* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
Sometimes we get some cool submissions for Lost and Found that we just can’t run because the image quality is so poor. Our Photoshop wizards can do some awesome stuff, but they can’t perform miracles. But all is not lost: The Internet doesn’t demand the high image quality that print publications demand, so we can pop ‘em grainy photos up here.
Such is the case with the photos that Robert Dalziel of Maspeth, New York, sent us. Along with the photos came no background...
So I’ve been having this issue with my 1970 Land Rover Series IIa. It only runs with the choke wide open. McGean thought it might be a vacuum leak, but I sprayed all kinds of carb cleaner around the base of the carburetor and every vacuum port to no avail.
Alert reader Dave Murrell sent me what he thinks is the issue:
I can’t help replying as I have had the same “choke required” to idle issue with my Series III on a number of occasions. I’m willing to bet you...
Visitors to the Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, home of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG will soon be able to tour the new Porsche Museum at Porscheplatz 1. The automaker has reported that the interior work on the second floor is almost complete, so the first 12 exhibition vehicles were being installed on November 6, with the relocation of all 80 exhibits finished by the end of the week.
The special cars that have been hibernating in an off-premises warehouse in Zwingenberg am Neckar are now being...
It started with Horst Kobs, a German émigré who settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the 1950s, when he went to Dueck GM and bought himself a Marina Blue 1966 Corvair Corsa Turbo convertible. His other Corvair, a red coupe, was a good car, so why not more of the same, with power and a soft top? With no kids to worry about, Horst and wife Joseé were able to break out and do all sorts of fun things in their convertible, like drive cross-country to Montreal and visit Expo ‘67, and...
In responding to an item in HCC Lost and Found, Chet Kelley sent me a copy of an old Fred Horsley book from 1953 titled, simply, “Dream Cars.” It’s a bit tattered, but it was still worth flipping through for more than just the content that he directed me to. Inside, it’s chock full of the most cracked-out, pie-in-the-sky, don’t-tell-me-this-can’t-be-done automotive ideas up to that time, and not just from Detroit, where we typically think so-called dream...
New company lettering and hood emblems have been added.
As Dan mentioned earlier, Hemmings’ newest addition, the 1932 Ford speedster, has been raced before and doesn’t need a whole lot done to it mechanically. But since it has arrived, the race decals from earlier events have been removed and new gold lettering has been added. The hood panels also lacked the emblems that were removed at some point before the car got here. We identified what was there by the outline of the emblem...
Despite GM’s problems, it seems they still have the time and effort to branch out into new concepts like social networking, as evidenced by their recent launch (well, GM of Canada’s recent launch) of PontiacPulse, a social network just for Pontiac owners and people who appreciate Tin Indians.
Sure, there’s a lot of marketing of new Pontiacs involved. So why do we old car guys care? Because the folks behind PontiacPulse went and scanned more than 200 Pontiac brochures, for...
More from the mountains of Columbia County, New York:
1976 Plymouth Volare - $495
1983 Ford Fairmont Futura - $495
And then there was this Austin (possibly a ‘54?) sitting front and center, complete with a smashed windshield, damaged trim and quite possibly some malfunctioning suspension components (judging by the condition of the right front wheel).
Trust us, the dash looked no better. Along with an asking price of $795, scribed on one of the passenger windows was “rod or...
* This is why we should cry for the decline of vocational programs in our schools. According to Dennis Eichenberg, writing at amcpacer.com, a group of Cleveland-area high school vocational teachers got together once the AMC Pacer came out to form Electric Vehicle Associates specifically to convert Pacers to electric power. They then sold the Pacers to fleet buyers, and apparently built more than 100 such Pacers (they called it the Change of Pace) before AMC discontinued the Pacer in 1980. Are...
Sometimes we get some cool submissions for Lost and Found that we just can’t run because the image quality is so poor. Our Photoshop wizards can do some awesome stuff, but they can’t perform miracles. But all is not lost: The Internet doesn’t demand the high image quality that print publications demand, so we can pop ‘em grainy photos up here.
Such is the case with the photos that Robert Dalziel of Maspeth, New York, sent us. Along with the photos came no background...
So I’ve been having this issue with my 1970 Land Rover Series IIa. It only runs with the choke wide open. McGean thought it might be a vacuum leak, but I sprayed all kinds of carb cleaner around the base of the carburetor and every vacuum port to no avail.
Alert reader Dave Murrell sent me what he thinks is the issue:
I can’t help replying as I have had the same “choke required” to idle issue with my Series III on a number of occasions. I’m willing to bet you...
Visitors to the Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, home of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. 
Porsche
It started with Horst Kobs, a German émigré who settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the 1950s, when he went to Dueck GM and bought himself a Marina Blue 1966 Corvair Corsa Turbo convertible. His other Corvair, a red coupe, was a good car, so why not more of the same, with power and a soft top? With no kids to worry about, Horst and wife Joseé were able to break out and do all sorts of fun things in their convertible, like drive cross-country to Montreal and visit Expo ‘67, and...
In responding to an item in HCC Lost and Found, Chet Kelley sent me a copy of an old Fred Horsley book from 1953 titled, simply, “Dream Cars.” It’s a bit tattered, but it was still worth flipping through for more than just the content that he directed me to. Inside, it’s chock full of the most cracked-out, pie-in-the-sky, don’t-tell-me-this-can’t-be-done automotive ideas up to that time, and not just from Detroit, where we typically think so-called dream...
New company lettering and hood emblems have been added.
As Dan mentioned earlier, Hemmings’ newest addition, the 1932 
Despite GM’s problems, it seems they still have the time and effort to branch out into new concepts like social networking, as evidenced by their recent launch (well, GM of Canada’s recent launch) of PontiacPulse, a social network just for 
More from the mountains of Columbia County, New York:
1976 Plymouth Volare - $495
1983