To celebrate the recent inclusion of Chrysler’s wood-bodied Town and Country models in the Classic Car Club of America’s approved listing of Full Classic cars, we turned up this spotter’s guide, lovingly illustrated by Jeff Godshall with text by Richard Langworth, taken from SIA #35, July-August 1976. these spotter’s guides were great references as well as great artwork, and we’ll try to present more of them in the future.
* 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...
* 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...
* 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...
David Miller of Danville, California, recently wrote us about his barn find 1976 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, one of the “last convertibles.” Yeah, we’re as skeptical of their collectibility as well, but each car does have its own story, even if it’s just another Aspen, and David’s Eldorado story does take an interesting twist…
I was not looking to buy a classic car, I’m quite content with my 1964 Chevrolet Impala SS327 with a 3 on the...
This time of year, we tend to go through our files and present to you a helping of neat stuff that we uncovered over the last 12 months. I grabbed this photo here at the Meadow Brook Concours over the first weekend of August. The biggest presentation at this year’s concours involved General Motors’ birthday bash, but a smaller gathering of cars recognized the Model T, and most of them, in a terrific variety of body styles, were gorgeous.
Here’s one, this 1926 Model T...
Scroll down through the comments under the post from a couple days ago in which we asked what you all thought about a Detroit bailout and you won’t find much motherly love for American automakers, even among hardcore car types like all of youse guys.
An even more hardcore car guy, Roger Penske, says he has a solution—which actually just might work since it would slap a fee on all new cars sold, import or domestic.
Meanwhile GM groupies like me still can’t bear to imagine a world without the...
There’s more to look at than Auburns, Cords and Duesenbergs at the A-C-D Museum in Auburn; and the IH Scout prototype covered earlier. Just across the vast hall of display vehicles from the Scout was this single prototype: a 1948 Tasco, which is an acronym for The American Sports Car Company.
It was spawned from the mind of Gordon Buehrig, backed by a group of investors, who wanted to produce an American sports car that could compete in a European-type event which was to be held at the...
Yes, we took a hiatus from Hemmings Collector Car Radio, our in-house podcast, over the summer and most of the fall as things got busy in the office. We wanted to make sure we were presenting the best collector car magazines on the planet before we spent some time in front of the microphones. But the good news is that the hiatus wasn’t permanent, and we’ve put together Hemmings Collector Car Radio episode 12 for your listening pleasure. In this episode, we discuss the current state...
Roger Hughet rendering
We gearheads who constantly examine the whole muscle car phenomenon like to thump our chests and declare our manliness by extolling the virtues of Hemis, rockcrushers and Positraction units. But we’d also be lying to you if we ever said we don’t appreciate the more artistic side of the muscle car; the aesthetic pleasures these cars give us are just as powerful as the olfactory pleasures of burnt racing gas and the tactile pleasures of a wrench on a...
The trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie is out and dorks like me who are as goofy about Chevrolets as they are about Star Trek will love the opening scene: It features a midyear Corvette roadster honking down a dirt road with an adolescent James T. Kirk sawing at the wheel and Johnny Law hot on his Sting Ray’s tail. Yahoo!
But as you’re watching it, notice how in the opening shot the ’Vette’s top is up…
Then they pan to the speedometer for dramatic effect (can you feel the...
The trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie is out and dorks like me who are as goofy about Chevrolets as they are about Star Trek will love the opening scene: It features a midyear Corvette roadster honking down a dirt road with an adolescent James T. Kirk sawing at the wheel and Johnny Law hot on his Sting Ray’s tail. Yahoo!
But as you’re watching it, notice how in the opening shot the ’Vette’s top is up…
Then they pan to the speedometer for dramatic effect (can you feel the...
Driver’s side bracket already starting to break
Both of the taillight brackets on the speedster were made of flimsy sheetmetal, and with the suspension system as it is and the type of driving it will be doing, we realized these brackets weren’t going to cut the mustard for long.
