Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Hudson Hornet Custom

Some people refuse to admit that Hudson built cars after the merger with Nash – they claim instead that it was American Motors building cars with Hudson nameplates. Then again, some people can’t help but love the so-called “Hashes,” and those people are going to get a kick out of this 1957 Hudson Hornet Custom […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – Oleg Cassini AMC Matador

We know what you’re thinking. Another Matador? What on earth did the husband of Gene Tierney and official designer for first lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s wardrobe have to do with this mighty 1974 AMC Matador? Everything. Cassini lent a further touch of class to the already elegant Matador. The designer Matador was a pre-emptive strike against […]

AMC racing legend Herman Lewis dies

Word came to us last week that Herman Lewis, by some accounts the godfather of AMC racing, died February 13 after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 73. Lewis, who told the Register-Herald of Beckley, West Virginia, that he cut his teeth as a racer hauling illegal moonshine in Tennessee, drag raced in Chevrolets […]