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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1980 Ferrari Pinin
What to do with a non-operational show car? Stick it in a museum and call it a day? Splash some fiberglass copies off it and build some driveable copies? Or maybe get it running and put it on the...
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Murphy-bodied Duesenberg Model J dual-cowl phaeton takes Best in Show at St....
The 1929 Duesenberg Model J of Charles E. Letts, Jr. Photos courtesy Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s. Coachbuilder Murphy only constructed three dual-cowl phaeton bodies for the...
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Prisoner makes a dash for it: TV series Moke could make $20,000
Photos courtesy Classic Car Auctions. Up until a few years ago, fans of the British television series The Prisoner believed only one of the four Mini Mokes built for the show had survived. That is,...
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Four-Links – Transit in space, wide Mini, Scarabeo, Johnson’s Corner
The first van in space? According to this old publicity photo from Ford UK, which BigLorryBlog shared eons ago and which we also ran across on a nice history of the Ford Transit van, it was a...
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Ramseier-bodied 1924 Isotta-Fraschini Tipo 8A takes Best in Show at Pebble Beach
The Patterson Collection’s 1924 Isotta-Fraschini Tipo 8A. Photo courtesy of Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. So luxurious was the 8A that Italian manufacturer Isotta-Fraschini relied upon the work of...
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Not seen in decades, copper-heavy Exemplar I concept car to emerge at auction
Photos courtesy of Dragone Auctions. Like many concept cars, the Exemplar I nearly didn’t survive to the present day. After two full years on the show circuit, only a last-minute stay of execution...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1982 Volkswagen Vanagon Transporter by Tischer
Buying an older motorhome is more like buying an older house than it is like buying an older car: The more recently it’s been lived in, the better. Fortunately, then, it seems that this 1982...
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Remainder of the Bertone concept car collection, rights to the Bertone name...
Photos courtesy SIVAG. The long and slow collapse of the Bertone coachbuilding corporation appears as though it will come to an end this month as Lilli Bertone, the widow of company scion Nuccio...
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TC in Transition: Chrysler Corporation Sport Coupe Built By Maserati brochure
All images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News The luxury two-seat convertible that would enter production in 1989 as Chrysler’s TC by Maserati, had a long gestation period that...
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New book celebrates French Art Deco glass mascots
Photos from Lalique Automotive Art courtesy Mullin Automotive Museum. “Glass has a wonderful substance,” Rene Lalique once wrote wrote. “Everything makes it an incomparable plastic medium in the hands...
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A quick look at the Hemmings Motor News Concours weekend
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLs on display at Sunday’s Concours d’Elegance. Photos by Hemmings staff. This year’s ninth-annual Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance weekend served up three days of absolutely...
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Mrs. Chrysler’s Chrysler Takes Best in Show at Hemmings Concours
Howard Kroplick with his chauffeur-driven 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 Town Car. Photos by Terry McGean. Judging at the annual Hemmings Concours d’Elegance is no easy task. With more than 150 exclusive...
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From Detroit to Moscow, L.A. to Ravensburg: the XP-8 Le Sabre’s direct design...
Images courtesy Kustomrama, unless otherwise noted. Even today, the 1951 XP-8 Le Sabre concept car, Harley Earl’s successor to his prewar Buick Y-Job, looks like nothing else on the road despite its...
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Last Ferrari to take overall win at Le Mans earns Best in Show Sport at Santa...
Santa Fe Concorso Best in Show Sport (L) and Elegance (R). Photo by Garret Vreeland, courtesy Santa Fe Concorso. The North American Racing Team (N.A.R.T) 1964 Ferrari 250 LM carrying number 21 in a...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1954 Cadillac Series 62 convertible
Coachbuilders didn’t always do major restyling jobs for their customers. Sometimes they made a lighter touch to pay the bills, as we see from this Derham-customized 1954 Cadillac Series 62 convertible...
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Recommended Reading – The Coachbuilt Packard
Photos by author. Compiled from the extensive Packard photograph collection of the author, Hugo Pfau, The Coachbuilt Packard was first published in 1973, with a reprint in 1992. Measuring 8 ½ x 9 ½...
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Four-Links – Feynman’s van, twin-engine Beetle, drive-through trees,...
