Hemmings Find of the Day – 1940 Mercury

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 […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1920 Rock Falls

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 […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1986 Ford Mustang SVO

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 […]