Giants Despair, 1959

Over at The Old Motor, contributor Ivan Pozega recently shared a couple photos of the Giants Despair hillclimb in Pennsylvania, circa 1959, showing a Lotus 11 and a pair of Elvas above and Roger Penske in a Porsche RSK below. See how many other cars you can identify. UPDATE: As reader Ron Mann pointed out […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 BMW Isetta 600

One of the cars that will debut with BMW’s recently announced i sub-brand will be a small, smart/iQ-sized urban runabout called the i3. While it will inevitably present a compact, eco-friendly footprint that will likely seat two adults and a midget or two, you can already find most of those attributes in this 1959 BMW […]

Mercifully Aged 1961 Mercedes 300 SL Roadster

Back in the salad days of the Nineties dot-com boom, we eked out a living painting sets for television and movies. Tasks included making many new things look old, which included building a ship set inside a restored WWII-vintage Liberty ship. Why? Glossy new stuff looks phony on film, because glossy new stuff does not […]