Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Nash Ambassador

With the post-war Town and Country woodies from Chrysler recently gaining acceptance into the list of Full Classics, can other post-war cars be far behind? For instance, this 1947 Nash Ambassador woodie for sale on Hemmings.com certainly appears quite stately from the seller’s photographs, and today is rather rare. Oh, and several pre-war Nashes are […]

Driveable Dream Daytona

I’ve been traveling lately, including to the May auction-fest in Indiana, which is why I haven’t gone digital with this interesting report so far. Among the big sales that Mecum Auctions rang up three weeks ago at the Indiana State Fairgrounds was this 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4, which cracked the top 10 lots in dollar […]

Terraplane’s Ruggedness Run revisited

As we discovered last year, Hudson conceived a nifty publicity stunt in 1934 to get the Terraplane some attention. The Hudson-Terraplane Ruggedness Run selected 20 different 1934 Terraplane owners from across the country to participate in two-week tours in cars lettered up as billboards by Hudson. It’s a sort of viral marketing (or possibly astroturfing) […]