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# DFW Elite Toy Museum

Oddities, Antiquities and Rarities

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- [Forbes Exhibit Opening](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/forbes-exhibit-opening/) - One of our newest exhibits at DFW Elite Toy Museum is definitely one of the biggest. We have added a Malcolm Forbes Exhibit that features some intricately detailed boat models that belonged in Forbes personal collection. The first boat you'll probably notice is the 137 inch long builders model, Rangitiki. It is a British twin-screw
- [Forbes Exhibit Closing](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/forbes-exhibit-closing/) - If you haven't visited our Malcolm Forbes Exhibit then it isn't too late. Our Forbes Exhibit of ships will be closing on October 21st so be sure to come see us if you haven't checked out our collection of boat and ship models. These nine ship models come straight from Forbes personal collection making this
- [Meadow View Church of Christ came to visit](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/meadow-view-church-of-christ-came-to-visit/) - We had a great group come out to our Museum the other day. They were from the Meadow View Church of Christ, they really love the toy cars and took some pictures with our exotic cars on site too. As an added bonus they got to meet Dixie, Lance and Willy owner Ron Sturgeons canine
- [Salesman Sample Exhibit Grand Opening](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/salesman-sample-exhibit-grand-opening/) - Back then, traveling salespeople hawked their wares face to face using intricate scale models to demonstrate how the full-size version of their product worked.
- [Oddities, Antiquities and Rarities Exhibit Grand Opening Party](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/oddities-antiquities-and-rarities-exhibit-grand-opening-party/) - DFW Elite Toy Museum has a special exhibit of Oddities, Antiquities and Rarities including Automatons Exhibit. Come join us for opening night of the new summer exhibit. See the Cleopatra automaton and a host of other exciting items. Get a sneak preview of this exciting exhibit at the pre-opening party. It’s going to be
- ["Man Up"](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/man-up/) - RockPointe Church has a program for Freshmen in high school called “Man Up”. They meet every Wednesday night and learn a “Man Skill”.
- [American Pickers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/american-pickers/) - Look for the segment titled “Fort Knox of Toys”. It was a great show, and I can honestly say its 100% authentic, unlike many other syndicated show.
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum Announces a New Special Exhibit, “Robots and Space Toys,” Opening in September 2023](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dfw-elite-toy-museum-announces-a-new-special-exhibit-robots-and-space-toys-opening-in-september-2023/) - The carefully curated collection of favorite space toys from the mid-1900s features numerous toys, including the rare Electroman Robot and the prized Atom Jet Racer Haltom City, Texas – October 5, 2023– The DFW Elite Toy Museum in Haltom City, Texas announces its upcoming special exhibit, “Robots and Space Toys,” which opens in September 2023
- [Visit the DFW Elite Toy Museum to Enjoy a  Prized Piece of Automotive History on Display](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/visit-the-dfw-elite-toy-museum-to-enjoy-a-prized-piece-of-automotive-history-on-display/) - The DFW Elite Toy Museum in Haltom City, Texas recently acquired an elegant and rare 1914 Benz 18/45 Horsepower Four-Passenger Runabout.
- [Robots & Japanese Tin Toys From The 60s & 70s](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/robots-and-japanese-tin-toys-from-the-60s-and-70s/) - Robots and Japanese tin toys from the 60's and 70's is the current exhibition at DFW Elite Toy Museum. Bring the family or group.
- [Malcolm Forbes' Ship Gallery](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/malcolm-forbes-ship-gallery/) - An Exhibition Full of History The DFW Elite Toy Museum’s newest addition is the Ship Gallery, which houses nine of the most elaborate model ships in the area. The first thing you see through 10-foot glass windows is the 137-inch long full-hull rigged builder’s model of “Kangitiki,” a British twin-screw passenger liner. Sporting a full
- [Jeron Race Car Models](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/jeron-race-car-models/) - To find out more detailed information about each Jeron Race Car, click here May 31, 2012, Fort Worth, TX – A one-of-a-kind collection of Jeron Quarter Classic model cars is on exhibit at the Dallas/Fort Worth Elite Toy Museum, open 9 to 5 Monday through Friday at 5940 Eden Drive in Haltom City. The exhibition
- [Paintings For Dogs in Art, Toys And Antiques Exhibitions](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/paintings-for-dogs-in-art-toys-and-antiques-exhibitions/) - Paintings from the Dogs in Art, Toys And Antiques Exhibitions at DFW Elite Toy Museum in Fort Worth Texas.
- [Dogs in Art, Toys And Antiques](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dogs-in-art-toys-and-antiques/) - Dogs in Art, Toys And Antiques is an exhibition at DFW Elite Toy Museum in Ft. Worth Texas. Some of the most iconic dog themed European & American paintings, sculptures, & vintage/antique toys from the Ron Sturgeon collection.
- [Robots & Space Toys Exhibit Includes Highly Prized Atom Jet Racer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/robots-space-toys-exhibit-includes-highly-prized-atom-jet-racer/) - Haltom City, Texas – January 4, 2024 – The DFW Elite Toy Museum in Haltom City, Texas is spotlighting the only known 1950s Atom Jet Racer complete with its original box in its “Robots and Space Toys” exhibit. The recently opened exhibit gives visitors a rare glimpse into mid-20th century space toy history. According
- [Robots & Space Toys Exhibit Highlights Big Loo Toy Robot from 1963](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/robots-space-toys-exhibit-highlights-big-loo-toy-robot-from-1963/) - This rare toy robot is currently charming visitors to the museum’s special collection of mid-20th-century robot toys.
- [Robot Gumball Dispenser & Rare Masudaya “Gang of Five” Robots](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/robot-gumball-dispenser-rare-masudaya-gang-of-five-robots/) - Part of the mid-20th century collection of space toys, these unique collectiblesoffer visitors an opportunity to view rare examples of toy history.
- [Robots & Space Toys Exhibit Spotlights Gort & Rock ’Em Sock ’Em](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/robots-space-toys-exhibit-spotlights-gort-rock-em-sock-em/) - Part of the museum’s special collection, these unusual and storied robots offer a rare opportunity to experience a pair of marvelous mid-20th-century robot toys.
- [Haltom City Museum Acquires Only Known Atom Jet Racer with Box](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/haltom-city-museum-acquires-only-known-atom-jet-racer-with-box/) - 1950’s collectible with a scarcity rating of 10/10 is one of more than 3,000 pieces in the rotating collection at DFW Elite Toy Museum
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum Featured on Fun on the Run TV Segment](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dfw-elite-toy-museum-featured-on-fun-on-the-run-tv-segment/) - Dog lovers, toy lovers, and most of all, car lovers will be captivated by the many items on display at the DFW Elite Toy Museum
- [Two Free Museums in Haltom City Promise  Fun for Kids Out of School for the Summer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/two-free-museums-in-haltom-city-promise-fun-for-kids-out-of-school-for-the-summer/) - Dog-friendly DFW Elite Toy Museum and trip-to-yesteryear Salon & Spa Museum are both great summer diversions
- [Dog Lovers Rejoice at DFW Elite Toy Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-lovers-rejoice-at-dfw-elite-toy-museum/) - One of the finest collections of dog toys and collectibles in the DFW area can be found at DFW Elite Toy Museum. Call us for details and bring the whole family.
- [Public Invited to Donate Items to DFW Toy Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/public-invited-to-donate-items-to-dfw-toy-museum/) - DFW Elite Toy Museum actively seeking donations of vintage toys and automobile memorabilia for exhibition
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum in 100 Things to do in Dallas-Fort Worth](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dfw-elite-toy-museum-in-100-things-to-do-in-dallas-fort-worth/) - One-of-a-kind museum features vintage model cars, antique toys, and historic memorabilia from around the globe
- [Free Admission for Group Tours at Fort Worth Elite Toy Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/free-admission-for-group-tours-at-fort-worth-elite-toy-museum/) - DFW Elite Toy Museum dubbed the “Fort Knox of Toys” by American Pickers on the History Channel
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum to be Featured on American Pickers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dfw-elite-toy-museum-to-be-featured-on-american-pickers/) - Dog-friendly museum anticipates extra visitors once episode airs on Monday, June 14 at 8 pm CST on The History Channel
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum Auctions Antique Dog Art & Collectibles](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dfw-elite-toy-museum-auctions-antique-dog-art-collectibles/) - Items from popular recent exhibit at DFW Elite Toy Museum will be sold in RM Sotheby’s Handle with Fun online auction starting May 5, 2021.
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum Offers 75+  Antique Clocks in No Reserve eBay Auctions](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dfw-elite-toy-museum-offers-75-antique-clocks-in-no-reserve-ebay-auctions/) - Fort Worth Toy Museum Thins Its Collection to Focus on Auto Memorabilia, Race Cars and Dog Collectibles
- [Autobahn Toys and More at DFW Elite Toy Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/autobahn-toys-and-more-at-dfw-elite-toy-museum/) - Toy collectors and history buffs will be amazed by the display of autobahn toys and so much more at the DFW Elite Toy Museum in Fort Worth. Call us for details.
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum is for Kids of All Ages](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dfw-elite-toy-museum-is-for-kids-of-all-ages/) - Pack up the family and spend some time at the DFW Elite Toy Museum in Fort Worth. Enjoy a great collection of cars and dogs memorabilia, sure to please you all
- [Antique Car Toy Display Can be Found at DFW Elite Toy Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/antique-car-toy-display-can-be-found-at-dfw-elite-toy-museum/) - if you are into antique cars, you will be into antique car toys, and there is no better collection of those rare toys than at DFW Elite Toy Museum. Come soon!
- [Rare Toys Galore at DFW Elite Toy Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rare-toys-galore-at-dfw-elite-toy-museum/) - Let the little kid in your escape and have some fun at the DFW Elite Toy Museum. Open weekdays and Saturdays, this is a great way to spend a couple hours.
- [Oh, Scarlett…](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/oh-scarlett/) - After LaChance’s and McCourt’s recent recommendations for our occasional cars-in-music-videos series, TA reminded us about Bob Dylan’s “When the Deal Goes Down,” featuring Al Mooney’s 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air, a forme...
- [Salesman Samples & Patent Models](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/salesman-samples-patent-models/) - Salesman Sample of Resistol Hats These hats Resistol were used by salesmen as a display when meeting with store owners about potential sales. Article # 3077 Nickel Plated Brass Bed Salesman Sample This nickel plated brass bed is an exact duplicate of its full size counterpart including the folding head and foot boards as well
- [It's a Dog's Life](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/its-a-dogs-life/) - Dogs in Art, Toys & Antiques DFW Elite Toy Museum has a special exhibit of Dog antiques and collectibles. Come join us for opening night of the new exhibit. We have a Louis Eugene Lambert paintings on display as well as an extensive collection of small toys. It's a Dog's Life is a collection
- [Oddities, Antiquities and Rarities Exhibit](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/oddities-antiquities-and-rarities-exhibit/) - The original Cleopatra was so beautiful that two Roman generals competed for her affections before Christ was born. In 1623, Shakespeare retold the tale of her ill-fated love affair with Mark Anthony and dramatic suicide. Egypt’s most famous queen still captivated the public in 1885 when a British company manufactured a life-size Cleopatra automaton to
- [Grand Opening Party for our new Exhibition, RACE CARS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/grand-opening-party-for-our-new-exhibition-race-cars/) - You are cordially invited To the Grand Opening Party for our new Exhibition, RACE CARS, including toy race cars, Indy memorabilia and a celebration of automotive racing. at DFW Elite Toy Museum Wednesday, October 17th , 2012 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm An evening of fun and excitement. $10 donation goes to CavalierRescueUSA.com Hors d'oeuvres
- [L'Avenir](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lavenir/) - This model depicts L'Avenir, a four-masted steel barque built in 1908 by R.C. Rickmers, Geestemünde. She is 62' in length, This boat was in the Malcolm Forbes Collection.The original vessel sailed from Port Germain, Australia, for Hamburg with a cargo of 3500 tons of wheat in 1938. After having radioed her position March 1 and
- [HMS Hood - SOLD](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hms-hood-sold/)
- [Rangitiki](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rangitiki/) - A builders’ model of the R.M.S Rangitiki for the New Zealand Shipping Company British, circa 1929 The hull built up for the solid, with a painted duel red bottom, black and white top sides with inset brass portholes, name, anchor, gangways, topside boarding gates, window and other topside details. The decks in maple veneer with
- [Belfast](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/belfast/) - A cut-a-way section of the British light cruiser H.M.S. Belfast British late 20th century Well detailed and showing the two (2) forward turrets of the ship and various aspects of the ship board life on a British cruiser, including swabbing the decks with brush crew and hose, bucks, hammocks, and eating tables, lockers, and numerous
- [Swati](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/swati/) - A builders’ model of the paddle steamer Swati British late 19th century The shoal draft hull built up in wood and painted with a red bottom and black topsides. With two open decks, the lower deck built out with over hangings supported with knee brackets, the lower deck fitted with a double wheel, boiler, and
- [Torrens](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/torrens/) - A well detailed scale model, the hull built up in wood and painted with a red bottom, white waterline and black top sides, with planked decks, deck houses, various deck fittings and details, mast and spars, standing and running rigging, and displayed on a pair of wood cradles 72 x22 x 44 in. (182.8 x
- [Simon Labrador](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/simon-labrador/) - A presentation model of the oil exploration vessel Simon Labrador Modern 20th Century The composite hull bottom painted with deep red topsides, the decks painted mostly green, and detailed with deck structures and numerous deck and ship fittings, including anchor windlass. Deck rails, bridge, radio antennae, funnels helicopter pads, helicopter, life boats and launches with
- [Cape Girardeau](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/cape-girardeau/) - A model of the Mississippi paddle wheeler Cape Giradeau Anonymous, 20th Century The hull built up in wood with white topsides, planked decks, various deck structures, stairways, funnels, boats, wheel house and other details. Displayed on four turned brass pedestals on an oak base. 49-1/2 x 10-1/4 x 19 in. (125.7 x 26 x 48.2
- [Tobermorey](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tobermorey/) - A working model of the paddle tugboat Tobermory. British 20th Century The hull built up in wood and painted with a red bottom, a white waterline, black topsides, detailed with numerous deck structures and fittings, including figures on deck, deck hatches which access the various components to run the model. Displayed on a pair of
- [Miscellaneous Italian toys – Rabbit](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/miscellaneous-italian-toys-rabbit/) - This toy rabbit is one of three new additions to our toy museum that comes all the way from Italy. Like most other Italian toys at the time, this one is very detailed which lets you know it’s a great addition to our museum in DFW. At DFW Elite Toy Museum we love toys just
- [Miscellaneous Italian toys – Giraffe](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/miscellaneous-italian-toys-giraffe/) - This is another generous donation by Vanna Bonta that we are excited to add to our collection of antique toys. This lovely giraffe is another toy that comes all the way from Italy and like most other Italian toys it is incredibly detailed and will be a great addition to our growing list of stuffed
- [Miscellaneous Italian toys – Bunny Family](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/miscellaneous-italian-toys-bunny-family/) - These adorable three bunnies come to us all the way from Italy and are welcomed with open arms at DFW Elite Toy Museum. These three furry friends make up the Bunny Family and are more toys that help diversify our collection of antique toys and rare collectibles. Most of the pieces at our museum are
- [Bangkok, Thailand – Redhead in cloche and pink dress](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bangkok-thailand-redhead-in-cloche-and-pink-dress/) - This is another great addition to DFW Elite Toy Museum that’s comes to us all the way from Bangkok, Thailand. This lovely doll dates back to 1965 and has some great features that will make her fit right in with our other antique toys and rare collectibles. She is adorned with a cloche hat and
- [Bangkok, Thailand Dolls – Brunette in Red Dress](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bangkok-thailand-dolls-brunette-in-red-dress/) - This beautiful doll comes to us from the Far East of Bangkok, Thailand. A very detailed and decorated doll with flowing brunette hair and wearing a red dress makes this antique collectible a great addition to DFW Elite Toy Museum. Although most of the pieces in our collection are car related toys these dolls are
- [Girl in Green Dress – Lenci Dolls](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/girl-in-green-dress-lenci-dolls/) - The Girl in the Green Dress is a lovely doll from the Lenci Collection. Like other dolls from Lenci she has a very detailed painted face with plenty of color to give her more character. She is adorned with green slippers and a beautiful green dress. She also has a green hat sitting on top
- [Nurse - Lenci Dolls](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/nurse-lenci-dolls/) - The Nurse Lenci Doll is a beautifully crafted and painted doll that fits all the markings of a classic toy doll of the time. The hand painted face is incredibly colorful and detailed and the cloth dress identifies it as a nurse. Like other Lenci Dolls in our collection, this one comes from Vanna Bonta
- [George and Martha Washington – Lenci Dolls](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/george-and-martha-washington-lenci-dolls/) - The George and Martha Washington dolls are a beautiful pair and great addition to DFW Elite Toy Museum. These dolls have very detailed modeling and painting that is very noticeable in the faces of both dolls. The Lenci Dolls collection has an interesting story which is why they are gladly accepted into our toy museum.
- [Italian Girl – Lenci Dolls](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/italian-girl-lenci-dolls/) - This beautiful and colorful Lenci Doll is the Italian Girl. Like all Lenci Dolls, she is made in Italy and has a very detailed painted face with plenty of color. Her dress and hair are also very bright giving this doll a life of its own. Lenci Dolls are gladly accepted into DFW Elite Toy
- [Dutch Girl – Lenci Dolls](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dutch-girl-lenci-dolls/) - This antique doll is Dutch Girl by Lenci Dolls. Coming from Italy, she is dressed in vintage clothing with a blouse, long dress and bonnet covering her braided hair. She stands at about 10” tall and has a detailed and colorfully painted face. All Lenci Dolls are intricately detailed to properly represent their nationality and
- [Flossy Fish & Baby Flossy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/flossy-fish-baby-flossy/) - Flossy Fish and Baby Flossy are colorful stuffed animal toys that are also a part of the Steiff Toys collection. These stuffed animals are extra soft because they are made with real mohair. Coming from Germany, these two stuffed toys are very colorful with dark stripes covering the white and yellow colors that cover the
- [Mungo the Monkey](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mungo-the-monkey/) - This colorful stuffed animal is Mungo the Monkey from Steiff Toys. This toy dates back to the early 60’s and sits on its four furry legs at just over a foot tall. He is made in Germany and his German name is Buntaffe Mungo. Mungo has bright blue eyes with realistic looking fur with bright
- [Vanna Bonta](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/vanna-bonta/) - Vanna Bonta Vanna Bonta is an author best known for writing Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (Meridian House 1996) which is a story about parallel dimensions with a girl who has amnesia and no navel. Vanna has very generously donated some great antique toys to our toy museum in DFW. At DFW Elite Toy Museum
- [Jeron Articles German and English 1994 "Gulliver's Travels"](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/jeron-articles-german-and-english-1994-gullivers-travels/) - here is a German article about Jeron, from 1994, the German and English translation. JeronQuarterClassics1994-german 091211 Gullivers article english translation ae101411
- [New Collections - Jeron Race Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/new-collections-jeron-race-cars/) - We recently acquired a collection of Jeron race cars, models that were one of a kind, some unfinished when the compnay went into bankruptcy. WE ARE LOOKING TO ACQUIRE OTHER JERON MODELS. Watch for these to be featured in an upcoming exhibition. Following is an article about Jeron Models, as published in 1994 in a
- [Lots of Dog Collectables](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lots-of-dog-collectables/) - we have lots of dog collectibles at dfwelitetoymuseum.com, ranging from 50's battery tin toys, to a number of cars with dogs, many animated, a tunr of the century window taper dog, and a 100 year old railroad crate for those that chose to travel with their pet. Willie likes to sleep in it, he says
- [Grand Opening Gala event](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/grand-opening-gala-event/) - We had a great time at our Grand opening here are some photos from the night. The Grand Opening for DFW Elite Toy Museum turned out to be a great success. Several visitors came to see our great collection of rare toy cars and other collectibles. The event lasted from 6pm-9pm with guests coming in and out
- [King Charles Cavalier Rescue Group](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/king-charles-cavalier-rescue-group/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rodney Ross, Curator DFW Elite Toy Museum 5940 Eden Dr Fort Worth, TX 76117 817-834-3625, ext. 232 rodneyr@rdsinvestments.com DFW Elite Toy Museum Hosts King Charles Cavalier Rescue Group Haltom City rare toy museum is Dog Friendly and Seeks Groups Looking for Canine Friendly Venue for Events September 13, 2011 –
- [Cavalier Event](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/cavalier-event/) - When we say that DFW Elite Toy Museum is a Dog Friendly Museum we mean it. We recently held an event at our antique toy car museum where visitors were encouraged to bring their King Cavalier Charles Spaniels and enjoy the collection of rare toys and collectibles. Roughly 40 people attended the event with
- [Clark, Chapman, Gurney, and a Lotus-Ford](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/clark-chapman-gurney-and-a-lotus-ford/) - We still have a couple of Greg Steinmayer’s found photos to go through (previous ones include the Ford GPA splashing down in the Detroit River, the people and monster of Ford’s factories, and the Maico 500 Sport), including this one that doesn’t immediately appear to have much to do with the others, which were all [...]
- [Ironstone Concours offers a chance to take a ride in a 1913 Stutz](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ironstone-concours-offers-a-chance-to-take-a-ride-in-a-1913-stutz/) - Courtesy of the staff at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada, attendees of the 15th annual Ironstone Concours d’Elegance will have the opportunity to get a ride in a 1913 Stutz Bearcat. It’s the first of the new activities planned for this year’s event, scheduled for September 24 and held at the Ironstone Vineyards [...]
- [Pre-war Alfa takes top honors at London concours](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pre-war-alfa-takes-top-honors-at-london-concours/) - A gorgeous coachbuilt Alfa Romeo with a notorious past has won top honors at the sixth annual Salon Privé Concours D’Elégance, held on June 24 in London. The Touring-bodied 1939 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 S Berlinetta had been bought new by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who gave it to his mistress Claretta Petacci. The 6C2300 [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Fiat Dino](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1968-fiat-dino/) - From driving an Italian coupe at full song up mountainous spine of Vermont Route 100 (or similar) instead of sitting in the office department comes this well-preserved 1968 Fiat Dino coupe. The Bertone-styled beauty is powered by the same quad-camshaft V-6 engine that went amidships into the Ferrari Dino, but mounted up front and driving [...]
- [The Quarter Horse: Ford’s stillborn bitsa Mustang](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-quarter-horse-fords-stillborn-bitsa-mustang/) - One of the most subtle set of images we ran across in the Facebook photo collection posted by the sons of Fran Hernandez in recent months depicted a pair of Ford Mustangs, circa 1970, one painted Grabber Blue, the other painted Candyapple Red, both with white interiors. No engine shots, but from the Shelby-ish front [...]
- [Kaiser’s Crown (-built Jeep)](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/kaisers-crown-built-jeep/) - A few months back, Donnelly reviewed Louk Markham’s book on Crown Coach Corporation, and we thought at least one of the images presented there was worth another look. While Crown was best known for its buses, it also pursued some prototype work through the years. One of those prototypes, the Wide-Trac built for Kaiser Industries [...]
- [Celebrate National Collector Car Appreciation Day with Hemmings](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/celebrate-national-collector-car-appreciation-day-with-hemmings/) - The second annual National Collector Car Appreciation Day is coming up soon, and Hemmings has two opportunities for you to come celebrate with us. First, if you haven’t yet seen Cars 2, save that viewing for the next Hemmings Cruise-In, scheduled to take place July 8 at Hathaway’s Drive-In Theatre in nearby North Hoosick, New [...]
- [Save these cars – Bennington, Nebraska](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/save-these-cars-bennington-nebraska/) - Nebraska seems to be a good place to find project cars as of late. First, an entire junkyard in Maxwell liquidated its inventory last month, and now we see that a collection of about 150 vehicles is going up for auction in Bennington, Nebraska, next month. According to the auction description, the collection was assembled [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Volvo PV544](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1964-volvo-pv544/) - Sometimes project cars just take up too much time and patience. You want a car that you can get into and drive, maybe even show – a car that somebody else has done all the heavy lifting on. This 1964 Volvo PV544 for sale on Hemmings.com is just such a car: restored, rebuilt and broken [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – those mighty Millers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-those-mighty-millers/) - In response to Jim Donnelly’s post last week regarding the Miller 91 going up for auction – and, possibly, in advance of the upcoming Millers at Milwaukee event – Hugo90 posted a few photos of the Miller engines on view at the Museum of American Speed in Lincoln, Nebraska, to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool. [...]
- [Honda CBX Turbo Six Reborn](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/honda-cbx-turbo-six-reborn/) - The schism regarding turbocharged motorcycles is clear. One side maintains that adding the weight and complexity of a turbocharger to a motorcycle is the worst idea ever. Others believe the combination of Eighties motorcycle technology, TURBO spelled out in sci-fi typefaces, and an unpredictable power curve is the greatest idea ever. This heretofore unseen combination [...]
- [Calling all TR2s](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/calling-all-tr2s/) - The TR2 Survivor List is searching for all remaining Triumph TR2s, whether they are original, restored or just parts cars. The TR2 was built for only three years, 1953-’55; the registry only has about 1,800 TR2s in its database, yet 8,636 TR2s were made for worldwide production. The first TR – TS1LO – has been [...]
- [Carlisle Mustering Military Rigs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/carlisle-mustering-military-rigs/) - Carlisle Events and the U.S. Army Heritage Center are issuing a call for all military vehicles to join a Mid-Atlantic Pool of Military Trucks to be displayed at the 2011 Carlisle Truck Nationals, August 5-7, at the Carlisle Fairgrounds in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Those who participate will receive a discounted admission, which includes the opportunity for [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1973-oldsmobile-custom-cruiser/) - It’s hard to look at these photos and accept the fact that this 1973 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser for sale on Hemmings.com is all original. After all, how could large station wagons like this – sold to families with kids and dogs and charcoal grills – escape from nearly 40 years of wear and tear, use [...]
- [Rocket car, Philbert, Camarito](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rocket-car-philbert-camarito/) - Since sharing several photos from his collections earlier this month, Charlie Beesley has been hard at work building a blog to showcase said photos. In among them are these three he’s shared with us, along with what he’s been able to find out about their subjects. The Leaning Tower of Niles, Illinois was built in [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1966 Shasta](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1966-shasta/) - Perusing the classifieds here at Hemmings.com is great fun, but what happens when you actually buy one or more of the vehicles you see here and your significant other makes good on the threat to make you sleep in your next Hemmings.com purchase? You turn to this 1966 Shasta travel trailer for sale on Hemmings.com. [...]
- [SIA Flashback – 1951 Tatra: Czechmate of the Year](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-1951-tatra-czechmate-of-the-year/) - Nowadays, most people who have ever wanted to see a Tatra in person have done so. But in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Iron Curtain, to see a Tatra, even in print, was a treat. Robert C. Ackerson, however, found and photographed one for SIA #...
- [Hemmings Finds of the Day – 1974 Hurst/Oldses](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-finds-of-the-day-1974-hurstoldses/) - Thought the only Hurst/Olds built in 1974 was a two-door Colonnade coupe, did you? Not the case at all, as we see from this pair of 1974 Hurst-built Oldsmobiles for sale on Hemmings.com, one a Delta 88 convertible and the other a very unique four-door Cutlass, both tied into the choice of a Hurst/Olds as [...]
- [Four-Links – Virgo, pedestrian strainer, retro ads, sidecar sailing](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-virgo-pedestrian-strainer-retro-ads-sidecar-sailing/) - * Can’t decide between a dune buggy and a sports car? Back in 1970, Beau Hickory had the ideal solution, and he called it the Virgo. Geoff Hacker at Forgotten Fiberglass has the story on the dual-purpose machine. * Use for a Ford flathead V-8, No. 45,607: Connect it to a propeller and scoot around [...]
- [Duesenberg, Pike’s Peak, Colorado](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/duesenberg-pikes-peak-colorado/) - With the 89th Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb this weekend (as well as Mount Washington’s revived Climb to the Clouds), we thought we’d go looking for some vintage photography from Pike’s Peak, and we thought the most natural place to find such photography would be in the Denver Public Library’s digital collections. However, we only [...]
- [Pinstriping, an American art form](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pinstriping-an-american-art-form/) - Josh Clason, whose VLV video we highlighted last month, has set out on a project for Hypebeast.tv called “Depth of Speed,” in which he plans to spend a year going coast to coast, videodocumenting the people that make the automotive world interesting. His first episode focused on the motorcyclists at Pangea Speed, and his second [...]
- [Briggs Cunningham’s Maserati Birdcage To Be Sold in Monterey](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/briggs-cunninghams-maserati-birdcage-to-be-sold-in-monterey/) - Mecum Auctions is a company known primarily for specializing in the sales of Corvettes and American muscle cars, but in a bid to take on the heavy hitters of the annual August Monterey Weekend, this firm has scored a coup with the consignment of a car of serious interest: the 1960 Sebring competitor, ex-Briggs Cunningham [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1948-chevrolet-fleetmaster/) - A well-done woodie is always a treat to see and will always be considered rare, both because so few were made (compared to their steel-bodied counterparts) and because so few survived the years. The accessories added to this 1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster for sale on Hemmings.com may give it a bit of an overdone look, but [...]
- [Honor, Virtue, Character, Bravery](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/honor-virtue-character-bravery/) - In the time period covered by this book, kids believed in heroes. So did lots of adults. The subjects of their adulation viewed their status in the world as a responsibility that had to be met every single day. This is the story of one such relationship between a Phoenix kid and a sensationally good [...]
- [Quick and Less Dirty Undercoating Removal](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/quick-and-less-dirty-undercoating-removal/) - The nastiest job I’ve had to tackle while reworking my Chevy pickup? Digging the old undercoating from the floorboards, the transfer case and the transmission. A lot of people go the heat-it-with-the-torch and scrape it route. I tried that initially, but the smoke and the burns (from the occasional piece of smoldering tar on the [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Lamborghini Countach 5000QV](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-lamborghini-countach-5000qv/) - When considering all the cars of a particular model year that should be short-listed to become collectible, you simply can’t disregard the exotics. After all, any exotic car should be a shoo-in for collectible status, right? In that case, let’s turn to what is perhaps the most exotic of the 1986 exotics: the 1986 Lamborghini [...]
- [Portland, Oregon, 1958](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/portland-oregon-1958/) - We’re finding vintage images all over the place nowadays. Today’s comes from the i am so retro tumblog and depicts a parking lot scene in Portland, Oregon, in 1958. We’re looking for a larger version as we speak, but at this size, you should be able to pick out the identities of most of the [...]
- [A break in the action at Castle Combe](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-break-in-the-action-at-castle-combe/) - Happen to miss the Tour Brittania parade lap at Castle Combe over the weekend? Yeah, we did too. Fortunately, the folks at Castle Combe uploaded some video of the event.
- [Vintage racing may come to Put-in-Bay as part of the Road Races Reunion](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/vintage-racing-may-come-to-put-in-bay-as-part-of-the-road-races-reunion/) - Ever since organizers of the Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion began gathering vintage race cars on the Lake Erie islands two years ago, they’ve always had it in the back of their minds to bring actual vintage racing to the site of one of America’s least-known road racing events. This year’s reunion brings them closer to [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1935 Ford](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1935-ford/) - We normally don’t select street rods for the Hemmings Find of the Day because we know that they don’t fit with many of our readers’ tastes, but here’s a thought to keep you awake at night: Are contemporary street rods the modern-day version of the coachbuilt automobile? Chip Foose himself has mentioned the connection in [...]
- [Supercharged Miller straight-eight to be sold at Millers at Milwaukee](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/supercharged-miller-straight-eight-to-be-sold-at-millers-at-milwaukee/) - Perhaps it’s a little premature to call it “priceless,” because you can rest assured that by the end of the day on Saturday, July 9, somebody will have cut a weighty check for this piece of American racing history. It’s a perfectly authentic 91-cu.in. supercharged Miller straight-eight engine, from the collection of the late David [...]
- [New wheelhouses for Pro Touring Mustangs and Cougars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/new-wheelhouses-for-pro-touring-mustangs-and-cougars/) - Since its release to the public in 1964, the Mustang has become the subject of more than one modification, whether it was supported by the folks in Ford’s front office or performed by the enthusiast who knew there was more performance potential under the unit-body skin. Pro Touring, while not new, is certainly one of [...]
- [Part car, part boat, all washed up: the 1907 Ravaillier](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/part-car-part-boat-all-washed-up-the-1907-ravaillier/) - What’s maddening about this photo of an amphibious automobile from the George Grantham Bain collection in the Library of Congress archives isn’t that it’s presented in the archives without context – we can easily find out the who, what, when – it’s that, despite all of our research, we still don’t know precisely why this [...]
- [Consumerism at work](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/consumerism-at-work/) - Over on the excellent Vintage shots from days gone by thread on the H.A.M.B., jalopy junkie recently posted this vivid photo of the grand opening of a place called Shoppers World. He didn’t provide any context, however, so we’re left only with what we see in the image itself to determine when and where the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1954 Kaiser Darrin](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1954-kaiser-darrin/) - In our best recollections, we’ve never seen a modified Kaiser Darrin, and we’re pretty sure we’ve never seen an abused and neglected Kaiser Darrin. For anybody looking to purchase one, then, you’re more likely than not to find one that won’t need much work to become presentable at shows. However, you’re not as likely to [...]
- [A definitive look at Buicks in a sunburnt country](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-definitive-look-at-buicks-in-a-sunburnt-country/) - Plenty of automobile books are published every year, but it’s too bad 90 percent of them are nothing more than a rehash of the same old muscle car, Ferrari or Porsche content. There are other automotive subjects to write about, as proven by this worthwhile book about Australian-built Buicks. This book takes an in-depth look [...]
- [Pontiac-Oakland Moving Day](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pontiac-oakland-moving-day/) - I mentioned just after the New Year that Tim Dye‘s long-awaited Pontiac-Oakland Museum and Resource Center (POMARC) had been approved and was going ahead; last month he started packing up a small fleet of tractor-trailers with materials (and cars) for the long drive from Oklahoma to Pontiac, Illinois (on Route 66; Pontiac, Michigan, was not [...]
- [Fran Hernandez, Mercury’s Comet Caliente and the 1964 East African Safari Rally](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/fran-hernandez-mercurys-comet-caliente-and-the-1964-east-african-safari-rally/) - In the world of rally racing, the East African Safary Rally has long been considered one of the most brutal events. Conceived in early 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (and thus its original name, the Coronation Rally), it took cars through three countries – Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania – in a [...]
- [Hill Climbs: They’re Not Just For Imports Anymore!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hill-climbs-theyre-not-just-for-imports-anymore/) - If you’ve attended a vintage hill climb event just once in your life, then you’ll know that, by and large, the registered starting field is dominated by machines from across the pond. Allard, Lotus, Porsche, Alfa, MG and Triumph are the meat and potatoes, as well as the dessert. But every now and then somebody [...]
- [Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion Celebrates 50 Years of E-types](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rolex-monterey-motorsports-reunion-celebrates-50-years-of-e-types/) - The annual August Monterey Classic Car Week, which centers around the festivities at Pebble Beach, is made up of many elements, and one of the most fun for performance car enthusiasts is the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, being held this year August 19-21. The celebrations of the Jaguar E-type’s [...]
- [Great Race finale fun facts](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/great-race-finale-fun-facts/) - Although we already covered the Great Race finish yesterday (and will have more coverage in the pages of Hemmings Motor News), I’ll add a few other interesting points about the Great Race winners. Winners Howard and Doug Sharp have been trying to win for 20 years, and have been entering the Race with the 1911 [...]
- [Art of the Car Concours, a Midwestern gem](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/art-of-the-car-concours-a-midwestern-gem/) - More than 180 vintage cars, trucks and motorcycles will converge on the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute this Sunday, June 26, for the fifth annual Art of the Car Concours, an event that draws exceptional vehicles from collectors in eight Midwestern states. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Marshall [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Mercury Comet S-22](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1962-mercury-comet-s-22/) - Most times when somebody modifies an older car, they go all the way – drivetrain, suspension, interior, body, the works. It appears that the owner of this 1962 Mercury Comet S-22 for sale on Hemmings.com decided it needed a V-8 (Comets weren’t available with a V-8 in 1962) and corresponding improved brakes, but then decided [...]