* Last year, friends and family of physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman banded together to restore Feynman’s 1974 Dodge Tradesman van. This year, they’re trying to get the Smithsonian to...
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Four-Links – The Slug, DeLorghini, abandoned lunar rover, off-road Pacers
While “The Slug,” a 1960 Morris J2 van in Australia, doesn’t look all that different in its completed form from how it appeared when it sat, sans wheels and tires, in a farmer’s field, that’s by...
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All tucked in: How to get in the back of a dual-cowl phaeton Franklin
Ronald Andrew’s almost all original 100-hp, 4.5-liter, air-cooled 1931 Franklin Sport Touring at the Gathering of the Faithful. Getting in the back seat of a dual-cowl phaeton like this 1931 Franklin...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – at the drags, Carlo, The Driver
The sound doesn’t quite match up with the image, but the drag-racing home movie compilation that Rudi Markl sent in to The Chicane this past week almost tops the road racing home movie compilation...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Crown Imperial
A car like this 1957 Crown Imperial limousine for sale on Hemmings.com – coachbuilt by Ghia, one of just 36 built, sold for $14,000 new – has to have a good backstory. Unfortunately, the seller didn’t...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Cadillac Caribou
What would one haul with this 1973 Cadillac Caribou for sale on Hemmings.com? Probably not much—not because that shallow tonneau-covered bed doesn’t seem very utilitarian, more because the converted...
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On the town with the world at war: a Derham-bodied 1942 Cadillac Series 60...
1942 Cadillac Series 60 Special town car by Derham. Photos by Randy Wells, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. In 1941, just as the United States emerged from the effects of The Great Depression, war in Europe...
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Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s 1919 Pierce-Arrow 66A-4 takes Best of Show in Boca...
Robert S. Jepson, Jr. (center) accepting the Best of Show award for his 1919 Pierce-Arrow. He’s flanked by Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance Founders Rick & Rita Case (L), Heather Glace, and Brian...
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The Lady is a Champ: Indy Racer Lyn St. James drives a classic Italian GTO...
By William Hall. Photos by the author and Tom Heinrich. Lyn St. James climbs into the cramped cockpit of the 1964 Alfa Romeo TZ 1 and takes a few moments to familiarize herself with the instruments...
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Concept Styling: A pair of prototypes are scheduled to attend the 2016...
1958 Dual-Ghia 400 Coupe prototype; image courtesy of Fred Kanter. Whether you want to believe it or not, the Fifties and early Sixties were a mystical era of automotive design. The sights and sounds...
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The Sceptre, the Cruiser, and Brooks Stevens’s radical plan to save Studebaker
Photos and images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. By 1963, Studebaker as a carmaker had run out of options. Bleeding cash, facing stiff competition, and with no new products in the pipeline, the only...
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Open Diff – What other vehicles should be on the National Historic Vehicle...
Photo courtesy NASA. In two years, the Historic Vehicle Association has placed or announced that it will place more than a dozen cars and trucks on the National Historic Vehicle Register, which should...
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Unrestored 1929 Studebaker house car shows how to get away from it all...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. “Dulce Domum,” loosely translated, means “Sweetly at home.” It conveys a sense of comfort, of settlement, of wanting for little. Fittingly, somebody long ago...
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Not small, just fun-sized: Just 14 of these pretty Sprite-based GT coupes...
Photos by the author. Italy’s carrozzerias were renowned for crafting beautifully shaped sports car bodies out of hand-formed aluminum, but in England, where the burgeoning sports car and racing...
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Edsel’s masterpiece – designed by Edsel Ford, crafted by Karosserie Deutsch
Photography by author. Edsel Ford always had an eye for fine design and distinctive upscale styling, so when he decided to re-style the 1934 Ford to his liking, in order to do it his way without his...
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Half-n-half prototype Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Coda Tronca takes FIVA...
Photo courtesy FIVA. How far should a car’s preservation go? Should it touch up some of the worst aspects of the car and make it presentable again? Or should it leave the car in as-found condition?...
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Miss Fire – a Kamm-tailed gow job
Matt Kutz’s Kammback phaeton speedster cuts a dashing figure in spectator parking at The Race of Gentlemen. Photos by the author. We spotted Miss Fire here as she wheeled into the impromptu Friday...
