Teague designs Gremlin. But not that Teague, and not that Gremlin

In the Jeff Teague AMC revival sketches we presented last month, the son of the famous AMC design chief had fleshed out his AMX 4 design in 3D software, but he’d also sketched a few other modernized AMC products, including the Gremlin, and now Jeff’s fleshed out the Gremlin in 3D renderings as well. The chopback design remains (of course, otherwise it wouldn’t be a Gremlin), as does the compact proportions, and via those we see exactly how much the Gremlin has influenced...

03/12/2008

Chrysler: We’ll gladly pay you in 2012 for $7 billion today

The season of giving to the Big Three continues as Chrysler says it’s jonesing for $7 billion from you and me before the end of the year to help stave off financial ruin. The company hopes it could begin paying off this proposed loan by 2012. There’s definitely nothing shocking in the news release from Chrysler below, well, except that it appears to be the transcript of some sort of Hamlet-like soliloquy delivered by Robert Nardelli: “To go belly up or not go belly up, that is the...

03/12/2008

Pick your part dreams - the final chapter

Less words; more images from Crazy Ray’s Mt. Airy location: BMW 2002Ti Fox platform Mustangs - no charge for the mud Not much call for a Jaguar sedan in these parts - unless you’re building a fence Dude - Twins! And now, sit back, relax, and enjoy a small tribute to the mistreated use of third- and fourth-gen Camaros.

03/12/2008

Automotive history in the making: GM death watch?

GM submitted a plan to Congress today asking for up to $12 billion in federal loans as well as a $6 billion line of credit that the company could draw on as needed. GM says it would repay its debts by 2011. How? With major changes, none of which are unexpected. Here are some of the highlights as we got them this afternoon… Pontiac would become a “specialty brand” with limited offerings through Buick and GMC. Hummer could be sold and Saab is also under consideration. Additionally GM says it...

02/12/2008

Diminished expectations: Raiders of the Lost Ark M-B 300C, now $2 million off

The last time the Raiders of the Lost Ark 1937 Mercedes-Benz 300C replica turned up, last spring, it was on eBay with a $2.5 million reserve. It, um, didn’t sell. This time, auction house Profiles in History, which specializes in Hollywood memorabilia, attached a $60,000-$80,000 estimate to it. According to their write-up: This is the German staff car built and used in the famous chase sequence when Indy is in hot pursuit of the Ark of the Covenant and the Nazis were getting in his way....

02/12/2008

SO WHY DIDN’T YOU KEEP IT?

For the better part of a decade, I owned a 1970 Mercury Montego. It was a project vehicle built for another magazine, at another time. In the end, it didn’t achieve the performance goals I set out for it, but it was a reliable daily-driver—no mean feat considering the amount of aftermarket stuff we caked onto it. I dragged it out to the Midwest with me for the two misguided years I lived there, where no one much looked at it because it wasn’t a Chevy, and I brought it back to Los Angeles with...

02/12/2008

Mashup - Crosley meets Cadillac

In the music world the last several years we’ve seen the rise of the Mashup album, which takes elements of two or more different albums, mashes them together and results in a brand-new piece of artwork. Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album, which mashed together Jay-Z’s The Black Album and The Beatles’ The White Album, is perhaps the best illustration of this. In the automotive world, however, the mashup is nothing new. Take, for instance, this Cadillac-bodied Crosley - or is...

02/12/2008

Pick your part dreams - extra bashed

Way back in the beginning of the year, my wife and I took a little road trip to visit family living in Mt. Airy, Maryland. We’ve been making the trip that far south for nine years now, which seems like an unimportant fact - except that it is. You see, during this trip in early spring, my brother-in-law took us to the waterfront in Baltimore for a little sightseeing and to check out “Bodies…The Exhibition” that was at the Maryland Science Center. If you have the...

02/12/2008

GM bailoutmobile spied at the Bennington Walmart!?