- [Corky’s Marmon Wasp replica buzzes Bennington](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/corkys-marmon-wasp-replica-buzzes-bennington/) - We mentioned a few weeks ago that Corky Coker’s team of restorers and wrenches were putting the finishing touches on Coker’s replica of the 1911 Indy-winning Marmon Wasp in advance of the centennial celebrations at the Indy 500. It hasn’t had much time to gather dust since then, as Coker has pressed it into publicity [...]
- [Jack’s 12 Gauge Garage](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/jacks-12-gauge-garage/) - We know from experience that having an ill-organized, filthy, messy garage does not lend itself well to productivity. Having a place for everything, adequate lighting and elbow room makes for a much more pleasant wrenching experience. Thus, Jack Olsen, based out of Los Angeles, must really enjoy working on his 1972 Porsche 911. He recently [...]
- [Ames releases reproduction hoods for late second-gen Firebirds and Trans Ams](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ames-releases-reproduction-hoods-for-late-second-gen-firebirds-and-trans-ams/) - It’s news that Pontiac F-body fans and restorers have been waiting for: Reproduction hoods are now available for the 1977 – ’81 Firebird and Trans Am. Recently released by Ames Performance Engineering, there are two variations available. They are made of steel and arrive painted black. Part number FD109D (costing $409) is the solid flat [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Lamborghini Espada](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1972-lamborghini-espada/) - You require an automobile with more than one NACA duct. You demand exactly four seats. A mere eight or 10 cylinders are for squares. Your car must have 12 cylinders, four camshafts, and six Weber carburetors. Above all, your car must be a Lamborghini. Your car is a 1972 Lamborghini Espada – designed by Marcello [...]
- [Can’t have it: Bonhams Australian Celica hotness](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/cant-have-it-bonhams-australian-celica-hotness/) - Officially it was the Toyota Celica ST185R GT4 Carlos Sainz Group A Rallye, but to those who love them, they’re simply the GT-Four. On the outside, you might think it’s just a Celica with some flares and arches, but the goodness is bone deep. These are true GTs, the limited production homologation specials that allowed [...]
- [100-year-old Velie wins the 2011 Great Race](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/100-year-old-velie-wins-the-2011-great-race/) - Congratulations go this morning to Doug and Howard Sharp, the father-and-son team from Fairport, New York, who won this year’s Great Race on Friday in their 1911 Velie H1 Racetype. While longtime competitors in the Great Race and in other vintage car rallies, this year’s event proved far from smooth sailing for the team, as [...]
- [Edison, West Orange, 1902](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/edison-west-orange-1902/) - This image has been floating around the offices here at Hemmings for so long, we’re not sure who sent it to us or when. What we do know, besides the date of the photo, is that it depicts Thomas Edison (and presumably his wife Mina) within Edison’s compound in West Orange, New Jersey (now a [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Chevrolet Impala](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1959-chevrolet-impala/) - Collector and classic cars do a good job of hoovering every last cent out of our pockets. This we know, and we accept it. However, there’s nothing saying you can’t make a few bucks on the side with your old car, and we like the approach taken by the owner of this 1959 Chevrolet Impala [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Foreign Intrigue: Driving the Oldest Auto Event in the World](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-foreign-intrigue-driving-the-oldest-auto-event-in-the-world/) - The London-to-Brighton Veteran Car Run is one of the world’s most renowned collector car events, so you knew it was only a matter of time until SIA made it across the pond to witness the spectacle. In fact, not only did David Brownell cover the run for SIA #98, April 1987, he also convinced Lord [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Chevrolet El Camino](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1959-chevrolet-el-camino/) - If you’re new to the hobby and don’t get why black-plate Californian cars are such a big deal, then take a gander at this 1959 Chevrolet El Camino for sale on Hemmings.com. Sure, it might have a couple spots of rust, but that’s on a non-undercoated car that’s lasted more than half a century on [...]
- [Four-Links – Rip van Winkle Studebaker, NHTSA holding on to airbag Impala, Ford’s factories, Northwest microcar show](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-rip-van-winkle-studebaker-nhtsa-holding-on-to-airbag-impala-fords-factories-northwest-microcar-show/) - * Todd Lappin, writing at Bernalwood, posted some pics this week of a 1939 Studebaker rolling out of the garage it’s inhabited for the last 45 years. * According to WSBTV.com, the NHTSA (“using YOUR tax dollars!”) owns and maintains the last of the 1973 Chevrolet Impalas fitted with airbags, ostensibly the first American passenger [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – CMPs at Camp Borden](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-cmps-at-camp-borden/) - Via the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, we’ve been talking with Bowen Stead, who’s been posting photos under the aliases Rednewport and Flat-Black 66. A few months back, he posted these CMP shots taken by his father, Carey Stead, while with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps at Camp Bowden, Ontario. Carey’s story behind these photos, [...]
- [A Hobbs-ian choice: David Hobbs to host Motorsports Hall of Fame induction ceremony](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-hobbs-ian-choice-david-hobbs-to-host-motorsports-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony/) - David Hobbs One of the things that’s really cool about racing is that it believes in its halls of fame, which by extension means that it really honors those who built its past. One of the longer-established institutions is the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, originally based in Novi, Michigan (for which the legendary [...]
- [Driveable Dream Winner](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/driveable-dream-winner/) - Every year we give out a free subscription to Hemmings Classic Car magazine to the winner of the Driveable Dream award that is given out at the AACA Gettysburg Region‘s Antique & Classic Auto & Truck Show. Now in its 36th year, the event was held June 11 and attracted 241 significant collector cars and [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1938 Indian](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1938-indian/) - When the first shots of the upcoming Captain America movie were released, everybody seemed displeased that a modern V-twin was dolled up as a World War II-era motorcycle. Now, if the producers had intended to go 100 percent authentic, they couldn’t have done much better than to have used this 1938 Indian for sale on [...]
- [Great Race Update, day 6](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/great-race-update-day-6/) - Photo by Joe Grippo, one of many excellent shots from the Hershey stop. We left Binghamton early Thursday morning for an early lunch stop at Cooperstown. The roads were challenging, and the sun brought temperatures that reminded us of the first few days of the Great Race in Chattanooga. The racers were greeted by a [...]
- [Welly’s new three-inch Toyota Camry represents America’s best-selling car in small-scale](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/wellys-new-three-inch-toyota-camry-represents-americas-best-selling-car-in-small-scale/) - In small-scale (3-inch) car-collector circles, among those who refuse allegiance to a single die-cast brand and enjoy all three-inch die-cast cars regardless of maker, there is a slow but steady undercurrent among the conversation: Can’t we have a plain ol’ sedan? Do we need another VW New Beetle (at least 15 done, in coupe and [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Lincoln Mark VII LSC](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-lincoln-mark-vii-lsc/) - Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com First off, thanks to all of you who provided suggestions in last week’s Class of 1986 update post. We didn’t leave out your favorites on purpose – after all, we have the entire second half of the year to continue to examine the noteworthy cars and trucks from 1986. One theme we [...]
- [Burnout? Check. Launch? Check. Steering? Uh… steering?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/burnout-check-launch-check-steering-uh-steering/) - Looks to be the six-second Highbucks IV BB/Fuel Coupe with driver Russ Parker. Holy guacamole. (via)
- [Sidewalk sale: Crosleys multiply in Rochester](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sidewalk-sale-crosleys-multiply-in-rochester/) - Over at The Old Motor this week, David Greenlees posted this shot, taken from a postcard, of Mack Motors, a Crosley dealership in Rochester, New York. These all seem to be 1948-1/2 model year Crosleys, the last of the postwar CCs, as identified by the bullnose and the additional grille bars, so presuming that the [...]
- [Bathurst-winning Citroën Traction Avant to cross the auction block](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bathurst-winning-citroen-traction-avant-to-cross-the-auction-block/) - You’re among exclusive company if you associate “Citroën Traction Avant” and “Bathurst,” but Shannon’s is giving the rest of us a reason to rethink our positions. Coming up at their 15th annual Australian International Motor Show Auction on July 10 will be a 1950 Citroën Big 6 Saloon, a rare three-liter, six-cylinder iteration of the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Quagmire!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-quagmire/) - In the world of off-roading trucks, the 1979 Chevrolet K30 dubbed Quagmire is a legend, if not an icon. While many modified vehicles – trucks and cars alike – are usually built from aftermarket parts bins or to copy ephemeral trends, Quagmire was engineered and built to a purpose, and we like the philosophy expressed [...]
- [Great Race update, Day 5](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/great-race-update-day-5/) - Dave Reeder and Sawyer Stone pull into lunch in Hazelton in their 1932 Ford Three-Window Coupe. The former Great race champions are currently in second place in the Grand Champion division and 9th overall. Roads are getting bumpier and the competition is getting tighter as we approach Friday’s Grand Finale in Bennington. Teams left Hershey, [...]
- [Rivieras Rolling into Branson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rivieras-rolling-into-branson/) - Beginning on Monday, Branson, Missouri, will become the center of operation for the Riviera Owners Association’s annual International Meet, which culminates with a peer-judged car show on Thursday at the Lodge of the Ozarks. The ROA has plenty of group and self-driving activities lined up, providing ample opportunities for spectators to absorb Rivieras from virtually [...]
- [Road trip of a lifetime: Across the country via Dodge, 1925-1926](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/road-trip-of-a-lifetime-across-the-country-via-dodge-1925-1926/) - Hemmings Classic Car reader Peter Betz saw the writeup on the Stewart-based motorhome in a recent HCC Lost and Found and shared with us the following story of a family from Johnstown, New York, their one-and-a-half-ton Dodge truck and the trip of a lifetime. Peter wrote: During the fall of 1924, George Chamberlain and his [...]
- [“Bellflower” to hit theaters in August](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bellflower-to-hit-theaters-in-august/) - We mentioned Evan Glodell’s film “Bellflower” earlier this year, when Medusa – the flat-black, fire-spewing, supercharged 1972 Buick Skylark at the heart of the film – appeared at the New York International Auto Show, and now the producers of the film have not only released the trailer, but also announced that the film will open [...]
- [Mystery Ford duallie](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mystery-ford-duallie/) - Michael Messmore, who lives in southwestern Washington State, spotted our recent story in Hemmings Motor News about a gorgeous Indiana-based 1951 Ford F-3 pickup that we shot for our 2012 Vintage Pickups calendar. An F-3 was Ford’s higher-capacity pickup, with a maximum gross weight of 6,800 pounds and an eight-foot bed. Michael’s not exactly sure [...]
- [Hemmings seeking Chrysler wing cars for New England Concours](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-seeking-chrysler-wing-cars-for-new-england-concours/) - When human emotion and the drive to win are drawn out in the movers and shakers of Detroit, very special automobiles often result. Seldom are these creations long-lived, often succumbing to the realities of big-business economics before very many are produced, which only lends an element of exclusivity to the already exotic nature of race-bred [...]
- [Great Race update, Day 4](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/great-race-update-day-4/) - Photo courtesy Nancy Gates, AACA Museum As the Great Race winds closer to Friday’s finale in Bennington, the temperatures are cooling, but not the competition. The expert team of Jody Knowles and Beth Gentry continue to respond to the pressure of the other teams by posting another stellar day. Their total for Day 4 was [...]
- [British car show invades the Berkshire hills](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/british-car-show-invades-the-berkshire-hills/) - Tanglewood is best known as the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the rustic former estate in the Berkshire hills where music-lovers have been gathering to hear classical music since 1936. This year, it will be the venue for a new show: the Tanglewood British Motorcar Festival, scheduled for June 17-19 – that’s this [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1977 Lancia Scorpion](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1977-lancia-scorpion/) - When we first laid eyes upon this 1977 Lancia Scorpion, co-workers had to hold us down to prevent a mad run in the company van toward Rhode Island. The car was known as the Beta Montecarlo in Italy, but since Chevrolet already had a Monte Carlo car, the Montecarlo was christened Scorpion stateside. The name [...]
- [Keep in touch with Hemmings and the collector car hobby](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/keep-in-touch-with-hemmings-and-the-collector-car-hobby/) - We’ve had quite the influx of new readers here on the blog over the last few days, so now would be a good time to remind everybody of all the electronic means of keeping in touch with the collector car hobby through Hemmings. First, the Hemmings Daily email newsletter comes at you every morning for [...]
- [Celebrating the multitalented ‘Mog](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/celebrating-the-multitalented-mog/) - To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the hugely successful Unimog, Mercedes-Benz has not only shown a concept truck that’s garnered plenty of headlines, but they’ve also released a small batch of Unimog photos from the company’s archives. Recall that Unimog is a contraction of the truck’s full name, Universal Motor Gerät, and the photos do [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr Pool – a trip in a Bombardier](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-a-trip-in-a-bombardier/) - With all the heat waves cascading over the country, a Bombardier B12 trip to the snow fields of Jasper, Alberta, such as the one illustrated on our Hemmings Nation Flickr pool by member Flat-Black 66, would be welcome to many of our readers right about now. Looks like fun, even if you get stuck in [...]
- [Help us improve Hemmings.com](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/help-us-improve-hemmings-com/) - If you’ve visited Hemmings.com over the last few days, you may have noticed that we’ve spiffed it up a little bit with a new look. This minor redesign, however, is just phase one in a broader plan to improve Hemmings.com, and for phase two we could use your help. We are currently conducting an online [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1949 De Soto Custom](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1949-de-soto-custom/) - We keep saying that original cars are one of the hottest trends in the hobby right now, and that’s because we keep coming across cars that illustrate that point. Take, for instance, this 1949 De Soto Custom convertible for sale on Hemmings.com, one of 3,385 built that year, which recently emerged from a Rip Van [...]
- [Competition runs tight through the first half of the Great Race](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/competition-runs-tight-through-the-first-half-of-the-great-race/) - (Editor’s Note: Our team following the Great Race has had internet connectivity issues on the road the last few days, but we just received this batch of updates from the weekend.) Friday – pre-race day Sixty cars began the Hemmings 2011 Great Race from the headquarters of Coker Tire in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Friday’s pre-race activities [...]
- [Dragmaster Charger match racer to cross the block in Auburn](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dragmaster-charger-match-racer-to-cross-the-block-in-auburn/) - One of the three original Dodge Chargers – a cool artifact of drag racing yesteryear – will be auctioned off Labor Day weekend at Worldwide Auctioneers’ Auburn sale. The car is said to be the only remaining example of the three-car match race team built by Dragmaster and fielded by Chrysler in the early months [...]
- [Project HMX – better bracket brouhaha](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/project-hmx-better-bracket-brouhaha/) - One thing that’s bothered me ever since I first built the stroker 4.6L engine for Project HMX was the serpentine belt routing. Recall that I got the engine out of a 1993 Jeep Cherokee and that I’ve decided to forgo air conditioning, along with any sort of mechanical fan. I’ve also installed a 1999-up Grand [...]
- [“That’s the world we live in. That’s the world of the motorcar.”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/thats-the-world-we-live-in-thats-the-world-of-the-motorcar/) - In my humble opinion, any university course on the impact of the automobile on modern culture must include a screening of Peter Weir’s first full-length feature film, “The Cars That Ate Paris,” also known as “The Cars That Eat ...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1952 Cisitalia 202](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1952-cisitalia-202/) - With just 170 examples built (I’m sure somebody knows the reason why the chassis number is higher than that production figure), it’s not everyday one sees a Cisitalia 202, a car that featured a Pinin Farina design so revolutionary, the Museum of Modern Art hailed it as “one of the most accomplished examples of coachwork [...]
- [Petersen Museum goes to extremes with concurrent supercar and scooter displays](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/petersen-museum-goes-to-extremes-with-concurrent-supercar-and-scooter-displays/) - The Petersen Museum in Los Angeles will open a brand-new display of vintage scooters next Saturday, proving that you don’t need a big machine to make a big splash. It will be running concurrently with the supercar collection at the Petersen that opened in March; however, the scooter exhibit is slated to remain until on [...]
- [Britons Broadside the Brickyard](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/britons-broadside-the-brickyard/) - The Indianapolis 500 is the ultimate American race gathering and social blowout, always has been, but the English have had a major presence in its running almost from the start. I initially reported here that the first Brit in the race was Italian-born Dario Resta, who won in 1916 after making an initial appearance the [...]
- [Greyhound’s GMCs in Chicago](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/greyhounds-gmcs-in-chicago/) - A recent perusing of the ATHS Forums’ popular What Am I section turned up the above shot of one of 60 so-called “trailer coaches” that Greyhound fielded for the 1933-1934 Chicago Century of Progress World’s Fair, courtesy the New York Public Library’s collection. We immediately thought of searching through the University of Illinois’s photo archives, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Peterbilt](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1967-peterbilt/) - We think it’s safe to assume that most people will balk at buying a collector vehicle that costs as much as their house. But what if that vehicle can double as your house? That raises the problem of what do do with your other collector vehicles (because we all know we can’t have just one). [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Outside Pebble Beach 1986](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-outside-pebble-beach-1986/) - While we certainly appreciate the stately and elegant Classics and classics that Alex Meredith photographed for his article discussing the sights outside the gates of the 1986 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance for SIA #97, February 1987, you know we really chose to highlight this article for that Frankenstein’d wheeled blimp that led the article. Unfortunately, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1942 GMC CCKW](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1942-gmc-cckw/) - We haven’t gone shopping for World War II-era military vehicles lately, but it seems to us that this 1942 GMC CCKW for sale on Hemmings.com seems to be priced particularly reasonable, especially considering it comes with a matching Checker-built trailer. Perfect for a camping trek far far away from any roads. From the seller’s description: [...]
- [Four-Links – Piranha found, Windy’s shop saved, Heartland Nats, Apollo GT](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-piranha-found-windys-shop-saved-heartland-nats-apollo-gt/) - * Fans of “Man From U.N.C.L.E.” will no doubt recall the Piranha, a car that Gene Winfield built for the show. It appears that the exact car from filming has now turned up and is headed for a restoration. UPDATE (13.June 2011): Geoff Hacker’s Forgotten Fiberglass has more on the Piranha. * Speaking of Gene [...]
- [Hermosa Beach, California, 1966](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hermosa-beach-california-1966/) - We’ll revisit the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Flickr stream – the same one on which we found the pictures of the Lear-built steam-powered buses – one more time this week for a Technicolor street scene, snapped April 1966 in Hermosa Beach, California. The LACMTA would like us to focus on the bus, but [...]
- [Kyosho’s latest run of 3-inch Ferraris has sold out before they even hit the streets](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/kyoshos-latest-run-of-3-inch-ferraris-has-sold-out-before-they-even-hit-the-streets/) - By now, you’re likely aware of Kyosho’s gorgeous 3-inch Ferrari models: picture-perfect representations of Cavallino Rampante favorites sold in “model kit” form – fully painted but unassembled die-cast cars that take about 30 seconds to put together. (Screws and the cutest little screwdriver you’ve ever seen are included.) Their Ferrari Series 8 models are here [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Dragster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1963-dragster/) - Conventional drag racing wisdom has the East Coast home to the stockers and super stockers, with the West Coast as the natural habitat of nitro-huffing rail dragsters. Exceptions abound to convention, including this Connecticut-based 1963 dragster chassis for sale on Hemmings.com. The tubing comes complete with wheels, body panels, and a name – the Flower [...]
- [Toly’s still alive and kicking, literally](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tolys-still-alive-and-kicking-literally/) - Back during the winter, we brought you the sad news that sports car personality and raconteur extraordinaire Toly Arutunoff had been terribly injured when he was helping the driver of a disabled car while en route to an SCCA convention in a blizzard. The crash forced partial amputation of his leg. We checked in with [...]
- [Class of ’86 – the list so far](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-the-list-so-far/) - We’re right about at the halfway point through the year, which means that it’s a good time to take a look back at the selections we’ve made for the Class of 1986 so far. These are all model year 1986 vehicles that we thought interesting, significant or otherwise desirable enough to possibly become collector cars [...]
- [From the My Hemmings pages – growing up in a Dodge Charger Daytona](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-my-hemmings-pages-growing-up-in-a-dodge-charger-daytona/) - Most children of the 1960s and 1970s fondly recall growing up in some sort of station wagon or maybe a four-door sedan. Not so with My Hemmings user RamAirThree, who grew up in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in the back seat of a 1969 Dodge Daytona. As he tells the story: This is the first car I [...]
- [Hail to the Badman](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hail-to-the-badman/) - Seeing Dick Pelkey’s high-riding 1955 Chevrolet gasser at Musclepalooza on Memorial Day weekend conjured sepia-toned memories of the Badman model kit. As a kid, I thought the Badman would be the perfect automobile for all-around daily use: big-block Chevy, open headers, straight front axle, and “Adios Mother” painted across the trunk lid – a phrase [...]
- [Driveable Dream Daytona](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/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 [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Nash Ambassador](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/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 [...]
- [Terraplane’s Ruggedness Run revisited](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/terraplanes-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) [...]
- [The Russians: masters of off-road WTFery](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-russians-masters-of-off-road-wtfery/) - And you would have to be with terrain that acts like a waterbed. YouTube seems chock full of videos like this, featuring all sorts of insane swamp buggies. From the sounds of things, they could be diesel-powered hydrostatic drive. And then there&#82...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Ghia 450SS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1967-ghia-450ss/) - One of the things I miss about living on the Oakland-Emeryville border was proximity to Fantasy Junction. The proprietors were kind enough to let me wander in and marvel at a John Player Special, or become transfixed on a safety wire running through the head of a bolt on a Bugatti Type 35. Now you [...]
- [Six-mile 1979 10th Anniversary Trans Am to be auctioned](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/six-mile-1979-10th-anniversary-trans-am-to-be-auctioned/) - When we heard the chatter over a never-titled 10th Anniversary Trans Am with 6.7 miles, we immediately suspected it might be a car that had stayed with the dealership that received it when new. Turns out, that’s just what happened to this ’79 T/A, according to the preview information for the Beckort Auctions sale of [...]
- [Great Race countdown: Race is now less than a week away.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/great-race-countdown-race-is-now-less-than-a-week-away/) - I will be on the road covering the 2011 Hemmings Motor News Great Race from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Bennington, Vermont, from June 11-17, with daily updates posted here on the Hemmings Blog. I will also be acting as half of our support crew for Publisher/driver Jim Menneto and his navigator Mari Parizo as they compete [...]
- [More invisible vehicles appear](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-invisible-vehicles-appear/) - After yesterday’s post on the see-through Pontiac going up for auction, we received the above photo from our friend Bob Cunningham showing a 1950 Chevrolet delivery truck bodied (mostly) in Plexiglas to show off its cargo capacity for the attendees of the 1950 Chicago auto show. Surprisingly, Bob doesn’t have the truck’s entire life story, [...]
- [The first American automobile race?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-first-american-automobile-race/) - While we’re on the topic of steam-powered vehicles today, let’s take a look at a recent post over at The Old Motor, in which David Greenlees dug up some information on a 200-mile race through Wisconsin – from Green Bay to Madison – between a pair of steam buggies that took place in 1878. As [...]
- [A Word About Miracle Mileage Improvers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-word-about-miracle-mileage-improvers/) - Whenever fuel prices rise, our inboxes get topped off with press releases breathlessly claiming gains in miles per gallon simply by strapping something to a car’s fuel line, injecting air or water into the engine, splitting hydrogen out of water to use as fuel, or pouring a bottle of additive into your fuel tank. Instant [...]
- [“Miller’s Time” acquires big-time kudos](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/millers-time-acquires-big-time-kudos/) - In the interest of full disclosure to the Hemmings Nation, I co-wrote this book, did a lot of organization of the text and so forth. But it’s the story of Don Miller, the longtime Hemmings reader and hugely influential racing partner to Roger Penske, that makes “Miller’s Time” a remarkable tale: So much so that [...]
- [The Tin Indian that wasn’t: RM to offer see-through Pontiac](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-tin-indian-that-wasnt-rm-to-offer-see-through-pontiac/) - Photos courtesy RM Auctions Who knew Wonder Woman drove a Poncho? For its upcoming auction at St. John’s in Plymouth, Michigan, held in late July in conjunction with the Concours d’Elegance of America (formerly the Meadowbrook Concours), RM Auctions will offer a most unusual Pontiac – the transparent display car that GM built for the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Lister-Chevrolet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1958-lister-chevrolet/) - Investment or driver? The constantly debated question becomes kind of a moot point with race cars – after all, they were built to be driven, and to be driven hard. They went through constant changes – updates and repairs alike – so that there often is no one absolutely correct configuration. And who cares about [...]
- [Gettin’ steamed on the bus](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gettin-steamed-on-the-bus/) - In the year-plus since we discovered the photos of the first-ever Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development, we’ve teased out more information on a couple of the attending vehicles: the McKee-built Sundancer and the GM 512-series micros. Next up, the Lear-built steam bus. While we only see evidence of one Lear steam bus, a [...]
- [“Why, in the burg I came from, I had the juiciest bug of any rodder!”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/why-in-the-burg-i-came-from-i-had-the-juiciest-bug-of-any-rodder/) - You know, for an educational film that probably would have been shown in driver’s ed classes in the 1950s, “The Cool Hot Rod” certainly does seem to have been produced with plenty of input from actual hot rodders. Of course, it’s a Sid Davis film, so the moralizing is expected, but there’s plenty of eye [...]
- [Cruise nights at Chrysler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/cruise-nights-at-chrysler/) - You don’t need to drive a Mopar to attend the cruise-ins at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum this summer. This fantastic venue is opening its doors on six different nights for car lovers to cruise in and hang out. The fun runs from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays, rain or shine, and there will be [...]
- [Hornet AMXs to reunite in Kenosha](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hornet-amxs-to-reunite-in-kenosha/) - It’s not much of a stretch to say that 2011 will be the year the 1977 AMC Hornet AMX gets the most notice since the car was new. First, a feature article on the Hornet AMX will appear in the July 2011 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines (using photos from the exact same photo shoot [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1987 Buick GNX](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1987-buick-gnx/) - Many GNXs immediately went into cold storage after purchase, so it’s not unusual to find an extremely clean example with very low miles such as this 1987 Buick GNX for sale on Hemmings.com. That is, of course, when a GNX comes up for sale, which isn’t all that often. Perhaps everybody who owns one is [...]
- [Liborio Rivas, the Milton O. Reeves of New Mexico](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/liborio-rivas-the-milton-o-reeves-of-new-mexico/) - In our research for the photo of the eight-wheeled bus and stakebed that David Greenlees brought up last week, we ran across another eight-wheeler we know almost nothing about. What we do know is that Liborio E. Rivas of Santa Rita, New Mexico, dreamed up his eight-wheeled automobile in the early 1920s and patented it [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Packard Cavalier](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1953-packard-cavalier/) - While yesterday’s Valiant four-door can be regarded as a simple old car, this 1953 Packard Cavalier, also a four-door, merits consideration as something above and beyond – a true classic, if you will. From the seller’s description: 1953 Packard Cavalier 4-door sedan. It has the 327 cubic inch straight 8 motor, with an automatic transmission. [...]
- [SIA Flashback – 1960 Pontiac X-400: Show Car Built to Go!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-1960-pontiac-x-400-show-car-built-to-go/) - If the Pontiac X-400 looks a bit familiar to those of you who subscribe to Hemmings Classic Car, that’s because it appeared in those pages a few years ago – in HCC #34, July 2007, to be precise. Yet it appeared earlier in the pages of Special Interest Autos – in SIA #97, February 1987 [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1971 Plymouth Valiant](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1971-plymouth-valiant/) - Most of the collector car world is focused on old cars that have some additional element to them – some degree of collectibility or flash or exoticness or muscle. Aside from our Driveable Dream features, not very often do we consider old cars that are simply old cars without those elements, nor do we consider [...]
- [Four-Links – Packard out of vault, Hillman Hustler, submarine bus fleet, Ron Washington’s Cadillac](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-packard-out-of-vault-hillman-hustler-submarine-bus-fleet-ron-washingtons-cadillac/) - * Reader Larry Stookey sent us this story from the Toledo Blade last month regarding Jerry Brummett and the 1940 Packard Super Eight formal sedan he bought in the early 1960s. What makes the story remarkable is that Brummett got the Packard running, used it to haul around his motorcycles for a couple years, then [...]
- [Don Knotts, Dodge van pitchman](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/don-knotts-dodge-van-pitchman/) - While looking around for a Dodge pickup TV commercial to go along with this morning’s Class of ’86 selection, we came across the above TV commercial for the 1971 Dodge Tradesman “Strongbox” cargo van featuring Don Knotts. Quality isn’t great, so we dug a little further and came up with the below spot for the [...]
- [Gerry Durnell, 1942-2011](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gerry-durnell-1942-2011/) - The collector-car hobby lost another significant supporter when, on May 23, Gerry Durnell lost his courageous battle with cancer. Gerry was the owner and publisher of Automobile Quarterly, and Pizza Today magazine. He was also a great American – Gerry was a U.S. Army captain, who flew more than 180 reconnaissance missions during the Vietnam [...]
- [Majorette’s Mitsubishi-based SUV trio get more than a nose-job in small-scale](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/majorettes-mitsubishi-based-suv-trio-get-more-than-a-nose-job-in-small-scale/) - In the States, the Mitsubishi Outlander is one of a zillion SUVs out there on the roads – not one you see a whole lot of these days, granted, but it’s out there, nonetheless. Less known here is that in France, a pair of badge-engineered Outlanders live in Peugeot and Citroen dealerships across that country: [...]
- [Hemmings Finds of the Day – Dodge Li’l Red Express collection](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-finds-of-the-day-dodge-lil-red-express-collection/) - We tend to call ourselves classic car collectors, even though perhaps the vast majority of us only have one or two old cars in our garages. One or two old cars doesn’t constitute a collection. Half a dozen examples of the same model, on the other hand, does constitute a collection, and one collector’s divesting [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Dodge Ram and Ramcharger](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-dodge-ram-and-ramcharger/) - Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com Part of the fun of our Class of 1986 series has been identifying the new-for-1986 vehicles now considered classics, based on the rolling 25-year guideline – or, alternately, the vehicles with production runs ending that year. Doing so pulls into perfect clarity just how a quarter-century can distort our sense of time, [...]
- [Is Eight Enough?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/is-eight-enough/) - David Greenlees over at The Old Motor recently posted this photo of a pair of eight-wheeled trucks – one apparently a school bus, the other a stakeside – and wondered aloud who built them and why. I think we have an answer. When David mentioned that the photo was possibly taken in San Francisco, I [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 AMC Gremlin](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1973-amc-gremlin/) - From hanging around AMC nuts for a few years, we’ve noticed that Gremlin owners really like themes as a way to make their cars stand out from the crowd – as if it took anything more than simply being a Gremlin to stand out from the crowd. We’re guessing, based on the presence of a [...]
- [Two new engine oils bring relief to collector car owners](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/two-new-engine-oils-bring-relief-to-collector-car-owners/) - Over the last few years, the dwindling amounts of ZDDP in off-the-shelf engine oils have sent many collector-car enthusiasts scrambling for alternatives that include enough zinc to keep their engines with flat-tappet camshafts running. Diesel oil worked for a while, and we even heard some accounts of guys crushing up tablets of raw zinc to [...]
- [Dual-quad De Soto on Tulsa turf](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dual-quad-de-soto-on-tulsa-turf/) - Is it just us, or are wildly good restorations of De Sotos from the 1950s coming into serious vogue? We just saw a whole bunch of them at the Mecum Auction in Indianapolis, and now, here’s this shocker that’s been consigned to Leake’s forthcoming sale in Tulsa, Oklahoma, set for June 10-12. Specifically, it’s a [...]
- [Pace car pandemonium, 1971](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pace-car-pandemonium-1971/) - While the 100th anniversary Indy 500 is come and gone, it’s never too late for an Indy-related photo. We recently came across this press photo snapped by Chicago Today photographer Frank Hanes of the most infamous Indy 500 pace car, the Dodge Challenger used in 1971, at the moment it crashed into the photographers’ stand [...]
- [In for the long haul: Automotive companies the same then as now](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/in-for-the-long-haul-automotive-companies-the-same-then-as-now/) - For Hemmings Motor News I’m writing up a little piece on the Veeder Hub-Odometer, those devices you see on heavy truck wheel hubs that measure mileage. It turned out that Veeder originally started making them for bicycles in 1895, introduced a car line in 1901 and still makes them today, 110 years later. That surely [...]
- [Import Carlisle 2011, a Hemmings Perspective](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/import-carlisle-2011-a-hemmings-perspective/) - Another year has come and gone for the Northeast’s largest multi-marque import specialty show, the Carlisle Import and Kit Nationals, which were held from Friday, May 20 through Sunday the 22nd. The featured country for 2011 was France, so there was an excellent turn-out of French delicacies, both on the show field and in Building [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Continental Mark III](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1969-continental-mark-iii/) - Some cars simply benefit from a different perspective. Take, for instance, this 1969 Continental Mark III for sale on Hemmings.com. Most times, you only see these cars from the front or rear, making them look staid and ponderous, like Brutalist concrete edifices. The seller of this Mark III wisely chose to lead the ad with [...]
- [Time to get your British car on the road](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/time-to-get-your-british-car-on-the-road/) - British cars, forgotten? Don’t think it couldn’t happen, warn the organizers of British Car Week. Yes, MGs and Triumphs and Austin-Healeys were popular in the U.S., but it’s been more than three decades since the last new ones arrived on our shores. In the meantime, a whole new generation of enthusiasts has come of age. [...]
- [Farewell, Lazzarino: An old friend comes to auction](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/farewell-lazzarino-an-old-friend-comes-to-auction/) - The one and only 1952 Lazzarino, featured here in the Hemmings Blog and in Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car over the years, will be heading for a new home when Bonhams offers it at the June 5 Greenwich sale. Dan first spotted it at one of owner Jon’s first outings after bringing it to the [...]
- [Flooded Rambler, turnip-trumped Airflow, Plordolet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/flooded-rambler-turnip-trumped-airflow-plordolet/) - Charlie Beesley’s interests don’t just run to old land-speed racers, as one might assume from seeing the pictures of the Kenz and Leslie 777 streamliner that he shared with us last week. Rather, he’s been collecting vintage photographs for years, many of which he displays at Reservatory.net, almost all of which come sans context. I’ve [...]
- [Have a Coke and smile](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/have-a-coke-and-smile-2/) - One of the more unusual sights at Musclepalooza XIII this past weekend…
- [Clint Eastwood, hot rodder](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/clint-eastwood-hot-rodder/) - This is not a Hollywood blog. Most celebrities can go pound salt, for all we care. However, we will make an exception to not only note that Clint Eastwood turns 81 today, but that his first car – as seen on Darren Allison’s Clint Eastwood Archive – was a Model T-based flathead-powered lakes modified that [...]
- [Leagues of progress](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/leagues-of-progress/) - It was all about the road and the grassy fields of summer, especially if you weren’t in the big leagues. When this country was a lot less equal, before Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey changed sports forever, separate and unequal was the guiding principle of baseball. The Antique Automobile Club of America is recognizing that [...]
- [A Minor Adventure: British couple underway on Mini trip to Egypt](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-minor-adventure-british-couple-underway-on-mini-trip-to-egypt/) - From the “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Department, we have the story of Nicky West and Rob Stacy who left Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, on Sunday for a quick jaunt across Europe and North Africa in a stock, largely original 1961 Mini. But at least if their 50-year-old British car doesn’t leave them stranded and they [...]
- [New dragstrip and road course under development in the Northwest](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/new-dragstrip-and-road-course-under-development-in-the-northwest/) - New dragstrips here in the United States are so rare, they border on nonexistent. With the spread of suburbia and the rising cost of operations, it’s all most dragstrip owners can do just to stay open and keep the neighbors and noise regulations at bay. Yet in Washington state, something unusual is happening: a brand-new [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1985 De Tomaso Innocenti Turbo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1985-de-tomaso-innocenti-turbo/) - From the Anglo-Italian-Japanese Boosted Hatchback Department comes this 1985 De Tomaso Innocenti Turbo – a project car for those with a boundless desire to enjoy three-cylinder turbocharged hatchback motoring forever. Innocenti started with steel tubing, later produced the Lambretta scooter, then struck a deal with Austin to build Bertone-designed cars with Austin Mini mechanicals. Austin [...]
- [From the Hemmings Forum: Help King Arthur Flour find their calliope truck](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-forum-help-king-arthur-flour-find-their-calliope-truck/) - Through the Hemmings Forum, we recently heard from the folks at King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Vermont, regarding the calliope truck that used to promote the flour in New York City and in Boston in the late 1920s. Featuring a wooden carving of King Arthur atop his horse and carrying a banner (a later version [...]
