctions America. Today, the name "Hellcat" is associated with the supercharged variant of the fourth-generation Dodge Challenger, but 74 years ago it belonged to a very special Buick. Technically the "76-mm Gun Motor Carriage M18," Buick's Hellcat was built with a deadly purpose in mind: hunting the tanks of the Axis powers. On May 12, military vehicle collectors will have a rare opportunity to purchase a 1944 Buick M18 Hellcat tank destroye...Read More | Another vintage Stewart Warner Green Line gauge for the collection Posted by Thomas A. DeMauro - Here's a small sample from my modest Stewart Warner Green Line gauge collection. Photos by author. While there's still plenty to do in the garage during winter, the really cold weekends are spent in the confines of my much warmer house, hunting down parts and supplies online for things that need to get done once spring returns. That search often reveals items that may not be do-or-die necessities, but bits I want anyway. Purchasing criteria for such parts is that they have to be considerably cheaper than the pr...Read More | Denver, Colorado, 1972 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: April 1972 Location: East Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado Source: Bruce McAllister, National Archives, via Ran When Parked What do you see here?...Read More | | Monday, March 20, 2017 | Prince R380 represents the best from Japan in the Mid-Sixties Posted by Terry Shea - Prince R380 at the 2017 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance. All photos by Terry Shea. The recent Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance featured a Japanese Prototype class, a first in a major U.S. concours as best we can tell. The field included the Mazda 787B, the only Japanese car to score an overall win at the hard-fought and prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans. But there was another groundbreaking car on the field, just a few cars away, that also caught our attention: the Prince R380. Today, Japanese manufacturers c...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix LJ Posted by Kurt Ernst - From the seller's description: This is one of the nicest 1977 Grand Prix Model LJ's you will find today. With only 42,000 Actual Miles, this is a super solid car that looks awesome and drives incredible! This is honestly the nicest mid 70's A Bodies I have ever driven. Some cars are fun to look at but this Pontiac is even more fun to drive. You will NOT find a better driving GP on the market! It is a car you can fly in and drive home wherever you live. The original 350 4bbl runs excellent. The TH350 automatic shift...Read More | Richard Petty to be presented with Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award Posted by Kurt Ernst - Photo courtesy the Petty Family Foundation. Racing drivers are very seldom household names in the United States, but Richard Petty is surely an exception to this rule. Petty is known simply as "The King" to his legions of fans, and no NASCAR driver has ever won more races, more Daytona 500s or more events in a single season (27, in 1967). On March 27, Petty will be presented with the Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award at a gala dinner held at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. In the wor...Read More | A Solid Swede with Italian Tailoring: Forty Years of Volvo's 262C Bertone Posted by Mark J. McCourt - Images courtesy of Volvo Cars Heritage; detail photos by the author. Volvo cars had a very different image in the mid-1970s than today's models do. The 200 series cars were practical, sober, and safe, and perhaps a bit unsophisticated; Volvo's products were a step above low-cost imports like Volkswagen, but were far from being mentioned in the same breath as luxury marques like Cadillac and Mercedes-Benz. The 262C would change that. This Swedish automaker had long known it had to move upmarket if it was going ...Read More | Border crossing, 1950s, part 2 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1950s Location: unknown (source suggests a U.S.-Canada border crossing) Source: Alden Jewell on Flickr What do you see here?...Read More | | Sunday, March 19, 2017 | Bantam goes to Holabird: The test that convinced the Army of the Jeep's potential Posted by Hemmings contributor - There is much misunderstanding in jeep histories about testing at Holabird. The torture tests there were more or less legendary at the time, and always provided dramatic footage for the newsreels or pictures for the Sunday section. Various diabolical facilities were set up to deliver extreme punishment and stress tested vehicles to their limits and ween out the inadequate and to find and address the weaknesses of the survivors. Major Lawes, the Commanding Officer was not kidding when he promised Crist and Probst...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1937 Ford business coupe Posted by Kurt Ernst - From the seller's description: 1937 Ford Coupe: V8-60, Originally from Montana. 3rd owner. Manual Trans, no patch panels, no rust outs, body is in excellent condition. Motor overhauled, hydraulic brakes, LED taillights, electronic ignition, electric fuel pump, custom-made water pumps with ceramic seals, new fuel tank. Radio, heater, and clock included, which were the only three options available back then. New radial whitewall tires, Coker brand. Less than 100 miles on these tires. All glass, rubber, and chrome in ...Read More | Four-Links - the "please leave" Brougham, the Streur-Hoppe streamliner, the Ford ad collection, and the 125 MPH TR Posted by Daniel Strohl - Typically, a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham will get its owner into just about any social gathering. Not so for Steve Drale, who - according to an account on Kustomrama - bought Sinatra's old Brougham and tried to elbow his way into a gathering of Hollywood celebs with similar cars. * The Old Motor assembled some photos and video clips of a rear-engine streamliner built by a couple Consolidated Aircraft employees in the Thirties. The work looks pro; wonder where it is now? * Duke University's librarie...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1988 Mazda RX7 GXL Posted by Kurt Ernst - From the seller's description: West Coast Classics are proud to present an exceptional barn-fresh (garage really!) find of this rare long time family owned and fully loaded with factory options 1988 Mazda RX-7 GXL Coupe with its original Twin Rotary engine and 'Red' color paint with a 'Light Gray' full leather interior, a 5 speed manual transmission, original 40K miles and fully loaded with factory options including the leather package and floor mats:1.3L Twin Rotary Electronic Fuel Injection Engine,5 speed manual ...Read More | LAST WEEK'S MOST READ The Swiss Army Knife of farm implements: 1938 Minneapolis Moline UDLX Comfortractor Posted by Kurt Ernst - Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The challenge has haunted designers and engineers since the dawn of time: Take an existing product, and expand its functionality to broaden the market. In 1938, farm tractor manufacturer Minneapolis-Moline applied this Swiss Army Knife approach to its Model U series, resulting in the U Deluxe (or UDLX), an enclosed tractor capable of plowing fields during the day and driving to town in its off-hours. Just 100 examples were sold, and today, roughly 25 remain in restored condition. O...Read More | LAST WEEK'S BEST DISCUSSION The Difference in a Decade: Chevrolet's 1972 Vega and 1982 Cavalier brochures Posted by Mark J. McCourt - Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor Chevrolet's innovative Corvair never caught on as a best-selling, economy-minded import fighter, and the last ones rolled off the assembly line in 1969. This automaker would re-enter the small car segment in 1971 with the fresh Vega. This rear-wheel-drive GM H-body two-door, whose sister twin was Pontiac's Astre, would get off to a strong start (277,700 sold that year), and would be available in hatchback Coupe, notchback Seda...Read More |
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