An attempted biennial desk clear yields some real bounty here. We came up with a manually typed, affable letter sent by Hemmings Nation Northwest citizen Al Hanson, of Eugene, Oregon. Back in the 1950s, it turns out, Al was patrolling the broad byways of Los Angeles, armed with his Argus C3 rangefinder camera and shooting […]

Yes, I know: Your first impulse upon seeing this 1930s Brockway cab for sale on Hemmings.com is to turn it into a hot rod of some sort. Mine was too. Unless it has some sort of sentimental value, it would likely be more work than it’s worth to actually restore this as a heavy-duty truck […]

Sure, we’ve all seen photos of Thomas C. Poulter’s Snow Cruiser floating around the Internet, but now here’s the whole story on the giant (and ultimately underwhelming) machine built to explore Antarctica on Admiral Byrd’s thir…