- [“It’s not very cherry, it’s an oldie but a goody”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/its-not-very-cherry-its-an-oldie-but-a-goody/) - With the unofficial start of summer upon us today, diskojoe sent along this link to a quintessential summer pop song, Jan and Dean’s “Surf City,” in a video shot for the pilot of Jan and Dean’s show, “Surf Scene.” H...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1954 Chevrolet 210](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1954-chevrolet-210/) - While the seller of this 1954 Chevrolet for sale on Hemmings.com describes it as a Bel Air, the side trim identifies it as a 210, something we only point out for the sake of accuracy. We imagine this Chevrolet – recently awakened from a nearly 40-year-long slumber – would make the perfect driveable dream, in [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Drivin’ Our Lives Away: The 1986 Great American Race](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-drivin-our-lives-away-the-1986-great-american-race/) - What timing! With the renewed Great Race upon us, we’ve come to the account of Hemmings Motor News’s first participation in the Great American Race in SIA #96, December 1986. Of note here: The format of the time-speed-distance race has remained the same these last 25 years, and article author David Brownell did an excellent [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Willys CJ-2A](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1947-willys-cj-2a/) - There’s just one problem with this 1947 Willys CJ-2A for sale on Hemmings.com: It’s not nearly dirty enough. From the seller’s description: 1947 Willys CJ2A, This jeep is a frame off restoration. Everything on this jeep is either new or rebuilt, Everything! An absolutely excellent running engine that was rebuilt by Jasper. Steering has minimum [...]
- [Four-Links – rally Falcons, DeSoto plant demolished, Montlhery, Moskvitch restored](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-rally-falcons-desoto-plant-demolished-montlhery-moskvitch-restored/) - * Speedhunters this week posted a great collection of photos of Holman-Moody-modified V-8 Ford Falcons used in European rallies in the mid-1960s. * No, that’s not yet another pic of a tornado-ravaged town in the Midwest. Instead, it comes from The Detroit Bureau’s report on the demolishing of the DeSoto plant on Wyoming Avenue between [...]
- [Last night’s cruise-in photos are now up on Facebook](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/last-nights-cruise-in-photos-are-now-up-on-facebook/) - As before, we’re posting cruise night photos to Twitter and Facebook, so you can find photos from last night’s cruise-in there. We didn’t pack the lot like we normally due, but we still had plenty of diehards, including one fella who came all the way from North Carolina, and another couple from Ohio! Next Hemmings [...]
- [Carrot v. Ninja](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/carrot-v-ninja/) - Though Carrot v. Ninja – A Quick Tale of Violence looks and feels nothing like MotoCreeps, it still has that same element of a rich, high-octane imagination given free reign. And hey, it’s got a Mustang in it! (via)
- [Hot August Nights CEO resigns, plans for Long Beach show canceled](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hot-august-nights-ceo-resigns-plans-for-long-beach-show-canceled/) - The planned growth of a sizable hot rod show foundered earlier this month when the people behind Hot August Nights canceled the inaugural expansion show and the CEO of the event resigned. Hot August Nights, which has been based in Reno, Nevada, since its inception 25 years ago, announced last June that it would put [...]
- [Not a Maverick: Save this Comet, McGraw, New York](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/not-a-maverick-save-this-comet-mcgraw-new-york/) - That’s right, behold the majesty of Lincoln-Mercury division’s compact sedan. Feel the road-hugging weight! Brace yourself for the devastating surge from the mighty 250! Cower in fear before the enormous bumper! Seriously, did you see the size of that thing? Oddly, although Robert Owen, the sole owner, didn’t plump for power brakes on this 1976 [...]
- [Half-million-plus Hemi, $20,000 sign top Mecum Spring Classic](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/half-million-plus-hemi-20000-sign-top-mecum-spring-classic/) - Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic, held last week, in Indianapolis, Indiana, boasted an impressive 80 percent sell-through on more than 3,000 lots that included vehicles as well as an array of petroliana and memorabilia. The top earner was a 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda that hauled in $550,000. The True Blue Metallic car was said to be [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1927 Rolls-Royce Phantom I](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1927-rolls-royce-phantom-i/) - Any Rolls-Royce is bound to be a spectacular car in and of itself, but due to their prestige and exclusivity, they all tended to stand the test of time, so it often takes something special to make one stand out from the crowd of other Rolls-Royces at shows and gatherings. This 1927 Rolls-Royce Phantom I [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Mercedes-Benz 300E](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-mercedes-benz-300e/) - Image courtesy Mercedes-Benz We previously took a look at another Mercedes-Benz in the Class of 1986, the 560SL, a new car for that year, though one based on an aged chassis. In the same year, Mercedes-Benz also introduced another new car, but this one entirely new: the 300E. Based on the W124 chassis, the 300E [...]
- [Chevyonnaroof!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/chevyonnaroof/) - From our friend Bill Miles, who is currently on the road to South Bend, Indiana, heading to the ATHS convention there and blogging his adventure, comes this 1949 or 1950 Chevrolet DeLuxe Fleetline that he spotted on a roof along Pennsylvania Route 30....
- [A Family Vehicle Of Obvious Utility](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-family-vehicle-of-obvious-utility/) - If there’s anyone at Hemmings who doesn’t dig wagons, they haven’t had the courage to speak up about it. Wagons bring almost the same performance as a sedan version, but were almost always produced in much lower numbers. There were innumerable clever packaging solutions in the back, like jumpseats, two-way doors, sliding cargo trays and [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1967-chevrolet-chevelle-ss-396/) - Since the start of the Great Recession, we haven’t seen nearly as many muscle cars touting high-quality restorations come up for sale as we saw during the boom years. That’s not to say they aren’t out there, as we see from this 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 for sale on Hemmings.com, just that most of [...]
- [Wanted: Associate Editor](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/wanted-associate-editor/) - Hemmings Motor News, the world’s leading publisher of collector-car magazines, has an opening in its editorial department for an associate editor. The successful candidate must have a strong command of the English language, extensive knowledge of automotive history, including both American and European cars, comprehensive mechanical knowledge, and a minimum of five years’ creative writing [...]
- [Hershey to welcome The Elegance](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hershey-to-welcome-the-elegance/) - The town of Hershey, Pennsylvania – home of the famed AACA Fall meet held annually in early October – is set to welcome a new event to the charming town of chocolate treats: The Elegance at Hershey. Scheduled for June 11-12, the two-day affair is kicked off with the Grand Ascent. Sanctioned by the Vintage [...]
- [Kenz and Leslie, 1950, Bonneville](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/kenz-and-leslie-1950-bonneville/) - These three photos recently showed up in our inbox courtesy Charles Beesley, he of the excellent Reservatory.net. As Charles noted, they depict the famous Kenz and Leslie 777 twin-engine streamliner at Bonneville in 1950, the year that driver Willie Young pushed the streamliner past 200 MPH. Charles wrote: Bill Kenz founded a Ford V8 specialty [...]
- [The action of the 1911 Indy 500](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-action-of-the-1911-indy-500/) - We all know by now that this weekend’s running of the Indianapolis 500 marks the centennial of the event (but the 95th running overall, due to hiatuses during both world wars), but do we know much about that first event, besides the fact that Ray Harroun won in a Marmon Wasp? How about the fact [...]
- [First Springfield Vintage Grand Prix postponed](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/first-springfield-vintage-grand-prix-postponed/) - The inaugural Springfield Vintage Grand Prix, which had been scheduled for July 22-24, has been postponed by a year, with the organizers citing legal and safety obstacles. Springfield, Massachusetts, Mayor Domenic J. Sarno, city officials, and organizers met privately for more than an hour on Monday before making the announcement. “We’re a little disappointed, of [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1955 Divco Model 334](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1955-divco-model-334/) - Divco experts, feel free to chime in here, but we don’t see any mention of the company ever using Chevrolet six-cylinder engines. Continentals and Herculeseseses and, in the 1960s, Nash overhead-valve sixes, but no bowties. Yet the Chevrolet six-cylinder in this 1955 Divco Model 334 for sale on Hemmings.com looks right at home in these [...]
- [Musclepalooza returns to Lebanon Valley Dragway this weekend](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/musclepalooza-returns-to-lebanon-valley-dragway-this-weekend/) - It has become a sort of summer kick-off tradition around these parts: Hemmings Musclepalooza at Lebanon Valley Dragway in West Lebanon, New York. Over the past several seasons, the combination of muscle car show and drag race has proven to be quite popular with participants and spectators alike, drawing enough cars to fill the facility [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – the littlest phone booths on wheels](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-the-littlest-phone-booths-on-wheels/) - Had these two photos been uploaded to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool by somebody other than Hugo90, we might have taken them for a Stan Mott Cyclops-style joke, but as it turns out, these were two actual concepts by the Marquis Piergirolamo Bargagli, produced under the name Urbanina, sometime between the mid 1960s and early [...]
- [“They were just ordinary troublemakers… as long as they lived!”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/they-were-just-ordinary-troublemakers-as-long-as-they-lived/) - There’s plenty of cheap biker movies out there, but how many of them are groovy British zombie biker movies? The only one we’ve yet come across is “Psychomania,” later renamed “The Death Wheelers.” Thanks to Marc Ty...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – “I Dream of Jeannie” 1969 Pontiac Firebird](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-i-dream-of-jeannie-1969-pontiac-firebird/) - Apologies in advance for highlighting two Pontiac Firebirds in successive days for the Hemmings Find of the Day, but this 1969 Pontiac Firebird 400 convertible for sale on Hemmings.com is worth the repetition, it being the Firebird used in two different guises on I Dream of Jeannie: first in stock form (albeit loaded up directly [...]
- [Entries sought for the New England Concours d’Elegance](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/entries-sought-for-the-new-england-concours-delegance/) - If you’ve ever wanted to enter your car in a concours, here’s your chance. With the fifth annual New England Concours d’Elegance less than two months away, we still have room for a few more cars, trucks and motorcycles. As long as your collector vehicle was built before 1973, is either original or restored to [...]
- [Whittell Duesenberg to cross the auction block at Gooding](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/whittell-duesenberg-to-cross-the-auction-block-at-gooding/) - Image by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Gooding & Company The automobiles of Auburn, Indiana, drew a coterie of flamboyant buyers, but few of them went so far over the top as George Whittell Jr., who inherited two gigantic California fortunes that underpinned his life as a rake and adventurer. George loved cars. He especially loved the [...]
- [Fran Hernandez: a life in pictures](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/fran-hernandez-a-life-in-pictures/) - If there’s an unsung hero of American performance cars, it’s Francisco “Fran” Hernandez, the Southern California hot rodder turned factory racing facilitator. He’s known variously for being one of the contenders in the first drag race, one of the pioneers of nitromethane use in drag cars, the guy behind Mercury’s Trans-Am efforts, and one of [...]
- [Mystery monowheel materializes](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mystery-monowheel-materializes/) - We thought we had canvassed the entire history of mystery monowheels several months ago with our post on the Motoruota, but as this recent photo from the Steampunk Vehicles tumblr blog shows, we haven’t yet seen them all. As is typical with tumblogs, the image came without any information, so all we can say for [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Pontiac Firebird Formula](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1973-pontiac-firebird-formula/) - A number of Pontiac enthusiasts were, well, vocal about the Yenko-modified Pontiac Trans Am we brought up a couple of weeks ago. We imagine they’ll be much more satisfied with this 1973 Pontiac Firebird Formula, reported to be one of 43 1973 Formulas built with the Super Duty 455 engine. From the seller’s description: This [...]
- [Cannonball Baker’s 1914 coast-to-coast trek to be retraced](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/cannonball-bakers-1914-coast-to-coast-trek-to-be-retraced/) - Photo courtesy Don Emde Don Emde, winner of the 1972 Daytona 200, has announced a new multi-year project that will retrace the record-setting 3,378-mile, 11-1/2-day route completed by Cannonball Baker in 1914. The historic feat shaved almost nine days off the existing record at a time when there were few highways west of the Mississippi, [...]
- [Social Networking in an El Camino](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/social-networking-in-an-el-camino/) - Chevrolet has slapped up a Facebook page devoted to gauging support for the (unlikely) return of the El Camino. The page’s best feature is the all-too-brief photo gallery that reminded me how I would like to own a ’59 or a ’60 El Camino before I get hauled off to the nursing home, mainly so [...]
- [Are you ready for some autoball?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/are-you-ready-for-some-autoball/) - We’ve made no secret of our love for the British Pathe archives, and their searchable, viewable collection of 90,000 or so newsreels filmed between 1896 and 1976. Here, for your amusement, is a gem from the vaults, a sub-2-minute report from 1961 on a game of “motor polo, or autoball,” played by teams from Surrey and [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Porsche 912 Targa](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1968-porsche-912-targa/) - From the looks of this 1968 Porsche 912 Targa for sale on Hemmings.com, we’d hazard a guess that somebody had embarked on a course of modifications on this car before abandoning the project. Sure, you could build on the previous owner’s modifications, or you could reverse them to restore the car, but this Porsche seems [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Los Angeles: Postwar Paradise of Cheap Classics](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-los-angeles-postwar-paradise-of-cheap-classics/) - There once was a time and place when many of the great cars we now consider big-C Classics sat around on side streets and behind garages, when trios of Cords sat on used car lots, available for a song, or maybe a second shot at fame. Yet as Terry Boyce tells the story of his [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Ford flathead V-8 engines](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-ford-flathead-v-8-engines/) - Once was a time when this land was awash in flathead Ford V-8s, and not under the hood of cars where they belonged. Nowadays, thanks to the traditional hot rod scene, we won’t say that flathead Ford V-8s have become scarce, but they’re certainly not littering the landscape anymore. So when four come up for [...]
- [Four-Links – Marmon Wasp recreated, history of drifting, fastback Stude, de Sakhnoffsky on speed](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-marmon-wasp-recreated-history-of-drifting-fastback-stude-de-sakhnoffsky-on-speed/) - * Our friends at Coker Tire have recently kicked their recreation of the 1911 Indianapolis 500-winning Marmon Wasp into high gear, resulting in a first fire for the T-head six-cylinder engine this week. Best of luck with the work still ahead of you, guys! * Drifting was not invented for the Fast and the Furious [...]
- [Texas Toy Museum Acquires Malcolm Forbes’ Ship Models](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/malcolm-forbes/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: DFW Elite Toy Museum Rodney Ross< Toy Museum Curator 5940 Eden Drive, Haltom City, TX 76117 rodneyr@rdsinvestments.com Texas Toy Museum Acquires Malcolm Forbes’ Ship Models DFW Elite Toy Museum to Feature the Collection in Upcoming Exhibition May 21, 2011 – Fort Worth, TX – Some exquisite ship models
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – Twentieth Century Unlimited](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-twentieth-century-unlimited/) - I plan to expand on this notion in a future column in Hemmings Motor News, but the other day I defended my attraction to oddball cars not necessarily as an appreciation of the aesthetics and the ideas expressed in those cars, rather as an appreciation of the philosophy inherent in them, the rejection of the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Plymouth Fury III](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1969-plymouth-fury-iii/) - With certain cars, you know at a glance the target audience that the automaker had in mind, even moreso nowadays, with automakers scrambling to define and fill every segment under the sun. In the 1960s, with just a few lines of cars in each automaker’s repertoire, it took some creative option and bodystyle combinations to [...]
- [Board Track Racing Photos featured in Smithsonian magazine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/board-track-racing-photos-featured-in-smithsonian-magazine/) - Van Order collection photos courtesy of Smithsonian magazine If you get an opportunity, pick up a copy of the April 2011 issue of Smithsonian magazine. In it, you will find an interesting article, “The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing,” by David Schonauer, about board-track racing enthusiast and photographer Ashley Franklin Van Order. Van Order [...]
- [After crash, Sir Stirling Moss to again race his $1.7 million Porsche](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/after-crash-sir-stirling-moss-to-again-race-his-1-7-million-porsche/) - Sir Stirling Moss will take to the track at Le Mans next month behind the wheel of his freshly repaired and race prepared 1961 Porsche RS 61, during the Le Mans Legend historic race. Moss bought the car back in March 2010 and entered it at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca last [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Mazda RX-7](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-mazda-rx-7/) - As we noted earlier in the Class of 1986 series, that year saw the ushering in of plenty of digital-age technology and the ushering-out of plenty of stone-age technology. Case in point: the Mazda RX-7. Introduced for the American market in 1979, the RX-7 made prominent use of the company’s Wankel rotary engines, and that [...]
- [“Known in the trade as the ‘Eager Beaver’”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/known-in-the-trade-as-the-eager-beaver/) - After the Jeep, perhaps the most beloved Army vehicle – at least among those who served in the military – is the deuce-and-a-half, originally built by Reo (as the M34) before the Army awarded contracts to build it to Kaiser and AM General (as the M35 and its variants). When first introduced to the general [...]
- [Mecum to offer Foyt Coyote at Original Spring Classic](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mecum-to-offer-foyt-coyote-at-original-spring-classic/) - This week saw the kick-off of Mecum Auctions’ 2011 running of its Original Spring Classic event in Indianapolis. It seems appropriate then that one of the featured lots is a former Indy 500 competitor from the stable of one of the Brickyard’s most noted competitors. A.J. Foyt started 35 Indy 500s, and over a dozen [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Rover 90](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1959-rover-90/) - The Rover P4 was introduced in 1949, and went on to win the endearing nickname of “Auntie” for its reliability, comfort and other admirable qualities. Several different models, named generally for their horsepower rating, were built on the P4 platform. One of the most popular, the Rover 90, came along in 1954, with a larger, [...]
- [Hoosier State cars to highlight CCCA Museum Experience](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hoosier-state-cars-to-highlight-ccca-museum-experience/) - With the nation’s eyes turned toward Indianapolis this month for the centennial of the Indy 500, it’s also worth pointing out that the state of Indiana at one point rivaled Michigan as the largest state in the nascent automotive industry. Companies like Stutz, Cord, Auburn, Duesenberg, Haynes, Marmon and Studebaker all called the Hoosier State [...]
- [Who asked first?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/who-asked-first/) - From the first time it appeared in print about 110 years ago, Packard’s “Ask The Man Who Owns One” slogan was recognized as one of the great selling lines of all time. Reportedly the result of a casual conversation between J.W. Packard and a spectator who asked him, “Is the Packard car a good one?” [...]
- [Blown, but for different reasons](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/blown-but-for-different-reasons/) - Over at The Old Motor, David Greenlees recently posted this mystery engine, unique in so many ways. First, it’s a three-cylinder, air-cooled engine, one that looks rather experimental, judging from its heavy pipe exhaust tubes. Notice also the finned chambers that seem to be separate from the fined cylinders. We can only offer haphazard guesses [...]
- [Steve McQueen Husky pulls $144,500 at Bonhams](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/steve-mcqueen-husky-pulls-144500-at-bonhams/) - Replica Steve McQueen 1971 Husqvarna 400 Cross. Photos courtesy of Bonhams How many replica cars can attract six figure bidders? A few handfuls at most possibly; and you would think that there are even fewer motorcycle collectors who would fall into that category. However, that’s just who showed up or phoned in at the recent [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1955 Willys Custom](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1955-willys-custom/) - Prius, schmius. There are plenty of other ways to save on gas, and they don’t all require stepping out of a collector car. Take, for instance, this 1955 Willys Custom for sale on Hemmings.com. Looking like a 7/8-scale conglomeration of half a dozen different mid-1950s favorites, it has a certain charm all its own and [...]
- [Meet Pat Foster at the New England Concours d’Elegance](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/meet-pat-foster-at-the-new-england-concours-delegance/) - Owners and fans of AMC cars will have the opportunity this summer to meet noted automotive historian Pat Foster, when he appears as this year’s Honorary Judge at the New England Concours d’Elegance. The event takes place at Stratton Mountain Resort in Southern Vermont, Sunday, July 17. Pat will be on hand throughout the day, [...]
- [Panda spotted in the wild?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/panda-spotted-in-the-wild/) - Much like a Bigfoot photo, the above picture sent in to us by Bob Cunningham is a little blurry, shot from a distance, and possibly shows something that most people never thought they would see. Bob’s theory is that the microcar in the photo, shot in 1955 in Kansas City, could be a Panda. Bob [...]
- [Laid back Viva Las Vegas](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/laid-back-viva-las-vegas/) - At first listen, the music Josh Clason chose to go with his video depicting Viva Las Vegas 2011 doesn’t seem to fit – where’s the raucousness, where’s the hipsterbillyness, where’s the obligatory reference to Elvis? Then again, rat rods have become just about as much a self-parody as Las Vegas has, so it’s refreshing to [...]
- [RIP, Bill Summers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rip-bill-summers/) - Bob Summers, left, and Bill Summers, right. Image courtesy Greg Sharp, Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum As recently as a few years ago, Bill Summers still harbored ambitions to go land-speed racing, a testament to his devotion to a sport that he and his younger brother Bob had conquered more than 40 years prior. Bill [...]
- [Villainous henchman from Cars 2 in stores before the movie hits](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/villainous-henchman-from-cars-2-in-stores-before-the-movie-hits/) - If you have a child under the age of eight in your life, you will at least have heard of CARS, the Disney/Pixar computer-animated feature that anthropomorphized a variety of vehicles. What no one expected was the continuing success of the merchandise that surrounded the film: Five years on, and CARS has remained an evergreen [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1950 Chrysler Windsor limousine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1950-chrysler-windsor-limousine/) - Yesterday’s Jaguar-based stretch limousine didn’t find too many fans among our readers, so perhaps we can set things right among those folks with today’s find, this 1950 Chrysler Windsor limousine for sale on Hemmings.com, built in this configuration by the factory rather than by a coachbuilder. From the seller’s description: This beauty is an 8-passenger [...]
- [Lost and Found overflow: the many species of the Cadillac pickup](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lost-and-found-overflow-the-many-species-of-the-cadillac-pickup/) - Well, we opened up a giant can of worms when we recently ran a photo of a Cadillac Eldorado-based pickup in HCC Lost and Found (see HCC #80). Since then, we’ve received plenty of responses from HCC readers who own a variety of Cadillac Eldorado-based pickups – too many, in fact, to run in the [...]
- [Pike’s Peak Packard](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pikes-peak-packard/) - Shorpy recently posted this interesting photo from about 1910 showing a dual-wheeled auto on a turntable built into the top of Inspiration Point at Pike’s Peak. Ah, but what of the auto? For a closer look, let’s enhance: Good, we see more of the car itself, but what’s that in Sector 4G? Enhance! Packard, aha! [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Jaaaaaaaaguar](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-jaaaaaaaaguar/) - The seller of this Chevrolet 350-powered 1977 Jaguar XJ6 stretch limousine for sale on Hemmings.com notes that it’d be perfect for a garage band. Sure, we suppose. But to what other uses can you imagine putting it? See more Jaguars for sal...
- [Fairfield Concours seeks two special E-types](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/fairfield-concours-seeks-two-special-e-types/) - The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance in Westport, Connecticut, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Jaguar E-type by launching a search for two special cars: The privately owned car with the lowest chassis serial number and the privately owned car that is the longest privately held single-owner E-type. The search is restricted to the 48 [...]
- [Harley-Davidson Museum to be a busy place this summer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/harley-davidson-museum-to-be-a-busy-place-this-summer/) - Photos courtesy of Harley-Davidson The Harley-Davidson Museum has scheduled several special events for motorcycle lovers and visitors to the Milwaukee area alike for this year. Their Camp H-D program already had their first module, called Biker Boot Camp for Women, which took place this month. This fantasy camp was tailored toward prospective new women riders [...]
- [Save these cars – Maxwell, Nebraska](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/save-these-cars-maxwell-nebraska/) - It seems an entire junkyard out in Maxwell, Nebraska, is shutting down and liquidating its inventory. Fortunately, they’re sending their 50-year collection of 1940s to 1970s cars to auction July 17, 2011. Unfortunately, these are the kinds of auctions at which the recyclers clean up unless classic car enthusiasts outbid them. We see mostly American [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1929 Ford Model A roadster pickup](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1929-ford-model-a-roadster-pickup/) - Restored Model As can go one of two ways: overaccessorized or just plain stock. It seems few Model A owners bother to take the time to select just a few period accessories that complement the vehicle, as the seller of this 1929 Ford Model A roadster pickup for sale on Hemmings.com did, equipping it with [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Stillborn Street-Fighters: Hurst’s Swinging Bee and Merada](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-stillborn-street-fighters-hursts-swinging-bee-and-merada/) - Just as the major auto manufacturers had concept cars, so did those various companies such as Hurst that specialized in working with the manufacturers to create low-volume specialty cars. Two of the lesser-known Hurst concepts were the Swinging Bee and Merada, based respectively on the Dart Swinger and the Charger R/T and presented to Dodge [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1952 Triumph Mayflowers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1952-triumph-mayflowers/) - Not everybody is out to make a mint on collector cars, as we see from this pair of 1952 Triumph Mayflowers for sale on Hemmings.com. Sure, they’re both in barn-found condition and would take a serious investment of time and money to restore individually, but for a Mayflower enthusiast with the space to keep them, [...]
- [Four-Links – Corvette homecoming, British Macks, soap box derby, Baja battler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-corvette-homecoming-british-macks-soap-box-derby-baja-battler/) - * Both CorvetteBlogger and the New York Times this week ran stories this week on the very first Corvette, the Motorama Corvette also known as XP-122, returning to the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, 58 years after it was introduced there. * Our friends over at BigLorryBlog this week filled us in [...]
- [Looking for cruise-in photos from last night?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/looking-for-cruise-in-photos-from-last-night/) - We’re trying something new this year by posting photos from our cruise nights to Twitter and Facebook rather than here on the blog. That way, if you have photos of your own from our cruise nights that you’d like to share, you can either post them to Twitter with the #cruisein2011 hashtag or to our [...]
- [Boxcar bowtie](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/boxcar-bowtie/) - Jim Lee, he of the Lee clan, recently took a trip to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where he spotted this railcar, most likely an inspection and service unit that’s been long since retired, just east of town off Route 23. From the remaining trim, we can see that it was converted from a 1951 Chevrolet Styleline [...]
- [Classic Recreations introduces Shelby-licensed G.T.500CR Venom](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/classic-recreations-introduces-shelby-licensed-g-t-500cr-venom/) - Interest in classically styled muscle cars continues to flourish, though not everyone who lusts for the lines of a ’60s Detroit icon is tolerant of ’60s Detroit ride and handling characteristics, or the temperamental nature of a highly tweaked V-8 of the period. Enthusiasts today are largely spoiled by contemporary performance cars, leading many to [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1931 Ford Model A speedster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1931-ford-model-a-speedster/) - Anybody who’s tuned in to the vintage car rallying scene in recent years has surely seen a preponderance of Model T and Model A-based speedsters, and for good reason: With little bodywork to speak of, they make for great and inexpensive driving cars, especially for those people who like a little wind on their faces [...]
- [Win this (model) car!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/win-this-model-car/) - Those of you who enjoy Mini Muscle, Small Scales, and the model car reviews in Hemmings Classic Car have seen several reviews of cars from the model company Automodello, a relative newcomer to the model car scene that specializes in building high-quality 1/43rd-scale models of cars that aren’t typically considered worth the time of larger [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Chevrolet Camaro Z28 and IROC-Z](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-chevrolet-camaro-z28-and-iroc-z/) - Image courtesy IROC-Z.com Apologies for returning to the bowtie brand so soon after the Cavalier Z24, but we can’t highlight that Chevrolet model in the Class of 1986 without making mention of its big brothers, the Camaro Z28 and Camaro IROC-Z. Though still derided by some in the collector car world, the third-generation Camaros have [...]
- [Who carries a bowl of goldfish on their seat?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/who-carries-a-bowl-of-goldfish-on-their-seat/) - As Aaron Severson and Mal Fuller pointed out yesterday, it was Wells, Rich and Greene that gave AMC a cheekier image in the late 1960s, especially with commercials like the one for the 1969 AMX and the one here for the 1969 Javelin. So who can tell us more about the two cars that the [...]
- [Pontiac by… Yenko?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pontiac-by-yenko/) - The gloried performance car modifier of the holy muscle era, Yenko, is obviously most associated with the monster Chevrolets it created through big-block transplants. That changed in 1975 when a customer decided he wanted to hammer everything in sight, including a local Pontiac dealer’s son, who drove a Trans Am with the 455 SD powertrain [...]
- [Weepy over an old welder?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/weepy-over-an-old-welder/) - I have to admit to being sucked in by this Lincoln press release promoting the 50-year-old AC 225 welder and Lincoln’s request for pics of owners’ old machines. I paid $35 for my AC 225 used, and I’ve actually done some decent work with it. It’s two days older than dirt, but has no hours [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1991 Mazda Miata](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1991-mazda-miata/) - The trouble with cars that are in a certain age bracket – say about 10 to 25 years old – is that they’ve been around long enough for previous owners to beat on them and modify them, but nobody’s started restoring them yet, which means that if you want to find a nice, unmodified example, [...]
- [Mars Express joins the circus](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mars-express-joins-the-circus/) - As we noted last time we ran across the Mars Express, Bob Cunningham had discovered that the ultimate known fate of said car from the future was that it toured the country with the Russell Brothers circus from 1939 to 1942, though few photos existed of the Mars Express at that time. However, our friend [...]
- [Who comes to the track with just one driving glove?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/who-comes-to-the-track-with-just-one-driving-glove/) - Much has been made about the sudden infatuation with sports and muscle cars at AMC in the late 1960s, and that’s evident here in this commercial for the 1969 AMX. Unlike the ads for the Rebel and Ambassador that we recently highlighted, this one scraps the pitchman approach and places an AMC owner in a [...]
- [Show Season Spotlight: Car d’Lane!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/show-season-spotlight-car-dlane/) - There are plenty of shows with traditionally huge car counts scheduled throughout the 2011 season. Among them is the 21st Annual Car d’Lane Classic Car Show and Cruise, held in downtown Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Scheduled for June 17-18, the whole pre-1972 affair kicks off with an expected 1,000-car cruise lining the streets on Friday night, [...]
- [Hemmings find of the Day – 1967 MGB GT](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1967-mgb-gt/) - Proving once and forever that the combination of slot mags and fender flares is a formula for great success is this vintage race-prepared 1967 MGB GT, built as a tribute to men and machines that survived the ruinous 12 Hours of Sebring. The MG comes with solid vintage racing history, and is ready for whoever [...]
- [RIP, Robert C. Stempel](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rip-robert-c-stempel/) - Longtime GM executive Bob Stempel, who rose to the rank of GM CEO in the Nineties, died Monday at his home in Florida at the age of 77. Most of the obituaries note that Stempel was ousted as GM’s chairman following a stormy two-year tenure that ended in 1992. The boardroom coup that ended in [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – cars on roofs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-cars-on-roofs/) - So while the meme might go by the name Crosleysonnastick, we can broaden that to carsonnastick and even broader to carsmountedhighforadvertisingpurposes. Though the latter doesn’t much roll off the tongue. In the broader category, then, we’ve seen a few such photos recently uploaded to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, including the above shot of a [...]
- [The Social Network: NASCAR Sequence](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-social-network-nascar-sequence/) - On this, the one random day of the year we’ve chosen to pander to NASCAR enthusiasts with the Richard Petty Mechanix Illustrated profile we ran this morning, let’s take a look at a video Eric Shanks sent us, recreating the Henley Sequence from the film “The Social Network,” using NASCAR imagery instead of regatta imagery. [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Hardcastle and McCormick Coyote in Volo mega star-car auction](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-hardcastle-and-mccormick-coyote-in-volo-mega-star-car-auction/) - I recognize I might be in a small minority who have the Hardcastle and McCormick theme song stuck in their head from time to time, so it’s possible my enthusiasm for McCormick’s Coyote X isn’t universal. If so, good, because that will mean that much less competition when Volo auctions it, along with 19 other [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1950 Packard and Penn Yan Aristocrat](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1950-packard-and-penn-yan-aristocrat/) - Fashionistas like to harp about accessorizing, and indeed, collector cars can benefit from a well-coordinated accessory as well, such as the Pierce-Arrow Travel Lodge we highlighted the other day. This 1950 Packard woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com is remarkable enough to stand on its own, but the seller has decided to pair it [...]
- [2011 Hemmings Cruise Night season begins this week](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/2011-hemmings-cruise-night-season-begins-this-week/) - With New England’s infamous mud season, followed by its infernal hay fever season, there might not be much to look forward to about springtime up here were it not for the biweekly cruise nights here at Hemmings headquarters in Bennington, Vermont. So it’s a good thing the cruise nights are returning for the 2011 season, [...]
- [“It isn’t all glory – and that’s for sure!”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/it-isnt-all-glory-and-thats-for-sure/) - Apparently, at one point in time, Richard Petty’s mother told an interviewer that she didn’t name her son “Dick,” she named him “Richard.” Perhaps she stated that in response to articles like Jim McMichael’s profile on King Richard in the March 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, in which he chummily mixes in a “Dick” here [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Triumph TR3](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1959-triumph-tr3/) - There’s never a bad time to jump on board with British motoring, even if the first step may be substantial. In a world where ’70s Plymouths sell for just south of $2 million, and auctioneers politely inquire what harm could come of another ten thousand dollars, this 1959 Triumph TR3 makes more sense now than [...]
- [La moustache: C’est hilarant](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/la-moustache-cest-hilarant/) - Reader Tom McNeal wrote in letting us know that the Wartburg link in last weekend’s Four-Links reminded him of the 1971 Jacques Tati comedy “Trafic,” starring Benicio del Toro and that kid from “That 70s Show” and a whole lotta drugs which includes more continental cars than most mere mortals can identify. Nevertheless, he laid [...]
- [Acura at 25: A call for your ‘classic’ Acura stories](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/acura-at-25-a-call-for-your-classic-acura-stories/) - It was 25 years ago this year that Honda went out on a limb and introduced their upmarket Acura brand, with its Integra hatch and Legend sedan available at launch. While Acura would become most famous for its Formula 1-derived, world-beating NSX sports car in the 1990s, the brand continues to sell well today with [...]
- [Hemmings Finds of the Day – Choo-Choo Firebird and El Caminos](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-finds-of-the-day-choo-choo-firebird-and-el-caminos/) - Back in the Eighties and Nineties, Choo-Choo Customs ads were all over the enthusiast magazines, so somebody must have been buying their customized F-bodies, G-body El Caminos and pickups, but they’re just not that common nowadays, either on the road or in the Hemmings classifieds, which is why we took notice when three Choo-Choo Customs [...]
- [Turbocharging and Genuine Simulated Wood](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/turbocharging-and-genuine-simulated-wood/) - The 1986 Chrysler LeBaron Town and Country convertible comes from a time when the combination of a few bowling lanes’ worth of genuine simulated wood and computerized turbocharging made perfect sense. This luxurious machine with Mark Cross interior leather appointments started life on a mundane K-Car platform, but was transformed to post-assembly line perfection by [...]
- [Turbine-powered oddities, No. 466: the see-through Kenworth-Boeing](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/turbine-powered-oddities-no-466-the-see-through-kenworth-boeing/) - The theoretical advantage to gas turbines, besides their ability to swallow up a wide range of fuels, is their relative lightness and compactness compared to other internal combustion engines (gasoline, diesel) of the same output. Boeing decided to illustrate that advantage with this press photo we recently scrounged up, dated April 10, 1950, showing one [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1937 Pierce-Arrow Travel Lodge Model C](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1937-pierce-arrow-travel-lodge-model-c/) - Many, if not all, automakers at one point dabbled in production of other consumer goods. Nash bought up Kelvinator, Studebaker bought STP (among many others in a diversification spree), and rather uniquely, Pierce-Arrow built travel trailers. This 1937 Pierce-Arrow Travel Lodge Model C for sale on Hemmings.com may have been updated over the years, but [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Diamond-T in the Rough](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-diamond-t-in-the-rough/) - The immediate post-war years brought a lot of unique automotive ideas to the forefront, and the major auto and truck manufacturers were far from immune to the trend, as we see from Thomas B. Garrett’s article in SIA #95, October 1986 on the woodie station wagon prototype that Diamond-T built in 1946 and that hasn’t [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1919 Ford Model T](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1919-ford-model-t/) - Anybody up for a jigsaw puzzle? Though the ad for this 1919 Ford Model T touring for sale on Hemmings.com at first looks like a swap meet spot at Hershey, it appears to include all the major components to piece together an entire car. From the seller’s description: 1919 Ford Touring Parts Car: Rebuilt engine [...]
