Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Puma

Hmmmm… Another chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter kinda car, somebody decided to blend the sports car aesthetics of this Brazilian-built 1969 Puma coupe with the knobby-tired, dirt-kicking functionality of a Baja Bug and the giant-wing-for-downforce look of a Subaru WRX. The seller offers no description, but on their website described it a little further as a “Baja rally racer,” […]

Keeping the Speedster engine cool

While we were waiting on the engine to come back, we sent out our radiator to be flushed and pressure checked. Because of environmental regulations regarding the chemicals used to acid-dip, a majority of radiator shops can only boil and flush brass radiators today, even the coil cleaner we used to use is taboo these […]

Automotive Alphabet – I

I searched high and low for a standalone I badge in the Hemmings photo archives and I haven’t yet Intercepted one, so I turned to the Internet, where I spied the above brochure photo featuring an I badge just above the grille. My Britcar (and Italcar) friends will surely identify the little blighter. If you […]