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* I love old car ads and I love hot rodding-slash-customizing, but I never imagined the two could be combined until I saw Marc’s photochops of old ads over at the Lowtech traditional rod and custom blog. With some tried-and-true Photoshop techniques, Marc deftly subverts the carefree idyllic 1950s America portrayed in those ads. The series includes the above-pictured 1953  Chevrolet, another ‘53 Chev and a 1949 Ford. Brilliant, and I hope to see more.
* When Litwin posted the link...
22/11/2008
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* Our friend Rich Campbell from the Minutia blog sent along a link this week to photos he took of the Vintage Sports Car Club’s recent Lakeland Trials. If you’re not familiar with British trialling, check out the photos for all the mud-splattered fun. “It’s pretty amazing what the English do with their vintage cars,” Rich wrote. “Can you imagine someone in the US driving a Bentley through the mud and up a 25 degree incline?”
* There’s a lotta...
15/11/2008
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* Our friend Rich Campbell from the Minutia blog sent along a link this week to photos he took of the Vintage Sports Car Club’s recent Lakeland Trials. If you’re not familiar with British trialling, check out the photos for all the mud-splattered fun. “It’s pretty amazing what the English do with their vintage cars,” Rich wrote. “Can you imagine someone in the US driving a Bentley through the mud and up a 25 degree incline?”
* There’s a lotta...
15/11/2008
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* Our friend Rich Campbell from the Minutia blog sent along a link this week to photos he took of the Vintage Sports Car Club’s recent Lakeland Trials. If you’re not familiar with British trialling, check out the photos for all the mud-splattered fun. “It’s pretty amazing what the English do with their vintage cars,” Rich wrote. “Can you imagine someone in the US driving a Bentley through the mud and up a 25 degree incline?”
* There’s a lotta...
15/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* Our friend Rich Campbell from the Minutia blog sent along a link this week to photos he took of the Vintage Sports Car Club’s recent Lakeland Trials. If you’re not familiar with British trialling, check out the photos for all the mud-splattered fun. “It’s pretty amazing what the English do with their vintage cars,” Rich wrote. “Can you imagine someone in the US driving a Bentley through the mud and up a 25 degree incline?”
* There’s a lotta...
15/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* Our friend Rich Campbell from the Minutia blog sent along a link this week to photos he took of the Vintage Sports Car Club’s recent Lakeland Trials. If you’re not familiar with British trialling, check out the photos for all the mud-splattered fun. “It’s pretty amazing what the English do with their vintage cars,” Rich wrote. “Can you imagine someone in the US driving a Bentley through the mud and up a 25 degree incline?”
* There’s a lotta...
15/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* Our friend Rich Campbell from the Minutia blog sent along a link this week to photos he took of the Vintage Sports Car Club’s recent Lakeland Trials. If you’re not familiar with British trialling, check out the photos for all the mud-splattered fun. “It’s pretty amazing what the English do with their vintage cars,” Rich wrote. “Can you imagine someone in the US driving a Bentley through the mud and up a 25 degree incline?”
* There’s a lotta...
15/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* Our friend Rich Campbell from the Minutia blog sent along a link this week to photos he took of the Vintage Sports Car Club’s recent Lakeland Trials. If you’re not familiar with British trialling, check out the photos for all the mud-splattered fun. “It’s pretty amazing what the English do with their vintage cars,” Rich wrote. “Can you imagine someone in the US driving a Bentley through the mud and up a 25 degree incline?”
* There’s a lotta...
15/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* Our friend Rich Campbell from the Minutia blog sent along a link this week to photos he took of the Vintage Sports Car Club’s recent Lakeland Trials. If you’re not familiar with British trialling, check out the photos for all the mud-splattered fun. “It’s pretty amazing what the English do with their vintage cars,” Rich wrote. “Can you imagine someone in the US driving a Bentley through the mud and up a 25 degree incline?”