- [Four-Links – Corvettes and astronauts, Italdesign’s designs, Riker resurrection, Fast Five’s Scouts](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-corvettes-and-astronauts-italdesigns-designs-riker-resurrection-fast-fives-scouts/) - * As the Corvette Blog and Jalopnik reported this week, Thursday was the 50th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s spaceflight. To commemorate the event, about 30 surviving astronauts will gather in Florida today for a parade, and they will be driven in at least one Corvette from each generation of the model to celebrate the long-standing [...]
- [Great Moments of Discovery](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/great-moments-of-discovery/) - From the Miraculous Revelations and Surplus Materials Department here at Hemmings Publishing comes today’s handy recycling and reuse tip. Thanks to the valley of ingenuity that is Spring Carlisle, we have found a solution to the conundrum of what to do with all those leftover half gallons of durable yet easy to apply pickup truck [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Plymouth Sport Suburban](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1958-plymouth-sport-suburban/) - Wagons are cool nowadays, in a way that they never were when new. But all that metal and glass inevitably makes them quite a bit heavier than coupe or convertible versions of the same car, and thus quite a bit slower. This 1958 Plymouth Sport Suburban for sale on Hemmings.com, however, benefited from the start [...]
- [RIP, Jackie Cooper](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rip-jackie-cooper/) - Why do we stop and recognize this former child star of the “Our Gang” comedies? Because Jackie Cooper, who died this week, evolved from being a child actor to a power as an actor and Emmy-winning executive in Hollywood, plus a decorated Naval Reserve officer. He was also a big-time car enthusiast, having come of [...]
- [Ford Thames: As Seen With Rick Wakeman](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ford-thames-as-seen-with-rick-wakeman/) - Is Rick Wakeman really so famous that just being in his presence elevates a Ford van to celebrity provenance? (Hint: no.) And to be fair, Cheffins isn’t suggesting that’s the primary selling point of their 1965 Ford Thames 400E 10/12cwt Van. No, that would be “awesomeness,” but they do mention Wakeman and we can’t let [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Honda Accord](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-honda-accord/) - Image courtesy 3geez wiki We noted earlier in the Class of 1986 series that Honda made a significant move that year by introducing the upscale Acura brand in the United States. As if that weren’t enough to keep Honda hopping, the same year the company introduced the third generation of its flagship, the Accord, which [...]
- [10 Commandments for car guys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/10-commandments-for-car-guys/) - The Kaiser Frazer Owners Club International chiseled out these 10 car-guy commandments for their May 2011 newsletter, and we subsequently spotted them on the justacarguy blog. Good advice here, though we recommend finding an employer who’s down with letting you read Hemmings on company time. Got any commandments you wanna add? 1. Thou shalt not [...]
- [Sidedrafts for your small block](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sidedrafts-for-your-small-block/) - Chevrolet small-blocks and Weber carburetion tend to go together like Mom and applejack. The combination seems like it’ll be fun at the outset, but then things get complicated and out of control. After sleeping it off, you try to put it all out of your mind, bolt on a Holley and go about your business. [...]
- [Auction Pulse: ICA’s Torgerson indicted](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-icas-torgerson-indicted/) - In Gilbert, Arizona, yesterday morning, the local police came for Stanley Torgerson. Torgerson, the owner of ICA, had been under investigation by the FBI, among others, and despite numerous protestations of innocence, a Maricopa Country grand jury delivered a 101-count indictment on Tuesday, with multiple instances of fraud and more than 50 victims. According to [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1988 Italdesign Aztec](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1988-italdesign-aztec/) - Normally, we don’t feature cars without an asking price in the ad, but how could we seriously pass up highlighting this concept-turned-reality 1988 Italdesign Aztec for sale on Hemmings.com? Looking like a four-wheeled Badsey Bullet done up for a cameo on Total Recall, the Aztec was one of 18 (or one of 50, depending on [...]
- [The Caddywagon Chronicles, featuring Brooks Stevens](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-caddywagon-chronicles-featuring-brooks-stevens/) - While we’re sorta on the topic of Brooks Stevens (then again, aren’t we always on the topic of Brooks Stevens around these parts?), let’s take a look at one of his lesser-known designs, a Cadillac station wagon from 1953. Stevens very well could have designed a normal station wagon roof, something like what GM offered [...]
- [GM’s Phantom Corsair?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gms-phantom-corsair/) - Over at The Old Motor, David Greenlees posted this photo showing a GM modelmaker in November 1954 with a pair of concepts, neither of which look much like the full-size Motorama concepts of the mid-1950s. Note the driver figure in the one on the left that looks like the Phantom Corsair – were these possibly [...]
- [Filming to begin on Snake and Mongoose movie this fall](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/filming-to-begin-on-snake-and-mongoose-movie-this-fall/) - Images courtesy Snake & Mongoose Movie on Facebook The biggest rivalry in drag racing history? Like you need to ask. Hemmings Muscle Machines columnist Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen, both very accomplished drag racers in their own rights, catapulted their quarter-mile careers onto front pages and into household-name status with those [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1962-studebaker-gran-turismo-hawk/) - Though Studebaker in the early 1960s had a reputation generally for working with outdated models, the Brooks Stevens redesign of the Hawk brought South Bend’s grand touring up to the moment with other sport luxury vehicles such as the contemporary Thunderbird and Riviera. As we see on this 1962 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk for sale [...]
- [Do You Have Henry’s Punch Bowl?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/do-you-have-henrys-punch-bowl/) - The Fords want their punch bowl back. No, not Betty Ford’s family; they’re most likely off the punch for good. This would be the other Fords, the ones who make the cars. It seems that Dearborn’s first family unwittingly auctioned off the punch bowl that Henry won as a trophy in 1901 when he drove [...]
- [Besasie’s bizarre batmobile: the X-3 Explorer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/besasies-bizarre-batmobile-the-x-3-explorer/) - Most car people familiar with the Besasie clan of Milwaukee probably know of them in connection with designer Brooks Stevens. Ray Besasie Sr. had been Stevens’ personal mechanic since 1940, Joe Besasie designed a number of concepts for Stevens – including the Excalibur – and Ray Besasie Jr. built and raced cars for Stevens (as [...]
- [I’m pretty sure AMC built a taxi version of the Ambassador…](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/im-pretty-sure-amc-built-a-taxi-version-of-the-ambassador/) - After digging up Abe Vigoda’s AMC Rebel commercial, oldmertz suggested we go looking for the AMC Ambassador commercial with Robert DeNiro in it. Twenty-seven years old at the time, DeNiro had already landed a few movie appearances, but he was still a few years away from his breakout roles in “Bang the Drum Slowly” and [...]
- [Literary Landmark donated to the AACA Library](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/literary-landmark-donated-to-the-aaca-library/) - Most communities today have some kind of bookmobile, generally a large, bus-like conveyance made by Blue Bird and such that allows you to climb aboard, browse and check out a title. According to the Antique Automobile Club of America, some of the earliest known publicly operated bookmobiles were used by Washington County, Maryland, the rural [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1935 Auburn 851](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1935-auburn-851/) - This 1935 Auburn 851 for sale on Hemmings.com has certainly led an eventful life, as the seller tells the story. Originally built in right-hand drive for export to England, its noble owner took it to Paris where the Third Reich seized it and presumably bombed around Europe in it before it somehow went back to [...]
- [Polaris moves Indian production to Spirit Lake, Iowa](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/polaris-moves-indian-production-to-spirit-lake-iowa/) - Shortly after Polaris announced the recent purchase of the Indian Motorcycle brand name, they issued another press release announcing they would be moving production of Indians to one of their own facilities in Spirit Lake, Iowa. The previous manufacturer, Indian Motorcycles Limited, had been building the bikes in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. While this comes [...]
- [Does this look staged? Auto polo in Toronto](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/does-this-look-staged-auto-polo-in-toronto/) - There’s a fairly well-known couple of photos that have made the rounds of the Internet in recent years purporting to show a game of auto polo that many people have pointed out are actually staged, leading them to suppose that auto polo wasn’t actually ever played. However, as these photos that we found in the [...]
- [One would think they’d hire Fish to pitch for the Marlin…](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/one-would-think-theyd-hire-fish-to-pitch-for-the-marlin/) - Then again, this commercial for the 1968 AMC Rebel hardtop came a year after the Marlin’s demise and several years before Abe Vigoda landed that role.
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – birthplace of the American automobile?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-birthplace-of-the-american-automobile/) - Amid all the celebrations of Mercedes-Benz’s 125th anniversary this year, it’s worth keeping in mind that Daimler and Benz were not the inventors of the automobile. Inventors of the internal combustion automobile perhaps, but the automobile’s history well precedes 1886, as we see from this unassuming piece of property in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, for sale [...]
- [Break out your donut pillows, Minuteman 1000 Rally returns for 2011](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/break-out-your-donut-pillows-minuteman-1000-rally-returns-for-2011/) - Image courtesy Triumph Motor Company The 2011 installment of the Minuteman 1000 Rally takes place from May 20 to 22 and is presented by Northeast LD Riders and Yankee Beemers and sponsored by Max BMW. Originating from the Clarion Conference Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, and stretching across five states, the Minuteman 1000 Rally involves completing [...]
- [RIP, Mac McKellar](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rip-mac-mckellar/) - The Pontiac hobby as well as America’s automotive heritage lost one of its greatest engineers when noted Pontiac engine designer Malcolm “Mac” McKellar passed away on April 9, 2011. Mac was the lead engineer and driving force behind Pontiac’s highly successful Super Duty racing program, which put Pontiac on the performance chart, where it quickly [...]
- [Work, work, work: GMCs on the job](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/work-work-work-gmcs-on-the-job/) - Over on the H.A.M.B.’s excellent pre-WWII photos thread, MrFire recently posted a couple links to the New York Public Library’s Flickr page, which contains some excellent automotive photography collections, including one of GMC trucks, divided roughly between the division’s early products and its art deco/streamline moderne trucks from the 1930s. We grabbed a selection of [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1975 Hurst/Olds](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1975-hurstolds/) - While it’s all too easy to compare the 1975 Hurst/Olds to its predecessors and find it lacking, not too many people bother to compare it to its competition, which in the mid-1970s was actually lacking. To see how it’s held up over the last 35 years, let’s take a look at this refurbished 1975 Hurst/Olds [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Two Kinds of Personal Luxury: Riviera and Thunderbird for 1963](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-two-kinds-of-personal-luxury-riviera-and-thunderbird-for-1963/) - In the personal luxury category, there are no two heavier heavyweights than the four-seater Thunderbird and the Buick Riviera, so it would stand to reason that a comparison between the two is inevitable. Josiah Work took on that task for SIA #94, August 1986, choosing to pit the 1963 versions of each against each other. [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1933 Pierce-Arrow](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1933-pierce-arrow/) - Certainly one of the more unique vehicles to cross the auction block at the upcoming Auctions America by RM auction in Auburn, Indiana, next month will be this 1933 Pierce-Arrow, fitted with a custom body for a cinematographer for on-location filming. Where exactly it was used isn’t stated in the auction description, and the “KZAK [...]
- [Four-Links – the last NYC Checker taxi, Crosley road trip, secret French motorcycle museum, how to safety wire](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-the-last-nyc-checker-taxi-crosley-road-trip-secret-french-motorcycle-museum-how-to-safety-wire/) - * Over at the justacarguy blog, Jesse’s got the 411 on New York City’s last Checker taxi, retired from active duty in 1999. * The Crosleykook spotted some great photos of a Crosley CC sedan on a 500-mile road trip recently and got to the bottom of the story. Best line: “Most of my recollections [...]
- [Los Angeles, 1964 and 1967](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/los-angeles-1964-and-1967/) - Just like New York, Los Angeles is known the world over by some of its more famous streets and one of the most famous of those is Sunset Strip, captured on film in 1964 and 1967 and highlighted recently at DangerousMinds (thanks for the tip, Marc Tyler!). Just like the Iowa Department of Transportation’s video [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1977 Chevrolet C10 Silverado](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1977-chevrolet-c10-silverado/) - The long-lived 1973-1987 generation of GM pickups – the ones some people call the “rounded-line” models – tended to get overlooked by many collectors. After all, they were fairly ubiquitous for a few decades all over the country and remain so today in certain parts of the country, say, Texas, where this 1977 Chevrolet C10 [...]
- [French cars converge on Carlisle](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/french-cars-converge-on-carlisle/) - The 2011 Import and Kit Nationals are coming up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on May 20-22, and if you’re a fan of French cars, this is one show you won’t want to miss. This year, the organizer, Carlisle Events, is featuring the cars of la République. There will be an invitational display of 19 French cars [...]
- [Caddy Coup(e): Hot Wheels and Matchbox offer the entire CTS range in small-scale](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/caddy-coupe-hot-wheels-and-matchbox-offer-the-entire-cts-range-in-small-scale/) - It is the dream of many die-cast collectors to have a full lineup of a given model range. We’re not talking about specialty cars like Camaros, where you’ve got a choice of coupe or (sometimes) convertible, we’re talking about a full line of cars with a full line of body styles – coupes, sedans, wagons, [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Chevrolet Cavalier Z24](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-chevrolet-cavalier-z24/) - Image courtesy coconv Some people might say we’re stretching it a bit to consider the Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 a candidate for the Class of 1986. Some people might even go so far as to say we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel, and it’s only April – what’s next, the NUMMI Nova? On the other [...]
- [Lost and Found overflow: information on the Kurtis Omohundro Comet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lost-and-found-overflow-information-on-the-kurtis-omohundro-comet/) - If any of you know Geoff Hacker like we do, you’ll know that he’s like a terrier after a rat when it comes to tracking down information on the cars he’s interested in, going so far as to drive across the country to speak with family members of a custom car builder. You’ll also know [...]
- [Rolling in the Rockies](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rolling-in-the-rockies/) - Image courtesy Vicky Nash, Resort Trends Springtime comes hard, fast and gloriously to Colorado. People with all kinds of cars want them out in the glow of the mountains. For six years, the Gateway Canyons retreat has been hosting an annual Auto Fest for American-built cars; this year’s date is May 7. This year’s Auto [...]
- [Caresto P1800 GT: A New Spin on Celebrating 50 Years of Volvo’s Classic “Sports”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/caresto-p1800-gt-a-new-spin-on-celebrating-50-years-of-volvos-classic-sports/) - Swedish firm Caresto, led by former Volvo engineer and specialist builder Leif Tufvesson, chose to mark the 50th anniversary of the debut of Volvo’s P1800 sports coupe with an exciting resto-mod show car that they dubbed the P1800 GT. Based on the 1800 ES, the P1800 GT was designed to combine classic P1800 elements like [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1965-oldsmobile-vista-cruiser/) - “Original” is a word that gets tossed about far too much in the hobby nowadays, oftentimes incorrectly applied as well, but from a quick glance at the photos of this 1965 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser for sale on Hemmings.com, we can see that it definitely deserves the description. From the seller’s description: 1965 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, [...]
- [Indy history: Don Lee’s Mercedes and Alfa, 1947](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/indy-history-don-lees-mercedes-and-alfa-1947/) - We’re almost a month away from the centennial edition of the Indianapolis 500, which means we’re going to be seeing an awful lot of Indy history coming out of the woodwork over the next few weeks. Take, for instance, the above photo, recently posted over at The Old Motor, showing L.A. auto magnate Don Lee’s [...]
- [Still not April Fools’: Lotus buys Caterham](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/still-not-april-fools-lotus-buys-caterham/) - We knew Lotus had something brewing with Caterham, but we figured it was going to mean escaping the Lotus Renault GP/Team Lotus fiasco with a Caterham-branded Team Lotus F1 car. And while that’s certainly still a possibility, instead news broke today that Team Lotus acquired Caterham Cars. For those who might be confused, and that’s [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Pontiac Bonneville](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1963-pontiac-bonneville/) - Aside from a Super Duty Catalina, it’s hard to imagine a more desirable wide-track Poncho than this loaded 1963 Pontiac Bonneville convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. Presuming all those factory options were installed when the car was new rather than during the car’s restoration, we’re betting there’s a good story behind the ordering of this [...]
- [From the My Hemmings pages – the next generation, continued](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-my-hemmings-pages-the-next-generation-continued/) - Perhaps one of the most unpopular decisions we made when we recently redesigned Hemmings Classic Car was the decision to drop The Next Generation, the column that profiled younger folks involved in the collector car hobby. The implication of that decision is that there aren’t any young people in the collector car hobby, but we [...]
- [The workshop of a genius, gone that quick](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-workshop-of-a-genius-gone-that-quick/) - Nobody will ever know, exactly, just how much wild and creative stuff went on inside Smokey Yunick’s garage, mechanical and otherwise. Yunick can’t tell us, other than through his outrageous autobiography, because he died in 2001. Now, the original Smokey’s Garage is gone, reduced to rubble on Monday night after a fire of undetermined origin. [...]
- [Petersen Museum receives $100 Million gift](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/petersen-museum-receives-100-million-gift/) - No, that’s not a typo. We checked, and the number is real: The Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation announced Tuesday that the Museum Foundation has received a gift of approximately $100,000,000 from Margie Petersen and the Margie & Robert E. Petersen Foundation. According to the press release, This donation is comprised of a substantial unrestricted financial [...]
- [“The last American heroes, to whom speed means freedom of the soul”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-last-american-heroes-to-whom-speed-means-freedom-of-the-soul/) - After McGean’s mention last week of the Kowalski edition Dodge Challenger, I can’t resist highlighting Audioslave’s video for their 2002 song “Show Me How to Live,” which splices the band members rather seamlessly into the Challenger R/T from “Vanishing Point.” Bonus, while looking for the Audioslave vid, we found the trailer for “Vanishing Point” as [...]
- [The Iconic Hupp 20 at Worldwide](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-iconic-hupp-20-at-worldwide/) - We all have cars we’re unreasonably in love with, and I’m not alone in having my buttons pushed by the original Hupmobile, the 1909 Model 20. I don’t recall where I came across this February 1965 sketch by Dick Teague, but the designer owned a number of Brass Era cars, and his love is evident [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1929 Ford Model AA roadster pickup](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1929-ford-model-aa-roadster-pickup/) - There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about rare or unusual vehicles, especially when it comes to mix-n-match examples like this 1929 Ford Model AA roadster pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. Of course, open-top AAs (and BBs) are not unheard-of, as illustrated in James Wagner’s Ford Trucks Since 1905, but the story the seller [...]
- [LeMay Museum sets grand opening date for 2012](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lemay-museum-sets-grand-opening-date-for-2012/) - Announcing your grand opening date more than a year in advance may not be typical for most automotive museums, but then again, the LeMay – America’s Car Museum is no typical automotive museum. The gargantuan LeMay, based on the 3,500-car collection of the late Harold LeMay, will have its grand opening on May 19, 2012. [...]
- [Microcars swarm the Big Apple](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/microcars-swarm-the-big-apple/) - Most times when we take in the New York International Auto Show, we’re used to seeing a few token “heritage” models from the automakers on display to celebrate some sort of anniversary. No luck this year, but we were instead treated to a display of microcars put together by the LeMay Museum and the Lane [...]
- [“And now, fuel injection opens a new age of automotive performance!”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/and-now-fuel-injection-opens-a-new-age-of-automotive-performance/) - It’s almost too easy to make fun of the breathless narration of mid-century promotional videos, but at least they attempt to provide some sort of educational component, as opposed to today’s automotive promotional videos, which focus on feelings and other “soft” selling points. Nowhere is that more evident than in the 10-minute video that Jim [...]
- [Auction Preview: Auctions America at Carlisle](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-preview-auctions-america-at-carlisle/) - Dudes! Time to pull your old stone-washed jean jacket out of the closet, grab your Bon Jovi cassettes and head on down to Spring Carlisle in time to watch Auctions America by RM run this third-gen 1983 Chevy Camaro convertible across their auction block at the Carlisle Expo Center (across the street from Gate 3 [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 MG MGA](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1957-mg-mga/) - Like them or not, there are certainly some good reasons for building a clone of some significant or noteworthy car out of another run-of-the-mill collector car (of course, that’s as long as the owner is straightforward about the humble origins of the car). In the case of this 1957 MG MGA for sale on Hemmings.com, [...]
- [Sixty cars, one terrific locale](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sixty-cars-one-terrific-locale/) - Hershey isn’t just about October anymore, but it’s always very much about consciousness-altering automobiles. Here is a case that proves our point. Save the date of June 12, which is when 60 very rare cars will combine to form The Elegance, a gathering on the lawns of the lovely Hotel Hershey. The Elegance will serve [...]
- [Jav-olution: the Seventies Javelin that never was](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/jav-olution-the-seventies-javelin-that-never-was/) - After we published the photos of the four AMC Project IV concept cars a couple of weeks ago, we realized that we had earlier received a small collection of photos from David Greenlees documenting a variety of clay mockups for a post-second-generation AMC Javelin. As we see from Chris Zinn’s Iconografix book on the Javelin, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1988-volkswagen-scirocco/) - While we have the rolling 25-year cutoffs for most shows to give us some idea of what’s newly considered collectible, there are indeed other standards which we can use to determine when a car becomes collectible. For instance, when a car appears in the Hemmings classifieds, certainly somebody out there believes it to be collectible. [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Frozen in Time: Sacramento Valley’s Studebaker Ranch](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-frozen-in-time-sacramento-valleys-studebaker-ranch/) - We hear plenty of fretting nowadays about overzealous zoning committees, out-of-sight scrap prices, indifferent inheritors and other causes for the disappearance of project car fodder, but John G. Tennyson’s article in SIA #94, August 1986, taking a look at one man’s outdoor collection of old cars, mostly Studebakers, shows us that these are not new [...]
- [Hemmings Finds of the Day – Corvans (and a Rampy)](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-finds-of-the-day-corvans-and-a-rampy/) - Though we have little background on the circumstances that led the Volo Auto Museum to purchase these four air-cooled Chevrolet utility vehicles, it’s probably safe to assume that they (along with a handful of Corvair passenger cars) came from the collection of a dedicated Corvair enthusiast who simply couldn’t get around to restoring them all. [...]
- [Four-Links – papercraft Isetta, Ongena, 4×4 RV, Baghdad to Damascus](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-papercraft-isetta-ongena-4x4-rv-baghdad-to-damascus/) - * BZ’s BMW Isetta blog recently turned up a papercraft Isetta for you to print out, fold up and enjoy. As a bonus, it’s white, which means you can color it in with any paint scheme you can think of. * Our friend Geoff Hacker has also been going through his copies of Ford Times [...]
- [Vermont Country Store, 1955](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/vermont-country-store-1955/) - Photo by Reuben Greene, courtesy northbennington.org Last couple of photos from the collection of Reuben Greene, and everybody give a hand to Rob Woolmington and the Fund for North Bennington for sharing Mr. Greene’s photos with us. As Rob wrote, “I agree with your comment that in some of his photos the cars are just [...]
- [Polaris purchases Indian motorcycles, to resurrect the storied marque](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/polaris-purchases-indian-motorcycles-to-resurrect-the-storied-marque/) - Earlier this week Polaris Industries announced that the company has purchased the rights to produce Indian motorcycles and intends to shortly resurrect the 110-year-old marque. Polaris bought the name and logo from Indian Motorcycle Limited, the latest entrepreneurs who attempted to revive the brand. IML had owned the Indian production rights since 2006. Polaris CEO [...]
- [Dodge pays homage to Vanishing Point with the Kowalski Edition Challenger](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dodge-pays-homage-to-vanishing-point-with-the-kowalski-edition-challenger/) - We were somewhat surprised last week to learn of a special edition Dodge Challenger that seems to have flown almost completely under the radar. As it turns out, Bob Frederick of New Wilmington Dodge in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, has worked with the folks at Chrysler to create a very short run of Challengers for the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1957-cadillac-eldorado-brougham/) - Should a car that’s been painted by a previous owner be repainted back to its original color? For many cars, we’d have no problem with such a course of action, but for this 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, which wears a non-stock color – but one integral to its provenance – we’d rather see it left [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Mitsubishi Starion ESI-R](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-mitsubishi-starion-esi-r/) - Note: 1988 Battlecar Galactica Mitsubishi Starion shown. The Starion and its re-badged Plymouth-Chrysler Conquest cousins made their debut in 1983-4 here in the United States. The turbocharged rear-wheel drive turbo specialty sports coupe evolved incrementally until being discontinued in 1989, but it was 1986 that brought box fenders with it. Stateside Starions were all equipped [...]
- [New Hampshire Crosleyonnastick spotted](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/new-hampshire-crosleyonnastick-spotted/) - This is shaping up to become Paul Bellefeuille week here at the Hemmings Blog. Along with excerpts from the Ford Times issues he lent us, he also sent over these photos of a Crosleyonnastick that he spotted in Barrington, New Hampshire, advertising Knight’s Garage on Route 125, the same one we mentioned a couple years [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1925 Amilcar CGS3 skiff](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1925-amilcar-cgs3-skiff/) - We’re used to seeing wood used – both structurally and decoratively – for the bodies of big, prestigious cars, which has the effect of making this 1925 Amilcar CGS3 skiff for sale on Hemmings.com look somewhat larger and more refined than many Amilcars we’ve seen. Bravo to the craftsman who originally built this body and [...]
- [From the My Hemmings pages – sports car guy learns to love a pickup](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-my-hemmings-pages-sports-car-guy-learns-to-love-a-pickup/) - As if you couldn’t tell from the username he chose for his My Hemmings account, MB230SL is one of those guys who is most likely to subscribe to Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car. But that doesn’t immediately mean he can’t appreciate a domestic pickup truck, as we see from the story he wrote about his [...]
- [Not April Fools’: Frazer-Nash buys Bristol](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/not-april-fools-frazer-nash-buys-bristol/) - The Frazer Nash and Bristol display, Geneva Salon 1948, via BOC Heritage Trust. We mentioned China Car Times‘ April Fools’ about Bristol being purchased by Xinjiang No 1 Tractor Company in our coverage of the Shelby American joke, but the truth turns out to be far stranger: Frazer-Nash has bought the assets of the insolvent, [...]
- [Stolen car alert: 1984 Hurst/Olds](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/stolen-car-alert-1984-hurstolds/) - Hemmings Nation, keep your eyes peeled; one of our own needs our help. Al Faist of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, woke up Tuesday morning to find his 1984 Hurst/Olds stolen from right out of his driveway. As you can see from the photos Al supplied, his Hurst/Olds has the removable glass roof panels and is [...]
- [Bellflower’s Medusa to appear at NYIAS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bellflowers-medusa-to-appear-at-nyias/) - Ah, a film about Mad Max-obsessed dirtballs from L.A. who are preparing for the coming apocalypse by building a flat-black, fire-spewing, supercharged 1972 Buick Skylark. But it’s a love story. Sure. Right. What? As improbable as it sounds, writer/director Evan Glodell’s film “Bellflower” made some waves at this year’s Sundance film festival, attracting attention from [...]
- [Vanderbilt Cup historian to speak on the famed Long Island races](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/vanderbilt-cup-historian-to-speak-on-the-famed-long-island-races/) - Hemmings reader Mark Axen recently sent us the link to an excellent site that features information, images and even video of the Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904-1910. Much of the content for the site comes from the collection of historian and author Howard Kroplick, whose books include The Long Island Motor [...]
- [Craig Jackson in his own words regarding the changes at Barrett-Jackson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/craig-jackson-in-his-own-words-regarding-the-changes-at-barrett-jackson/) - After our story last week about Barrett-Jackson introducing a reserve at their Palm Beach auction, we had a lively and – thank you – largely constructive debate on the merits of the reserve and no-reserve formats. Not surprisingly, Barrett-Jackson has been having a long internal discussion on this, too, and we talked with Craig Jackson [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1984 Pontiac Fiero and other Indy pace cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1984-pontiac-fiero-and-other-indy-pace-cars/) - Do you happen to be building a collection of every Indianapolis 500 pace car edition, but you’re missing the 1979, 1980, and 1984 iterations? Or perhaps you really like both Fox-body Mustangs and Pontiacs that get no respect? If so, then don’t let the price attached to this 1984 Pontiac Fiero for sale on Hemmings.com [...]
- [Lost and Found overflow: Ford sport customs with nothing under the hood](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lost-and-found-overflow-ford-sport-customs-with-nothing-under-the-hood/) - Following on yesterday’s post about custom cars in the Ford Times, we recently came across two unique Fords which we wanted to learn more about, but found almost nothing. We’ll start with the one above, spotted in an October 1954 Mechanix Illustrated story on sports cars over on Modern Mechanix. The caption tells us it’s [...]
- [Ab Jenkins, American hero](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ab-jenkins-american-hero/) - It may be a little imprecise to call Ab Jenkins an unknown American hero. After all, it’s safe to assume that most car guys know of Ab, his son Marv, and the various Mormon Meteors they used to break speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Still, few people – including non-Utahns and the general [...]
- [Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival to celebrate the first Jeep](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bantam-jeep-heritage-festival-to-celebrate-the-first-jeep/) - 1940 Bantam BRC pilot model With Chrysler celebrating the 70th anniversary of Jeep this year, it’s worth pointing out that, according to many Jeep historians, they’re actually a year too late. Chalk it up to corporate pride. After all, the Jeep brand as it exists today traces its origins to the wartime Willys MA and [...]
- [Hemmings Finds of the Day – 1964 Willys Jeep Surrey and 1965 Fiat 500 Jolly](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-finds-of-the-day-1964-willys-jeep-surrey-and-1965-fiat-500-jolly/) - Ever dream of opening your own beach resort? Sure you do. Think about it: warm breezes, waves softly lapping up onto the beach, bikinis as far as the eye can see (or Speedos, given your preference), and, most important, as good a reason as any to purchase a 1964 Willys Jeep Surrey and/or a 1965 [...]
- [Crowning work of history](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/crowning-work-of-history/) - One big measure of a new book once it arrives here is how much of what’s between the covers is actually new. We’re therefore pretty excited about Crown Coach Corporation, Louk Markham’s 128-page look at the dearly departed Los Angeles firm best known for its fire trucks. There’s a great deal more to the story, [...]
- [The Ford Times’s generous definition of custom](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-ford-timess-generous-definition-of-custom/) - Flipping through more Ford Times magazines that Paul Bellefeuille lent us, we can see that when the editors of that magazine decided to hand over a couple token pages to photos of customized Fords and Ford products, they didn’t stick with the whole kustom scene going on at the time. As well they shouldn’t have [...]
- [Road food, 1957](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/road-food-1957/) - Photo by Rueben Greene, courtesy northbennington.org We’re quickly coming to learn quite a bit about Rueben Greene, the North Bennington, Vermont, photographer who was behind the lens for a couple of vintage pictures we’ve already examined. First, he seemed to take just as much interest in everyday happenings as in those of a noteworthy nature. [...]
- [Authentic Indian racing sweater was a good buy for some lucky bidder](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/authentic-indian-racing-sweater-was-a-good-buy-for-some-lucky-bidder/) - We got a good lead from Rivet Head (a really great spot to see excellent vintage photography and vintage work clothes) that a Kingston 100 percent wool original Indian motorcycle sweater/jersey was up for bid in an online auction. I was out of the running at a little under $200 (gotta figure in the shipping [...]
- [Rally for The Lane to raise funds for Lane Motor Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rally-for-the-lane-to-raise-funds-for-lane-motor-museum/) - All images by Andrew Duthie, courtesy Lane Motor Museum Faithful readers of Hemmings titles, and indeed, faithful devotees to the old car hobby, are well aware of the delightful Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. We have featured Museum founder Jeff Lane and his amazing collection of nearly 330 vehicles in special stories in Hemmings [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1975 MG Midget](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1975-mg-midget/) - Warm weather’s coming. So are higher gas prices. What’s a droptop lover to do? Our suggestion: Get a Spridget. Now, you’re never going to avoid attention in a Sprite or a Midget no matter what the color, so why not get one in blazin’ orange, such as this 1975 MG Midget for sale on Hemmings.com? [...]
- [Colonel Green and his Stearns-Knight hybrid](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/colonel-green-and-his-stearns-knight-hybrid/) - As we mentioned last week, gasoline-electric hybrid cars are not a new invention, nor were they something that was only tried once at the outset of the automotive age before being revived again a century later. GM had its own hybrids in the 1960s, the XP512H and the XP833, and as Tim Martin from The [...]
- [Hemmings Finds of the Day – Jaguar and Triumph kiddie cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-finds-of-the-day-jaguar-and-triumph-kiddie-cars/) - Of the thousand and one ways to get kids involved in old cars, what better way to do so than to simply give them an old car? Don’t trust your wee ones with a full-size old car? Then perhaps a kiddie car will be enough to excite their passions until then. It worked for me [...]
- [SIA Flashback – My Father’s Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-my-fathers-cars/) - Much like the family albums ‘n four-speeds posts that we do here, Nelson Coryell shared some photos of the many cars his family owned while he was growing up for SIA #93, June 1986. As Nelson wrote, the cars were driven as cars were meant to be driven, not as collector cars, so the value [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – fiberglass Bugatti T55 body](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-fiberglass-bugatti-t55-body/) - If we’re being totally honest with ourselves, the vast majority of us will never own a real Bugatti, despite all the admiration we may heap upon them. One could scratch that itch through all manner of surrogates – literature, models, posters – but why not a replica, one that is built to the owner’s standards [...]
- [Four-Links – Google travels the Mille Miglia, the missing “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” Charger, Aaron Beck’s E-bodies, Henry Ford’s missing punchbowl](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-google-travels-the-mille-miglia-the-missing-dirty-mary-crazy-larry-charger-aaron-becks-e-bodies-henry-fords-missing-punchbowl/) - * Google’s done some cool car-related things with Google Street View, and as reader John Burtner showed us recently, one of their Street View cars apparently followed along with the 2009 Mille Miglia. * What happened to the ’69 Charger R/T that was in “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry?” StreetLegalTV is on the case. * While [...]
- [Four-doors and fins in ’59](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-doors-and-fins-in-59/) - Over at The Old Motor, David Greenlees recently posted the above everyday traffic shot taken sometime in 1959 on Woodward Avenue in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, not far from where the zoo is today. Anybody recall exactly where the Beckwith Evans was located then? And anybody want to take a stab at identifying all of the [...]
- [Project HMX – back on the road!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/project-hmx-back-on-the-road/) - Good news for those of you waiting patiently (verrry patiently) for an update on Project HMX: It’s out of the garage and back on the road. Over the weekend I slapped the exhaust back on it, dropped a fresh battery in it and the stroked 4.0L barked to life like it was just running the [...]
- [Matchbox revives Superfast memories with its new ’71 Pontiac Firebird Formula](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/matchbox-revives-superfast-memories-with-its-new-71-pontiac-firebird-formula/) - It’s been about five years now since Matchbox has been doing a line of models that replicate not only vintage cars, but ones that have previously appeared in the Matchbox lineup. The E-type Jaguar is prominent among these; other models include the Citroen DS, Jaguar XK120 coupe, the latest Land Rover, the Cadillac hearse/ambulance, Lotus [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1976 Lincoln Mark IV Lipstick Edition](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1976-lincoln-mark-iv-lipstick-edition/) - One sure fire way get us out of our petroleum conundrum once and for all is to burn up the remaining stock at an accelerated pace. The more prohibitively expensive oil becomes, the greater urgency will be placed on creating viable alternatives. This coming yet unknown super technology will make oil worthless. You can do [...]
- [New England Concours d’Elegance to feature Fifties Station Wagons](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/new-england-concours-delegance-to-feature-fifties-station-wagons/) - The striking designs of American 1950s station wagons will be the highlight at this year’s New England Concours d’Elegance. Several outstanding and rarely seen ’50s wagons are scheduled to be on display at Stratton Mountain Resort in Southern Vermont on Sunday, July 17. There’s still room for a few more station wagons, so if you [...]
- [MME Introduces Cleveland Crate Engine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mme-introduces-cleveland-crate-engine/) - It was big news back in 1969 when Ford Motor Company unveiled a new V-8 for 1970. Although it featured the same displacement as another new V-8 introduced just one year prior, the 351 Cleveland was an all-new design, and its “big small-block” features, like canted valves and large-port heads, made it appealing to performance [...]
- [Class of 1986 – Jeep Comanche](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-1986-jeep-comanche/) - Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com The clamor for a Jeep-branded compact pickup nowadays – and especially since Jeep released the Gladiator concept truck a few years back – is high, and reasonably so. Full-size pickup trucks – even those from Japanese manufacturers – have ballooned to mammoth proportions,and compact pickups are fast becoming an extinct species. Meanwhile, [...]
