Automotive Alphabet – E

I’m pretty sure I’ve yet to photograph an Edsel or any other E-car in six years of shooting for Hemmings. So I went ahead and nabbed this shot of an Edsel hood ornament from McCourt’s story on a 1958 Edsel Citation in the October 2008 issue of Hemmings Classic Car.
So now that I’ve taken […]

The real cars of NASCAR in the ’60s, with Freddie Lorenzen

Think the olden days of NASCAR were better simply because the “stock” cars were really stock? Then take a good look through these photos sent to us by Ron Kellogg of the Kellogg Auto Archive featuring Freddie Lorenzen’s Holman-Moody-prepped 1963 Ford Galaxie, as shot by photographer Ralph Poole shortly before the 1963 Motor Trend 500 […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – Mr. Machesky’s watch

High-end watch (I’m sorry, “timepieces”) companies like to advertise to car guys, especially those car guys interested in high-end cars. There’s even quite a bit of crossover with timepieces branded to reflect a customer’s high-end automotive preference. Other than the mechanical aspect, I don’t get it. But if I had $25,000 to splurge on a […]