Rover time, Part III: The engine goes home again

It’s been a long time coming, but the Rover finally has its powertrain back. Once the new rear main seal was installed, it was a simple matter to bolt up the pressure plate and slide the gearbox back into position. The splines on my Volvo clutch alignment tool fit the Rover’s clutch disc perfectly. I’m into uncharted territory here, because now I’m assembling stuff that I didn’t take apart. (The car came with the gearbox in the trunk, remember.) But so far, all...

13/11/2008

Rover time, Part II

It’s been a while - okay, a really long time - since I last posted something about the Rover. But I have been making some progress in the meantime. While I had the engine out, I decided to spruce it up a bit, and to do a little preventive maintenance. The cast-iron block of the Rover four has steel side covers, and if I was ever going to pull them off to see what kind of shape they were in, now was the time. As you can see, it wasn’t too bad in there, although a little bit of...

30/10/2008

red, white, blue and pink

When writing the post a couple weeks back about pink muscle cars, I had forgotten another pink AMX I spotted a few years back, at the same AMO show at which I photographed the Jeepster Commando SC-1. I talked briefly with the owners of this 304-powered 1972 AMX, Casey and Christine McGowan of Granville, Ohio, who told me that it’s the product of a short-lived dealer-special promotion. “Short-lived” as in only two were allegedly painted in this shade of pink, which was...

19/07/2008

railrider 1950 Hemi Coronet

Here’s one that Scroggins and Taylor could have used. When Paul Bellefeuille spotted Sunday’s SIA Flashback on Cars That Run on Rails, he immediately thought of this 1950 Dodge Coronet that he spotted in the Hemmings classifieds. According to the description in the ad, not only is it a seven-passenger limousine, but it was specially built for executive transportation on the Boston and Maine railroad, which likely explains the extremely narrow track. Besides that,...

16/07/2008

Rhinebeck vintage show part 5

Quite a few trucks also on display at the show. Big rigs, antiques and classic pickups. Nicely restored 1916 International Autowagon. The original run-flat tires were still in good shape too. Great example of a heavy-duty White tow truck. One of a few trucks displayed by Charlie Lent. I believe this was a WA or WB model from the Forties. I’ll bet this baby can push some snow. A 1945 Oshkosh ready to just bolt the plow on. Oshkosh continued production throughout WWII producing 6X6...

26/06/2008

really? that was the Boonie Bug in Total Recall?

After reading our post on the Boonie Bug a couple weeks ago, Greg Allen must’ve also wondered exactly which vehicle in Total Recall was the Boonie Bug. Unlike us, however, he had a DVD of Total Recall that he could pop into his computer and grab screenshots from. Greg seems to believe the Johnnycab was the prop that started life as a Boonie Bug. scrubbing through the film to find what I think is the modded Boonie Box [emphasis on the modded, I’d say], I was struck by how strong the...

26/06/2008

Rhinebeck antique event part IV

Today we have a few more unique bikes that were featured at the Father’s Day Rhinebeck show. A beautiful Henderson inline four cylinder two-seater Here’s another you don’t see every day. A 1948 Safticycle Mountaineer, great-uncle of most Sixties minibike designs. single-cylinder Indian from about 1904-07. The 1-3/4 hp Hedstrom engine was manufactured by Aurora Machinery Company in Aurora, Illinois, for Indian but was marketed by Aurora to other manufacturers such as Thor,...

24/06/2008

roadside attractions and a former nudist camp resident

While traveling around Lanesboro, Massachusetts, recently, Mike Eldred, our friend from south central Vermont, spotted a few roadside attractions he thought we’d be interested in. First up, what appears to be a 1955 Dodge Royal Lancer four-door sedan. Then a 1956 Plymouth Savoy four-door sedan. And then the Green Valley Equipment’s giant dude-slash-Paul Bunyan-slash-muffler man statue. I have seen similar statues, and I think the Paul Bunyan statue at the beginning of the...

24/06/2008

Rhinebeck show Part III

The main reason I visited Rhinebeck on Father’s Day was for the bikes. And there were a lot of really great restored bikes in the judging as well as project bikes and parts galore. Here are just a few of the restored bike photos I have resized so far. nicely restored Harley “grey ghost.” no loud pipes on this hog. One of our bloggers was looking for British bikes, how about this Triumph 3TA? Thor motorcycles are pretty scarce but this board racer has to be pretty...

20/06/2008

Rhinebeck classic motorcycle, truck and farm equipment show pt 1

Went to the show in Rhinebeck on Father’s Day and there was quite a mixed bag of antiques displayed. Although the show was for just about everything except cars, I found a few scattered throughout the grounds. great looking weekly driver, 1937 Ford Coupe featuring original banjo steering wheel Inside the racetrack among the tractors, I found this Ford gasser being flat-towed by a ‘48 Ford pickup. Pretty ‘49 Shoebox Ford. Winner of numerous brackets at NY and Long Island...

18/06/2008

Ramblers, Preserved and … Preposterous

Almost by definition, you’ve got to love AMCs if you’re a car person. The company from Kenosha was, you’ve got to figure, the auto industry’s equivalent of the Continental Army, springing back up in Whack-a-Mole fashion again and again after its doubters had it six feet under. Nice, then, to see people who respect its products, even in a spun-around, backed-into-the-wall manner. These two interpretations on the 1964 Rambler Classic 660 station wagon - yep, they’re...

