Breakfast of champions

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

Bonnemino spotted in the wild - but an admitted fake this time

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

Behold the Matador COE

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

Budweiser’s Bevo Boat, and Moxie’s Horsemobile

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

Bud’s Bébé

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

BigLorryBlog visits the Hannover truck show, brings back vintage truck photos, we thank the pie-give

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

Best. Cruise night. Ever. (okay, so far)

We knew it’d be a big one. Combine the final cruise-in of the season (always a big draw), with absolutely perfect weather and more and more cars coming from farther and farther away and we had a record crowd last night here at Hemmings HQ. We stopped counting at 350, but best estimates put the total number of cars at somewhere closer to 400, packing both our parking lot and the parking lots across the street. And we got great cars too. Like Ken’s 1975 Ford Falcon XB sedan, which...

22/08/2008

Brockway built buses?

Apparently so. The folks at All Over Albany spotted this Brockway bus over in Green Island in the possession of a truck collector. The Brockway’s story includes the obvious time spent as a school bus, but also includes a stint as a college student’s mobile home, which is almost obligatory in a school bus’s subsequent history, doncha think? Thanks to James for the tip.

20/08/2008

Briggs & Stratton, the unlikely great-grandpappy to the Prius

Ask and ye shall receive. After mentioning my desire to dig up information on the Brooks Stevens-designed, Briggs & Stratton-built Hybrid gas-electric automobile prototype of 1980, Kit Foster suggested I get a copy of the book “Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World,” by Glenn Adamson. In it, we discover that Brooks actually collaborated on the project with his son Kipp and that Brooks had quite the interest in alternative-fuel vehicles, especially...

14/08/2008

boogie vans, DAFs, long-distance award candidates - are our cruise-ins getting better, or is it just

So I took Friday off, which meant I couldn’t get to my regular cruise-in roundup until today. Mea culpa, I should’ve gone ahead and posted it anyway, because some awesome stuff showed up. F’rinstance, the all-original 1949 Packard Custom 8 in the above photo, which took home the Editor’s Choice award, and the brand-spanking new Corvette ZHZ, a Hertz-only rental Corvette that just became available. And what of all that nonsense in the title to this post? To begin with,...

16/06/2008

boogie vans, DAFs, long-distance award candidates - are our cruise-ins getting better, or is it just

So I took Friday off, which meant I couldn’t get to my regular cruise-in roundup until today. Mea culpa, I should’ve gone ahead and posted it anyway, because some awesome stuff showed up. F’rinstance, the all-original 1949 Packard Custom 8 in the above photo, which took home the Editor’s Choice award, and the brand-spanking new Corvette ZHZ, a Hertz-only rental Corvette that just became available. And what of all that nonsense in the title to this post? To begin with,...

16/06/2008

boogie vans, DAFs, long-distance award candidates - are our cruise-ins getting better, or is it just

So I took Friday off, which meant I couldn’t get to my regular cruise-in roundup until today. Mea culpa, I should’ve gone ahead and posted it anyway, because some awesome stuff showed up. F’rinstance, the all-original 1949 Packard Custom 8 in the above photo, which took home the Editor’s Choice award, and the brand-spanking new Corvette ZHZ, a Hertz-only rental Corvette that just became available. And what of all that nonsense in the title to this post? To begin with,...

16/06/2008

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