Gary Critcher (whose Yesterday’s Racers DVD series we’ve reviewed in the past) is always on the lookout for a good story, and always has camera in hand. Usually, he scares up vintage F1 cars, but this time he detoured to Mustang and T-Bird day at Brooklands.
It was wet, but they came anyway, and you can see some other American cars in the background. Most places, that’s not exactly news, but we’ve seen the reaction that any American collector car causes over there....
Geoff Hacker recently wrapped up his cross-country road trip, during which he both gathered information for Forgotten Fiberglass, the book he’s working on with co-author Rick D’Louhy, and publicized the book and 1950s fiberglass cars in general. He made the trip in his Suburban, towing his Victress S1A, and happened to pick up an old belly tank along the way. According to Geoff, some racer decades ago began the belly tank’s conversion into a salt flat racer and collected the appropriate...
89 - Hyundai Pony
No. Redeeming. Features. Whatsoever.
Turns out the Telegraph has launched a 20-car-a-day countdown of the 100 ugliest cars of all time. How ugly, you say? The Tribeca weighs in at 99, which means by the time they hit the seventies, you’re going to want to put a tarp over your monitor.
At this point, the Telegraph has carmakers advertising. That’s gonna change, because the list is about equal parts classics and current-production. Subaru knew about the problems...
Gary Faules, inspired by an earlier photo opp with one of our Hemmings field representatives, wrote in:
It was just another typical California weekend here with perfect racing/car show temps in the 90’s to 100’s. Now some might say that’s too hot but car guys know this weather causes the grease monkeyettes to take the top off so to speak.
We spent the weekend visiting our son Will, who besides his racing he is now helping run Thunderhill Raceway in Willows California and I...
Recently heard from David Schultz, HCC columnist and executive director of the Glenmoor Gathering, who informed me that Wayne Cherry, the retired chief of design at GM, will appear at this year’s Glenmoor as the grand marshal of the event and will bring along the last concept car he designed while head of GM styling in Europe, the 1978 Vauxhall Equus two-seat roadster, which Cherry has held on to for the last 30 years.
According to David:
The car was an elegant but simple two-seater...
With apologies to Lizzie Browning…
How do I hate thee, let me count the ways
I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height
My fingers can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of the clip that pinged into space.
I hate thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, to fix a king-pin by candle-light.
I hate thee freely, as I strive for Right;
I hate thee purely, as I turn from Praise.
I hate with passion thy deceptively simple design
That belies the sheer bastardness of trying to put...
She didn’t know how to drive a car with a manual transmission until Saturday, when we went behind the local Wal-Mart for some lessons. She picked it up astoundingly quick, however, enough to the point where she drove the Midget in to work this afternoon. I don’t think I’ll get to drive it much now.
Of course, now I want a tiny convertible to putt around in. Darn this ADD of mine.
Longtime HCC readers may recall Jack Carroll’s 1939 La Salle coupe from the March 2005 issue. Stunning car, and a great owner, so it was my pleasure to photograph the car (longtime Hemmings Motor News readers may recall that it graced the cover and illustrated a Buyer’s Guide in the July 2006 issue of that magazine).
While a capable restorer, Jack’s just as talented an artist. He spent several years designing interiors for AMC, then later founded Carroll Design. Now...
Perhaps better described by the subtitle, “A short history of service station architecture,” Ray Scroggins’s article from SIA #30, September-October 1975, examines the look, purpose and practice of service station design, with a keen eye to the motivation behind the various designs over the years and to just how gasoline was made available to the average motorist over the years. Were it up to me, they’d all look like the Louisville, Kentucky, Standard Oil station. Oh,...
Maybe this shoutout’s a little odd, but StumbleUpon did send a big wave of traffic our way this past week, specifically on the 376 mpg Opel post from more than a year ago. If you’re a web addict, then you likely already know all about StumbleUpon, the little add-on to your browser that tries to find sites you like based on which sites you’ve previously given a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to and based on what other people with similar interests have yayed or nayed. If...
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...
What to do with your Fifties-era Webco Viking Craft quarter Midget? It’s always been in the family, but the years haven’t been kind and it needs restoration. The suburban glades of the Eisenhower years have passed, though, and the grandson isn’t in a position to enjoy it yet, anyway.
Maybe…a chop here, a channel there, a set of go-kart slicks, and every time I saw Debbie MacGee pushing Callum around, he had an ear-to-ear grin (here, he’s enjoying a nice Camel...
From David Greenlees:
When I finished the last post I had just gotten it running for the first time. There were two days left to put the rest of the car back together before leaving, your basic photo finish. After the seats went on I was able to check how the clutch, transmission, driveline and brakes worked up on jack stands and every thing seemed to be fine. I could not take it out for a test drive as it was snowing non-stop and I could never make it back up our hill without four-wheel-drive...
After running this blog for a while, the more dedicated fans have picked up on a couple of my fetishes. For example, Reeves knows full well my AMC Spirit fetish; Myron shares in my Brooks Stevens fetish; and Barry Wolk sends me every shortened vehicle he spots, especially vans. After all, he once tried to build a shorty Corvair.
Unfortunately, no details to go along with this shorty Caravan (other than the Alberta license plate. Silly Canuckians), though it looks to be a rather clean...
Geoff Hacker continues his travels across the country, this time to Mesa, Arizona, to view a vehicle that goes a little outside the scope of the fiberglass cars he’s researching for Forgotten Fiberglass, the book he’s working on with co-author Rick D’Louhy.