Browsing through our Model A parts catalog, we found some heavy-duty cast iron pedestals that fit the “teacup-style” taillight assemblies.
These brackets (Ford #A14372B) were used on...
Scroll down through this blog and you’ll see the artifacts of dearly departed American automakers. In fact, sometimes it seems like all we write about around here are automakers that aren’t around anymore: Studebaker, Packard, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Pierce Arrow, International-Harvester, AMC, etc.
So when serious talk about a Detroit bailout began with the focus being on GM’s increasingly dire condition, I thought: This is a no brainer. Of course taxpayers will want to bailout GM. Who would want...
If you’ve read any car enthusiast magazine in the last decade, you know about Dynamat and you’ve seen one or two or a dozen tech stories on how to install it. The company has some good PR folk, first popularizing it among the bass-thumping crowd, then pitching it to the rest of us car nuts. Doesn’t hurt that ol’ Chip Foose has lent his visage to it as well. So I’m giving it a shot.
So with a new star bit, I continued the interior removal that I started last time...
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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 
David Miller of Danville, California, recently wrote us about his barn find 1976 
This time of year, we tend to go through our files and present to you a helping of neat stuff that we uncovered over the last 12 months. I grabbed this photo here at the Meadow Brook Concours over the first weekend of August. The biggest presentation at this year’s concours involved General Motors’ birthday bash, but a smaller gathering of cars recognized the Model T, and most of them, in a terrific variety of body styles, were gorgeous.
Here’s one, this 1926 Model T...
Scroll down through the comments under the post from a couple days ago in which we asked what you all thought about a Detroit bailout and you won’t find much motherly love for American automakers, even among hardcore car types like all of youse guys.
An even more hardcore car guy, Roger Penske, says he has a solution—which actually just might work since it would slap a fee on all new cars sold, import or domestic.
Meanwhile GM groupies like me still can’t bear to imagine a world without the...
There’s more to look at than Auburns, Cords and Duesenbergs at the A-C-D Museum in Auburn; and the IH Scout prototype covered earlier. Just across the vast hall of display vehicles from the Scout was this single prototype: a 1948 Tasco, which is an acronym for The American Sports Car Company.
It was spawned from the mind of Gordon Buehrig, backed by a group of investors, who wanted to produce an American sports car that could compete in a European-type event which was to be held at the...
Yes, we took a hiatus from Hemmings Collector Car Radio, our in-house podcast, over the summer and most of the fall as things got busy in the office. We wanted to make sure we were presenting the best collector car magazines on the planet before we spent some time in front of the microphones. But the good news is that the hiatus wasn’t permanent, and we’ve put together Hemmings Collector Car Radio episode 12 for your listening pleasure. In this episode, we discuss the current state...
Roger Hughet rendering
We gearheads who constantly examine the whole muscle car phenomenon like to thump our chests and declare our manliness by extolling the virtues of Hemis, rockcrushers and Positraction units. But we’d also be lying to you if we ever said we don’t appreciate the more artistic side of the muscle car; the aesthetic pleasures these cars give us are just as powerful as the olfactory pleasures of burnt racing gas and the tactile pleasures of a wrench on a...
The trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie is out and dorks like me who are as goofy about Chevrolets as they are about Star Trek will love the opening scene: It features a midyear 
Driver’s side bracket already starting to break
Both of the taillight brackets on the speedster were made of flimsy sheetmetal, and with the suspension system as it is and the type of driving it will be doing, we realized these brackets weren’t going to cut the mustard for long.
Browsing through our Model A parts catalog, we found some heavy-duty cast iron pedestals that fit the “teacup-style” taillight assemblies.
These brackets (
If you’ve read any car enthusiast magazine in the last decade, you know about Dynamat and you’ve seen one or two or a dozen tech stories on how to install it. The company has some good PR folk, first popularizing it among the bass-thumping crowd, then pitching it to the rest of us car nuts. Doesn’t hurt that ol’ Chip Foose has lent his visage to it as well. So I’m giving it a shot.
So with a new star bit, I continued the interior removal that I started last time...