A Visit With The Truck Lady

Regular readers of Hemmings Classic Car magazine will already be acquainted with Wendy Marquis, whose evocative vintage truck paintings were featured in the inaugural “Art & Automobilia” spread in the redesigned June 2010 issue.

Wendy and her husband Michael are New Hampshire natives who, for the past five years, have lived in the Bozeman, Montana, area. The […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Packard Clipper

I know there’s plenty of old cars hanging out in the Five Boroughs, but Queens is probably one of the last places I’d expect to find this 1947 Packard Clipper in dire need of a little bit of buffing out. With its two-door fastback body style and eight-cylinder engine, this would make one sharp cruiser […]

SIA Flashback – Olds’s Exciting Experimentals

From last week’s experimental V-5 diesel at the Olds Museum in Lansing, Michigan, we move on to another group of experimental engines at the same museum, though built for a much more different purpose. In SIA #76, August 1983, Dennis Casteele gave us a glimpse of three high-performance Oldsmobile V-8s – a Hemi-headed design, a […]