Hemmings Find of the Day – two 1958 Pontiac Chieftains

What would you do with two Pontiac Chieftains, both in project-car condition? The obvious answer is to strip the useable parts from one to aid in restoring the other. But which of these two 1958 Pontiac Chieftains deserves the restoration? The two-door, which looks rather rough, even from here, or the four-door, which runs and […]

Tomica Returns to America

You may remember them as “Pocket Cars,” small-scale die-cast cars sold in a blistercard that resembled a denim pocket, in the ’70s and ’80s. Made by Tomica, they were a sort of Japanese homage to Matchbox – opening features (the doors closed with a particularly firm click), sprung suspension, and fine detailing. Cars were a […]

Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Tucker

Frequent participants in the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge will no doubt recall that Tucker featured into a previous challenge, when we prompted you to connect the short-lived automaker to DAF. This week, however, we’re running Tucker through the fox-and-hound type challenge to try to stretch our knowledge of just how interconnected Tucker […]