In the parking lot at Amelia Island 2010

You’ll see my coverage of Amelia Island – both the concours and the two auctions – over the next few months in our various magazines, but what we never typically o in our show coverage is go out to the parking lots to see what interesting vehicles were driven to the show. So I spent […]

Burke bellytank at Amelia Island 2010

Once I was done snapping photos at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on Sunday, Geoff Hacker enlisted my help in presenting his Bill Burke bellytank dry lakes racer (Geoff curated the Forgotten Fiberglass class at the show and was thus otherwise occupied), something I gladly did, along with Ted Kempgens, one of the builders of […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Dodge D-500

Muscle car, plain old antique car, or both? We found this gem from 1959 – a Custom Royal Lancer two-door hardtop – which could easily stir the muscle car-or-not debate: The seller (and supporting photographs) states that the Dodge is equipped with the desirable D-500 engine package. That’s dual-quads on top of a 383-cu.in. V-8 […]