Allegheny Ludlum stainless steel cars

A frequent Hemmings online forums poster “Loodvig” has been requesting on the Hemmings web forum that we post pictures of the email that has been circulating about the 1936 Ford stainless steel-body cars. This was a subject Matt Litwin talked about earlier this summer when he came across a stainless-bodied 1936 Ford at Dearborn. All of the stainless steel cars were driven extensively by select salepeople as a reward for excellence in product sales. Each salesperson was given use...

24/11/2008

Add as Friend: Hemmings joins Facebook, embarassing photos to ensue

Okay, so them young whippersnappers have been making good use of this Facebook Web 2.0 Intarnet thing, so we thought we’d give it a try over there, and we’re even offering a nifty free Hemmings application for the Facebook-addicted. With this app, you can either see the 30 most recent listings from Hemmings.com or you can search for that exact collector car you’ve been looking for. In addition, we have quick links up to our free weekly newsletter and our monthly podcast (soon...

04/11/2008

A long winter’s nap

My 1973 MGB Tourer, named “Blaze” after its groovy Seventies Tupperware orange color, spent last summer sitting under a tarp in my parents’ driveway because, despite my whining, it steadfastly refused to start. I was happy to enlist the help of the capable and gregarious David Clark, proprietor of Sports Car Services; I accompanied him on a roundabout tour of the Northeast one Saturday last November as he dropped off one MGB to a customer in New Jersey and picked up my recalcitrant...

31/10/2008

at least the Gathering of the Faithful poster was really cool

Despite the shenanigans going on around the Gathering of the Faithful hot rod show this past weekend, I managed to meet up with a couple of my hot rod pals, two of whom came together for the poster for Flathead Jack’s show. Mark Phelan, who most H.A.M.B.sters know as General Gow, has been getting into prints made from woodcuts big time lately and was thus tapped to produce the show poster, which he did in an awesome old-timey style. The really cool thing is that he used Paul...

21/10/2008

a schism divides the hot rod faithful in New England

Flathead Jack’s Gathering of the Faithful in Rochester, Massachusetts I hate it when politics gets in the way of a good car show. It seems I can only get down to see the New England Speed Society’s Gathering of the Faithful show every couple of years, so I was kinda blindsided when this year it split into two different shows on the same day at the same time three miles down the road from each other. I haven’t heard the whole story, and as acrimonious as this has become, I...

21/10/2008 | 1 Kommentar

Arrivederci, Italia!

There was a time when I viewed European vehicles exclusively through the prism of Matchbox die-casts, and so I thought that when Europeans went on vacation, they used a trailer, or caravan, towed on tiptoes by a Morris or something. Or else, just slept in their cars, as shown in the scenes of race-day morning early in the Steve McQueen film “Le Mans.” So, while on the recent Hemmings Cruise to Europe, it was a genuine surprise to run into this self-contained European motorhome, a...

17/10/2008

are collector cars a solid investment?

So Barrett-Jackson sent out this press release yesterday announcing that collector cars outperform both stocks and gold as an investment (full press release below, after the jump), obviously seizing on both the ongoing financial meltdown and a publicity opportunity for the auction house’s upcoming Las Vegas auction. Of course, that statement is based on a specific - and specified - set of numbers. This mini-index that Barrett-Jackson conceived likely doesn’t include your average,...

14/10/2008

a Skorpion with a little stinger under the hood

I’m sure many car clubs do this, but I’m drawn back to the Crosley Automobile Club’s website on a monthly basis to check out the Crosley of the Month. Most times, it’s a post-war CC or CD sedan or station wagon, but every now and then, Jim Bollman, the club’s website coordinator, tosses in a rarity, like the 1951 Skorpion that serves as the Crosley of the Month for October. Owned by Dale Liebherr of Minden, Nevada, the Skorp has a stock 44-cu.in. four-cylinder,...

10/10/2008

another “BIG” motorcycle

I think I have your big trike beat Dan. This one is named “Big.” The bike sits in front of the Wheels Through Time motorcycle museum in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. It is billed as the world’s largest, rideable motorcycle chopper (pay no attention to the training wheels under the primary cover). It will seat five people and is 23 feet long and eight feet high. It was built for the TV show of the same name on the Discovery Channel, then purchased by the museum. When I visited...

08/10/2008

Ape racing! Brilliant! Or whatever the Italian word is for brilliant!

I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me when we spotted the Ape in Castelmola that they’d make a perfectly inadequate racing platform. Probably because we saw so many Apes across Italy that they were no longer a novelty after the second day there. But now, of course, I must go back just to witness the spectacle of these stripped-down, hopped-up Apes going wheel-to-third-wheel around a course made of hay bales. From the photos, it appears that tipping’s just part of the...

01/10/2008

and what’s so tasteless about them?

So once Dave let us know he had taken the photos of the shorty Voyager and that he had tossed the photos into the Flickr pool of Tastelessly or Strangely Modified Vehicles, well, there went my afternoon. As with many other aspects of life, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and I certainly treasured some of the photos in the pool, like Hugo90’s photos of the Monte (2, 3) taken at the 2007 Portland, Oregon, Microcar and Minicar Meet. According to Hugo’s captions,...

05/09/2008

AMCing is believing

Whattsamatta, you gettin’ bored with all these GM cars and Mopars at the strip? Plug the ennui all by yourself. We’ll show you how, in a trio of photos from Labor Day weekend’s eighth edition of Musclepalooza at Lebanon Valley Dragway. It was a snap to find a trio of American Motors adherents banging heads on the bracket battlefield, and claiming the win column as well. First was this local guy rocking the gearbox in a completely unrestored S/C Rambler, as the rust spot on...