- [Sweet Sickness](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sweet-sickness/) - Looking forward to seeing the full length version of Brian Darwas‘s “Sweet Sickness,” his next look at the world of contemporary hot rodding, this time based on the integral role the flathead Ford V-8 has played in hot rodding from the very beginning. Points for interviewing flathead aficionado Paul Howard, as well as for getting [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Porsche 914S](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1973-porsche-914s/) - The dangers to modifying a car lie in a) your tastes not matching up to others’ tastes, especially when going to sell the car, and b) going too far with the modifications. However, the seller of this 1973 Porsche 914S for sale on Hemmings.com seems to have avoided those two pitfalls, selecting a modest roster [...]
- [Marking where heroes lie](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/marking-where-heroes-lie/) - This endeavor is as unusual and worthy as the book that inspired it. The book is entitled Racers at Rest, a history assembled by National Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductee Buzz Rose, a well-traveled driver enshrined for his tireless effort to document the sport’s past. Racers at Rest documents the 1,500 drivers and riding [...]
- [Barrett-Jackson tops with a De Soto again, contemplates changes](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/barrett-jackson-tops-with-a-de-soto-again-contemplates-changes/) - Barrett-Jackson has gone a long way as the No Reserve auction company, but that wasn’t the case in Palm Beach last weekend, where for the first time in seven years they accepted a reserve on certain consignments (those they valued at over $50,000). They’re not completely happy with the results, however, as the sale came [...]
- [Lost Dodge and Ford dealership: Childs Tavern Garage, Wilmington, Vermont](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lost-dodge-and-ford-dealership-childs-tavern-garage-wilmington-vermont/) - From Mike Eldred, our man in neighboring Wilmington, comes this undated shot of the Childs Tavern Garage, located right on busy Main Street and noteworthy for its signage advertising both Dodges and Fords. Mike notes that this was likely the first dealership in Wilmington, and possibly the first in the entire Deerfield Valley. The two [...]
- [Meet the Rumbler… hombre!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/meet-the-rumbler-hombre/) - Lookie here: TA sent over this video that shows that a car manufacturer can celebrate old cars without making a crass plea to buy a new car. Bravo, BMW. Also, props for unearthing a blue Spirit AMX. Now, where might I be able to find that fine filly?
- [Craftsman to commemorate Indy centennial with marmon Wasp scale replicas](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/craftsman-to-commemorate-indy-centennial-with-marmon-wasp-scale-replicas/) - By the time 2011 is flipped off the calendar, the Marmon Wasp that won the first Indianapolis 500 will justly be one of its storied images. There’s the race centennial, and the U.S. Postal Service put the car’s image on a stamp. Then there’s this re-creation of the car, done in 1/8 scale, by race [...]
- [Joel Rosen takes delivery of the first new Motion Camaro](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/joel-rosen-takes-delivery-of-the-first-new-motion-camaro/) - Joel Rosen, he of Baldwin-Motion fame, took delivery of the first of the new Motion Camaros that bear his name last weekend in Florida, the car’s builder, Howard Tanner of Redline Motorsports in Schenectady, New York, told us. The car is a Motion Phase III 427 SC rated at 800hp, courtesy of a supercharged and [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 AMC AMX](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1972-amc-amx/) - As awesome as the various Big Bad-painted and Pierre Cardin-interiored Javelins and AMXs were, there’s something to be said for one that dispenses with such visual tricks, such as this 1972 AMC AMX, with its 360, Machine wheels and simple black interior. Sure, there’s the bright Trans Am Red paint, the stripe, the vinyl roof [...]
- [Volt’s predecessor: GM’s 512-series hybrid, electric and microcar](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/volts-predecessor-gms-512-series-hybrid-electric-and-microcar/) - Enduring Automotive History Myths, No. 467 and 467a: Electric cars, while popular around the dawn of the automotive age, were quickly abandoned when the invention of the electric self-starter prompted the widespread adoption of internal combustion. They have only been recently reconsidered as a viable means of transportation. Gasoline-electric hybrids were similarly abandoned after Dr. [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr Pool: Phillips Radio and TV](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-phillips-radio-and-tv/) - There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about recapturing the ethos of making things, of fixing things, partially out of thrift, partially out of a desire to make sure we own our stuff, not the other way around. One quick look at Curtis Gregory Perry’s photo of a Dodge A-100 van left neglected, [...]
- [Glenmoor Gathering to celebrate the cars of Dutch Darrin](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/glenmoor-gathering-to-celebrate-the-cars-of-dutch-darrin/) - 1940 Packard Darrin. Photograph courtesy Glenmoor Gathering. The annual Glenmoor Gathering in Canton, Ohio, has a longstanding tradition of featuring the cars attributed to a famed automotive designer every year, and for 2011, that tradition continues with the cars of Howard “Dutch” Darrin. For such an exalted automotive designer, Darrin seemed to have entered the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Ferrari P4/1979 Ferrari 308 GT4](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1967-ferrari-p41979-ferrari-308-gt4/) - Normally a Fauxrrari is made from the bones of some other car, usually a Fiero, and it elicits jeers from around the Intertubes. In the case of this 1967 Ferrari P4 replica for sale on Hemmings.com, however, the bones come from a 1979 Ferrari 308 GT4. It was apparently a formula that builder Jim Carpenter [...]
- [100 Indians and many other rare bikes all under one roof](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/100-indians-and-many-other-rare-bikes-all-under-one-roof/) - Photos courtesy Antique Motorcycle Foundation The Antique Motorcycle Foundation‘s collection of vintage motorcycles has found a permanent location. Featured in two exhibits, which were on display at the AACA museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the first in 2008 as “Motorcycles 1884 – 1973″ and a second exhibit, “Fast From The Past,” in 2010, the collection was [...]
- [Front-drive fairgrounds flyer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/front-drive-fairgrounds-flyer/) - As with yesterday’s post on the Project IV cars, today’s photo is also the result of some digging through the SIA files. Unfortunately, we know nothing about the Cord L-29 that’s been stripped for racing, other than the facts supplied by James K. Wagner along with the photo: The date is 1938, the location is [...]
- [Behind Chuck Morris’s grille is not an engine… only another fist](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/behind-chuck-morriss-grille-is-not-an-engine-only-another-fist/) - First there was Truck Norris. Now, H.A.M.B.er lexman24 has christened his bright orange small block-powered Morris Minor gasser “Chuck Morris.” You know the drill: Let’s hear your best “Chuck Morris” facts.
- [Farewell to Chick Hale, an Ohio folk hero](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/farewell-to-chick-hale-an-ohio-folk-hero/) - If you’re a Buckeye racing enthusiast, you undoubtedly know the name Chick Hale. Word came to us late last week, sad to say, that Chick – his true name was William – has passed away at 83. Think about this statistic: Chick was the only driver to have raced at the fabled, fearsome Eldora Speedway [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1984 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1984-cadillac-eldorado-biarritz/) - Multiplying our ongoing and inexplicable attraction to burgundy exponentially is this double burgundy 1984 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible. Beyond the plush luxury of burgundy bordering on wine is the remarkable similarity of this car to the Cadillac that Too Short himself drove around Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, in his I’m a Player music video [...]
- [Show Season Spotlight: Marin Sonoma Concours](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/show-season-spotlight-marin-sonoma-concours/) - Organizers of the Marin Sonoma Concours d’Elegance have been busy amassing a number of entries for their third annual event, which will include special classes for Stutz, Rolls-Royce and wooden runabouts; a British car club gathering, and a group of Chevrolets in celebration of the marque’s centennial. Also in the spotlight will be the Vintage [...]
- [AMX’s genesis: AMC’s Project IV](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/amxs-genesis-amcs-project-iv/) - Any AMC enthusiast with half an interest in the history of the company can tell you that the landmark two-seater AMX grew out of the Project IV group of four concept cars, one of which was the so-called Vignale AMX, with its working Rambleseat. But what of the other three cars in the group? Though [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1952 Lincoln Capri](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1952-lincoln-capri/) - Our modern throwaway culture only extends back so far, as we see from this four-door 1952 Lincoln Capri for sale on Hemmings.com, a car that somebody thought precious enough to preserve over the years, despite the fact that it’s not particularly rare, iconic or flashy. From the seller’s description: All original in beautiful condition. Original [...]
- [SIA Flashback – The Greatest Franklin Never Built: 1932 Franklin V-12 “Super Merrimac” Phaeton](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-the-greatest-franklin-never-built-1932-franklin-v-12-super-merrimac-phaeton/) - Certainly one of the more subtle phantom cars in any corner of the collector car hobby would be Thomas Hubbard’s 1932 Franklin V-12 “Super Merrimac” phaeton, a car built according Franklin’s initial plans for a V-12-powered car, one that was significantly smaller than the V-12 Franklin that entered production. Unless you were steeped in Franklin [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Retro pup trailer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-retro-pup-trailer/) - Now this is tailgating. At least the “tail” part of it. The Ariel Corporation of Mount Vernon, Ohio, commissioned Kentucky Trailers in 2008 to create this lovely polished trailer for use at trade show. It harks back to the days when federal length and weight restrictions limited most over-the-road rigs to a single axle on [...]
- [Four-Links – Stanford studies the automobile, mystery Crosley, Meteor, Thompson/Glasscock Special](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-stanford-studies-the-automobile-mystery-crosley-meteor-thompsonglasscock-special/) - * This’ll make you want to go back to college: Stanford University will offer a new program studying the automobile in all its cultural, archaeological, aesthetic, technological and social aspects, starting with a symposium held this past week focusing on a 1933 4-1/4-Litre Bentley. * Over at ForgottenFiberglass, Geoff’s tackling the mystery of this fiberglass-bodied [...]
- [Oh, Jake, it isn’t a question of…of…what kind of a car?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/oh-jake-it-isnt-a-question-ofofwhat-kind-of-a-car/) - From the 1959 James Cagney/Shirley Jones musical comedy “Never Steal Anything Small” comes the classic “I’m Sorry, I Want a Ferrari.” With music by Allie Wrubel and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, the tune was sung by Cagney and Cara Williams as they hoofed their way through a new-car showroom. The setup, if this needs one, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1912 Autocar Type XXI Omnibus](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1912-autocar-type-xxi-omnibus/) - According to our reference books, the Autocar Type XXI, rated at two tons, rode a 97-inch wheelbase and took its power from an 18.1hp opposed two-cylinder engine with a three-speed transmission and, uncommon for a solid-tired truck from this age, shaft drive. For that reason, we say that this 1912 Autocar Type XXI omnibus for [...]
- [Ludvigsen Library headed to new home](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ludvigsen-library-headed-to-new-home/) - The Ludvigsen Library, the vast collection amassed by award-winning automotive historian, researcher and author (and longtime Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car contributor) Karl Ludvigsen, has been acquired by the Collier Collection. Managed by the not-for-profit Revs Institute for Automotive Research of Naples, Florida, the Collier Collection is one of the world’s foremost automotive museums, with [...]
- [For sale: bizarreness from Bertone’s brains](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/for-sale-bizarreness-from-bertones-brains/) - The Canadian auction house, RM, was chosen to oversee liquidation of the onetime Bertone Museum, and its 30-car auction at the end of May in Italy promises to be one of the high-end sales season’s very peaks. Six of the cars will be actual Bertone creations, dating from the 1963 Chevrolet Testudo. Arguably, the wildest [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Toyota Supra](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-toyota-supra/) - Image courtesy ToyotaReference.com In the mid-1980s, front-wheel drive was in. If an automotive company hadn’t already switched a segment of its lineup from rear-wheel-drive to front in the years right around 1980, then it was doing so by a few years later, the second great wave of the transition. We see that pattern with Toyota, [...]
- [Fill ‘er up with No-Nox!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/fill-er-up-with-no-nox/) - Photo by Rueben Greene, courtesy northbennington.org It’s amazing how much you can take away from a single photo. Take, for instance, the car in this shot from the Rueben Greene collection, which shows the everyday occurrence of a man filling it up with gasoline. From just the hub cap, fender line and roof shape, we [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Intermeccanica Italia](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1969-intermeccanica-italia/) - The story of the Intermeccanica Torino/Italia is one that doesn’t get repeated often nowadays. It started with Jack Griffith, the New York car dealer (see “Hot Rod Hero,” HMM #92), who attempted to follow up his TVR-based Griffith 200 and 400 with the clean-sheet, Bob Cumberford-designed, Mark Donohue-engineered, Chrysler V-8-powered Griffith 600, but ran out [...]
- [Oldsmobile performance guru Joe Mondello dies](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/oldsmobile-performance-guru-joe-mondello-dies/) - The automotive performance world was dealt a sudden blow on Wednesday when word of Joe Mondello‘s passing began to circulate. Mondello had undergone surgery to treat an intestinal blockage, leading to complications that claimed his life. He was 74. Most car enthusiasts today associate Mondello with Oldsmobiles and drag racing, as this was where he’d [...]
- [The sexy-fast car with the frumpy name – Gumpert – is now available in small-scale from Siku](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-sexy-fast-car-with-the-frumpy-name-gumpert-is-now-available-in-small-scale-from-siku/) - We’ve oft lamented in this space that toy companies seem to be doing the same cars over and over again – four 3-inch Porsche Panameras have been announced for 2011, for example – so when we see something new, we celebrate. Siku has done exactly this with its new Gumpert Apollo. The Apollo has been [...]
- [Orange County and the vehicles that ply its roads](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/orange-county-and-the-vehicles-that-ply-its-roads/) - We don’t really need a reminder of how widespread the automobile became in Southern California, especially after World War II. But after flipping through the Flickr stream of the Orange County Archives, it becomes abundantly clear how dependent Southern California became on the automobile so quickly. Many of the scenes in the collection that show [...]
- [“You couldn’t even pay for the headlights…”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/you-couldnt-even-pay-for-the-headlights/) - We can’t mention all the great trucking noir films like “Sorcerer,” “Hell Drivers,” or “Thieves’ Highway” without also mentioning “They Drive By Night,” the 1940 Bogart film based on “The Long Haul,” a 1938 novel by A.I. Bezzerides. Bezzerides also wrote the 1949 novel “Thieves’ Market” and adapted it for the screen that same year [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Frank DeRosa’s Vendetta/Sharkmobile/Land Shark](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-frank-derosas-vendettasharkmobileland-shark/) - Where George Barris can point to the Batmobile as his chef d’oeuvre, his contemporary, Frank DeRosa, can claim this 1960 Cadillac for sale on Hemmings.com as his own masterpiece. In fact, Pittsburg, California-based DeRosa, who has since been inducted into the Oakland Roadsters Hall of Fame, has said that this car was specifically built as [...]
- [Shelby American’s April Fool’s joke fools the world](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/shelby-americans-april-fools-joke-fools-the-world/) - Sometime late last week, the breathless e-mails started rolling in. The gist: Senator Chuck Schumer thinks you’re rich and wants to levy a special tax on all collector cars! This will destroy the hobby and must be stopped! Included was the text of an authentic-looking press release.: Washington, D.C. – AP. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) [...]
- [Economaki’s legacy, to the highest bidder](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/economakis-legacy-to-the-highest-bidder/) - Trust us, we’d be happier if we didn’t have to report this. Most everyone involved in the world of motorsports already knows that National Speed Sport News, the weekly newspaper founded by Chris Economaki in 1934, has ceased publication. The fruits of Chris’s storied life as a founder of American racing journalism are going under [...]
- [Ray Russell’s sectioned shoebox and other modified Fords](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ray-russells-sectioned-shoebox-and-other-modified-fords/) - A while back, Paul Bellefeuille let us borrow a few of his copies of Ford Times, Ford’s in-house monthly magazine that ran from 1908 to 1996, and after some perusing, we came across somebody who should be familiar to faithful Hemmings Blog readers, Ray Russell, he of the Gadabout and the hydraulic-drive and plastic-bodied cars. [...]
- [Welcome to Murray Country](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/welcome-to-murray-country/) - Of all the places in the world where you’d expect to find American muscle cars, Australia’s not that high on the list thanks to their own muscle car movement that roughly paralleled ours. But Australia never had NASCAR, nor did they have the Mopar wing cars, so Bandit Films (the group behind “The Squire,” which [...]
- [Concorso Ferrari 2011: A Rare Glimpse of Beauty](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/concorso-ferrari-2011-a-rare-glimpse-of-beauty/) - Among the very special, rarely seen Ferraris participating in this year’s Concorso Ferrari in Old Pasadena, California, will be the event’s headliner – the stunning 1956 250 GT long wheelbase Berlinetta, serial number 0515 GT, belonging to noted Italian car collector David Sydorick. Mr. Sydorick’s 250 GT was bodied by Milan’s famous Carrozzeria Zagato at [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1989 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1989-chevrolet-camaro-iroc-z/) - Two years ago, you couldn’t bring up the topic of third-generation Camaros without somebody inevitably dropping a mullet into the conversation. Nowadays, we’re seeing clean, well-kept, original third-gens – such as this 1989 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z for sale on Hemmings.com – starting to come out of the woodwork and being taken seriously as collector cars. [...]
- [Big Red Pulls in the Bids at Mecum’s Gone Farmin’](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/big-red-pulls-in-the-bids-at-mecums-gone-farmin/) - The 1966 Farmall 1206 turbo diesel we wrote about here last month turned out to be the top sale at Mecum’s recent Gone Farmin’ Spring Tractor Auction. The 100-plus horsepower oil burner hauled in an impressive $24,000 at the March 26 sale in Walwoth, Wisconsin. All told, 150 tractors crossed the block, and the sell-through [...]
- [Mystery Special, Palm Springs, March 1955](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mystery-special-palm-springs-march-1955/) - Erich Schultz is looking for a bit of help identifying a mystery racer spotted in a video of the March 1955 Palm Springs races that The Chicane posted last year. (Worth checking out – ever seen an Alfa Romeo B.A.T. in action?) The car, 192c, first appears at about the 4:36 mark, taking a corner [...]
- [“Remember: Keep to the left”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/remember-keep-to-the-left/) - Ah, British humor (erm, ahem, humour)… A brief look at the North Circular (including the Ace Cafe!) from “Not Only But Also,” Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s sketch show. Thanks for the tip, diskojoe!
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Nash-Healey](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1953-nash-healey-2/) - While Pinin Farina’s designs for the rest of the Nash lineup in the early 1950s might have missed the mark just a little bit (though they certainly were distinctive…), it seems very few people feel the same way about the design house’s work on the Nash-Healey, Kenosha’s toe-dip into the burgeoning post-war sports car trend. [...]
- [Mr. October arrives in May](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mr-october-arrives-in-may/) - If you know anything at all about American muscle cars, you know that the baseball hall of famer Reggie Jackson is part of the tribe. It’s not unusual at all to attend any high-end auction and spot Mr. October, the World Series legend, among the interested shoppers. Here comes Reggie now to Auburn, Indiana, where [...]
- [The Porsche Museum’s Competitive Road Show](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-porsche-museums-competitive-road-show/) - The Porsche Museum is not one of those stuffy museums where people can look at pretty, if lifeless, automobiles that, in their immobility, are shells of their former selves. Indeed, and as you might expect from an automaker like Porsche, these beautifully restored cars are often called back into duty in the name of historic [...]
- [Field trip to a dirt parking lot, circa 1957](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/field-trip-to-a-dirt-parking-lot-circa-1957/) - Photo by Rueben Greene, courtesy northbennington.org Exactly where the above photo was taken we’re not 100 percent sure. According to Robert Woolmington, who provided the photo from the Rueben Greene collection, it’s been suggested that the location was either somewhere west of Shaftsbury, Vermont, or possibly over in Saratoga Springs, New York. We tend to [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1937 Ford Ute](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1937-ford-ute/) - We here in the States at least know about the utes of Australia, but without having them scattered across the countryside, we’ve obviously attached no culture to them, so a few details in this Hemmings.com ad for a 1937 Ford Ute escape us. Can you Australians in the audience enlighten us: How widespread are modified [...]
- [SIA Flashback – The Krueger Special Returns](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-the-krueger-special-returns/) - Some cars you can easily slot in with the rest of the automotive pantheon. Other cars – like the Krueger Special – not so much. As J. William Lamm related in SIA #92, April 1986, it started out as a Duesenberg Model A, but over the years received enough modifications to make it nearly uncategorizable. [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Toyota FJ45](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1965-toyota-fj45/) - We’ve featured a few FJs before here on the Hemmings Find of the Day, but none quite like this 1965 Toyota FJ45 for sale on Hemmings.com, which has been treated to a number of upgrades, including a Cummins engine swap and five-speed manual transmission. From the seller’s description: I am offering for sale my Cummins [...]
- [Four-Links – RIP Bill Tritt, traffic signals galore, Martians on Vespas, Pontiac Phantom](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-rip-bill-tritt-traffic-signals-galore-martians-on-vespas-pontiac-phantom/) - * News came to us through our friend Geoff Hacker that fiberglass pioneer Bill Tritt died last week at age 93. * After this week’s post on the Iowa Highway System, circa 1960, we came across Caution Optional, Ed T.’s blog on traffic signals and the enthusiasts who collect them. * Martians on Vespas? Will [...]
- [“Hard men who drove by night… on the wrong side of the law!”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hard-men-who-drove-by-night-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-law/) - In last week’s post on “Hell Drivers,” Gene Herman pointed out another postwar crime noir film that involves trucking, though this one in a more American style: “Thieves’ Highway” from 1949, which starred Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, and Lee Cobb. As with “Hell Drivers,” the trailer didn’t show much of the trucking aspect – more [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Ford Sportsman](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1947-ford-sportsman/) - Much like Chrysler’s Town and Country, the Ford Sportsman – introduced for 1946 and discontinued just two years later – is a highly desirable car today, but also one that requires a dump truck-load of skill in woodworking to both restore and maintain properly. Thus, this 1947 Ford Sportsman for sale on Hemmings.com, partway through [...]
- [A flock of Road Runners](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-flock-of-road-runners/) - What’s more fun than one Road Runner? A whole flock of them cruising down a sun-baked desert highway, of course. All that’s missing from this image is a hapless coyote being run off the road by Hemi power. Automotive artist Michael Irvine is known for his prowess at capturing high-performance rides in watercolor, and his [...]
- [Four angels from GM heaven](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-angels-from-gm-heaven/) - I, at least, wasn’t born in time to find myself enraptured by the treasures of the original General Motors Motorama as it appeared in 1953. This may be the next best scenario any of us is likely to experience. Mecum’s annual Spring Classic Auction in Indianapolis will have a Motorama-themed sale involving four spectacular GM [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Chevrolet Sprint](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-chevrolet-sprint/) - As we’ve already seen in the cars we’ve so far discussed for the Class of 1986, it was a year that saw quite a few significant brand and model introductions: the Ford Taurus, the Acura line, the Hyundai line, even the Yugo. For this week’s candidate for the Class of 1986, let’s consider another U.S. [...]
- [World celebrates the centennial of the Octo-Auto](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/world-celebrates-the-centennial-of-the-octo-auto/) - This year marks the centennial of one of America’s best-loved and most influential automobile designs of all time: Of course, we’re referring to the Reeves Octo-Auto. As the vehicle that made Columbus, Indiana, the automotive captial that it is today turns 100, fans around the globe are lining up a year’s worth of celebrations. “I [...]
- [Earl Gilmore, the godfather of all dekotora](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/earl-gilmore-the-godfather-of-all-dekotora/) - If you’re spent any time at all on the Intertubes, I’m sure you’ve seen photos of the dekotora – those brightly lit and garishly decorated trucks in Japan. As David Greenlees showed us recently on The Old Motor, they weren’t the first to festoon their trucks with lights – Earl B. Gilmore, of Gilmore Oil, [...]
- [Ferrari 250 GT Lusso and Vincent Black Knight rule the day at Webb’s Auction House in New Zealand](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ferrari-250-gt-lusso-and-vincent-black-knight-rule-the-day-at-webbs-auction-house-in-new-zealand/) - We have only gotten preliminary information on the auction results for the March 22 sale at Webb’s Auction House in New Zealand, but the prices we do have are stratospheric. Although the auction resulted in about $1.4 million (NZ) in total sales, one of the feature cars, a 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso, was sold [...]
- [Fond folio on Ford’s fantastic Forty](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/fond-folio-on-fords-fantastic-forty/) - Even the craziest Chevrolet followers admit that Ford was playing a lot of hits before World War II. One of those runway delights was the 1940 Ford, an immortal, eternal icon of Dearborn’s greatest years. Joseph P. Cabadas, who authored photo histories on auto production and the giant Ford works at River Rouge, has introduced [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Plymouth GTX](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1967-plymouth-gtx/) - Before enthusiasts started restoring them to factory (or day two) condition, you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a modified muscle car. Engine swaps, transmission swaps, hood scoops, tape decks, it was all fair game, and Mopars seemed more susceptible to modifications than most muscle cars. But some made it through that time intact [...]
- [Neighborhood terror – the Rupp Chevy Jr](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/neighborhood-terror-the-rupp-chevy-jr/) - The fields at Hershey are lousy with go-karts and mini-bikes every year, but this one in particular caught my eye last fall, with its orange fiberglass body sculptured to look like the 1962 Corvair Monza SS concept car, complete with the turbine-look wheels and concave tail panel. It even had a rear-mounted engine for maximum [...]
- [Pre-Interstate road trip through Iowa](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pre-interstate-road-trip-through-iowa/) - I know, the Iowa Department of Transportation has to be about the unlikeliest source of entertainment, and much of their Vimeo video stream looks like a snooze fest, but we did enjoy their “Highway Relocations,” if not for the thrilling narrative, then for the views of cars and trucks as they were in middle America [...]
- [Preserving a warrior’s legacy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/preserving-a-warriors-legacy/) - Bruce Hays’s original plan was to restore a complete, but somewhat worn, 1959 Chevrolet Apache pickup that he’d bought to give to his wife as an anniversary present. Hays was a Desert Storm veteran and a captain in the Wyoming National Guard. He was recalled to duty in Afghanistan, and killed there in 2008. Hays [...]
- [Parts-O-Plenty: AMC](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/parts-o-plenty-amc/) - If you’re in the midst of an AMC restoration, Ontario, Canada-based Jim’s Restoration has released a number of new reproduction parts in recent months, beginning with the rearview mirror pictured above. Applicable to owners of 1964-’66 AMC/Ramblers, the left/right mirror features a correct “R” and comes with an appropriate gasket for $129; it is also [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 A.C. Aceca](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1960-a-c-aceca/) - With the Tojeiro predecessor and the Cobra successor(ssssss), it’s far too easy to skip over the A.C. Ace as just the car that Shelby stuck a V-8 in. In actuality, A.C. built some intriguing cars based on the tube-chassis, independently suspended platform, including this 1960 A.C. Aceca for sale on Hemmings.com with the A.C. (not [...]
- [Mighty mini motoring at the Glenmoor Gathering](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mighty-mini-motoring-at-the-glenmoor-gathering/) - While the cars on the show field at the Glenmoor Gathering last year (including the Avanti sedan prototypes and Powel Crosley’s Duesenberg) presented quite a spectacular sight, so did many of the miniatures gathered under one of the tents just off the show field. I managed to slide a photo of Fiore DiBernardo’s 39-percent-scale 1939 [...]
- [March Military Campaign – paleofuturistic vision of war vehicles in the year 2000](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/march-military-campaign-paleofuturistic-vision-of-war-vehicles-in-the-year-2000/) - These “En L’An 2000″ postcards from circa 1910 have been circulating around the Intertubes in recent days, and the set includes at least a few images of interest to car folk, including the above, “Automobiles de Guerre,” and below, “Eclaireurs Cyclistes,” that depict armored vehicles in the time before Christie, et al, introduced the treaded [...]
- [Corvette World Tribute to gather famous Corvette racers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/corvette-world-tribute-to-gather-famous-corvette-racers/) - Corvette racing enthusiasts, mark your calendars: August 18-21 will be the ultimate celebration of competition Corvettes. A joint venture between Road America and Corvette Racing to celebrate Chevrolet’s 100th anniversary will bring out all the stars and cars that have made Corvettes some of the winningest cars in racing history. There will be noteworthy displays [...]
- [Popular Marty Schorr Mopar and Pontiac muscle car books re-released](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/popular-marty-schorr-mopar-and-pontiac-muscle-car-books-re-released/) - Back when Detroit was first getting serious about mass-producing high-output models, car magazines provided enthusiasts with a direct line to the latest developments, and right in the thick of it was Martyn Schorr, who spent most of the ’60s and early ’70s as the editor of High Performance Cars magazine. The position afforded Schorr the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Hudson Hornet Custom](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1957-hudson-hornet-custom/) - Some people refuse to admit that Hudson built cars after the merger with Nash – they claim instead that it was American Motors building cars with Hudson nameplates. Then again, some people can’t help but love the so-called “Hashes,” and those people are going to get a kick out of this 1957 Hudson Hornet Custom [...]
- [All four Hemmings publications now available digitally](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/all-four-hemmings-publications-now-available-digitally/) - When we first launched the digital edition of Hemmings Motor News three years ago, the plan all along was to make sure that each of our four print publications – Hemmings Motor News, Hemmings Classic Car, Hemmings Muscle Machines and Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car – could be had in both physical, read-it-in-the-wilderness form and [...]
- [Looking for memories of Palm Springs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/looking-for-memories-of-palm-springs/) - We’ve featured Art Evans in the Hemmings print and cyber-pages a bunch of times. He’s a documenter, a ranked historian, of the early road-racing scene in Southern California; the author of retrospectives on Torrey Pines, Pebble Beach and other early locales. He’s now looking for your help on a new project. He hopes to eventually [...]
- [Yankee Motorcycle turns 40](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/yankee-motorcycle-turns-40/) - Schenectady, New York, was once the “The City that Lights and Hauls the World,” – an industrial powerhouse and home to General Electric’s headquarters as well as the American Locomotive Company. These days, the Electric City has fewer bright spots; GE, largely thought to be on its way out of town completely during the Neutron [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1939 SS Jaguar 100](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1939-ss-jaguar-100/) - Jaguar is known and loved around the world for two things: its cosseting luxury cars and its beautiful sports cars. The E-type may get all of the press today for its golden anniversary, but the SS Jaguar roadster was where the marque’s sporting line originated. Jaguar celebrated its 75th anniversary during last year’s New York [...]
- [Unique Hertz Shelby barn find comes up for auction at Leake San Antonio](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/unique-hertz-shelby-barn-find-comes-up-for-auction-at-leake-san-antonio/) - What’s the next big thing in Texas after SXSW? We vote for Leake’s upcoming auction in San Antonio, set for April 8 and 9 in the Freeman Coliseum. Here’s one of the lots, and according to the Leake folks, this is a legit barn-find car. This 1966 Shelby G.T.350 is presented as being completely unrestored [...]
- [March Military Campaign – Ford’s other WWII four-wheel-drive vehicles](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/march-military-campaign-fords-other-wwii-four-wheel-drive-vehicles/) - Regular HCC Lost and Found readers will recall the photo above, sent in by Vince Montague of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, following the story on the Minneapolis-Moline NTX that I wrote for HCC #69, June 2010. Through some digging in Crismon, we determined that the four-wheel-drive vehicle in Vince’s photo was not an NTX, but a Ford [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1972-chevrolet-monte-carlo-2/) - If you haven’t noticed, lowrider culture has started to come in from the cold, so to speak, with the traditional collector car community. It still has a long way to go, and it’s still very regional – if there’s a lowrider at all in the Northeast, I’d be shocked – but there is a measure [...]
- [SIA Flashback – 1956 Cadillac Station Wagon: Prestigious People Hauler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-1956-cadillac-station-wagon-prestigious-people-hauler/) - The more you look at these photos of the Hess and Eisenhardt-built 1956 Cadillac Custom View Master station wagon, the more you wonder exactly how much of it was scratchbuilt by the Ohio-based coachbuilding company. The faux wood trim certainly looks like Mercury’s, as stated in the article that Josiah Work wrote for SIA #92, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Buick Riviera GS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1972-buick-riviera-gs/) - Plenty of people don’t like the boattail Riviera one bit. I am not one of those people – I think it’s an awesome car, with just enough throwback design elements, but not so many to turn it into a garish exercise in rose-colored glasses nostalgia. I’m sure plenty of people will also not like the [...]
- [Four-Links – another round-the-world GPA, Triple Trouble, Bay Area dirt-track racing, blasting cabinet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-another-round-the-world-gpa-triple-trouble-bay-area-dirt-track-racing-blasting-cabinet/) - * Wes Kibble recently pointed out that Ben Carlin wasn’t the only guy who tried to take a Ford GPA around the world. Inspired by Carlin, Lionel Forge made his own plans for a GPA round-the-world trip, using a salvaged craft (GPA #4545) fitted with the top half of a 1949 Dodge station wagon. Forge [...]
- [Feel the Elegance – 1970 Lincoln Continental Mark III](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/feel-the-elegance-1970-lincoln-continental-mark-iii/) - Claims of survivor automobiles can often be debunked by the tell-tale trail of an orbital sander, or yellowed plastic interior bits that belie the like-new condition of the exterior paint. Worse yet is a glaring tin-pot head of a modern grade zero hardware store bolt holding on a fender. Not so with this 460-cubic-inch V-8-powered [...]
- [Glenn Pray, originator of the replica Cord, dies](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/glenn-pray-originator-of-the-replica-cord-dies/) - Image courtesy David Turner Replica cars have become, over the last few decades, something of a mixture between automotive curiosity, automotive battleground, and automotive joke. Cheap unauthorized fiberglass imitations have led many people to dismiss the concept of replicars entirely, but it hasn’t always been that way, and not every replicar manufacturer worked out of [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1955 Jaguar XK140MC](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1955-jaguar-xk140mc/) - Jaguar? But it looks more Mediterranean, both inside and out. Like maybe a Maserati or a Pegaso. There’s even a hint of Ferrari in those fenders. But indeed, this 1955 Jaguar XK140MC wears a body designed and built by Ghia. As if that weren’t enough, the MC suffix means that its dual overhead-camshaft engine runs [...]
- [Auction Pulse: JB’s BB](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-jbs-bb/) - Formula 1 world champ Jenson Button has come up with a new sideline: By buying a sports car, seemingly at any price, he can drive it for a year or so and sell it at auction at a profit. His latest is a real cracker, a 1978 Ferrari 512BB he bought last April at H&H [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Oldsmobile Toronado](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-oldsmobile-toronado/) - Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com Looking back over the vehicles we’ve so far selected for the Class of 1986, we can pretty quickly come to a couple conclusions about the vehicles in showrooms that year. One, it was a year that saw great downsizing, thanks in part to the previous decade’s fuel crises and to the early [...]
- [Giants Despair, 1959](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/giants-despair-1959/) - Over at The Old Motor, contributor Ivan Pozega recently shared a couple photos of the Giants Despair hillclimb in Pennsylvania, circa 1959, showing a Lotus 11 and a pair of Elvas above and Roger Penske in a Porsche RSK below. See how many other cars you can identify. UPDATE: As reader Ron Mann pointed out [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 BMW Isetta 600](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1959-bmw-isetta-600/) - One of the cars that will debut with BMW’s recently announced i sub-brand will be a small, smart/iQ-sized urban runabout called the i3. While it will inevitably present a compact, eco-friendly footprint that will likely seat two adults and a midget or two, you can already find most of those attributes in this 1959 BMW [...]
- [Mid-year Convertible is Tops at Kansas City, selling for $188,000](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mid-year-convertible-is-tops-at-kansas-city-selling-for-188000/) - The top sale from Mecum’s recent Kansas City auction? A 1965 Corvette Convertible 396/425hp, four-speed with Bloomington Gold Benchmark status that changed hands for $188,000. The well-preserved Rally Red big-block was one of a total of six Corvettes among the top 10 highest sales reported during the two-day auction, March 11-12. Gross sales from the [...]
- [Bonhams to auction off several cafe racers at Stafford](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bonhams-to-auction-off-several-cafe-racers-at-stafford/) - While TA wrote last month about the Vinnylonglegs Vincent crossing the auction block in the Bonhams Stafford auction on April 24, that same auction will also feature a number of vintage cafe racers. Some of these names you may not recognize, but they have a few things in common. All are European-built, with road racing [...]