* There’s a lotta...
15/11/2008
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 Aah yes, the photography season is winding down. I can tell that because I couldn’t feel my fingers about half-way through yesterday’s shoot of Meriden, Connecticut, resident Rick Reale’s incredibly preserved 60,235-mile 1941 Packard Clipper sedan, a Driveable Dream car that he has owned for more than 40 years, having purchased it from the original owner when he was 23. I’m looking forward to sharing Rick’s stories of his time with the Clipper; as a taste of how...
13/11/2008
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Here’s a I sight that I absolutely guarantee you’ll never seen anyplace other than Hershey, a car that actually raced at the Indianapolis 500, on one of the world’s fastest, most intimidating race courses, trundling around the outside of a high school football field. If you’ve never had the pleasure (and you should), the AACA National includes a live-fire exercise for restored racing cars around Hershey Stadium on Friday mornings, when the weather cooperates. This,...
10/11/2008
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* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
08/11/2008
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* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
08/11/2008
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* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
08/11/2008
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* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
08/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
08/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
08/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
08/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
08/11/2008
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Yes, we’ve been highlighting Hugo90’s photos in the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool quite a bit lately (only because he comes up with some cool stuff, like the all-aluminum Pierce-Arrow and the mystery Dodge), so we should point out that quite a few other Flickr members have been posting some equally cool stuff of their own to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool. Take, for instance, Bluejacket, one of our earliest Flickr pool members, who’s been posting dozens of photos from this...
03/11/2008
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When I wrote about Classic Car Services’ restoration of the Pebble Beach-winning Mormon Meteor for Hemmings Classic Car last year, shop owner Chris Charlton told me that one of the many challenges in returning the car to its original condition was recreating the two head fairings, which had been lost. Well, by an amazing stroke of luck, they’ve been found - as have four of the car’s original wheels, and three of its distinctive, orangewall Firestone tires.
Chris had taken...
03/11/2008
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* Looks like a pancaked Porsche 356, dunnit? Close, kinda. Andy Rupert over at the High Maintenance blog chose this little Austrian air-cooled rear-engined sports car (no, I said it’s not a Porsche) for his 50th mystery car recently, and he chose a good stumper at that. To find out what it is and to get a brief history of it, head on over to Andy’s site.
* It was kind of a shoutout from Robert McClellan in his latest newsletter, and it came in a nifty article on Ford truck and van...
01/11/2008
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* Looks like a pancaked Porsche 356, dunnit? Close, kinda. Andy Rupert over at the High Maintenance blog chose this little Austrian air-cooled rear-engined sports car (no, I said it’s not a Porsche) for his 50th mystery car recently, and he chose a good stumper at that. To find out what it is and to get a brief history of it, head on over to Andy’s site.
* It was kind of a shoutout from Robert McClellan in his latest newsletter, and it came in a nifty article on Ford truck and van...
01/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* Looks like a pancaked Porsche 356, dunnit? Close, kinda. Andy Rupert over at the High Maintenance blog chose this little Austrian air-cooled rear-engined sports car (no, I said it’s not a Porsche) for his 50th mystery car recently, and he chose a good stumper at that. To find out what it is and to get a brief history of it, head on over to Andy’s site.
* It was kind of a shoutout from Robert McClellan in his latest newsletter, and it came in a nifty article on Ford truck and van...
01/11/2008
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Partner- und Mitglieder-Blogs/blog.hemmings.com
* Looks like a pancaked Porsche 356, dunnit? Close, kinda. Andy Rupert over at the High Maintenance blog chose this little Austrian air-cooled rear-engined sports car (no, I said it’s not a Porsche) for his 50th mystery car recently, and he chose a good stumper at that. To find out what it is and to get a brief history of it, head on over to Andy’s site.
* It was kind of a shoutout from Robert McClellan in his latest newsletter, and it came in a nifty article on Ford truck and van...
01/11/2008
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