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Unrestored Abarth speed record car could command more than $1 million
Photos by Piotr Degler/Degler Studio, courtesy Gooding and Co. At first glance, the Abarth 1000 Bialbero record car known as “La Principessa” and the diamond-layout Pininfarina X appear to have...
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Hemmings Find of the Day- 1940 Ford Siebert ambulance
1940 Ford Siebert ambulance for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: When the Flathead V8 was introduced in 1932, the coachbuilder that would be best remembered for its contributions...
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Rare 1930 Marquette scheduled to appear at the 2016 Hemmings Motor News...
1930 Marquette Phaeton; photos courtesy of John Giokaris. Since its earliest days, the word “quality” had been a hallmark of Buick, keeping their line of cars competitive in terms of both price and...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1971 Land Rover 109 Dormobile
1971 Land Rover 109 Dormobile camper conversion for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Original and rare Martin Walter Dormobile conversion to a new Land Rover 109 series IIa Station...
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Four-Links – Charger Daytonas compared, restoring Porsche tractors, Stutz’s...
Dodge announced a new Charger Daytona this past week, so Allpar decided to compare and contrast all the previous iterations of the Daytona to see which one the most recent version most resembles....
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1936 Lancia Astura earns marque’s first Best of Show at Pebble Beach
1936 Lancia Astura Pinin Farina cabriolet. Photos by Mark McCourt. After 28 classes of automobiles were judged, it came down to a trio of final contestants for the ultimate concours d’elegance prize:...
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One of four surviving, 1937 Lincoln K Convertible Victoria by Brunn to appear...
1937 Lincoln K Convertible Victoria by Brunn; image courtesy of Jerry Beard Since its inception by Henry Leland in 1921, the Lincoln Motor Car Company made a commitment to its target customer base:...
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From mobile classroom to racecar hauler: BMC transporter estimated to net...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The more unusual the vehicle, the more likely it will be put to unusual purposes, a maxim perfectly applicable to one of the last remaining 5-ton BMC transporters, a vehicle...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1932 Nash Series 990 ambulance
1932 Nash Eight Series 990 ambulance by Miller. From the seller’s description: This Nash epitomized classic-era elegance with its stained glass quarter windows and hickory spoke artillery wheels....
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Unique 1922 Essex Light-Duty Truck to be on display at the Hemmings Motor...
1922 Essex Light-Duty Truck. Image courtesy of The Bickford Collection. Normally you would not associate fabric-covered C-pillars adorned with landau bars with light-duty pickup trucks from the...
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The 2016 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance: A final sneak peek
1931 Duesenberg J-456 Rollston Convertible Victoria; image courtesy of Alan Rosenblum. A little more than eight months ago we announced the featured marques for the 2016 edition of the Hemmings Motor...
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The Lincoln that might have been – the David Holls-designed 1932 Model KB...
1932 Lincoln KB Boattail Speedster. Photos by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. In an alternate universe, Edsel Ford might have commissioned a custom-bodied Lincoln Speedster from Paris, France,...
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Once bricked in at a Mexican airport, Duesenberg Model J tops RM Sotheby’s...
1930 Duesenberg Model J Murphy dual-cowl phaeton. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby’s, unless otherwise noted. Most Duesenberg automobiles have led interesting lives, and J-347, a 1930...
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Miura, gullwing Mercedes up for supercar of the century honors
Photo by Jeff Koch. Most of us will never drive one, let alone own one – their rarity and rarified price tags define them, after all – but supercars nevertheless inspire many a debate when it comes to...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Cadillac Eldorado
Caribou-built 1968 Cadillac Eldorado pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Hand built by Traditional Coachworks. 472 cubic engine. One of a kind. Unique. In storage 25 years....
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Part art museum, part classic car – the “Phantom of Love” Rolls-Royce heads...
1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Bougham de Ville. Photos courtesy of Bonhams. For over a century, the name Rolls-Royce has been synonymous with luxury. That’s not to say that all Rolls-Royce models are...
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A coachbuilder’s own custom – Ralph Roberts’ 1933 Chrysler CL Imperial...
Photos by Erik Fuller, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. As a partner in coachbuilder LeBaron, Ralph Roberts had ample experience in styling standout automobile bodies and predicting industry trends. When it...
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