After yesterday’s post about the LeTourneau road trains, our pal Gary Faules emailed us up to share some photos of another LeTourneau with which he had first-hand experience.
My father had a personal relationship with the LeTourneaus for many years. As a matter of fact you may be interested in learning about a vehicle which LeTourneau custom built back in 1954 after some brain-storming with my father for my father to use in his logging mill in Southwestern Oregon.
It was called the...
Lately, the Friday Hemmings Find of the Day has had something to do with the Six Degrees of Separation topic of the day. To tell the truth, this 1954 Alfa Romeo being offered by the Imperial Palace Auto Collections in Las Vegas is just too pretty to pass up. It does have a Ford link, though; according to the seller’s description:
1954 Alfa Romeo 1900 SS Ghia ID# AR1900C01838 Delivered new to George Walker, then VP of Design at Ford Motor Company and comes with known provenance that...
If anything, the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge series – specifically, the talented and ingenious people who play along with the challenge every week – have proven that every carmaker in the world is somehow connected to every other carmaker in the world in six degrees or less. If that’s the case, then which company is at the center of it all? GM, due to its size? Jeep, due to its numerous owners? Austin, due to it spreading its seeds all over the...
We have our friends at BigLorryBlog to thank for posting a vintage ad the other day that sent us seeking information about the longest vehicles of all time that ended up providing parts for the most beloved monster truck of all time: the LeTourneau land trains, built to access the most remote reaches of the arctic and to dwarf just about any other land vehicle in both size and sheer testicular fortitude.
Originally conceived to assist logging in trackless wilderness, LeTourneau, famed for its...
Life got you down? Itching to travel? Tired of seeing your neighbor scratching his butt when you leave the house every morning? What you need, son, is a house on wheels. Yes, sell that boring ol’ house on a foundation and put your money into mobility, maybe something like a 1938 Curtiss Aerocar, towed by a one-of-a-kind Chevrolet-based streamlined tractor, currently for sale on Hemmings.com for $250,000. From the seller’s description:
Unrestored original ,barn find in very good...
Here’s a lovely, perfectly restored old racing car that I photographed as it was making its public debut at the Radnor Hunt Concours as part of the Pennsylvania motorsports class. This is the Ray Brady Special, listed in Indianapolis 500 records as a Schroeder-Offy, meaning the chassis was originally built by Gordon Schroeder, the founder of today’s Schroeder racing products. At first, in 1951, the car carried a Sparks six-cylinder racing engine. Its current owner, Jack Thomson of...
Featured Hemmings Classic Car Auto Artist and all around cool guy James Owens has just alerted us to a new art show in which he will be participating; called “A Broken Promise of the Flying Car,” the show will feature a bunch of exciting artists, and will open at the hip M Modern gallery in Palm Springs, California, this Saturday, November 21.
James’s contribution will be his new mixed-media piece, “Future Past.”
We’ll let James fill you in on the concept...
Over on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, one of the members who continues to educate us with every photo or scan that he posts is John Lloyd, a.k.a. Hugo90, who lived for a time in Australia and who now collects and trades auto sales literature with sources all over the globe.
One of his more recent posts is the above Chrysler Royal ambulance, spotted in a northern Melbourne (that’s Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) suburb in 1974. Check out the certainly-outlawed-by-now chrome plating...
Like yesterday’s Wolf-version G-wagen, we see here another vehicle rarely spotted in the United States – a 1956 Ford Thames pickup, offered on Hemmings.com out of Spring Grove, Illinois, for $19,900. From the seller’s description:
71 c.i. 30 hp flathead 4 cylinder, 3 speed manual transmission. A seldom seen and lovingly restored example of Fords European partnership showing a Ford influence dating date to late 30s. Straight axel front and cross spring suspension. Would be a...
One of last week’s Hemmings Finds of the Day highlighted a resto-mod 1956 Studebaker Pelham station wagon and elicited a strong “DO NOT WANT” response from many commenters. Which means it’s time for another Open Diff post, in which we open the comments section to you readers to gauge your feelings on a particular topic. Do resto-mods, hot rods and customs have a rightful place in the collector car hobby? If so, what is their place, and what should be done or not done...
