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 After posting several shots of the vintage Trans-Am and Sports Car event from the 2008 Monterey Historics, the somewhat overwhelming call for more imagery was from enthusiasts of the sports car genre. To be more specific, Group 4A - 1956-’61 over 2,500cc. So, for all you who love the look of Europe’s finest racing machines, here’s one last look. (Soon to be posted: 1972-1983 Historic IMSA GT cars!).
Chris Cox, of Chapel Hill, California, drove this 1958  Ferrari 412MI to a...
07/01/2009
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Dan says alt-fuel cars is one of the more popular topics among Hemmings Blog readers so I’d like to take this opportunity to debunk a myth about bio-fuels proliferated by people who aren’t entirely clear on what they’re writing about. (I’m looking at you, New York Times.)
Here’s a quote from a Dec. 25 Times story by Kate Galbraith about how cold weather adversely affects various alternative energy sources…
In January 2007, a bus stalled in the middle of the night on Interstate 70 in the...
31/12/2008
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 Thanks to some much needed time off courtesy of the holiday weekend, I was able to get back to a project that I had started several weeks ago. Actually, it was an idea that had been spawned from my crazy mind a few years ago: Turning a vintage, beat up set of barrel headlamps into modern lighting for my yet-to-be-completed billiard room in the house - or the bonus room in my garage.
A friend of mine was kind enough to pass along to me a matched set of lamps - we suspect from a vintage...
31/12/2008
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From our friend David Greenlees:
Last Thursday night we had heavy rain which froze on the trees and took quite a few of them down along with many limbs. Parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York have power outages with something like a million customers without power. Our home and shop are in the country and we have wood heat and water nearby so all we really need is light to get by.
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Imagine our shock when this wacky piece showed up at one of our summertime Cruise-Ins this year. Wacky, in the sense that it was wacky to watch the opening sequence of The Jetsons, and George’s saucercar loudly folded itself into a briefcase while he put his feet up on his desk at Spacely Sprockets. This was nearly as good. It’s the Centaur, a scooter whose huge rear fender became its own carrying case. We’re not sure how many were built, but the Centaur was produced from...
04/12/2008
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So while we’ve determined that Ford considered, but ultimately rejected, a first-generation Mustang station wagon for production, that never stopped fans of the pony car from mixing up their own takes on the concept, and thanks to our Lost and Found mention of Bob Hoshiko’s Shelby wagon, we seem to have become Mustang Station Wagon Central, with a few recent submissions in our inbox.
First, Paul Gronholm of Las Vegas, Nevada, sent us the above photo. He wrote:
The enclosed photo of...
04/12/2008
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Does this guy look familiar? It’s none other than Mario Andretti, in a coach-bodied Modified that he raced in 1962 for Frank J. Tanzosh. The photo, especially the Acme Markets sign in the background, indicates that this image was snapped in the pit area of the half-mile dirt oval, Nazareth Raceway, in Mario’s adopted Pennsylvania hometown. This is the car in which Mario became a true professional, i.e. driving for somebody else. The Tanzoshes, father Frank and son Billy, fielded...
01/12/2008
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Hemmings Auto Blog reader Paul Bellefeuille, who’s contributed several times here in the past, recently spotted this Bonneville-nosed El Camino up near Newmarket, New Hampshire, at right about the same time reader Louis pointed us to some photos of a similar Pontiac-nosed El Camino in an Orlando junkyard. Paul, however, actually found the man responsible for his find.
The owner Jay Stillman, just happened to be working on his garage when I stopped by. He was very gracious and told me...
17/11/2008
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1953 AEC Matador
You thought I meant AMC? Not even close. Cheffins Cambridge Vintage Sale last month was mostly farm implements and tractors, but about 40 pages into the 1,200-item catalog (ah, the glamorous life of an autowriter), two Matadors appeared.
The first of the Cheffins Matadors, the ‘53 above, looks like a civilian production model, but it’s hard to imagine what you’d do with that big steel box. Then, we’re used to the thought of something like that turning...
11/11/2008
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Dan’s post about Anheuser-Busch’s boat-shaped promotional vehicles reminded me that I had seen one at the Amelia Island concours in 2006. It was identified as Budweiser II, built on a 1930 Cadillac V-12 chassis. Here’s what the placard read:
During Prohibition, the brewing giant Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis, Missouri, manufactured a series of outstanding promotional automobiles. From the 1920s through the early 1940s, the Anheuser-Busch Vehicle Department produced eight...
04/11/2008
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Derby isn’t a name in the forefront of anyone’s mind, which is why Jimmy from Bud Ward’s dropped me a line the other day. Seems they have themselves a Ruby-engined 1925 Derby sports roadster, and have run into a dead end on the history.
I dug up what I could, and suggested he price it competitively with other c. one-liter cars, like an Amilcar, or Riley, Alvis, Peugeot Bébé, or Singer.
According to our information, the Ruby might not be the correct engine. Ruby was a...
20/10/2008
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I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
I’m still catching up on my reading after being away from two weeks (I know, complain, complain…), so expect a Four-Links rather soon. In the meantime, I wanted to point out a five-part (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) series of posts that BigLorryBlog posted on the 2008 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover last month - not on all the new trucks exhibited there, but on all the vintage trucks, including a number of odd, significant and unidentified (or unelaborated)...
09/10/2008
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