It’s the 1932 Arrow Plane, a precursor to the six McQuay-Norris streamliners that we featured in an SIA Flashback a while ago. From Geoff’s photos, we can definitely see the family resemblance - after all, Hill Auto Metal...
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Gary Critcher (whose Yesterday’s Racers DVD series we’ve reviewed in the past) is always on the lookout for a good story, and always has camera in hand. Usually, he scares up vintage F1 cars, but this time he detoured to Mustang and T-Bird day at Brooklands.
It was wet, but they came anyway, and you can see some other American cars in the background. Most places, that’s not exactly news, but we’ve seen the reaction that any American collector car causes over there....
Geoff Hacker recently wrapped up his cross-country road trip, during which he both gathered information for Forgotten Fiberglass, the book he’s working on with co-author Rick D’Louhy, and publicized the book and 1950s fiberglass cars in general. He made the trip in his Suburban, towing his Victress S1A, and happened to pick up an old belly tank along the way. According to Geoff, some racer decades ago began the belly tank’s conversion into a salt flat racer and collected the appropriate...
89 - Hyundai Pony
No. Redeeming. Features. Whatsoever.
Turns out the Telegraph has launched a 20-car-a-day countdown of the 100 ugliest cars of all time. How ugly, you say? The Tribeca weighs in at 99, which means by the time they hit the seventies, you’re going to want to put a tarp over your monitor.
At this point, the Telegraph has carmakers advertising. That’s gonna change, because the list is about equal parts classics and current-production. Subaru knew about the problems...
Gary Faules, inspired by an earlier photo opp with one of our Hemmings field representatives, wrote in:
It was just another typical California weekend here with perfect racing/car show temps in the 90’s to 100’s. Now some might say that’s too hot but car guys know this weather causes the grease monkeyettes to take the top off so to speak.
We spent the weekend visiting our son Will, who besides his racing he is now helping run Thunderhill Raceway in Willows California and I...
Recently heard from David Schultz, HCC columnist and executive director of the Glenmoor Gathering, who informed me that Wayne Cherry, the retired chief of design at GM, will appear at this year’s Glenmoor as the grand marshal of the event and will bring along the last concept car he designed while head of GM styling in Europe, the 1978 Vauxhall Equus two-seat roadster, which Cherry has held on to for the last 30 years.
According to David:
The car was an elegant but simple two-seater...
She didn’t know how to drive a car with a manual transmission until Saturday, when we went behind the local Wal-Mart for some lessons. She picked it up astoundingly quick, however, enough to the point where she drove the Midget in to work this afternoon. I don’t think I’ll get to drive it much now.
Of course, now I want a tiny convertible to putt around in. Darn this ADD of mine.
Longtime HCC readers may recall Jack Carroll’s 1939 La Salle coupe from the March 2005 issue. Stunning car, and a great owner, so it was my pleasure to photograph the car (longtime Hemmings Motor News readers may recall that it graced the cover and illustrated a Buyer’s Guide in the July 2006 issue of that magazine).
While a capable restorer, Jack’s just as talented an artist. He spent several years designing interiors for AMC, then later founded Carroll Design. Now...
Perhaps better described by the subtitle, “A short history of service station architecture,” Ray Scroggins’s article from SIA #30, September-October 1975, examines the look, purpose and practice of service station design, with a keen eye to the motivation behind the various designs over the years and to just how gasoline was made available to the average motorist over the years. Were it up to me, they’d all look like the Louisville, Kentucky, Standard Oil station. Oh,...
Maybe this shoutout’s a little odd, but StumbleUpon did send a big wave of traffic our way this past week, specifically on the 376 mpg 
Opel
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 
What to do with your Fifties-era Webco Viking Craft quarter Midget? It’s always been in the family, but the years haven’t been kind and it needs restoration. The suburban glades of the Eisenhower years have passed, though, and the grandson isn’t in a position to enjoy it yet, anyway.
Maybe…a chop here, a channel there, a set of go-kart slicks, and every time I saw Debbie MacGee pushing Callum around, he had an ear-to-ear grin (here, he’s enjoying a nice Camel...
From David Greenlees:
When I finished the last post I had just gotten it running for the first time. There were two days left to put the rest of the car back together before leaving, your basic photo finish. After the seats went on I was able to check how the clutch, transmission, driveline and brakes worked up on jack stands and every thing seemed to be fine. I could not take it out for a test drive as it was snowing non-stop and I could never make it back up our hill without four-wheel-drive...
After running this blog for a while, the more dedicated fans have picked up on a couple of my fetishes. For example, Reeves knows full well my AMC Spirit fetish; Myron shares in my Brooks Stevens fetish; and Barry Wolk sends me every shortened vehicle he spots, especially vans. After all, he once tried to build a shorty Corvair.
Unfortunately, no details to go along with this shorty Caravan (other than the Alberta license plate. Silly Canuckians), though it looks to be a rather clean...
Geoff Hacker continues his travels across the country, this time to Mesa, Arizona, to view a vehicle that goes a little outside the scope of the fiberglass cars he’s researching for Forgotten Fiberglass, the book he’s working on with co-author Rick D’Louhy.
It’s the 1932 Arrow Plane, a precursor to the six McQuay-Norris streamliners that we featured in an SIA Flashback a while ago. From Geoff’s photos, we can definitely see the family resemblance - after all, Hill Auto Metal...