In a bold move aimed at making the foundering automaker solvent until a government-backed loan agreement can be reached, sources have told Hemmings Motor News that General Motors will suspend all new car manufacturing and, using a revolutionary process it calls “rebadgeneering,” build its 2009 inventory entirely out of popular “preowned” automobiles. Pictured above is a spy photo of a prototype mule reportedly called the “Chevy Volvmonter,” outfitted with the optional...

01/12/2008

Rover time, Part IV: Retrieving the parts car

Not long after reading about the Rover in Hemmings, Annie Dolan got in touch with me. It seems that her Dad was a big fan of Rovers, and at one time owned at least eight 2000 TCs. Two of them were on her property, about two hours north of Bennington in the town of Waits River, and she really wanted whatever was salvageable go to good use. “I really want to see a piece of my beloved Dad still in the world, so to speak,” she told me. Was I interested? It was a mild November Sunday...

01/12/2008

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

MY CAR, MY CHOICE

In our print edition of Hemmings Classic Car lately, there’s been a bunch of back and forth about the pros and cons of chopping up an original car and making it into something more personalized. I find myself in a position similar to the Hupmobile owner outlined by Jim Richardson on the back page of the January ’09 issue of HCC. I give Richardson (and Pat Foster’s letter-generating column some months back) a pass because they’re writing for a title with an emphasis on restoration and...

01/12/2008

SIA Flashback - Edwards America: The Ponycar 10 Years Too Soon

Most wouldn’t think of the ponycar genre when viewing the Edwards America. Instead, it looks more like the Chrysler Falcon/K-310/C-200/D’Elegance show cars of the mid-1950s. But the long-hood/short-deck design is there, along with the V-8 up front, the sporty intentions and the light weight. And had Sterling Edwards built more than six of the wonderful fiberglass cars, we could see how their design would eventually evolve into something more like the Mustangs and Camaros of the...

30/11/2008

Ghia no Chrysler, Aston wagon, Sunbeam LeMans, aero Lester - the archive box divulges more cool phot

It’s been a while since we dug into the archive box that is a veritable cornucopia of photographic treasures, and the latest batch come from the June 1978 issue of Hemmings Motor News. To start with, even though it looks at first blush like one of the Ghia concept cars for Chrysler, and Ghia did indeed design and build the body, the car above is actually the 1956 Ferrari 510 Super America coupe, advertised with 7,600 miles for $65,000 out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Weep for that price, ye...

29/11/2008

Ghia no Chrysler, Aston wagon, Sunbeam LeMans, aero Lester - the archive box divulges more cool phot

It’s been a while since we dug into the archive box that is a veritable cornucopia of photographic treasures, and the latest batch come from the June 1978 issue of Hemmings Motor News. To start with, even though it looks at first blush like one of the Ghia concept cars for Chrysler, and Ghia did indeed design and build the body, the car above is actually the 1956 Ferrari 510 Super America coupe, advertised with 7,600 miles for $65,000 out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Weep for that price, ye...

29/11/2008

Ghia no Chrysler, Aston wagon, Sunbeam LeMans, aero Lester - the archive box divulges more cool phot

It’s been a while since we dug into the archive box that is a veritable cornucopia of photographic treasures, and the latest batch come from the June 1978 issue of Hemmings Motor News. To start with, even though it looks at first blush like one of the Ghia concept cars for Chrysler, and Ghia did indeed design and build the body, the car above is actually the 1956 Ferrari 510 Super America coupe, advertised with 7,600 miles for $65,000 out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Weep for that price, ye...

29/11/2008

Ghia no Chrysler, Aston wagon, Sunbeam LeMans, aero Lester - the archive box divulges more cool phot

It’s been a while since we dug into the archive box that is a veritable cornucopia of photographic treasures, and the latest batch come from the June 1978 issue of Hemmings Motor News. To start with, even though it looks at first blush like one of the Ghia concept cars for Chrysler, and Ghia did indeed design and build the body, the car above is actually the 1956 Ferrari 510 Super America coupe, advertised with 7,600 miles for $65,000 out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Weep for that price, ye...