You start looking for info and ephemera on old auto dealerships, and it starts popping up all over the place. For instance, Blog dos Carros Antigos has been keeping us in gravy with old Ford dealership photos, including this one of Chula Vista Motor Sales. Anybody in Chula Vista recognize the building and location?
Also from Blog dos Carros Antigos comes these photos of the salesmen and proprietor of Joe Browning Buick checking out their inventory – not in a moment of quiet reflection,...
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After yesterday’s post about the LeTourneau road trains, our pal Gary Faules emailed us up to share some photos of another LeTourneau with which he had first-hand experience.
My father had a personal relationship with the LeTourneaus for many years. As a matter of fact you may be interested in learning about a vehicle which LeTourneau custom built back in 1954 after some brain-storming with my father for my father to use in his logging mill in Southwestern Oregon.
It was called the...
Lately, the Friday Hemmings Find of the Day has had something to do with the Six Degrees of Separation topic of the day. To tell the truth, this 1954 
Alfa
If anything, the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge series – specifically, the talented and ingenious people who play along with the challenge every week – have proven that every carmaker in the world is somehow connected to every other carmaker in the world in six degrees or less. If that’s the case, then which company is at the center of it all? GM, due to its size? Jeep, due to its numerous owners? Austin, due to it spreading its seeds all over the...
We have our friends at BigLorryBlog to thank for posting a vintage ad the other day that sent us seeking information about the longest vehicles of all time that ended up providing parts for the most beloved monster truck of all time: the LeTourneau land trains, built to access the most remote reaches of the arctic and to dwarf just about any other land vehicle in both size and sheer testicular fortitude.
Originally conceived to assist logging in trackless wilderness, LeTourneau, famed for its...
Life got you down? Itching to travel? Tired of seeing your neighbor scratching his butt when you leave the house every morning? What you need, son, is a house on wheels. Yes, sell that boring ol’ house on a foundation and put your money into mobility, maybe something like a 1938 Curtiss Aerocar, towed by a one-of-a-kind 
Here’s a lovely, perfectly restored old racing car that I photographed as it was making its public debut at the Radnor Hunt Concours as part of the Pennsylvania motorsports class. This is the Ray Brady Special, listed in Indianapolis 500 records as a Schroeder-Offy, meaning the chassis was originally built by Gordon Schroeder, the founder of today’s Schroeder racing products. At first, in 1951, the car carried a Sparks six-cylinder racing engine. Its current owner, Jack Thomson of...
Featured Hemmings Classic Car Auto Artist and all around cool guy James Owens has just alerted us to a new art show in which he will be participating; called “A Broken Promise of the Flying Car,” the show will feature a bunch of exciting artists, and will open at the hip M Modern gallery in Palm Springs, California, this Saturday, November 21.
James’s contribution will be his new mixed-media piece, “Future Past.”
We’ll let James fill you in on the concept...
Over on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, one of the members who continues to educate us with every photo or scan that he posts is John Lloyd, a.k.a. Hugo90, who lived for a time in Australia and who now collects and trades auto sales literature with sources all over the globe.
One of his more recent posts is the above 
Like yesterday’s Wolf-version G-wagen, we see here another vehicle rarely spotted in the United States – a 1956 
One of last week’s Hemmings Finds of the Day highlighted a resto-mod 1956 Studebaker Pelham station wagon and elicited a strong “DO NOT WANT” response from many commenters. Which means it’s time for another Open Diff post, in which we open the comments section to you readers to gauge your feelings on a particular topic. Do resto-mods, hot rods and customs have a rightful place in the collector car hobby? If so, what is their place, and what should be done or not done...
You start looking for info and ephemera on old auto dealerships, and it starts popping up all over the place. For instance, Blog dos Carros Antigos has been keeping us in gravy with old 
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