September 7, 2010
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In words and pictures, veteran motorsports journalist Pete Lyons has spent decades covering such classic events as the Daytona and Le Mans 24 Hours, Sebring’s 12 hour, the Indy 500 and F1 Grands Prix all over the world. The original Can-Am series of 1966-1974 was a personal favorite, and yielded experiences which Pete has set
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September 7, 2010
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This past weekend’s F.A.S.T. races at Englishtown, while thoroughly entertaining, almost didn’t merit a headline. We saw plenty of 10-second runs from several of the racers, but despite near-perfect weather, the best they could muster throughout Saturday’s runs and most of Sunday’s runs were timeslips in the 10.30s, a good distance from the 10.18 record.
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September 7, 2010
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What’s most remarkable about early customs – and I’m talking those from the 1930s through the 1950s – is that the guys customizing them weren’t fiddling with cars more than a year or two old. It had to have taken some fortitude to lower and chop the top of a brand-new car, as Charles Marr
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September 7, 2010
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That Hugo90 has done wonders for the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, bringing us all sorts of weird and exotic cars we’ve never heard of, that I thought it time we repay him, just as Mack and the boys on Cannery Row always feel the need to repay Doc for his generosity. The opportunity recently arose
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September 6, 2010
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Happy Labor Day, everybody. After this weekend’s Musclepalooza XII, the Hemmings staff is taking a well-deserved day off today. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, but in the meantime, enjoy these wallpaper-able muscle car images from our archives.
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September 5, 2010
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We’ve had a few cars-turned-wrecker come across our desk recently, and at first glance, we thought this 1920 Rock Falls wrecker was yet another of them. After all, the Sterling, Illinois-based Rock Falls largely built hearses and other funeral vehicles, with a few limousines and sedans tossed into the mix. Our research, however, turned up
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September 5, 2010
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Hybrids are all the rage today, but AMC had a hybrid on the market more than 50 years ago… Oh, wait, different kind of hybrid. However, both the modern-day Prius and the Hudson-Nash “Hash” of the mid-1950s did both get chided on their looks, so there’s at least one thing they both had in common.
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September 4, 2010
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Of all the special edition Mustangs that Ford has been trotting out in the last several years and that recall earlier Mustang variants (California Special, Boss 302, all the Shelbys), I don’t think Ford’s ever going to come up with another SVO-type Mustang, even with all the talk nowadays of installing smaller turbocharged engines in
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September 4, 2010
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* I’d heard that one of the Futurliners was recently sold to a collector in Sweden who intends a full resto, and thanks to BigLorryBlog, we see that Futurliner #8 recently made an appearance at the Elmia truck show in Sweden.
* Newsday recently took a look at high-dollar collector cars and compared the collectors who
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September 3, 2010
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Jeff Koch would like to apologize to some of you for the Dalek-fest that was his latest entry in our occasional series of automotive-themed music videos. He offered this video with Robbie Williams spliced into a bunch of early 1970s Formula 1 racing footage as a conciliation. Neat concept, but I’d rather listen to the
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