Hemmings Find of the Day – 1975 Buick

While the seller describes this Stage 1-equipped 1975 Buick Century as a “tribute,” we’d go with the term “phantom,” to describe something that replicates what never was, even though phantoms usually require a level of imagination a step beyond simply stuffing an earlier engine into a later car. Still, it’s a rust-free mid-70s Buick (in […]

SIA Flashback – Mr. Jaeger’s Five Sixes

Who doesn’t love the story of a frustrated inventor? In the case of Don Butler’s article in SIA #69, June 1982, the frustrated inventor is Charles F. Jaeger Sr., who turned his attention (as many inventors eventually do) to automobiles. Rather than focus on one specific aspect of the automobile, Jaeger decided to go into […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Volkswagen

Anybody who’s trawled the Internet for modified Volkswagen photos has by now seen the Beetle limousine type, made by merging two Volkswagens end-to-end. But a Herbie Beetle limousine, like this 1964 Beetle? Next I want to see a Herbie Baja Bug, then maybe a Heb stretched out like this. Are you listening, Internet? From the […]