03/09/2008

a land-speed Lincoln, a rookie editor and a car wash

So there I was, about four months into my new job as editor, back in 2004, pre-HABE (Hemmings Auto Blogs era). I had convinced my editors to send me back to Ohio for a couple weeks to collect car features, and the Glenmoor Gathering in Canton was smack dab in the middle of my trip. Shortly after I arrived, got my press credentials, introduced myself all around, I made my first acquaintance with Myron Vernis. One of the themes David Schultz had chosen for that year’s Gathering was...

13/08/2008

AMO 2008: just for you, earthpilot

First off, good eye, earthpilot. Not too many people would have seen past the two-door SC/Rambler station wagon in the earlier post of wagons from this year’s AMO convention, but you did, and you asked for more, and like the U.S. Postal Service, we deliver for you. That Jeepster’s actually been to the last three AMO conventions I’ve attended: 2005 in Atlanta, 2006 in Dayton and this year’s Kingston show. It belongs to Judy Emerson of the Bronx, and if we ever do a truck...

14/07/2008

AMO 2008: Small bodies, big style

Not too many Spirits or Spirit AMXs showed up at this year’s AMO, so I had to console myself with checking out the other post-1970 small-body AMCs, including the Hornets, Gremlins, Concords and Eagles. The Hornet hatchback in the above photo caught my eye, not for its excellent condition… …but for the dealership sticker on the back panel. The owner of the car said Phillip Michaud still has several of these dealership stickers stuffed away somewhere. Of the two Spirits that...

10/07/2008

AMO 2008: Circle the wagons!

While you Yanks were eating bratwurst watching fireworks this past weekend, I was up in Kingston, Ontario, for an equally patriotic event, but with a twist: The American Motors Owners Association for the second time in its history held its annual convention in Canada, which made for much clashing of accents and currencies. Definitely not the largest AMO meet, but anytime the meet moves eastward, attendance drops. Still, some neat cars showed up, including an abundance of station wagons. For...

09/07/2008

archive box treasures: Formula Junior, Mistral, Bristol, BSA

I must’ve stumbled upon the box with all the photos for the B section in the May 1978 issue of Hemmings Motor News, and that section that month had a whole lotta interesting cars. For example, the 1934 BSA three-wheeler, a two-seater with a boattail body, advertised as being in original condition, and selling for $4,000 out of Cornwall, England. If you wanted photos of it, you had to send the seller $2. You had to send the seller $3 (bills only, please) for pictures of this Bristol 404,...

12/06/2008

are you ready for Musclepalooza VII?

I had the distinct pleasure of starting with Hemmings right before the first Musclepalooza four years ago, and thus have attended every one of our six Musclepalooza events, so you can bet I’m jazzed about this weekend’s Musclepalooza VII, which promises the same formula of muscle cars on the show field, muscle cars on the drag strip, and, well, muscle cars everywhere around you. The event’s grown every year to the point where we’re over filling the grounds at Lebanon...

22/05/2008

airport limousines, Hawaii, 1985

Ben Merkel, who I’m sure you’re all familiar with by now, found himself in Hawaii in 1985, courtesy a travel agency he owned at the time. Sweet, he thought, beautiful scenery, beautiful girls, and me with a camera. Alas, he brought his fiancee (as anybody probably should when offered a trip to Hawaii and engaged), and she forbade him from aiming his camera anywhere near bikinis, coconut shells or the combination of two X chromosomes. So I took pictures of the Stageways since it was...

14/05/2008

a church, a fast food joint and a Jeep dealership

Late last year I became rather interested in the Lost AMC Dealership Project over at the AMC Heritage Forum and actually went out to scope out some of the closest former dealerships on Eddie Stakes’ list (another list is at the Heritage Forum). Now it appears the AMC Heritage Forum might shut down, and coming across that news reminded me to post the photos I took of the current state of several dealerships. I began with the lowest-hanging fruit, the former Williams and Bugbee at 945 E....

24/04/2008

another Crosley dragster I want to know more about

According to GasserMadness.com, where I found these pictures, this was the Bader and Ferrara Crosley Competition Coupe from Cypress, California, and it ran a blown Cadillac V-8 engine. A little googling turns up a claim that Tom McEwen piloted it at one point and that it also went by the name Crosseyed Crosley. It doesn’t appear to have the same profile or modifications as the Hubbard Crosley dragster, so now we have two mystery Crosley dragsters on our hands. And, to complicate things,...

18/04/2008

a little note on the comments

Our policy is to not approve comments written in a foreign language - not because we’re America-number-one-speak-English-or-die nationalists, but simply because this is an English-language blog and our readers expect to read English. And because I can’t take the time to run every comment written in a foreign language through Google Translate to see if it’s legit or spam. If you do have a legitimate comment, please enter it in English. Speaking of spam, we have a kickass...

07/04/2008

a little confused?

One would think that AMC guys and Mopar guys would have become all buddy-buddy sometime in the last 20 years, but such is not the case. The Mopar guys do their thing, and us AMCers do ours. Sure, AMCs are welcome at Mopar Nats, and every now and then a Mopar guy dabbles his toes [...]

17/03/2008

a little bit more on that Pontiac Grand Am-amino

In the April 2008 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, I mentioned the mystery Pontiac Grand Am/El Camino hybrid that I spotted in the GM Heritage Center and stated that nobody seemed to know much about the car’s creation or reason for existence. However, I just came across the following photo and mention of the sedan pickup [...]

11/03/2008

and so gently you came rapping - the Raven, part 2

The last anybody heard or saw of the Raven - at least in public - was 1960, when builder Arthur Bentas put it away. Joe Germann, the son of Arthur’s best friend, decided the time was right to pull it out of hiding last summer. yes, there’s a car underneath all that Worse fates could have befallen [...]

19/02/2008

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