19/05/2008

ready to be confused? Walt Martin’s H Modified creations

A while back I posted about the Walter Martin PMY-2 H Modified Crosley-based racer and thought that story rather complete. However, our friends over at the Minutia blog posted a video of some H Modified racers leaving the starting line, which got me to searching for more H Modified info, which led me (after Tam’s Old Race Cars’ pages on H Modifieds) to the Sports Racer Network and its profile of H Modified racers, including Walter Martin’s three creations. And it appears I...

05/04/2008

Ralphie?s a studio star now

Note the booties. Don’t want to mess up that nice white floor Hemmings Muscle Machines subscribers will shortly get in the mail their May 2008 issue with a nice wide-angle studio shot of Ralph Barbagallo’s A12 Road Runner. It’s a great image shot by a great photographer, Dino Petrocelli in his Latham, New York, studio. Chopper [...]

31/03/2008

Ralphie’s a studio star now

Note the booties. Don’t want to mess up that nice white floor

Hemmings Muscle Machines subscribers will shortly get in the mail their May 2008 issue with a nice wide-angle studio shot of Ralph Barbagallo’s A12 Road Runner. It’s a great image shot by a great photographer, Dino Petrocelli in his Latham, New York, studio. Chopper guys might recognize Dino’s name; his work has appeared on countless chopper magazine covers and he’s probably photographed the Orange County Choppers guys more than most photographers have. He’s only recently started to shoot cars in his studio, which as you can see above, was really built for bikes. He makes it work, though.

Obligatory shot of the owner shooting the shooter, minus the shooter

I had a chance to view the shoot of Ralph’s A12, and though I’ve shot in a studio before, it’s always a treat to get to see another photographer at work and to pick up tips here and there. It’s also interesting to note the differences between studio photography, where you control pretty much every aspect of the shoot, from lighting to backgrounds, and the semi-guerrilla on-location photography that we typically do at Hemmings, where in comparison we control very little of the location. Each has its advantages; each has its disadvantages.

Unfortunately, Ralphie didn’t do a burnout in the studio, despite Dino claiming that he takes bike burnout shoots in the studio all the time.

31/03/2008

Rover time

I mentioned a while back that I had recently bought a vehicle that would be just perfect for this year’s America’s British Reliability Run. Well, here it is: a 1968 Rover 2000 TC. I bought the car from Glen Wilson, who’s the head of the Rover Saloon Touring Club of America. Mark McCourt and I borrowed [...]

28/02/2008

Remembering Dyno Don

Dyno Don Nicholson, a legend of straight-line racing if ever one lived, departed this world two years ago last week. His inspiration, though, is very much alive. One of his many, many buds was Rich La Mont, the impresario of 422 Motorsports in Oaks, Pennsylvania, which runs a brace of both authentic and tribute Ford [...]

28/01/2008

Rambler?s Mustang? the Budd XR-400

As with the AMX/3 pushmobile story, there’s always something good to be found in American Motoring, the club publication for the American Motors Owners Association. From Darryl Salisbury’s column in the September/October 2007 issue (yeah, we’re a little behind, but it’s still worth highlighting) came a history of the Budd XR-400, a sports-car-with-a-back-seat design proposal [...]

09/01/2008

Ring Free Girls Daytona car found

Our friend Steve Silverstein is an acknowledged racing Sunbeam Alpine authority, so when someone comes up with a mystery car, he usually gets the call. He got the call last weekend, with a batch of photos of an Alpine someone has owned since ‘85. “It was a race car that he had worked on in 1968 [...]

14/12/2007

RIP, Art Arfons

Just read that Art Arfons, the drag racer and land-speed racer, died yesterday at the age of 81. What ever happened to the Green Monster cars? (via)

04/12/2007

Rod-V-Era

OK, it’s not a great photo, but there’s an explanatory story here that needs to be told first. I shot this about a minute after the 1970s Chrysler “artifact” in Branson, Missouri. You know, the one outside the T-shirt shop. I’m about to get back inside the rented Malibu sedan while the T-shirt shop owner [...]

03/11/2007

rods at SEMA, but not from Ford

Not per se, that is. The most interesting thing I’ve seen yet to come out of this year’s SEMA show are the three street rod concepts that major manufacturers have come up with. Two of the three use tidbits of traditional style hot rodding in their design, mixed of course with all sorts of high-tech [...]

30/10/2007

real great home built bobber

While on vacation last month, I was riding the Blue Ridge Parkway when I saw this bike at one of the pull-offs. From a distance I thought it was an Indian Scout. The owner was a great old guy from Indiana in his late 70s. Just there for the ride and the scenery along with another rider [...]

13/09/2007

road trip to Iowa in a ?35 Ford

photo by Kathi Kent/Orange County Register Old cars have been in the newspapers quite a bit lately, from the 50th anniversary of Edsel to the last International Harvester dealer. Reader Julie Anne tipped us off to this story from last week about Paul O’Brien, a Hollywood type who’s planning a road trip in his 1935 Ford [...]

10/09/2007

reality TV needs you: Overhaulin? accepting submissions

Got an email from Tod Mesirow, the new executive producer of TLC’s Overhaulin’. Looks like he’s now accepting submissions for a new season of the reality show. And it looks like he’s not just going to limit the show to Southern California, as in previous seasons. Score one for the flyover states. We’re looking for cars [...]

31/08/2007

rolling hemmings history

You tell us, and tell us, and tell us some more that you really like the Driveable Dreams, those wonderfully pure, unrestored cars that are regular feature topics in the Hemmings magazines. Well, this is the one that started it all. This 1950 Lincoln Sport Sedan was the very first Driveable Dream we ever featured, [...]

24/08/2007

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