- [From the My Hemmings pages: Jig’s ’59](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-my-hemmings-pages-jigs-59/) - We’ve all gone through the family albums and seen at least a car or two that we wish one of our elders would have hung on to for us to enjoy nowadays. For most of us, those cars have been out of reach since grampa sold ‘em off for $25, but for 59BlueBomber over on [...]
- [“Keep straight on. Let the road look after itself.”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/keep-straight-on-let-the-road-look-after-itself/) - Last week we took a look at “Sorcerer,” and this week, BigLorryBlog turned us on to another truckin’ film, Cy Endfield’s “Hell Drivers” from 1957. What at first seems to be typical mid-1950s B-movie fare actually has plenty of good reviews, based more on the plot (ex-con takes a job at a corrupt trucking firm [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Oleg Cassini AMC Matador](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-oleg-cassini-amc-matador/) - We know what you’re thinking. Another Matador? What on earth did the husband of Gene Tierney and official designer for first lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s wardrobe have to do with this mighty 1974 AMC Matador? Everything. Cassini lent a further touch of class to the already elegant Matador. The designer Matador was a pre-emptive strike against [...]
- [Truck farming the Dixie way](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/truck-farming-the-dixie-way/) - What’s a Currituck? It’s the name of a county at the extreme northeastern corner of North Carolina, divided by a sound that separates the mainland and county seat from the northern reaches of the Outer Banks. Its rich, moist soil is ideal for growing truck crops, to use the name we all learned in grade-school [...]
- [Strange dune buggies and neo-classics in Old Town](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/strange-dune-buggies-and-neo-classics-in-old-town/) - Took a little vacation down Florida way the last several days – a get-outta-the-cold, get-some-sand-under-your-toes trip – and ran across a nice-sized cruise-in at Old Town in Kissimmee. Typical cruise night fare, for the most part – plenty of Chevrolets from the 1950s and 1960s, and plenty of For Sale signs – though I noticed [...]
- [Mercifully Aged 1961 Mercedes 300 SL Roadster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mercifully-aged-1961-mercedes-300-sl-roadster/) - Back in the salad days of the Nineties dot-com boom, we eked out a living painting sets for television and movies. Tasks included making many new things look old, which included building a ship set inside a restored WWII-vintage Liberty ship. Why? Glossy new stuff looks phony on film, because glossy new stuff does not [...]
- [Goodbye, Billy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/goodbye-billy/) - On Wednesday, March 16, the collector-car community lost one of its most colorful characters, Billy Thompson, of White Post Restorations. Billy was well known not only for the fine restorations that his company produced and the many thousands of brake cylinders that they rebuilt, but for his humor, honesty and willingness to do what it [...]
- [Bristol Cars goes on the block](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bristol-cars-goes-on-the-block/) - From England comes the unhappy news that Bristol Cars, a maker of handbuilt, high-performance cars for discriminating (and wealthy) buyers for more than 60 years, has gone into bankruptcy. Up for grabs are all of Bristol’s assets, including its sole showroom in High Street Kensington, West London; its factory and restoration shop at Filton, just [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 Chrysler Town and Country](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1948-chrysler-town-and-country/) - The last 1948 Chrysler Town and Country we selected as a Hemmings Find of the Day drew some scorn because of the Cadillac engine that had been transplanted under its hood. Fear not, then: This 1948 Chrysler Town and Country still has the Chrysler flathead straight-eight powering that elegant wooden body. However, this one is [...]
- [Drag racing returns to Orange, Massachusetts](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/drag-racing-returns-to-orange-massachusetts/) - Drag racing in New England hasn’t always been relegated to Epping, New Hampshire. In fact, the region saw plenty of side-by-side action from the 1950s onward on a number of tracks, many of them repurposed airstrips. One of the longest lived of those tracks was the one at Orange, Massachusetts, where drag racing will return [...]
- [Making a miracle in Montana](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/making-a-miracle-in-montana/) - We found members of the fire department in Billings, Montana, engaged in a fascinating project that they’re documenting through a photo page on Facebook. International Association of Fire Fighters Local 521 is restoring this nicely complete 1949 Seagrave canopy-cab pumper, a great-looking fire truck if there ever was one. Seagrave first introduced the all-steel open [...]
- [Cladding for Camaros](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/cladding-for-camaros/) - Let’s say you were a twentysomething mullet-head just when Ronald Reagan was getting comfortable in the White House. You therefore have to remember the big kaboom that resulted when Chevrolet unveiled its third-generation Camaro. The aftermarket for body add-ons swelled to the proportions of a Baltic GDP. So we know a lot of people will [...]
- [Pinto Pilgrimage Powers to Pennsylvania](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pinto-pilgrimage-powers-to-pennsylvania/) - Ford’s Pinto really wasn’t a miserable car to drive, thanks to its responsive rack-and-pinion steering and a gutsy overhead cam engine, but it became the poster car for Detroit’s arrogance after Mother Jones published the story “Pinto Madness,” which accused Ford of knowingly selling a car that could explode in a rear-impact accident. Under pressure, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Packard Caribbean](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1953-packard-caribbean/) - Certainly, no car is universally admired. There will always be somebody out there who will turn his nose up at any car you offer him. That said, there aren’t that many collector-car enthusiasts out there who would turn their nose up at a Packard Caribbean, and this particular 1953 Packard Caribbean looks like a beaut. [...]
- [The GJG on the track](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-gjg-on-the-track/) - During last year’s March Military Campaign, we introduced you to Private Lewis van Alstyne of the New York Guard and the distinctive roadster that David Greenlees later identified as a GJG. A couple more photos surfaced a couple of months later, and just recently, we received one of the clearest photos yet of the GJG, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1961 Cushman Eagle](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1961-cushman-eagle/) - If you have any aspirations of joining a scooter gang, then you need more than just the leather jacket, jack boots and brass knuckles – you need a bad motor scooter, something like this 1961 Cushman Super Eagle with its 8hp engine and Mikuni carburetor. From the seller’s description and the photos, it looks like [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Million Dollar Duesy: Harrah’s Auctions Over 300 Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-million-dollar-duesy-harrahs-auctions-over-300-cars/) - Nowadays, it’s not necessarily a headline grabber if a Duesenberg makes a million bucks at auction, and there are a couple dozen “auctions of a lifetime” every year. Not so in 1985, when Harrah’s conducted the next-to-last of their liquidation sales and Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza, bought a 1929 Duesenberg Model J [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1980 Land Rover Series III](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1980-land-rover-series-iii/) - Ready to drive around the world? And to do it on a budget? You probably won’t find a much better start than this ex-Australian 1980 Land Rover Series III FFR, which already has some of the outfitting (long-range fuel tanks, dual batteries) done for you. From the seller’s description: original drivetrain with Fairey overdrive added. [...]
- [Hemmings Saturday Cinema – Hot Rod Girl](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-saturday-cinema-hot-rod-girl/) - Apologies to those of you looking forward to our weekly Four-Links this weekend; I simply ran out of time this week to curate a good selection of collector car-related links from around the Interwebs. Instead, I did come across the 1956 drive-in staple Hot Rod Girl in its entirety over on the Internet Archive, so [...]
- [Swing down, sweet chariot: Collecting a Cadillac](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/swing-down-sweet-chariot-collecting-a-cadillac/) - Continuing today’s Cadillac theme with something a little fresher, I had an unexpected call yesterday from Hemmings’ good friend Axel Catton, saying he was on his way to Bennington to pick up his new Cadillac. Axel, a former press officer for BMW (where he helped launch the Z1), Audi and Peugeot in Europe, has (as [...]
- [Catskill Cadillac Caper](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/catskill-cadillac-caper/) - We got a letter the other day from Art Van Aken, the longtime car and truck historian who lives in Gilboa, New York. Art is well known for his books on truck history, most recently covering the Sterling of Milwaukee. This time, he sent along a family photo to share with the Hemmings Nation. It [...]
- [TV Tommy Ivo: From child star to drag racing showman](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tv-tommy-ivo-from-child-star-to-drag-racing-showman/) - What a life. TV Tommy Ivo went from youth actor in the early television age (Margie, starring Cynthia Pepper, although Tommy’s even earlier cinema co-stars included Boris Karloff and Jerry Lewis) to an unstoppably wild drag-strip entertainer, an actor almost cyborg-melded with a race car. It was, therefore, perhaps inevitable that TV Tommy was going [...]
- [Auction Preview: L88 Corvette highlights Mecum Spring Classic](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-preview-l88-corvette-highlights-mecum-spring-classic/) - While Mecum Auctions was in full go-mode at their big event in Kansas City on March 11-12, they have been spending time organizing and accepting consignments for their 24th Annual Indy Spring Classic on May 17-22 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis. Mecum officials recently announced that a collection of 16 cars and 14 [...]
- [AACA Museum’s Darwin Clark honored with Lee Iacocca Award](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/aaca-museums-darwin-clark-honored-with-lee-iacocca-award/) - Each year, the Antique Automobile Club of America picks one individual to receive its Lee Iacocca Award, presented for continuing excellence in promoting the history of automobiles. This year’s award has gone to Darwin E. Clark, president of the AACA Museum‘s board of directors. Darwin is as strong a car enthusiast as you’ll find on [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1971 Chevrolet Corvette](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1971-chevrolet-corvette/) - Is this 1971 Chevrolet Corvette the ultimate small-block Corvette? Not only is it an LT-1, four-speed, convertible, but it’s also been subjected to a full restoration (look at that underhood shot and try not to say “wow”) that was worth some impressive hardware from NCRS. From the seller’s description: Frame-off restoration completed in 2003, 2004 [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Yugo GV](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-yugo-gv/) - Image courtesy Zastava Yugo Page The Yugo. In past Class of 1986 exercises, we can see how at least most of the candidates for the Class of 1986 had inspired some sort of admiration, if only for some matter of significance. We’re failing to see much to admire the more we look into the Yugo. [...]
- [B&M Acquires Flowmaster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bm-acquires-flowmaster/) - Earlier this week, B&M Automotive Group made the announcement that it had acquired Flowmaster Inc., and would be adding the exhaust company to its growing portfolio of performance aftermarket brands. Most performance fans know B&M as the company that established itself back in the ’50s as one of the pioneers of high-performance automatic transmission components, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Datsun 2000](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1969-datsun-2000/) - Think about who would be the ideal seller of a car. Somebody who knows nothing about it, or somebody with 30 years’ experience taking them apart and putting them back together? In the case of this 1969 Datsun 2000, you get the latter for a seller, so one would presume there won’t be any surprises [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Harcum’s Hideaway](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-harcums-hideaway/) - 1940 Cadillac Usually when cars from an estate sale by an auction company that doesn’t specialize in collector cars come in, I’m not blown away. Typically, there’s a Model A, maybe a Mustang and a bunch of parts. But Apple Tree’s sale of the David and June Harcum collection, while relatively small, has some seriously [...]
- [Show Season Spotlight: Charlotte AutoFair](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/show-season-spotlight-charlotte-autofair/) - The spring edition of the Charlotte AutoFair is right around the corner – April 7-10, to be exact – hosted by the Hornets Nest Region of the AACA and held on the sprawling grounds of Charlotte Motor Speedway located in Concord, North Carolina. If you plan on stopping in to partake in the Southeast’s largest [...]
- [Steve McQueen’s Porsche 911S to be auctioned in Monterey](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/steve-mcqueens-porsche-911s-to-be-auctioned-in-monterey/) - One thing we can attribute to the classic-car auction scene of recent years is its ability to turn the selling of significant cars into events, as iconic and influential bits of motoring history are made available to whoever can produce the highest bid. The excitement that results can be attributed, at least in part, to [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – a Packar…. wait a minute…](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-a-packar-wait-a-minute/) - Over on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, Hugo90, shared a couple of photos of a, well, Packard, that he photographed at a car show in Kalamazoo, Michigan, back in September 2004, and described as “a neo-classic of a sort.” We can identify many of the pieces that made up this car, but we can’t answer [...]
- [“Their Hopes, Their Dreams, Their Love… Tied to a Ribbon of Road”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/their-hopes-their-dreams-their-love-tied-to-a-ribbon-of-road/) - Our friend Geoff Hacker seems to be the world’s biggest fan of the movie Johnny Dark, and one can see why in the above trailer, interlude from Brock Yates, and racing scene: It’s full of fiberglass cars and one-off specials from the early 1950s. Geoff says it’s never been released on DVD, so good luck [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Plymouth Road Runner](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1973-plymouth-road-runner/) - Mopars have to be among the cars least likely to have their original engines, for a variety of reasons, and it seems that it’s an across-the-board affliction for them, from the lowliest straight-six car to the top 440-powered beast. So it’s refreshing to see that this 1973 Plymouth Road Runner not only has its original [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Springsteen’s Tri-Five](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-springsteens-tri-five/) - I never really thought about Bruce Springsteen as a car guy, but looking back over his catalog, it should have been obvious – “Born to Run,” “Thunder Road,” “Backstreets,” “Racing in the Street” – those are more than just casual nods to car culture, they’re the work of someone who’s had his hands under a [...]
- [Ferrari Mexico hammers for $4.29 million at RM’s Amelia auction](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ferrari-mexico-hammers-for-4-29-million-at-rms-amelia-auction/) - Florida’s Amelia Island has long been home to the exquisite Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, the first prominent American concours of the year. Set on the ocean at the lavish Ritz-Carlton hotel, founder and chairman Bill Warner‘s four-day affair has become one of the most anticipated and enjoyable events in the old-car hobby. This year’s 16th [...]
- [Car Spotting: Yesterday’s Hershey!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/car-spotting-yesterdays-hershey/) - How many of us would love to stumble across a field of collectible cars like this? Each of them in ready-to-drive condition, no less? The picture came from a friend of mine who snapped it upon arrival at the AACA Hershey meet in 1969. At that time, the majority of the car show and swap [...]
- [A Big Return](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-big-return/) - We got some immediate and grateful response from readers to the recent story in Hemmings Muscle Machines, illustrated with the photography of Mike Sopko, on bygone drag racing at U.S. 30 Dragway outside Gary, Indiana. (HMM #90, March 2011). Hands down, the craziest car in that story was No Big Thing, a tiny Vespa sedan [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1949 Aston Martin DB1](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1949-aston-martin-db1/) - Not just anybody can decide one day they’re going to go racing and show up at the 24 Hours of Le Mans ready to go. No, they need to have a number of things taken care of first, including a competition license and some racing experience. Yet in 1949, Brit Bob Lawrie, a complete amateur, [...]
- [Tomy Buys RC2 – what will this mean for Tomica and Johnny Lightning collectors?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tomy-buys-rc2-what-will-this-mean-for-tomica-and-johnny-lightning-collectors/) - Tomy, makers of Tomica-brand diecast cars and playsets, announced last week that they will buy RC2 Corp., maker of Johnny Lightning-brand die-cast cars, outright, in a deal valued at $640 million. Tomy is increasing its foreign penetration, in part because toys are no longer a growth area in its home market of Japan, and in [...]
- [John Steers, fiberglass car pioneer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/john-steers-fiberglass-car-pioneer/) - Hemmings Muscle Machines readers will soon be opening their May issues to see a story on Steve Steers and his 1954 Victress S1A, the construction of which was at least partially inspired by the fiberglass and other homebuilt cars his father, John, built and raced while living in Palo Alto, California, in the late 1940s [...]
- [In a split second, it’s gone: Senna movie coming to the US](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/in-a-split-second-its-gone-senna-movie-coming-to-the-us/) - Formula 1 fans were apprehensive a few years ago when plans for a biopic about World Champion Ayrton Senna was announced – it’s been a long time since the last great racing film, and visions of Stallone’s Driven danced in our heads. Senna Director Asif Kapadia and screenwriter and executive producer Manish Pandey took a [...]
- [“And risk… the only thing they have left to lose…”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/and-risk-the-only-thing-they-have-left-to-lose/) - After reading Alex Kierstein’s post on “Wages of Fear” over on Hooniverse last week, I went looking for more information on the 1977 William Friedkin remake of the French classic, “Sorcerer.” No wonder that rope bridge scene was used for all the promotional materials for the film. Above, the trailer, and below, a tribute to [...]
- [Psst! Wanna job at Hemmings?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/psst-wanna-job-at-hemmings/) - We have two openings right now – one for a Web Designer and one for an Associate Editor.
- [Ducatis meet in New England](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ducatis-meet-in-new-england/) - The timeless designs of Ducati motorcycles will be honored at this summer’s New England Concours d’Elegance. This special class will pay homage to all the great motorcycles built by the dedicated manufacturer from Bologna; so to make this a truly memorable Ducati gathering, we are seeking several outstanding bikes. From single-cylinder Monzas and Scramblers to [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1971 BMW 2800CS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1971-bmw-2800cs/) - The same seller of this 1971 BMW 2800CS has at least a couple of other project cars for sale, including an Austin-Healey and an MG Midget, but it’s the BMW that caught our eye. It’s no 3.0CS, of course, but it is still a rather rare car, one of 349 2800s built that year, and [...]
- [Mullin Automotive Museum to open next month](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mullin-automotive-museum-to-open-next-month/) - Located in Oxnard, California, the Mullin Automotive Museum is scheduled to open its doors to the public on April 15. The museum, which will celebrate the Art Deco and machine age design eras (1918-1941) will have on permanent display exquisite art and furniture from that period. In addition, the 50,000-square-foot facility plans on exhibiting over [...]
- [Ford’s Piquette: History Saved](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/fords-piquette-history-saved/) - We hear a lot of anger from readers about the neglect and loss of America’s automobile history. We share it, too: Things are being lost that can never be recovered. The Big Three have only ever been halfhearted, at best, about conserving their heritage. When they could have afforded to do something, they didn’t, and [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – house and garage in California](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-house-and-garage-in-california/) - Eight-thousand, five-hundred square feet. And that’s just the total garage space. I think there are football stadiums smaller than that. To get an idea of how much garage space that is, check out the photo in the gallery below of the enclosed trailer dwarfed in an unused, warehouse-like section of the garages that come with [...]
- [SIA Flashback – What Shows Up At A GM Car Show?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-what-shows-up-at-a-gm-car-show/) - In latter decades, GM has been oft criticized for being staffed largely with pencil pushers and bean counters, not with real car people, but judging from the GM staffers who showed up to the inaugural vintage car show at the GM Tech Center in June 1985 – as related by Michael Lamm for SIA #91, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 M-422 Mighty Mite](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1962-m-422-mighty-mite/) - While the ad for this 1962 M-422 Mighty Mite gives plenty of history on the Mighty Mite in general (some of which we already covered in last year’s March Military Campaign), it gives little information on the vehicle itself, which really isn’t that big of a deal, because how often are you going to come [...]
- [Four-Links – the cars of Tintin, beach cars, dream garages, 1962 slot car champ Henry Harnish](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-the-cars-of-tintin-beach-cars-dream-garages-1962-slot-car-champ-henry-harnish/) - * Dr. Hypercube (via BibliOdyssey) shot this one over to us: François de Dardel has gone through a number of Tintin volumes, picked out the cars and trucks shown in them, and tried his hand at identifying them all. For a comic style, Hergé sure seemed intent on reproducing vehicles fairly accurately. * Thought the [...]
- [So you wanna know which movies we’re playing at the drive-in for Collector Car Appreciation Day?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/so-you-wanna-know-which-movies-were-playing-at-the-drive-in-for-collector-car-appreciation-day/) - Remember, July 8, bring your collector cars to the National Collector Car Appreciation Day celebration with Hemmings at the drive-in. And which films will Hathaway’s be showing that night?
- [Turbo Charged Chicken](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/turbo-charged-chicken/) - Burt Reynolds? Nuh-uh. Jerry Reed in Smokey in the Bandit 3? Nope. Whether Jackie Gleason himself conceived the turbocharged Trans Am somewhere in between Music, Martinis, and Memories and the early Eighties is uncertain, but we do know this. Given the proximity of the turbocharger and the four-barrel carburetor on top of the 301-cubic-inch V-8, [...]
- [Cinema with an uplifting script](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/cinema-with-an-uplifting-script/) - Photos by Michael Brown If you read any of the Hemmings titles, you have to know that one of our world’s most faithful friends was the late Chip Miller. He was co-founder of the Carlisle franchise, and just may be the most committed Corvette collector of all time. The story of his quest to get [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1931 Rolls-Royce estate wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1931-rolls-royce-estate-wagon/) - Man, I hardly get a smile or a mint on my pillow when I check into a hotel nowadays, let alone a ride to and from said hotel in a coachbuilt Rolls-Royce, but that’s exactly what visitors to the Hotel Schweizerhof in Zürich Interlaken in the 1950s got – a ride in this 1931 Rolls-Royce [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Mercedes-Benz 560SL](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-mercedes-benz-560sl/) - As Lentinello noted the other day, the Veteran Motor Car Club of America now allows vehicles up through the 1986 model year to participate in its tours and judging. For our Class of 1986 series, that simply means that we have another metric to judge a car’s collectibility by – would you see yourself driving [...]
- [March Military Campaign – Ford of Britain during World War II](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/march-military-campaign-ford-of-britain-during-world-war-ii/) - One of the several images that Ford of Britain has dug up from their archives to celebrate their centennial is the one above, in which Ford workers are assembling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. The aero engine assembly didn’t take place at Dagenham, rather at the factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, that Ford opened at the request [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 International Harvester Scout II](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1972-international-harvester-scout-ii/) - Every International Harvester product I’ve seen since coming to the Northeast – especially every Scout – goes up in rust like a kerosene-drenched bonfire. For that reason alone, this restored Massachusetts-based 1972 IH Scout II stands out. Add in the fire-engine red paint, the steelies, the V-8, and it appears to be an exceptional early [...]
- [Daytona Bike Week wraps up with Saturday’s Daytona 200](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/daytona-bike-week-wraps-up-with-saturdays-daytona-200/) - Bike week officially started last Saturday for the partiers and snowbirds looking for a bike-related spring break from this difficult winter. But the big event of the week is taking place Saturday afternoon at the Daytona International Speedway with the running of the historic Daytona 200. Practice begins this morning at the track, with sessions [...]
- [Ford of Britain celebrates 100 years](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ford-of-britain-celebrates-100-years/) - This week marks the centenary of the incorporation of Ford Motor Company (England) Limited, Henry Ford’s first overseas company. The paperwork was signed in London on March 8, 1911, and vehicle manufacture began later that year with the assembly of Model Ts in a former tramworks in the Manchester suburb of Trafford Park. By 1914, [...]
- [A Glimpse Futureward: A letter from Charles Duryea](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-glimpse-futureward-a-letter-from-charles-duryea/) - Charles Duryea, 1895, courtesy David Greenlees If anyone in America in 1896 was qualified to have an opinion on where the automobile would take us, it was Charles E. Duryea. Along with his brother J. Frank, he had been the sharp point of developing motorcars in the late 1880s, with their prototype rolling in the [...]
- [Some Old Ford](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/some-old-ford/) - Yesterday’s Squire video reminded me that I’ve yet to run the above video sent over to us by Ben Pender-Cudlip, featuring another Ford, this one a Z-code 1964 Galaxie 500XL.
- [Auction Preview: Mecum’s Kansas City Sale](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-preview-mecums-kansas-city-sale/) - Stop number two of the season for Mecum Auctions is their upcoming Kansas City sale, scheduled for this weekend at the Kansas City Convention Center – Bartle Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. A quick tour of their catalog online resulted in a few interesting lots, including the 1969 Boss 302 Mustang above. One of 194 [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1966 Wolverine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1966-wolverine/) - While the one-and-only 1966 Wolverine was indeed built for Jerry Hansen, it appears as though Hansen didn’t have much success with it, prompting him to sell it off and move to a McLaren for the 1967 season. Fortunately, the Wolverine didn’t fall by the wayside as many old, unsuccessful race cars have over the years, [...]
- [VMCCA Welcomes 1986 Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/vmcca-welcomes-1986-cars/) - Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com The Veteran Motor Car Club of America now allows cars and trucks up to the 1986 model year to take part in their fun-filled tours, as well as being eligible to be judged. And road tours are what this club focuses on, holding several dozen tours throughout every corner of the country [...]
- [Zombie Bugatti: A Continental with over-the-top aspirations](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/zombie-bugatti-a-continental-with-over-the-top-aspirations/) - Stutz set the pattern. In 1970, riding a current of neo-classical sentiments in the automotive world that brought about Brooks Stevens’s Excalibur and an attempt at resurrecting Duesenberg, the first new Stutz in 35 years was made available to the public. Sure, it had the guts of a Pontiac Grand Prix, but it had enough [...]
- [The Squire](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-squire/) - Tom Broadhurst over at Bandit Films recently sent over this short film he’s produced on Kyle, a bloke from Victoria, and his 1963 Ford Falcon Squire station wagon. We’re seeing more well-produced videos like this coming out nowadays, and w...
- [AACA Museum celebrates Women’s History Month with special exhibit](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/aaca-museum-celebrates-womens-history-month-with-special-exhibit/) - There are some countries in the world, very rich ones, that insult women by denying them driver’s licenses, not just the right to vote or go to school. Maybe the despots that run those places understand what we learned long ago, that cars can make people equal. In recognition of Women’s History Month, here’s a [...]
- [GM Parts-A-Plenty](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gm-parts-a-plenty/) - Whether you’re making an effort to keep your cherished ride in tip-top show-condition shape, or in the midst of a complete restoration, the hunt for correct parts is always in go mode. A small piece, but always front and center when you pop open the hood, is the glass fuel filter bowl. The image above [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Nash Metropolitan](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1960-nash-metropolitan/) - We’ve seen these sorts of hook-and-ladder conversions – meant primarily to ferry kids around amusement parks in the 1950s and 1960s – on Crosleys before, but this is the first one we’ve seen based on a Metro. The seller of this 1960 Metropolitan hasn’t yet included a description of it, but from the photos, we [...]
- [March Military Campaign – NASA puts the Dragon Wagon to work](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/march-military-campaign-nasa-puts-the-dragon-wagon-to-work/) - With a payload capacity of 262,000 pounds, the Saturn V is the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever used by NASA. So then what did NASA use to move it around? As the above photo from BigLorryBlog shows, NASA turned to a legendary 20-year old piece of war surplus. During World War II, the [...]
- [The Fitch-Whitmore’s bones](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-fitch-whitmores-bones/) - After this morning’s post by Donnelly on the Fitch-Whitmore Special appearing at RM’s Amelia Island auction this weekend, I thought it’d be appropriate to include this photo of the same car while under construction, one of several snapped by J.Frederick Smith and shared with The Old Motor last month by J.Frederick’s son, Sean S. Smith. [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1952 Chevrolet 3100](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1952-chevrolet-3100/) - Many collector-car enthusiasts seem to have this attitude that anytime a vehicle is modified in the least from its original configuration, then it’s a hot rod, for better or worse. Yet not every modified vehicle is a hot rod, as we see with this 1952 Chevrolet 3100 pickup. It’s not slammed on billet wheels, nor [...]
- [Goodguys Expands Autocross program for 2011](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/goodguys-expands-autocross-program-for-2011/) - For the past few seasons, the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association has been holding autocross competitions at some of its events, offering an alternative to the typical show-n-shine activities. One of the interesting outcomes of this program has been the apparent cultivation of a new crop of autocrossers who might not have gotten involved otherwise. [...]
- [XK One of One: RM to auction off the Fitch-Whitmore Special](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/xk-one-of-one-rm-to-auction-off-the-fitch-whitmore-special/) - We include this auction listing in part to support the immortal creator of this racing special, John Fitch, our pal and almost-neighbor from northwestern Connecticut. John joined with artist Coby Whitmore to plan an assault on the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1950. Both guys soon realized their Jaguar XK 120 was way too [...]
- [Remembering the Dutch-born rider who salvaged Harley’s knucklehead program](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/remembering-the-dutch-born-rider-who-salvaged-harleys-knucklehead-program/) - Photos from the Don Emde Collection, courtesy of Wheels Through Time Museum December 10th marked the 70th anniversary of the death of Frederick Ten Dan Ham, better known to motorcycling enthusiasts as AMA Hall of Fame member Fred Ham. Fred immigrated to the United States in the early Thirties and got a job as a [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Ford F750 fire truck](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1962-ford-f750-fire-truck/) - Owning a fire truck would be awesome – who among us as a kid wasn’t awestruck at seeing a fire truck in a parade or in action? – but there are a couple hidden expenses with owning and operating one, even one such as this 1962 Ford F750. First, you’ve gotta stock up on candy [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Now and Then: 1965 Versus 1985 Volvo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-now-and-then-1965-versus-1985-volvo/) - Piggybacking on McCourt’s recent post on racing the Volvo 745T, let’s take a look at this comparison test from SIA #90, December 1985, in which Arch Brown drove a 1965 Volvo 122S and a 1985 Volvo DL back to back and recorded his impressions. No major surprises – especially considering Brown’s admitted fondness for Swedish [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1929 Chris-Craft Model 7](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1929-chris-craft-model-7/) - While our main focus here at Hemmings Motor News has always been collector cars, we’ve long had a section for boats toward the back of the big brown book that’s mostly populated with beautiful wooden boats such as this 1929 Chris-Craft Model 7. After all, even us hopeless landlubbers can still find something to appreciate [...]
- [Four-Links – Virginia International Raceway history, rolling a ’57 Chevy, test-driving the first commercial truck, full-size Finn McMissile](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-virginia-international-raceway-history-rolling-a-57-chevy-test-driving-the-first-commercial-truck-full-size-finn-mcmissile/) - * In its day, Virginia International Raceway hosted many an SCCA race and even a Trans-Am race or two. It has since re-opened with more modern amenities, but Nick England of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has done an excellent job of compiling photos, race results, programs and other information related to the history of the [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – “A few remain, like massive metal dinosaurs”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-a-few-remain-like-massive-metal-dinosaurs/) - Looking for a poster for your garage wall? Check out Hemmings Nation Flickr pool member 1968 Dodge Charger R/T’s homage to the B.F.Goodrich Radial T/A tire ads from a few years back, incorporating a quote from (we believe) Anthony Young’s ...
- [Join Hemmings at the drive-in for Collector Car Appreciation Day](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/join-hemmings-at-the-drive-in-for-collector-car-appreciation-day/) - Photo courtesy Los Angeles Public Library After the success of last year’s inaugural National Collector Car Appreciation Day, the day set aside to recognize and raise awareness of the role automotive restoration and collecting plays in American society, it has now become an annual event, with July 8 designated as this year’s collector-car Christmas, and [...]
- [Tractor Talk at Mecum’s Gone Farmin’ Sale](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tractor-talk-at-mecums-gone-farmin-sale/) - The only thing I’m worse at than predicting car values is predicting tractor values. But a relatively safe bet for the biggest sale at Mecum’s Spring 2011 Gone Farmin’ auction, scheduled for March 26, is Lot S33, a 1966 International 1206 Tractor from Tom Geyman’s unbelievable collection. The 1206 is a milestone in IH history [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1970 Opel GT](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1970-opel-gt/) - They call the Opel GT the “baby Corvette” for obvious reasons, especially from the cowl forward. The less obvious reason is that many people see it as something less than a Corvette, in terms of stature. Sure, there’s no V-8 rumble coming out of the tailpipe, and there’s no Corvette heritage that goes along with [...]
- [Class of ’86 – AM General HMMWV](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-am-general-hmmwv/) - In recognition of our March Military Campaign, let’s take a break from considering the collector-worthiness of all those namby-pamby civilian passenger vehicles from 1986 and look at a vehicle that has surely earned its stripes, the AM General HMMWV, a.k.a. the Humvee. Designed in 1979 to replace a number of vehicles then in the U.S. [...]
- [Outside the River Rouge](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/outside-the-river-rouge/) - As a neat companion to our post on the Ford GPA launching into the Detroit River from Ford’s River Rouge plant, here’s a couple photos of the plant from the landward side of things, both courtesy The Old Motor. Above, the plant in March 1932, during a hunger march, and below, in 1941. Compare and [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Chevrolet Impala station wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1965-chevrolet-impala-station-wagon/) - How do we know station wagons are constantly gaining respect in the collector-car world? Well, let’s consider this 1965 Chevrolet Impala station wagon. Not only has it not been parted out for its 396, but it also appears to have been (minus the wheels and tires) faithfully restored, rather than beaten to death on the [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Goodman sells Sotheby’s](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-goodman-sells-sothebys/) - Geoffrey Smith, new chairman of Sotheby’s Australia The saga of Tim Goodman and Sotheby’s Australia is long and complex and I covered it when it happened; but to sum up, at the end of 2009 he was the head of Bonhams’ Australian arm, Bonhams and Goodman. He shocked the auction world, however, by simultaneously acquiring [...]
- [Morgan Unveils Their 21st Century Trike](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/morgan-unveils-their-21st-century-trike/) - Another exciting debut at this year’s Geneva Motor Show has been the long-discussed, long-awaited return of the Morgan Motor Company’s official (and officially named) 3 Wheeler. While some may view it odd to reintroduce a concept that the automaker abandoned in the early 1950s, it’s actually a very clever way of not only paying homage [...]
- [On the Ould Sod](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/on-the-ould-sod/) - Many Americans may not know this, but there’s a Memorial Day kind of commemoration in Great Britain, too, that coincides with our own. It’s one of the largest shows of military trucks and regalia in Great Britain, known colloquially as Trucks and Troops. This year’s date is May 28 through 30, and the location is [...]
- [An off-the-shelf thermonuclear-powered car, you say? Sign me up!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/an-off-the-shelf-thermonuclear-powered-car-you-say-sign-me-up/) - From coconv on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool this week, an interesting piece of literature from Paul Lewis‘s Highway Aircraft Corporation of Sidney, Nebraska, the company behind the incredibly odd, but real, 1974 Fascination. Specifically, the document details Highway Aircraft’s sales plan, which seems to have been carefully tailored to avoid getting into any Preston [...]
- [The Return of the Airplane at Saab?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-return-of-the-airplane-at-saab/) - Those following the new car scene at Switzerland’s Geneva Motor Show have surely seen the bold and controversial new Saab PhoeniX concept, created by Jason Castriota’s design team (see: “Looking Back, Moving Forward,” HS&EC #63, November 2010) to signal the new design direction of Sweden’s freshly independent automaker. One of the hallmarks of this concept is its [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Joe Wilhelm’s Mark Mist GT](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-joe-wilhelms-mark-mist-gt/) - Aesthetically, Joe Wilhelm‘s Mark Mist GT is a tough car to swallow. Indeed, the modifications made to this 1936 Ford coupe may cause gastronomic distress for some of you out there. However, as an artifact of a bygone age (which, really, is what all collector cars eventually become, correct?) – specifically the wild show car [...]
- [Robert Reder, Monogram Models co-founder, dies](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/robert-reder-monogram-models-co-founder-dies/) - The model-building hobby has lost another of its forefathers. Robert Reder, co-creator of Monogram Models, has died. He was 93. Starting in 1935, Reder was a designer and draftsman at Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co. in Chicago. During World War II, he worked with the Navy to develop a national program for building identification [...]
- [Dirt Track Heroes Show pulls together decades of competition history](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dirt-track-heroes-show-pulls-together-decades-of-competition-history/) - The corridor between Interstates 78 and 80 now funnels a lot of New York commuters to western New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania. A lot of racing cars used to go banging along the original two-lane highways en route to clashing on carved-out circles in the great valley where New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania meet. [...]
- [Ambitious Amphibious: Ben Carlin’s round-the-world trek in a Ford GPA](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ambitious-amphibious-ben-carlins-round-the-world-trek-in-a-ford-gpa/) - Ford’s GPA might have done well in the Detroit River, but when it went into service during World War II, it proved less than capable in the field. Cumbersome and unwieldy on both land and water, the so-called Seep’s production run ended early, after just 12,778 of them emerged from River Rouge. Those that didn’t [...]
- [Ad of the Week: The Versatile Nova!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ad-of-the-week-the-versatile-nova/) - I admit that I could count on one hand how many camping trips I endured in my youth – in fact, I would not need the use of all five digits. That aside, I can’t ever recall seeing – or hearing – of anyone who selected the Hutch option for their 1974 Chevy Nova hatchback, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1949 Buick Super woodie station wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1949-buick-super-woodie-station-wagon/) - Papafiesta and I were just jawing the other day about how Buick Supers don’t get as much attention as Buick Roadmasters. Guess that comes with the territory, kind of like living in the shadow of your handsomer, more athletic, older brother. Then again, I can’t imagine many people overlooking this 1949 Buick Super woody station [...]
