We’ve featured a few FJs before here on the Hemmings Find of the Day, but none quite like this 1965 Toyota FJ45 for sale on Hemmings.com, which has been treated to a number of upgrades, including a Cummins engine swap and five-speed manual transmission. From the seller’s description: I am offering for sale my Cummins […]
If nobody else, Clessie Cummins had proved to Americans the viability of the diesel engine. Familiar with the Indianapolis 500 since crewing for Ray Harroun in the first such race in 1911, he returned in 1931 with a Duesenberg-built, diesel-powered race car that finished 13th, but managed to not only run the entire race without […]
If you’ve been reading the section on trucking history that we’ve recently added to Hemmings Classic Car, then you’ve seen the camera craft of Joe Wanchura, who hails from Muncie, Indiana. It may come to pass that Joe is heralded as the Matthew Brady of commercial trucking. His photos depict rigs from the 1950s and […]