The worst thing you can say about most automotive concours is that they’re dead stagnant, sometimes too much like seeing dinosaur bones in a museum. The folks who organize the Desert Classic Concours d’Elegance in Palm Springs, California, have other ideas. The 2011 concours has been expanded to a full week, led off by two […]
Jack Shea, himself an occasional contributor to the Hemmings Blog, has recently been helping Fred Hill of LaGrande, Oregon, digitize his photo collection and identify the cars pictured in it. One of the more interesting photos they’ve run across was this one of Barney Oldfield (note the cigar) piloting Walter Christie’s front-wheel-drive racer. Fred noted […]
Following a link in a comment the other day led us to what is, possibly, the greatest Flickr photo set we’ve seen in recent memory (aside from, of course, the photosets contributed to the Hemmings Nation Flick pool). Fred Childers was a frequent visitor to the Grand National Roadster Show when it was held in […]