29/11/2008

Ghia no Chrysler, Aston wagon, Sunbeam LeMans, aero Lester - the archive box divulges more cool phot

It’s been a while since we dug into the archive box that is a veritable cornucopia of photographic treasures, and the latest batch come from the June 1978 issue of Hemmings Motor News. To start with, even though it looks at first blush like one of the Ghia concept cars for Chrysler, and Ghia did indeed design and build the body, the car above is actually the 1956 Ferrari 510 Super America coupe, advertised with 7,600 miles for $65,000 out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Weep for that price, ye...

29/11/2008

Ghia no Chrysler, Aston wagon, Sunbeam LeMans, aero Lester - the archive box divulges more cool phot

It’s been a while since we dug into the archive box that is a veritable cornucopia of photographic treasures, and the latest batch come from the June 1978 issue of Hemmings Motor News. To start with, even though it looks at first blush like one of the Ghia concept cars for Chrysler, and Ghia did indeed design and build the body, the car above is actually the 1956 Ferrari 510 Super America coupe, advertised with 7,600 miles for $65,000 out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Weep for that price, ye...

29/11/2008

HMX - Ground control! Dynamat install, part 2

My fingers are slowly turning into hamburger. I shouldn’t be trusted with scissors and razor blades in the first place, but when you cut Dynamat, you’re left with a very sharp edge that’ll slice ya if you’re not careful. Oh, and if you really want this stuff to stick - especially to irregularly shaped areas or areas that aren’t perfectly smooth - you have to heat it to the point where you’re burning your fingertips every time you’re applying a...

28/11/2008

TOO LATE

Every once in a while, something just lands on your desk, some new bit of information comes across the transom, and it just sucks. Here’s a ferinstance. The new issue of Hemmings Sports and Exotics has a six-page driveReport on an original-owner Datsun 280Z. That is not the sucky part. I met the owner, Bill Lutz, a little over a year ago, at the ‘07 JCCS extravaganza. He was a strapping, strong-jawed, firm-handshake kind of guy who looked you in the eye when you spoke; he had the...

28/11/2008

View from a Round Stone Barn

Dave LaChance and I spent last Sunday, November 16, down on Massachusetts’ Cape Cod, where we were meeting up with members of the Cape Cod British Car Club at the Heritage Museum and Gardens in Sandwich. We were taking advantage of their annual charity run, “Freezin’ Fun Run for Kids,” which includes raffles that benefit the Independence House program for women and families; Dave and I were photographing a handful of sports cars that represented the two major families of...

28/11/2008

one quick glimpse leads to one odd truck and then another

I was watching The Enforcer on TV the other night when I saw in the opening scene an odd-looking utility truck. I was fairly certain it was your standard Grumman-bodied Chevy but later in the scene, the driver walked in front of the grille (just before he was stabbed to death) and I recognized from the grille emblem that the truck was actually a Boyertown. The company built special application vehicles for more than a century at their plant in Eastern PA. From horse wagons to milk trucks to...

27/11/2008

Our Editor in Chief’s new book!

Hey, if Dan can use the blog to try and push his crappy old GMC, (“If someone doesn’t buy it, I’m just going to wreck it or part it out…”) I can use it to suck up to the boss, right? Well then, if there are no objections, I’ll let the suction commence… This morning I got my first look at, It’s Only Original Once: Unrestored Classic Cars by Hemmings Editor-in-Chief Richard Lentinello and published by Motorbooks. The subject matter is an eclectic mix of never-before-molested collectible...

26/11/2008

Driving Impression: 1987 Nissan 200SX SE V6

Note: I write up driving impressions of virtually every car I photograph, within a couple of days of the drive, so everything is fresh in my memory. Occasionally, because of the constraints of format (ie, buyers’ guide) the prepared text doesn’t run. Now, thanks to the joys of the blogosphere, it can. The wide full-frame door invites you inside; it’s surprisingly light to pull shut considering its size, and concludes with a light thunk and a vacuum seal. The seats appear deeply bolstered but...

26/11/2008

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