- [Suncammer wins Ridler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/suncammer-wins-ridler/) - Photos courtesy carsindepth.com It’s a rare non-1930s car that wins the Detroit Autorama’s Don Ridler Memorial Award; in the last 20 years, just four cars from other decades have taken the Ridler, and none of them have been 1950s cars. But with three of the eight finalists for the award hailing from the doo-wop decade [...]
- [Studebakers at York](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/studebakers-at-york/) - In just a few days, the annual Studebaker swap meet will take place at the York Fairgrounds in south central Pennsylvania. Hosted by the Keystone Region Chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club, this swap meet has become a must-attend annual event for Studebaker owners and enthusiasts everywhere. They come from throughout the U.S. to find [...]
- [Chrysler collection contrasts concepts and classics](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/chrysler-collection-contrasts-concepts-and-classics/) - Here’s a fascinating idea from the Walter P. Chrysler Museum that might ideally inspire some other auto collections. Beginning today, and continuing through the end of this year, the museum will present a rotating trio that combines two Chrysler concept vehicles with a restored Chrysler (or Chrysler-related) production car. The displays are called the Unique [...]
- [March Military Campaign – The GPA makes a splash](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/march-military-campaign-the-gpa-makes-a-splash/) - Last summer, Greg Steinmayer sent us a varied lot of photos that he bought at a Dearborn-area garage sale. Among the photos in that lot – aside from the Maico 500 Sport and the people/monsters of Ford’s factories, were these two shots of the Ford GPA, the so-called Seep, taken right outside Ford’s River Rouge [...]
- [A solar-powered van… with lasers…](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-solar-powered-van-with-lasers/) - Of the very short-lived vansploitation trend of late 1970s film, “Supervan” is perhaps the best known. And as we see from the world’s greatest chase scene above, the van in question – Vandora – was equipped with lasers. Looks like somebody had a little bit of Star Wars envy in 1977. Bonus, the trailer for [...]
- [Former Super Stock Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible offered by Worldwide](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/former-super-stock-hemi-cuda-convertible-offered-by-worldwide/) - Among the consignments at Worldwide’s Houston Classic Auction Weekend is this 1970 Hemi ‘Cuda Convertible with buttoned-down looks that conceal a wild drag-racing past. The car is a stunning triple-black automatic and has spent the last few years preening for visitors at Phil Silva’s Muscle Car Legends Museum in Idabel, Oklahoma. But back in the [...]
- [The affordable E-type](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-affordable-e-type/) - Ah, the E-type. Beautiful. Exciting. Unattainable? Well, maybe not so much as you’d think. Sure, concours-quality Series 1 roadsters, the ones with the covered headlamps, can go for six figures. But the closed cars – especially the 2+2s – are generally a lot more affordable. Take this 1967 Series 1 2+2 coupe that sold earlier [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1930 Ford Model AA-131](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1930-ford-model-aa-131/) - I love all the different ways Fords were put to work back in the Model T/Model A days, including as fuel tanker trucks. This 1930 Ford Model AA-131 appears to be a very well-restored example of that use, though it’s probably a safe bet that it no longer hauls Gilmore brand gasoline in the tanker, [...]
- [More Mars Express images surface](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-mars-express-images-surface/) - The last week has been a banner one for finding additional images of long-lost vehicles. First, we found the color images of the Brooks Stevens FC-150 Commuter, and now, thanks to Bob Stinnette, we have three more images of the mysterious Mars Express. Bob wrote on his My Hemmings page that his father, Robert B. [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Regency Gold travel trailer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1968-regency-gold-travel-trailer/) - With rampant unemployment, house prices taking a nosedive and a rapidly aging population here in the United States, it seems like the only thing preventing many people from ditching their static lives and roaming the roads in RVs and travel trailers is the escalating price of gas. Answer? Streamline your trailer for better gas mileage! [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Saito-San’s Cadillac House](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-saito-sans-cadillac-house/) - The Cadillac is, of course, an American dream, but it isn’t solely an American dream. Haruo Saito first became enamored with Cadillacs when he spotted a pair on the streets of Tokyo in the mid-1970s and a decade later had built himself quite the collection of 1950s Cadillacs, housed in a specially constructed museum in [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1951 Studebaker Champion](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1951-studebaker-champion/) - The blackwalls will certainly make Lentinello happy. Really, what do you need to enjoy an old car? Do you need glossy paint? Brilliant chrome? No, you just need it to run, steer, and stop, and the seller of this 1951 Studebaker Champion seems to promise all that, plus a new radio and no rust. You’d [...]
- [Four-Links – the Allard that ended American road racing, Bomonster, COPO Citations, trikes](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-the-allard-that-ended-american-road-racing-bomonster-copo-citations-trikes/) - * The announcement of the Springfield Vintage Grand Prix earlier this week neatly coincided with a post on The Chicane on the Fred Wacker Allard J2 that competed in the 1952 Watkins Glen road races and contributed to the end of organized road racing in the United States. * If you aren’t checking out the [...]
- [A Caribbean interlude aboard the Oasis of the Seas](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-caribbean-interlude-aboard-the-oasis-of-the-seas/) - We’re just getting back to Ice Station Zebra Bennington following a pleasant interlude in the eastern Caribbean aboard the Hemmings Cruise, with about 400 of our Hemmings Nation friends doing the yo-ho-ho’ing. We were aboard Royal Caribbean’s staggeringly huge Oasis of the Seas (1,187 feet long, more than 225,000 deadweight tons, more than 7,500 passengers [...]
- [Habla Español? La Carrera Panamericana from a Mexican point of view](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/habla-espanol-la-carrera-panamericana-from-a-mexican-point-of-view/) - In all that I’ve read and seen of La Carrera Panamericana, it’s all come from an Estados Unidos, English-language point of view, despite the fact that the race took place entirely within Mexico. So it’s not at all unreasonable to wonder how the Mexicans viewed the race. Fortunately, YouTube user peterbook2002 found and uploaded lengthy [...]
- [Great Race route finalized – are we coming to your town?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/great-race-route-finalized-are-we-coming-to-your-town/) - When we announced the return of the Great Race for 2011 late last year, many of you wanted to know whether it would wind its way through your town, so we wanted to update everybody with the finalized route for the 2011 Great Race, presented by Coker Tire and sponsored by Hemmings Motor News. The [...]
- [Dynomax introduces valved, drone-free muffler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dynomax-introduces-valved-drone-free-muffler/) - There’s no shortage of options for performance mufflers today, particularly if you’re shopping for something to put on your V-8-powered American car or truck. Exhaust technology has come a long way in the past few decades, narrowing the gap of compromise between legal sound levels and maximum engine output. Unfortunately, some of the high-performance mufflers [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Citroën Traction Avant](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1947-citroen-traction-avant/) - I’m sure this 1947 Citroën Traction Avant has plenty of stories to tell, from being built in England for the French market (huh?) to somehow making it all the way to California and remaining in remarkably decent shape all these years. We can only hope that some of those stories involve the European gangsters who [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Vinnylonglegs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-vinnylonglegs/) - High miles are seldom a selling point for any vehicle, but it’s certainly a bigger issue with bikes than cars. So there has to be something very special indeed for a high-mileage bike to attract attention, and mileage doesn’t get much higher than that accumulated by a 1955 Vincent Black Prince offered by Bonhams at [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Maserati Biturbo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-maserati-biturbo/) - One would assume that any car built by a company with a name that ends in i should automatically join the ranks of desirable, collectible cars, correct? But we all know what happens when one assumes, so let’s put that maxim to the test with this week’s nomination for the Class of 1986: the Maserati [...]
- [Hauling, and Hauling! Volvo’s ads for the 740 Turbo Wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hauling-and-hauling-volvos-ads-for-the-740-turbo-wagon/) - Hemmings Motor News subscribers will soon be receiving their April 2011 issues, and on page 40, they’ll find the “Antique Ads” story detailing Volvo’s humorous, eye-catching and ultimately successful attempt to sell station wagons by promoting their speed and sex appeal, in addition to the typical wagon push of family-friendly practicality. From 1986 through 1990, [...]
- [Here, Kitty: M2 releases new 1968 Mercury Cougar diecast](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/here-kitty-m2-releases-new-1968-mercury-cougar-diecast/) - First, the good news: M2‘s new 3-inch 1968 Mercury Cougar looks fine. The body is spot on, though the gigantic hideaway headlamps, grille, taillamps and bumpers lend a more agreeable exaggeration than do the wheels and tires, which manage to make the look wheel openings look too small, although they are, in fact, prototypically correct. [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Austerity Measured Voisin](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-austerity-measured-voisin/) - Gasoline prices are on the rise, even on the stuff in the tanks at the gas stations now. This is in anticipation of higher crude oil prices due to political unrest. Rather than try to figure that out, it might be a good time to pick up this 1964 Voisin Biscuter in anticipation of increased [...]
- [Barry Grant closes its doors](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/barry-grant-closes-its-doors/) - Word has come to us at Hemmings that Barry Grant Inc. has ceased operations as of last Friday. The company included BG Fuel Systems, Demon Carburetion, Nitrous Works, Rush Performance Filters and Triple D Induction. The following statement was issued on the Barry Grant Inc. Facebook page: Working with all of you has been the [...]
- [From the My Hemmings pages: the Little Green Hornet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-my-hemmings-pages-the-little-green-hornet/) - Restoring or modifying a car ain’t easy. If it were, everybody’d be doing it instead of us lunatics. Plenty of obstacles – beyond the usual limitations of time, space, and money – will crop up along the way, making you and your loved ones question your sanity and leading you to consider taking up something [...]
- [Auction Pulse: A Futurliner emerges](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-a-futurliner-emerges/) - We nearly deleted the press release from RM’s Auction America about a Futurliner at the May 12-15 Auburn auction, thinking it was a display. But not only is it actually going to cross the block at the auction, we didn’t even recognize it as one of the nine known GM Parade of Progress show vehicles. [...]
- [Vote early, vote often – Hemmings nominated for About.com’s readers’ choice awards](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/vote-early-vote-often-hemmings-nominated-for-about-coms-readers-choice-awards/) - We just found out today that Hemmings Motor News and Hemmings.com have been nominated in two of the four categories over in About.com’s Classic Cars 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards: Best Classic Car Magazine and Best Website to Buy a Classic. Voting continues through March 8, and the winners will be announced March 15. Many thanks [...]
- [The FC-150 van – now in color!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-fc-150-van-now-in-color/) - David LaChance made my day recently when, digging through the SIA archive files, he came across these color photos of the Brooks Stevens-designed, Reutter-built, one-of-three Willys Jeep FC-150 minivans. We had previously shown these photos in black and white four years ago, so it’s far past time we post them again. We still haven’t heard [...]
- [Breaking news: Vintage Grand Prix comes to Springfield, Mass.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/breaking-news-vintage-grand-prix-comes-to-springfield-mass/) - The Vintage Sports Car Club of America has announced that it will launch a vintage grand prix in Springfield, Massachusetts, this July, ending its 28-year participation in the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. The race will be held July 23 and 24 on a 1.6-mile course through the city’s downtown. The president of the VSCCA, John [...]
- [Papal Pullman to appear at Amelia](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/papal-pullman-to-appear-at-amelia/) - While a number of specially built vehicles have ferried around the last few popes in papal appearances around the world, the manufacturer that provided the basis for many of them has been Mercedes-Benz. One of those specially built papal Mercedes-Benzes will make its U.S. debut next month at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Based on [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1946 Cadillac Series 62 Sedanette](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1946-cadillac-series-62-sedanette/) - Who wants something as short as that Derham-bodied Lincoln Continental we highlighted the other day? No, what we want is something long enough to fit Yao Ming lying down, like this 1946 Cadillac Series 62 Sedanette. They say the art deco movement was in decline at the time this car was new, but how can [...]
- [Shelby Drops the Roof, Piles on the Paint](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/shelby-drops-the-roof-piles-on-the-paint/) - Shelby American announced last week that it will build a limited number of GT350 convertibles — a first since 1970 — and that it will offer GT350s in two new colors, Race Red and Kona Blue; both with white LeMans stripes. Production of the 2011-2012 GT350s intentionally mirrors the way production of the original G.T.350 [...]
- [Lost Dealerships: Nash’s Washington Street Motors](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lost-dealerships-nashs-washington-street-motors/) - Looks like just another old mechanical pencil, right? Maybe to some, but when it’s embossed with the words Nash Sales and Service, it’s more than just a writing implement. My wife, Sunny, happened upon this piece of automotive history while rummaging through an antique store one leisurely Saturday afternoon. Needless to say, my wallet jumped [...]
- [One Car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/one-car/) - The upcoming Pagani Huayra ultracar has a lot of people saying this is The One, the single car they would own above all others, if they could have any one car. Their Lottery Car, as one friend put it. I don’t blame them; it’s as striking a vehicle as we have ever conceived and I [...]
- [Show Season Spotlight: Boca Raton Concours](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/show-season-spotlight-boca-raton-concours/) - In terms of the collectible automobile hobby, the east coast of Florida is about to jump to life once again, beginning this weekend with the 5th annual Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance. Held on the grounds of the Boca Raton Resort and Club in Boca Raton (nestled between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale) on February [...]
- [AMC racing legend Herman Lewis dies](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/amc-racing-legend-herman-lewis-dies/) - Word came to us last week that Herman Lewis, by some accounts the godfather of AMC racing, died February 13 after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 73. Lewis, who told the Register-Herald of Beckley, West Virginia, that he cut his teeth as a racer hauling illegal moonshine in Tennessee, drag raced in Chevrolets [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Dodge Charger 500](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1969-dodge-charger-500/) - Now that NASCAR’s 2011 season has officially started, we decided to comb through the Hemmings.com classifieds for something NASCAR related, and came upon this 1969 Dodge Charger 500. We actually see another Charger 500 and two Daytonas on the site now, as well, but this one’s rather unusual in that it’s no six-figure Hemi four-speed [...]
- [Werewolves beware – the Silver Bullet lives!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/werewolves-beware-the-silver-bullet-lives/) - I figured it wouldn’t have taken long to identify the streamlined dragster that we plucked from the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool recently, and I was correct: It’s the Silver Bullet, which ran mostly out of Wisconsin in the mid-1960s, and as we quickly found out, it’s still around, though not in any presentable form. Stan [...]
- [Hey, that’s not Coventry!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hey-thats-not-coventry/) - We haven’t posted a music video in a while. While Mal Fuller is requesting more Fu Manchu and John Robins would like to see some Katy Perry, let’s go with The Specials driving around London in “Ghost Town.” Without looking the song up on Wikipedia, who can tell us what the car is? (via) UPDATE: [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Lincoln Continental](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1962-lincoln-continental/) - Today being Presidents Day, it’s only natural we turn our attention to Lincoln, the company named for the famed president. Perhaps the most unique Lincoln on Hemmings.com right now would be this Derham-shortened 1962 Lincoln Continental that will cross the block at the upcoming Collector Cars of Fort Lauderdale auction by Auctions America by RM. [...]
- [Steve McQueen’s Husqvarna 400 Up for Grabs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/steve-mcqueens-husqvarna-400-up-for-grabs/) - No front fender, no shirt and an open-face helmet – that’s how Steve McQueen rolled on the August 23, 1971, cover of Sports Illustrated, wheelie-ing the legendary Husqvarna 400 Cross. On Any Sunday, Malcom Smith and, of course, McQueen did for the red-tanked Swedish-built Huskys here in the U.S. what Rebel Without a Cause did [...]
- [Supercars at the Petersen](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/supercars-at-the-petersen/) - History tells us that the Lamborghini Miura was the first exotic to be labeled a “supercar.” This hyperbole was fitting, considering its ground-breaking transverse mid-mounted V-12 engine and breathtaking Marcello Gandini-penned styling. Of course, the term has been applied to many exotics since the mid-1960s, even retroactively, to describe those ultra-expensive, limited-production sports cars with [...]
- [Open Diff: Your questions answered](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/open-diff-your-questions-answered/) - When we first started the Hemmings Blog some five years ago, we initially meant it as a sort of behind-the-scenes deal, showing what it takes to publish four magazines every month from the backwoods lovely and scenic Green Mountains of Vermont, along with all the projects and trouble we editors get in on a regular [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 GMC 1502](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1964-gmc-1502/) - In case you haven’t noticed, I get a little weak in the knees whenever I see a 1960s GM truck product come through the Hemmings.com classifieds, and this 1964 GMC 1502 (the seller claims 1500, but that appears to be the designation for two-wheel-drive 3/4-tons in 1964) is no exception. The fact that it’s a [...]
- [SIA Flashback – The Topper Buick’s Many Metamorphoses](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-the-topper-buicks-many-metamorphoses/) - Short one this week, but it’s a good one. Before the 1980s, perhaps the most famous TV/film car was the Topper Buick, known both for its appearance in the Cary Grant film as well as for its use by Gilmore as a promotional car. Of course, keeping straight all the various modifications made to it [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Land Rover Series III Model 88](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1973-land-rover-series-iii-model-88/) - Khaki, I believe, is the perfect color for a Land Rover, and this 1973 Land Rover Series III Model 88 appears to wear it well. Get yourself a matching set of khaki riding trousers and a pith helmet, and you’re all set. From the seller’s description: Good driver with American standards. Low mileage, reads 36087. [...]
- [Four-Links – Tucker Carioca, VW Iltis, French road trip, world’s ugliest trucks](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-tucker-carioca-vw-iltis-french-road-trip-worlds-ugliest-trucks/) - * While researching the post from earlier this week on the unearthed Tucker in Brazil, I came across this interesting bit of info: Apparently, Rob Ida – he of the Tucker replica and street-rodding fame – is working on a full-scale version of the Carioca, the project Preston Tucker was working on when he died. [...]
- [RIP, Paul Howard](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rip-paul-howard/) - I first met Paul Howard in, I think, 2005, when he and a couple other hot rodders stopped by Hemmings HQ on their way back from the Rolling Bones open house to his house in Massachusetts. He noted me ogling his Model A with a flathead V-8, sitting tall, black, and fenderless, clean and straight, [...]
- [This Just In: Brain Freeze From Bentley](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/this-just-in-brain-freeze-from-bentley/) - Hmmm… the press release we received this week from (German-owned) British luxury carmaker Bentley was very intriguing, but unfortunately, left us with as many questions as answers. According to the release, four-time World Rally champion Juha Kankkunen of Finland piloted a Bentley Continental Supersports convertible to a record setting 205.48 MPH — while driving on [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1970-pontiac-firebird-trans-am/) - I certainly understand the whole date-coded, as-it-came-from-the-factory thing. There’s certainly been plenty of misrepresentation in the muscle car scene over the years to warrant the focus on authenticity. But that presumes everybody out there’s a dishonest creep, and we can see from the ad for this 1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am that there are still [...]
- [Restoration begins on the only known Spaulding Roadster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/restoration-begins-on-the-only-known-spaulding-roadster/) - Through a grant from the Iowa Historic Preservation, and sponsored by the Iowa Transportation Museum, restoration has begun on the only Spaulding automobile known to exist. The 1913 Roadster – one of approximately 300 Spauldings built during the model year across two model lines – was literally in pieces when the project began. The ITM [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1969 Alfa Romeo GTV](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1969-alfa-romeo-gtv/) - Ignore, for a moment, the not-red-at-all paint color on this 1969 Alfa Romeo GTV, which looks more like it belongs on a contemporary 2002 or Celica. Ignore, for a moment, what appears to be an excellent restoration on this car. Ignore for a moment all notions of rarity. Instead, focus on the perforated seats, the [...]
- [George Toteff, revolutionary in 1/25th-scale plastic models, dies](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/george-toteff-revolutionary-in-125th-scale-plastic-models-dies/) - With his passing earlier this month, George Toteff, model car pioneer, has left an enduring legacy on the model car-building hobby. Who was George Toteff? Where to start? He created the AMT 3-in-1 model kit. He devised tooling so that model car bodies could be molded in a single piece – no more fussy multipiece [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Jeep CJ-7 and CJ-8](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-jeep-cj-7-and-cj-8/) - Image courtesy lov2xlr8.no The last two candidates for the Class of 1986 – the Hyundai Excel and the Acura Legend/Acura Integra – represented the beginnings of eras in American motoring. Today’s candidate – the 1986 Jeep CJ-7, along with its long-wheelbase sibling, the CJ-8 Scrambler – represents the end of an era. You see, the [...]
- [Honey, I shrunk the Bufordodgrolaiser](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/honey-i-shrunk-the-bufordodgrolaiser/) - From last week’s post on David Greenlees and his cohorts over at The Old Motor, you might get the impression they focus mostly on mid-century automotive photography, which is certainly not the case. Still, we can’t help but notice some of the more intriguing items from that period they’ve so far posted, including this one-off [...]
- [North American Eagle team plans record-breaking 800 MPH run later this year](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/north-american-eagle-team-plans-record-breaking-800-mph-run-later-this-year/) - The Bloodhound SSC effort may have the goal of 1,000 MPH in mind, but it’s certainly not the only team that is currently working to break the world land-speed record. Aside from two Australian teams – the Silver Bullet-RV1 project and the Aussie Invader 5R project – the Washington state-based North American Eagle team aims [...]
- [Greenlight’s long-awaited Dodge Challenger arrives](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/greenlights-long-awaited-dodge-challenger-arrives/) - It seems like forever ago (can it really be two years?) that a roster of new Greenlight castings was announced. Goodies like mid-’70s Trans Ams and Fox-body Mustangs and Dodge Challengers were announced and then… nothing. Economy? Distribution? Who knows. But new models have, at long last, started to trickle into stores, and our hunger [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1955 Fina Sport convertible](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1955-fina-sport-convertible/) - You’ve heard of the Cunningham, I suppose? How about something along similar lines but a little more exclusive? That’s what this 1955 Fina Sport (not the one in the photo above) offers. So exclusive, in fact, we so far haven’t turned up a definite production number for the Vignale-bodied car. All we know for sure [...]
- [Connecticut’s Little-Known Sterling Assembly Plant](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/connecticuts-little-known-sterling-assembly-plant/) - Anyone who has traveled along Route 85 through the Amston section of Hebron, Connecticut, will surely recognize the site above. On the surface, it’s just another old mill building that has been for sale – seemingly for decades – and is in dire need of a complete face-lift or a date with the wrecking ball, [...]
- [Yakety Sax? Noooo….](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/yakety-sax-noooo/) - While guys restoring a Model T won’t mind one bit that this Ford film showing how factory workers assembled the rolling chassis is entirely silent, the rest of us may like a little musical accompaniment. What sort of tunes would you suggest to g...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Cadillac Series 62](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1956-cadillac-series-62/) - It’s almost a foregone conclusion that this 1956 Cadillac Series 62 with such a low asking price will wind up as a parts car for somebody restoring another 1956 Cadillac. Or is it? A rust-free 55-year-old car in New Jersey is rather a rare sight, and you’d sit just as pretty in a restored four-door [...]
- [Draggin’ This Wagon Through Another Sale](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/draggin-this-wagon-through-another-sale/) - Worldwide Auctioneers’ 10th annual Classics at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is set for this Friday evening, and as usual, the auction house has a diverse lineup ready to cross the block. Always on the hunt for talent to showcase in Hemmings Muscle Machines’ Auction News column, I stumbled across this [...]
- [Saratoga Auto Museum to continue motorcycle seminar series](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/saratoga-auto-museum-to-continue-motorcycle-seminar-series/) - Based on the success of last year’s seminar by Marty Christopher on the “History of the Motorcycle,” the Saratoga Auto Museum will be featuring a second motorcycle seminar about the sport of American motorcycle racing in the year 1912. Mr. Christopher will again be giving the seminar, occurring in conjunction with the museum’s “Motorcycles of [...]
- [Thank you, Ducati Guy: Behind the scenes on a Ferrari cover shoot](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/thank-you-ducati-guy-behind-the-scenes-on-a-ferrari-cover-shoot/) - I’m still nervous on photo shoots. I don’t worry the photos won’t come out; instead, I worry it won’t be any fun. I do extensive preparation with car owners beforehand, warning them explicitly what we’ll be doing, but still, sometimes you show up and find someone who says, “I didn’t realize you wanted it to [...]
- [You need a Camaro-shaped wireless mouse to cruise the web](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/you-need-a-camaro-shaped-wireless-mouse-to-cruise-the-web/) - Aside from giving away a copy of my interior restoration guide a couple years ago, we haven’t really run any giveaway contests here on the Hemmings Blog, though that’s not for a lack of stuff around the office that we have to give away. Take, for instance, this Chevrolet Camaro wireless mouse from Road Mice [...]
- [Long-neglected Tucker exhumed, headed for restoration](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/long-neglected-tucker-exhumed-headed-for-restoration/) - A nearly forgotten Tucker will get a new lease on life, thanks to a land development deal in Brazil. Moldering away for decades in a barn in Caçapava, São Paulo, Tucker #1035 was never really lost, rather stuck in limbo. Imported to Brazil when new, it wound up in the collection of Roberto Eduardo Lee [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Studebaker Avanti](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1964-studebaker-avanti/) - Most cars we highlight here on the Hemmings Find of the Day we have no personal experience with, but given the fact that this 1964 Studebaker Avanti R1 appeared as a Buyer’s Guide car and cover car in HCC #59, August 2009, and given the fact that we tend to choose the best and most [...]
- [Precision Machining on Deck for the ZL1](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/precision-machining-on-deck-for-the-zl1/) - We learned something interesting about Chevrolet’s 2010 Camaro ZL1 recently that might surprise you. Each of the LSA engine blocks used in these cars will be deck-plate honed before final assembly — a relatively meticulous process that you might not expect from the company that once sold less-than-meticulously built cars like the Chevrolet Celebrity. Deck [...]
- [What the? Second Fox-body Capri convertible surfaces](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/what-the-second-fox-body-capri-convertible-surfaces/) - So few times is anything actually ever definite when it comes to old cars. Case in point: When we highlighted a droptop 1980 Mercury Capri as a Hemmings Find of the Day last month, we were given to believe it was the only one built, commissioned by William Clay Ford Jr. and sliced and diced [...]
- [Bullitt chase scene being recreated in slot cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bullitt-chase-scene-being-recreated-in-slot-cars/) - Since November, UK resident and slot car enthusiast Emigre has been working on one heck of a project: Re-creating the chase scene from Bullitt in stop-motion with slot cars. Simple? Hardly. He’s also building from scratch almost the entire late 1960s San Francisco background scenery in 1/32 scale. He anticipates releasing the entire chase scene [...]
- [Show Your Colors](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/show-your-colors/) - American Honda Motor Co. has recently debuted a small but soon-to-grow collection of apparel that was inspired by the cars, bikes and scooters of the automaker’s glory days of the 1970s and 1980s. They offered this insight (get it, Honda’s Insight? ha!): “Honda is excited to celebrate its heritage by recreating styles and accessories from [...]
- [Former Autocar facility sits gutted in Philadelphia](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/former-autocar-facility-sits-gutted-in-philadelphia/) - You’ll hear about fires damaging old, abandoned auto factories from time to time, ravaging a piece of our heritage, usually in deeply troubled parts of Midwest cities that have been forgotten by the rest of America. It’s not exclusively a heartland heartache. The photo you see above was snapped last week in Philadelphia. This gutted [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Mid-Engine Corvair](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-mid-engine-corvair/) - Rumors of mid-engine Corvettes pop up and dissipate like mushrooms most every model year, but this award-winning 1965 mid-engine V-8 Chevrolet Corvair is as real right now as it was when it was built in 1967. In the middle of the Tangerine Dream is a 327 small-block Chevrolet, backed by a four-speed transaxle. The owner [...]
- [Your Abandoned Autos shots wanted](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/your-abandoned-autos-shots-wanted/) - By far the most popular calendar that we sell every year is the Abandoned Autos calendar. For some reason, you masochists love seeing old cars and trucks rotting into the ground almost as much as you love seeing them all shined up and restored back to as-new condition. That’s okay; we do too. Ever wanted [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1925 Ford Model TT grain truck](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1925-ford-model-tt-grain-truck/) - We do know that in 1925 Ford offered a grain truck body for its ton truck, but the cab on this 1925 Ford Model TT grain truck seemed unusual, so we contacted James Wagner, Ford truck historian, for his expert opinion. He said he believes both cab and body are aftermarket, which isn’t all that [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Mrs. Chapin’s Commodore: The Ultimate Postwar Hudson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-mrs-chapins-commodore-the-ultimate-postwar-hudson/) - After I shamefully misidentified a couple Hudsons in a post earlier this week, I’d like to make it up to the Hudson fans out there in Hemmings Nation. So we’ll turn to SIA #89, October 1985, for a story by Arch Brown on the Hudson Commodore built for Roy Chapin Sr.’s wife, which actually ended [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1965-plymouth-barracuda-formula-s/) - Blue body color with a gold stripe and gold interior at first blush doesn’t seem like a color combination that really works outside of high school pep rallies, but on this 1965 Plymouth Barracuda, it doesn’t look so bad. Kind of accents some of the European-ish design elements of the car while firmly stating that [...]
- [Four-Links – the real Truck Norris, Dooooodge, Shelsley Walsh, TV ad trove](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-the-real-truck-norris-dooooodge-shelsley-walsh-tv-ad-trove/) - * Last weekend, Truck Norris made the rounds. We spoke with derf, the owner of the pickup, this past week and found out that the 1986 J-10 behind the phenomenon ain’t frontin’ – it really is a B.A. truck. Bonus, derf also put together this handy dandy gear ratio calculator. * Also on the topic [...]
- [And the Official Car of the Renaissance Fair(e) is…](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/and-the-official-car-of-the-renaissance-faire-is/) - Because what really says “young” better than silent-movie motifs, suits of armor, and a powder-blue Oldsmobile?
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Chrysler Charger R/T E49](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1972-chrysler-charger-rt-e49/) - Ever since writing about a 1973 Chrysler Valiant Charger R/T E49 a few years ago for Hemmings Muscle Machines (see HMM #27, December 2005), I’ve kept my eye out for one here in the States, knowing that they’d be few and far between – after all, they’re not all that common in their native Australia, [...]
- [Make Mine a Biarritz](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/make-mine-a-biarritz/) - Twenty-somethings attempting to incite irony by wearing a mid-Eighties polyester leisure suit and white loafers salvaged from that last holiday trip to see the folks down in Florida can complete the look in its entirety by getting an automobile to match. Why go and finance a cube-shaped econonobox that will be out of style in [...]
- [A golden anniversary for one of the world’s most popular cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-golden-anniversary-for-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-cars/) - Can you name the three all-time best-sellers in automotive history? (And by that, we mean single generations of a model, not like the Corolla badge that’s been attached to so many different cars.) Did you say “Volkswagen Beetle?” That’s right—first place on the list. What’s that? Ford Model T? Right again—second place. And third? Hmmm. [...]
- [Toly Arutunoff seriously injured while helping stranded motorist](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/toly-arutunoff-seriously-injured-while-helping-stranded-motorist/) - Word comes to us, very sadly, that sports car raconteur and all-around good guy Toly Arutunoff was terribly injured while en route to the Sports Car Club of America convention in Las Vegas. Full details haven’t emerged yet, but Toly, a glowing personality in the SCCA’s history, was apparently helping a stranded motorist during a [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Acura Legend and Acura Integra](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-acura-legend-and-acura-integra/) - So last week we proved that significance does not equate to collectibility or desirability, as our commenters soundly turned down the candidacy of the 1986 Hyundai Excel for the Class of 1986, despite the fact that it opened up the American market to Korean cars. So for this week’s Class of 1986 candidate, let’s consider [...]
- [Twice the Action in Half the Space](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/twice-the-action-in-half-the-space/) - While it may be hard to recall the fun of throttling your favorite classic down a winding road while listening to the tires and engine sing in the midst of the ongoing snowpocalypse, there is indoor motor racing that can be run in the comfort of that living room that’s costing 400 bucks a month [...]
- [Syracuse Super Swap Meet gets Northeast motorcyclists ready for spring](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/syracuse-super-swap-meet-gets-northeast-motorcyclists-ready-for-spring/) - Daytona Bike Week might still be a few weeks away (March 4), but riders all over the Northeast are getting antsy to check the trickle charger and pull off the bike cover at the first sign of 40 degree weather. One of the sure signs that spring will be here soon is an annual trek [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Checker Aerobus](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1967-checker-aerobus/) - Here’s another one of those what-would-you-do-with-it cars. This 1967 Checker Aerobus looks to be in great shape from the photos, and the seller seems to have had a pretty good idea of using it for a themed tour company. But we can imagine its utility could be put to a million other different uses. So [...]
- [Nukes and Dinah Shore at The Old Motor](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/nukes-and-dinah-shore-at-the-old-motor/) - Our friend David Greenlees has been hard at work these last couple of months carving out a little home for him and all his other friends on the Internet, a place for them all to post their extensive automotive photography collections. David and his friends have already done an excellent job populating the H.A.M.B.’s Photos [...]
- [Concorso Italiano to celebrate unrestored cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/concorso-italiano-to-celebrate-unrestored-cars/) - Hey there, you with the unrestored Italian car: Concorso Italiano wants you. This year’s edition of the festival of all things Italian in Monterey, California, will feature a display of all-original and barn-find Italian cars from 1973 and earlier. “Concorso Italiano has a long history of recognizing great Italian cars as they are. Our qualifications [...]
- [1949? Yes, sir, we have your receipt in file](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/1949-yes-sir-we-have-your-receipt-in-file/) - Phil Comtois, who runs the automotive paint department at the nearby NAPA store, comes from an automotive family. His brother, Ed, still owns a used car lot and automotive repair facility in Cohoes, New York, and Phil was a body man for the Congress Street Garage at 144 Congress in Cohoes for years before “retiring” to [...]
- [Construction begins on the 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/construction-begins-on-the-1000-mph-bloodhound-ssc/) - As much as has been said over the last few years about the Bloodhound SSC, the car proposed by a British team to not only eclipse the current ultimate land-speed record, but obliterate it by running 1,000 MPH, the car itself has only existed in engineering drawings, computer-generated concept sketches, and as a full-size mockup [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1997 Ford Crown Victoria station wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1997-ford-crown-victoria-station-wagon/) - A good few of us here at Hemmings are fans of the traditional station wagon – the kind that hasn’t really been built since the Chevy Caprice and Buick Roadmaster were terminated after the 1996 model run. Proper wagons are full-sized, with V-8 engines and rear-wheel drive, and most of the good ones were at [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – showtime!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-showtime/) - I love seeing auto show pictures from the 1960s and 1970s. All too often, we focus on the Motoramas and the dream cars of the 1950s, but there has been plenty of cool stuff touring the show circuit since then, as we see from some of the photos that Hemmings Nation Flickr pool member gswetsky [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Mecum announces motorcycle division](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-mecum-announces-motorcycle-division/) - 1960 and ’59 Triumph 120s upcoming at Mecum Between their recent Kissimmee success and continuing efforts at Monterey, we’ve been guessing around the Hemmings offices about what Mecum’s next move would be. Would they muscle (ha) their way into Scottsdale? Stake out another concours as their own? Acquire another auction company to get access to [...]
- [The days of FEDs and nitro](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-days-of-feds-and-nitro/) - You could get lost for days in the hundreds of videos dedicated to vintage drag racing on YouTube. It seems just as many people were walking around the pits of their local dragstrips with video film cameras as they were with their Brownies, and one of those people was YouTuber jrsn2cars, who compiled his stills [...]
- [Auction Roundup: Mecum at Kissimmee](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-roundup-mecum-at-kissimmee/) - Officially, Mecum Auctions‘ annual Kissimmee, Florida, sale is a wrap and the final numbers are interesting. During the five-day sale, a total of 1,500 automotive/truck/motorcycle/boat lots crossed the block, of which 73 percent sold for a total of $39.9 million; a week ago, it was estimated that the total sales figure could top $40 million [...]
- [How’s this for a birthday gift: Two Chrisman dragsters donated to NHRA on its 60th](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hows-this-for-a-birthday-gift-two-chrisman-dragsters-donated-to-nhra-on-its-60th/) - What do you get for the 60th anniversary of the organization that’s done the most to legitimize and foster the growth of the sport of drag racing? How about a couple of dragsters? That’s what drag racing collector Bill Lindig recently did when he donated to the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum two dragsters campaigned [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Chrysler 300B](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1956-chrysler-300b/) - Anybody else really digging Chrysler’s recent “Style” commercial showing all the vintage letter cars and other products from Walter P.’s company? This museum-kept 1956 Chrysler 300B may not have appeared in that commercial, but it definitely ranks right up there with the cars that did. From the seller’s description: This 1956 300 B is absolutely [...]
- [Jewel for the black diamonds](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/jewel-for-the-black-diamonds/) - A few months ago, we got a glimpse of a sensationally well-detailed 1/25th-scale replica of a day-cab Freightliner assembled, with a ton of scratchbuilt parts, by Kurt McLucas of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. Back then, Kurt told us he intended to finish the job of turning it into a southwestern Pennsylvania coal hauler by hand-creating a dump [...]
- [Retromobile roundup: About that Squire…](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/retromobile-roundup-about-that-squire/) - While we here in the Northeast spent all weekend chipping ice dams off our roofs, Retromobile debuted a new, shorter format for France’s best-known and largest indoor old-car event. Fortunately, our friend Kit Foster made the trip and reported on the Squire we wrote about last week (let’s call it artfully preserved…), and so far [...]
- [ECTA searching for new land-speed racing venues](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ecta-searching-for-new-land-speed-racing-venues/) - Image courtesy ecta-lsr.com In the decade or so since the formation of the East Coast Timing Association, Maxton, North Carolina, has become a hot rodding hot spot, thanks to the events that the ECTA stages on a one-mile stretch of a little-used World War II-era runway in Maxton. Yet that stands to change next year [...]
- [Porsche Restores One Of Its Own](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/porsche-restores-one-of-its-own/) - Do you remember BMW’s recent in-house, modern-day build of a vintage 2002 that was done entirely from NOS and reproduction parts? That special project was handled by BMW Mobile Tradition, and videos of the build can be seen here, here and here. Mercedes-Benz Classic has been restoring its own cars for years in Germany, and [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1955 Coast pumper truck](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1955-coast-pumper-truck/) - Among the three best-known California producers of fire trucks – the first two were Crown and Van Pelt – Coast Apparatus Inc. of Martinez was the smallest, and had the briefest history. So it was pleasant to see this completely intact 1955 Coast triple-combination pumper offered for sale following a partial on-camera career. This is [...]
- [Found: Front-drive Fifties mystery](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/found-front-drive-fifties-mystery/) - So what does everybody make of this? We recently heard from George Albright of Ocala, Florida, who has sent us photos of some of the unusual cars he’s bought in the past, and who just recently bought this, well, vehicle, with only the vaguest idea of what it is. Supposedly, it was built in about [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1976 Buick Estate Wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1976-buick-estate-wagon/) - Clamshell! Fins! Roof rack! Rally-type wheels! I probably shouldn’t forward this 1976 Buick Estate Wagon to Litwin, because he’ll go raid his savings account and drag me on a road trip to California to buy it. Then again, maybe it’s high time I got out of Vermont for a few days… From the seller’s description: [...]
- [SIA Flashback – The Game of the Name](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-the-game-of-the-name/) - On the one hand, Bob Tomaine’s story on the naming of cars, engines, transmissions, options and whatnot from SIA #88, August 1985, can be regarded as little more than a list of neat product names from the 1950s, little to get excited about. On the other hand, while cruising through it, you start to realize [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1974-volkswagen-karmann-ghia/) - My mother has always referred to Karmann Ghias as “pickles.” I have no idea how that nickname ever came about, but in honor of her birthday today, let’s take a look at this pickle 1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia out of Claremont, California. From the seller’s description: This car has been with only two owners for [...]
- [Four-Links – Leighton Irwin passes, French six-wheelers, Magnolia Special, Monte Carlo historical rally](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-leighton-irwin-passes-french-six-wheelers-magnolia-special-monte-carlo-historical-rally/) - * We were saddened to hear this week about the passing of Leighton Irwin, a pioneer of Canadian motorsport and contributor over on the Garage Blog. Gary at the Garage Blog has an excellent photo gallery and remembrance of Leighton. * Johnny tipped us off to this one: Apparently, there’s some sort of French subculture [...]
- [Introducing… Truck Norris!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/introducing-truck-norris/) - It probably won’t go viral, but there’re plenty of excellent Truck Norris jokes in derf’s thread about his J10 on the IFSJA.org forums. My favorite so far: Truck Norris doesn’t need oil. It just drives back in time and eats dinosaurs. UPDATE (7.February 2011): Silly me. Truck Norris will go viral if Truck Norris wants [...]
- [A dilly of a dilemma](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-dilly-of-a-dilemma/) - Here’s the deal. We need your help and imagination right here. Or ultimately, we should say, Dean Highfield is looking for your assistance. Dean lives now in Panama City, Florida, but like the rest of his family, he’s originally from Oil City, Pennsylvania. Dean mailed us this ancient photo that he found amidst his mother’s [...]
- [BUBU Causes Ruckus at Barrett-Jackson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bubu-causes-ruckus-at-barrett-jackson/) - From the what 5,500 bucks will get you at Barrett-Jackson department comes this gas-sipping Honda Zoe. While it has been well-published that the machines were Price is Right giveaways, the microcar is apparently a rebadged Mitsuoka Motor Company BUBU 501, predecessor to subsequent BUBU 502 and BUBU 503 micro machines. This particular Zoe appears to [...]
- [Make yourself a Freightliner date](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/make-yourself-a-freightliner-date/) - Calendars are collectible, cool and cheap. The Freightliner Historical Truck Club, which is still developing a comprehensive Web retrospective on these legendary custom rigs, is just releasing a 2011 historic Freightliner calendar augmented by some additional, shall we say, eye candy. The date-maker is $20, including shipping and handling. You can order by calling 217-224-0770, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Ford Mustang GT/CS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1968-ford-mustang-gtcs/) - So I suppose, when selling a car, that any provenance is better than none, right? The same way that any publicity is good publicity, right? So if your car once appeared in a movie – one that actually played in theaters! – then that should be a good thing, right? That said, this 1968 Ford [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Hyundai Excel](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-hyundai-excel/) - We’ve made some fairly safe choices these first few weeks into the Class of 1986. Nothing wrong with that, of course – just laying the groundwork. So let’s now go out on a limb with this week’s choice: the Hyundai Excel. It’s a safe bet that nobody reading this (and perhaps nobody in general) is [...]
- [Can you help Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car find the missing Porsche ads?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/can-you-help-hemmings-sports-exotic-car-find-the-missing-porsche-ads/) - Readers of car magazines in the late ’70s and first half of the ’80s will remember a series of Porsche ads called “Consumer Orientation” in a “Series of Technical Papers.” As far as we can tell, they went up to #28, ending in 1986. They covered the 924 and 924 Turbo, 944 and 944 Turbo, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Nash-Healey](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1953-nash-healey/) - Cars change hands all the time, and each time they do so, it seems something goes missing from the car. It might be a part or a trinket, a spare key or the owner’s manual, but more often, it’s a little bit of history that gets separated from the car at each sale. After all, [...]
- [Matchbox has released an early Toyota 4Runner in its lineup. Has the meaning of “old car” changed?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/matchbox-has-released-an-early-toyota-4runner-in-its-lineup-has-the-meaning-of-old-car-changed/) - At long last, no thanks to the weird distribution issues Matchbox has been going through in this country in the last 6-8 months, the long-awaited Toyota 4Runner casting has ended up on shelves. On the plus side, the color and factory-style stripes look great, the wheels are proportional to the car (none of this monster-mudder [...]
- [Show Season Spotlight: Amelia Island](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/show-season-spotlight-amelia-island/) - With the new year well under way, chances are a number of you are already putting together a list of potential must-attend 2011 events. Here’s one you can add to that list: the 16th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. One aspect of this year’s event is a display celebrating the 100th anniversary of Chevrolet, which [...]
- [Lost and Found Redux – the Roeder Sport Custom](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lost-and-found-redux-the-roeder-sport-custom/) - Remember back in middle school when your English teacher told you that speeling wuz importnant? Stephen Salata recently found that out when he discovered that the car he recently bought – which he believed was built by a man named Robert Rader when Stephen submitted it to the Lost and Found column in Hemmings Classic [...]
- [Carspotting: Chicago in sunnier times](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/carspotting-chicago-in-sunnier-times/) - The library at the University of Illinois at Chicago has just released a series of photographs of downtown Chicago street scenes taken by the Illinois Department of Transportation over the years. Being the IDOT, there are admittedly many photographs of empty intersections, but among them are plenty of the sort of photographs a lot of [...]
- [Fun with Nitromethane – AMC Matador Edition](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/fun-with-nitromethane-amc-matador-edition/) - The distances traveled, unpacking of tools, and careful unloading of exotic fuel. The remote battery drawn from the toolkit, fully charged and ready to start the engine. The moments that seem like hours staging the car for the run. The tense drama starting an engine powered by an explosive fuel more powerful than dynamite. Carefully [...]
- [Mega Ducati Meet Planned](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mega-ducati-meet-planned/) - Work is under way to host the world’s biggest Ducati meet at the Barber Motorsports Park. Although no firm date has been set, it’s looking like it may happen in October of this year. Several Ducati personalities from Europe, including factory engineers, racers and restorers, have already expressed interest in attending. And this country’s foremost [...]
- [A real, live, short track relic](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-real-live-short-track-relic/) - There are barn finds, and then there’s this, which really did come out of a barn. The barn was hidden away in a real shot-and-a-beer town. And it went under the rafters really rocked, because in that town, people raced stock cars. We found it last weekend, being displayed for the first time in 40 [...]
- [Rare Squire to be shown at Retromobile](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rare-squire-to-be-shown-at-retromobile/) - The Squire Motor Car Co. began operations in 1935 and went out of business 18 months later, having built just 10 cars. Yet the cars generated enthusiasm far beyond their production numbers, becoming legendary for their delicate beauty, first-rate build quality and purposeful character. The unrestored Squire that Fiskens, the British historic vehicles dealer, plans [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Hurst/Olds](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1968-hurstolds/) - Ah, the executive’s hot rod. With just 515 built, the 1968 Hurst/Olds is often considered the most desirable of those Oldsmobiles to get the Doc Watson treatment, and this particular 1968 Hurst/Olds for sale on Hemmings.com looks to be a well-preserved Southern example. From the seller’s description: I’m the 4th and 6th owner of this [...]
- [One-way ride: The murder of Billy Bate](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/one-way-ride-the-murder-of-billy-bate/) - Editor’s note: In recent conversations with crime writer Rose Keefe, we learned that in 2008 she’d researched the murder of Billy Bate, the first man believed to have been murdered in an automobile. She has generously allowed us to share that story, taken from her pamphlet “The Bate Auto Murder.” In 1904, Americans regarded the [...]
- [“Heyy! Watch those bumpers!”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/heyy-watch-those-bumpers/) - This trailer for the 1958 movie “Dragstrip Riot” (curiously missing any shots of a dragstrip) may not have Tom, Crow, and Joel/Mike riffing on it, but that’s not to say it doesn’t deserve the MST3K treatment.
- [Jon Kaase unveils stack injection system for new Boss Nine engine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/jon-kaase-unveils-stack-injection-system-for-new-boss-nine-engine/) - Fans of big-block Ford power are likely familiar with Jon Kaase and his engine-building outfit, which forged its reputation on winning Pro Stock engines. Pro drag racing programs are still a big part of the business at Kaase’s, but over the past several years, the company has been devoting some of its efforts toward hardware [...]
- [Early Results from Mecum Kissimmee: Dragonsnake sells for $875,000](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/early-results-from-mecum-kissimmee-dragonsnake-sells-for-875000/) - As of this writing, we have early results from Mecum‘s Kissimmee, Florida, sale from this past weekend. By Sunday morning (the last day of the auction), gross sales had surpassed $32 million; on Saturday alone, the company experienced a 74 percent sell-through rate. High sale of the auction at that point had been a $975,000 [...]
- [Roping in a Jeep Laredo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/roping-in-a-jeep-laredo/) - One difficult aspect of attending the Scottsdale auction bonanza, other than realizing you don’t have 1.7 million bucks to spend on a 1970 E-body Plymouth, is watching cars and trucks you would truly enjoy driving changing into hands other than your own. All is not lost. There are times when cars and trucks don’t sell [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Boss 429 engine blocks](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-boss-429-engine-blocks/) - While Kaase has made it rather simple to put together a Boss 429 engine using a regular 385-series 429/460, some Ford big-block enthusiasts may want the real thing under their hoods. Fortunately for them, we see two brand new Boss 429 engine blocks and two sets of Boss 429 heads for sale on Hemmings.com. From [...]
- [The TriVan re-revisited](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-trivan-re-revisited/) - Since the last time we’ve discussed the TriVan – way back in January 2007 – we’ve been in touch with Bill Fidler of Reading, Pennsylvania, who may be the world’s biggest fan of the diminutive three-wheeler from Frackville, Pennsylvania. Bill now has three of them in his possession, including the one that initiated our interest [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Why we love Duesenbergs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-why-we-love-duesenbergs/) - There are a lot of reasons to love Duesenbergs: the amazing engineering, the breathtaking bodies, the incomparable feeling behind the wheel. But the thing that makes some of us just go nuts is the history. I don’t mean the Fred-and-Augie history; rather, it’s the wonderful, unlikely and often conflicting stories that seem to accrete around [...]
- [Dixie car heaven three-fer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dixie-car-heaven-three-fer/) - This is what they mean by innovative promotion. Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, has announced a full ticket package that provides unlimited access to all three of the speedway’s major car shows: The spring and fall Food Lion AutoFairs and the mega-big Goodguys Southeastern Nationals. That’s 11 days of total automotive immersion, cousins. [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – the ShamRockAway](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-the-shamrockaway/) - It was in June that we last discussed the ShamRockAway, a.k.a. Noah’s Ark, a.k.a. that big eight-legged Buick motorhome, and we’re proud to say that through the efforts of our readers, it has not only been located and confirmed to still exist, but the current owner of it has been convinced to put the ShamRockAway [...]
- [Old school and new school Knuckleheads being raffled to fund Motorcycling Museums.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/old-school-and-new-school-knuckleheads-being-raffled-to-fund-motorcycling-museums/) - Photos courtesy National Motorcycle Museum and Wheels Through Time. Whether you enjoy an original unmolested Harley Knucklehead or wouldn’t mind one with a few new amenities, bikes to suit either taste are being raffled off this year to support motorcycling’s heritage. First, the old/new bike. The National Motorcycle Museum is raffling this 1947-looking Knucklehead that [...]
- [Lost and Found overflow: A rare case of cylindricus elephantitus](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lost-and-found-overflow-a-rare-case-of-cylindricus-elephantitus/) - It’s been a few months since our friend David Greenlees posted the above photo of a mystery engine to the H.A.M.B.’s awesome and lengthy History of auto racing, 1894-1944 post, and we’re no closer to a solid answer explaining the engine’s design now than we were then. David noted that the photograph’s caption identifies the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Ford Falcon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1965-ford-falcon/) - I have long had this dream of hot rodding a 1965 Ford Falcon. It’s perhaps the most aggressively styled of the 1960s U.S. Falcons, and it should take all the same modifications as a contemporary Mustang would – which means just about anything you can imagine. But in the case of this 1965 Ford Falcon, [...]
- [SIA Flashback – The Harrah Automobile Foundation: A Look Into the Collection’s Future](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-the-harrah-automobile-foundation-a-look-into-the-collections-future/) - For a while there, it looked like Bill Harrah’s impressive collection of automobiles would be no more. Unbelievably, he made no provisions for the continuation of the collection after his death in 1978, and the new owners entertained the idea of breaking the entire collection apart, scattering it to the four winds. Of course, we [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1961 Ford tractor](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1961-ford-tractor/) - Many of the car collectors we visit in the course of putting together our magazines tend to have larger-than-average properties – gentlemen farmers, if you’d like to call them that. And many of them tend to have some sort of older Ford tractor they use to perform all sorts of miscellaneous tasks around the property. [...]
- [Four-Links – Bugs on ice, Screwball Confidential, Mikrus, 1980s car show](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-bugs-on-ice-screwball-confidential-mikrus-1980s-car-show/) - * More fallout from researching the Antarctic Snow Cruiser and the first car in Antarctica. In the 1960s, the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition used a handful of bugs to crawl around the Antarctic ice. Heaters? We don’t need heaters! * One of our favorite artists around these parts, James Owens, has a pretty nifty [...]
- [Love your Chevy?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/love-your-chevy/) - Not only will we here at Hemmings turn our spotlight on Chevrolets at the 2011 New England Concours d’Elegance this July, but we also just heard via the Hemmings Forums from film producers Sherman Pictures about an upcoming movie on the history of Chevrolet, and they’re looking for Chevrolet fanatics to contact them and share [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1974 Datsun 260Z](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1974-datsun-260z/) - So far, the enthusiasm for original, unrestored cars seems to have focused mostly on American classics from the 1950s and 1960s, but there’s no reason not to get just as excited about a clean and unmolested 1974 Datsun 260Z like this one, now, is there? From the seller’s description: 1974 1/2 Datsun; probably the cleanest, [...]
- [Global War on Boredom](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/global-war-on-boredom/) - Just try and imagine how jazzed we were to run across this. It’s what the manufacturer calls a Boyce Bobber, a shortened version of the U.S. military’s fabled 2-1/2-ton cargo truck, with a cut-down frame and two axles instead of the normal three. There is very little that Boyce Equipment, of Ogden, Utah, cannot do [...]
- [Hemmings Honors Chevrolet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-honors-chevrolet/) - We will celebrate the significant achievement of Chevrolet’s 100th anniversary by hosting a special all-Chevy class at Hemmings’ New England Concours in July. Fleetlines and Stylelines, Bel Airs and Biscaynes, Corvettes and Chevelles; all models are welcome. The Concours will be held at Stratton Mountain Resort in Southern Vermont on Sunday, July 17. If you [...]
- [Class of ’86 – AMC Eagle](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-amc-eagle/) - Image courtesy amceaglenest.com Groundhog’s Day is next week, but I’m thinking that little rodent won’t even be able to dig himself out of his hole, with all the snow we’ve already had this winter. So, naturally, for this week’s edition of the Class of 1986, our thoughts naturally go to the four-wheel-drive Eagle, AMC’s final [...]
- [Ear-severing awesomeness](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ear-severing-awesomeness/) - Coby Gewertz has been doing some awesome stuff with his ‘zine called Church, and the Econoline that he just finished in time for this weekend’s Grand National Roadster Show (dubbed the Van-GO) is no less awesome. As if we needed something else to make us regret not going to the show this year. UPDATE (28.January [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1980 Mercury Capri](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1980-mercury-capri/) - Correct, Mercury never built a droptop Fox-body Capri. One may consider the ASC/McLaren as the exception to that statement, but this 1980 Mercury Capri two-seater convertible is no ASC/McLaren. Some backyard engineering job, then? A product of some overzealous enthusiast with a Sawzall and a welder? Not quite, according to the seller: This one of [...]
- [Mercedes-Benz Is Ready To Party](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mercedes-benz-is-ready-to-party/) - So what is the traditional gift for a 125-year anniversary, anyway? Mercedes-Benz will be celebrating the 125th anniversary of the January 29, 1886, filing of Karl Benz’s patent on his three-wheel “gas engine-powered vehicle,” which has been historically considered as the very first practical automobile. The two companies that would combine in 1926 to become [...]
- [Living legends of hot rodding to gather this weekend](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/living-legends-of-hot-rodding-to-gather-this-weekend/) - If you’re already in Southern California for the Grand National Roadster Show and the gathering of some of the living legends of customizing, you may want to clear up a little time in your schedule to visit the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsport Museum on Saturday afternoon when four of the remaining members of the Low [...]
- [Getting the Point as Good as He Gives](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/getting-the-point-as-good-as-he-gives/) - Many personalities have a signature move: For Michael Jackson, it was the Moonwalk, for Ali, the rope-a-dope, for widely known automotive writer and on-air commentator Steve Magnante, it’s The Point. No Magnante story/photo essay or book is complete without a shot of the author’s index finger in the frame underscoring the importance of the image’s [...]
- [The present emergency: Akron, Ohio, December 1941](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-present-emergency-akron-ohio-december-1941/) - Pearl Harbor galvanized the country and sent it headlong into World War II, this we know. Just how everything changed – and so drastically – after that day is ripe for illustration, and Alfred Palmer did a good job of that with his photograph above, shot outside a large hangar at a Goodyear facility in [...]
- [“That’s 300hp of pure suck!”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/thats-300hp-of-pure-suck/) - We all know the Haynes manuals, right? The tech manuals that you get every time you buy a car you’re unfamiliar with? The books out in your garage that have black edges from flipping through them with your grubby hands? The dry, straightforward instructions on how to replace your starter? Right. Well, the latest Haynes [...]
- [Gooding claims top sale of Arizona auction week with $2.09 million Ferrari](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gooding-claims-top-sale-of-arizona-auction-week-with-2-09-million-ferrari/) - Gooding and Company is claiming it made the biggest sale of the Scottsdale auction week with a 2006 Ferrari FXX Evoluzione that rung the bell at $2,090,000. The 860hp supercar is one of just 30 built and retailed new for north of $2 million. Its 6.3-liter V-12 is based on the engine used in the [...]
- [Barrett-Jackson rings up $68 million in sales](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/barrett-jackson-rings-up-68-million-in-sales/) - Barrett-Jackson sold a total of 1,245 cars at no reserve at its Scottsdale show this year, for a final tally of $68 million. The top sale of the event was a custom 44-foot speed boat with a matching 2008 Corvette Z06 coupe that were auctioned off together for $742,500. Of course, the big newsmaker from [...]
- [Here it is, on the boardwalk](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/here-it-is-on-the-boardwalk/) - If you’re a Hemmings reader, we know you appreciate all kinds of history, including the type that’s peripheral to running on wheels. The purpose of this post at its most basic is to let you know that in Atlantic City, two nights of indoor racing will be run on Friday and Saturday, January 28 and [...]
- [Russo and Steele reports $21 million in sales](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/russo-and-steele-reports-21-million-in-sales/) - Russo and Steele is reporting that its Scottsdale auction, January 19-23, tallied up over $21 million in sales, with a sell-through rate of 70 percent. One of the top stories from the event was the sale of a 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda – profiled here and the subject of much conjecture from readers back in November [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Ford F250](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1967-ford-f250/) - Maybe the middle of winter isn’t the best time to attempt to sell this 1967 Ford F250, but if you’re planning on putting it back into service selling Choco Tacos and Sno-Cones to the neighborhood kids, at least you’ll have plenty of time to stock up before warmer weather eventually swings back around this way. [...]
- [I got the fever: Terror at 10 MPH](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/i-got-the-fever-terror-at-10-mph/) - Earlier this month, we reposted a photo from twin6 showing a wonderfully insane front-wheel-drive contraption from Rose City, Michigan, but couldn’t relate any more information than what was in the photo itself. However, reader Steve Donohoe actually knew somebody from Rose City, Michigan – Dean Coleman, the chief of police there – and Dean checked [...]
- [The Cycle of Life: A Swedish Perspective](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-cycle-of-life-a-swedish-perspective/) - Those wonderful wrap-around winshields! Hemmings Associate Editor David Traver Adolphus recently came across two impressive images of brand new Saab 99s taken in May 1973 at the shipping area called Fields Point in Providence, Rhode Island. These two-and four-door sedans were newly offloaded from the ships that brought them from Saab’s Swedish plants in Trollhättan, Södertälje, [...]
- [Our Holiday Car Art Fix](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/our-holiday-car-art-fix/) - Every year, artists belonging to the Automotive Fine Arts Society send out these really cool, signed holiday cards showcasing their work and helping to keep the AFAS on the minds of journalists. It seemed a shame to just stick these mini masterpieces away in a drawer after displaying them around the office as they’re so [...]
- [Veteran Broughs, BMWs, Vincents and Maserati motorcycles at the upcoming Bonham’s Auction in Paris.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/veteran-broughs-bmws-vincents-and-maserati-motorcycles-at-the-upcoming-bonhams-auction-in-paris/) - Quite an eclectic collection of vintage iron is scheduled to go across the auction block at Bonhams and Butterfields Paris motorcycle auction on February 5. In addition to the highly publicized Megola bike (above), with a five-cylinder radial engine mounted to the front wheel, a rare 1936 Brough Superior SS80 is expected to bring some [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1977 Cadillac Eldorado](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1977-cadillac-eldorado/) - Yup, it’s a bog-standard 1977 Cadillac Eldorado that we picked for today’s Hemmings Find of the Day. It hasn’t been turned into a pickup or a station wagon, and it appears to still have its stock 180hp 425-cu.in. V-8 and drivetrain. So what’s the big deal about it? From the seller’s description: 1977 CADILLAC ELDORADO [...]
- [Tweedy Pie, take two](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tweedy-pie-take-two/) - One of the most significant sales from this past weekend – from a hot rodder’s perspective – was that of Tweedy Pie at RM‘s event. Tweedy Pie, as many of us know, was a T-bucket originally owned and built by Bob Johnston in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1950s, but made recognizable to the wider collector-car [...]
- [The state of the old car hobby in 1959](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-state-of-the-old-car-hobby-in-1959/) - It always makes us feel a bit meta when we get a chance to peek back in time and see how people regarded their past 30, 40, 50 years ago. Historians hadn’t had as long to stew about their topics, but on the other hand, they were much more proximate to the things they were [...]
- [Nothing much changes](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/nothing-much-changes/) - Put-in-Bay, Ohio, is about the only town of consequence on the North Bass, Middle Bass and South Bass islands north of Sandusky in Lake Erie. Big summer destination, normally reached by ferry, but it’s neat to see how the year-rounders up there adapt to winter and the icing over of the lake. Steve Donohoe pointed [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1951 Kaiser Traveler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1951-kaiser-traveler/) - After yesterday’s SIA Flashback on the Kaiser Traveler, how could we not choose this 1951 Kaiser Traveler for today’s Hemmings Find of the Day? The seller, the Ellingson Car Museum in Rogers, Minnesota, didn’t include much information that you don’t see in the photos, aside from the fact that it’s a California car. These don’t [...]
- [Gilmore Car Museum Expanding Again](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gilmore-car-museum-expanding-again/) - Located in Hickory Corners, Michigan, the 90-acre grounds of the Gilmore Car Museum has seen an explosion of activity within the last two years. It’s a long list, beginning with the recently completed Franklin Automobile Collection and the addition of a new Restoration and Education Center. Also on this list – with groundbreakings scheduled to [...]
- [Gullwing soars past $1 million at RM](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gullwing-soars-past-1-million-at-rm/) - RM Auctions is calling its 2011 Arizona auction an unqualified success, posting a record $30.8 million in sales with a 96 percent sell-through — the highest ever in the event’s 12-year history. Helping boost the bottom line, four of the 180 cars offered sold for more than one million. Perhaps the most surprising of those [...]
- [Big Bertha’s predecessor, the first car in Antarctica](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/big-berthas-predecessor-the-first-car-in-antarctica/) - While researching the Poulter-designed Snow Cruiser over the last couple of weeks, I came across mention of another car that would be worth posting this chilly chilly morning (-18 degrees Fahrenheit on my way into work this morning!). Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton – he of the ill-fated Endurance expedition – had in 1907 set sail [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1936 Oldsmobile ambulance](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1936-oldsmobile-ambulance/) - The Pavlovian response among most car guys upon hearing the name of the coachbuilder Henney is to think Packard professional car. But that’s not the case with this 1936 Oldsmobile ambulance bodied by Henney and now waiting in the Arizona desert for somebody to come along and give it a proper restoration. From the seller’s [...]
- [SIA Flashback – 1949 Kaiser Traveler: America’s First Hatchback](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-1949-kaiser-traveler-americas-first-hatchback/) - We may think of the recent focus on original, unrestored cars as a new development in the collector car world, but that’s just not the case, as we see from Randy Mason’s article on the Kaiser Traveler that he obtained for The Henry Ford Museum in SIA #87, June 1985. After a quick and dirty [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Austin-Healey BJ8](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1965-austin-healey-bj8/) - One of the niftier aspects of the new online classified search function that we introduced this week on Hemmings.com is that it allows you to search for a car based on all sorts of criteria. What decade is it from? Does it have a stick or an automatic transmission? What price range does it fall [...]
- [Four-Links – cross-country Caddy, Kaija Kalevala, Fuel Tank, The Green Book](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-cross-country-caddy-kaija-kalevala-fuel-tank-the-green-book/) - * With snow covering half the country, it’s the perfect time for a road trip story, no? Iver Peterson took a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz most of the way along Route 50 this past summer and wrote about the trip for the New York Times last month. (via) * From canada.com last week came this [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool: Car Spotting in Australia, 1974](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-car-spotting-in-australia-1974/) - Our car-spotting exercises so far have been rather North America-oriented, so let’s go south for our next one, provided to us by Hugo90 on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool. He describes the shot above as a used car lot in Footscray, Victoria, photographed in 1974. There’s eight cars in the shot, and no fair peeking [...]
- [Auction Aggravation](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-aggravation/) - So, how can you really look over a car if you’re not allowed to touch it? And who are the people who actually spend their money on cars that they’re not allowed to touch before buying?
- [GM Performance Parts to auction first LSX454R crate engine at Barrett-Jackson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gm-performance-parts-to-auction-first-lsx454r-crate-engine-at-barrett-jackson/) - With the Scottsdale auction week under way, news of significant sales is flowing steadily. One particular sale coming up on Friday at Barrett-Jackson is actually not a car, but an engine – the very first of the new GM Performance Parts LSX454R crate packages to be sold. The proceeds of the sale will go to [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1970 Aston Martin DBS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1970-aston-martin-dbs/) - The appeal of this particular 1970 Aston Martin DBS lies not just in its gorgeous shape, its sorted V-8 engine or in its luxury interior. Rather, what sets it apart is its background as a press car when new, then its restoration laid bare for British magazine readers. From the seller’s description: This DBS V8 [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Dodge Omni GLH/GLHS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-dodge-omni-glhglhs/) - Like last week’s selection of the Monte Carlo Aerocoupe and Grand Prix 2+2 for the Class of 1986, this week’s selection might be a little obvious: The Dodge Omni GLH and Omni GLHS. Thanks to Carroll Shelby’s connection with Chrysler at the time, these cars are fairly well known among automotive enthusiasts, but so far [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Carlisle and RM’s Auction America get together!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-carlisle-and-rms-auction-america-get-together/) - The process of consolidation in the auction world took a big step forward today, when Carlisle Events and RM subsidiary Auctions America announced a joint agreement. In effect, Carlisle will get out of the auction business, and RM will get into swap meets: Auctions America will run the April Spring Carlisle and September Fall Carlisle [...]
- [Smithsonian selects Tucker and Miller for display](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/smithsonian-selects-tucker-and-miller-for-display/) - Earlier this month, we brought word of the Smithsonian’s online poll to select two cars to come out of their automobile collection and go on display. As we see in the above video from the AP, the Tucker and Miller race car came out on top in the...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 Studebaker M5](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1948-studebaker-m5/) - From the high plains desk of our satellite office comes this perfectly aged 1948 Studebaker M5 pickup. A comic tragedy of the traditional hot rod phenomenon is when a new fabrication is faked up to look used. While this practice is fine for actual-size movie set versions of the Millennium Falcon, it simply doesn’t add [...]
- [Keep repeating: This isn’t real](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/keep-repeating-this-isnt-real/) - We got some feedback from Hemmings Nation citizen Paul Meyer, who wanted to let us know how much he enjoyed the recent Hemmings Classic Car profile of Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum curator Matt Short. Did he ever. Read on. What you’re looking at is the recently completed 1/6th scale model of a 1932 Duesenberg SJ phaeton as [...]
- [A Plan Set in Motion](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-plan-set-in-motion/) - We’ve written extensively about the tuned up fifth-generation Camaros built by Schenectady, New York–based Redline Motorsports and sold by DeNooyer Performance of Albany, New York, over the past couple of years because, viewed from a historical perspective, they’re the second coming of the Baldwin Motion and Yenko Camaros that today are performance legends. Now the [...]
- [Auction Pulse: 51 vehicles from the Captain America film at Brooklands](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-51-vehicles-from-the-captain-america-film-at-brooklands/) - 1937 Dodge Do movie producers normally end up with the entire fleet of vehicles used in their film? According to Telegraph, that’s what happened with 51 1931-’48 cars and trucks from the upcoming movie Captain America: The First Avenger. Executive producer Nigel Gostelow, a self-proclaimed “avid petrolhead” has them consigned for the Historics at Brooklands [...]
- [The Snow Cruiser in motion](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-snow-cruiser-in-motion/) - After reading Bob Lichty’s excellent story on the Poulter-designed Snow Cruiser built for Admiral Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition in this past weekend’s SIA Flashback, I went traipsing through the Internets to see if anybody had found the Snow Cruiser in the quarter century since the SIA article. Other than plenty of speculation regarding the fate [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Seized Ponzi fraud hoard includes Full Classic Auburns, Cord, Lincoln](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-seized-ponzi-fraud-hoard-includes-full-classic-auburns-cord-lincoln/) - 1930 Lincoln Phaeton Another name is joining Madoff and Mowen on the list 21st of century defrauders to have their pricey personal property auctioned off. Shawn Merriman extracted $20.1 million dollars from investors in the West and, like his peers in infamy, put much of his ill-gotten gains into physical property, including classic cars. Unlike [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1979 Abarth A112](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1979-abarth-a112/) - How’s this for a pocket rocket/hot hatch? Sure, this 1979 Abarth A112 displays more styling cues from the econobox 1980s than many admirers of European minicars seem to prefer, but it certainly follows the spirit of its predecessors with the tuned and scooped engine and lightweight wheels. From the seller’s description: Rarely seen in the [...]
- [Marc Coma wins 2011 Personal Dakar Rally aboard his 450 KTM](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/marc-coma-wins-2011-personal-dakar-rally-aboard-his-450-ktm/) - photo courtesy of Dakar.com For the third time in six years, Marc Coma has bested Cyril Despres to take the top podium finish in the 2011 Personal Dakar Rally by 15 minutes and 4 seconds. The two riders have now each won three titles over that six-year stretch. Despres finished second, with the third place [...]
- [From the Hemmings Forum: extended-cab pickup from 1952?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-forum-extended-cab-pickup-from-1952/) - Conventional wisdom holds that Ford didn’t introduce an extended-cab pickup until 1974, prompted by the introduction of the Dodge Club Cab the year prior. If that’s the case, then what’s the explanation for this 1952 Ford extended-cab pickup that Hemmings Forum user dcauto recently showed us photos of? It’s certainly not a modern-day conversion, and [...]
- [The foxiest four-wheel moving violation on rubber](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-foxiest-four-wheel-moving-violation-on-rubber/) - So the closest thing YouTube seems to have for a music video for Sammy Johns’s song “Chevy Van” is this clip from the 1977 vansploitation flick appropriately named “The Van,” which centers around some kid named Bobby blowing his college savings on a van designed to get him the girl of his dreams. Apparently Danny [...]
- [Hemmings classified searching made better](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-classified-searching-made-better/) - While prowling the Hemmings classifieds today (and you do make the Hemmings online classifieds a daily stop, right?), you may have noticed some changes. We’ve been working on a new classified ad search and display interface that we believe will simplify and streamline your search for the collector cars you’ve always dreamed of. After months [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1949 Ford](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1949-ford/) - I had always assumed that the Fordillacs of hot rodding lore were all built with Cadillac’s groundbreaking OHV V-8 engine, not the Cadillac flathead V-8 engine, which is what appears in this 1949 Ford for sale on Hemmings.com. Then again, it’s not as if Frick and his partners built these as production-line automobiles; they were [...]
- [GNRS to feature 75 of the most significant customs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gnrs-to-feature-75-of-the-most-significant-customs/) - The Customs Then and Now exhibit at the Grand National Roadster Show will include Larry Watson’s Thunderbird. It’s a good bet the girl posing with it won’t be there, though. One of the most anticipated events on the calendar for fans of the flaked, candied, chopped, dropped, nosed and decked customs of the 1940s, 1950s [...]
- [Buy a ‘Vette, be like Ron or Bob](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/buy-a-vette-be-like-ron-or-bob/) - As if you (and by “you,” I mean “me”) needed another reason to want a new Corvette, Chevrolet announced last week that U.S. customers who purchase any new ‘Vette through February 28 can receive free tuition to either of the two official Corvette driving schools: the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving near Phoenix, [...]
- [Nothing New: 7 modern car technologies that are actually 100 years old](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/nothing-new-7-modern-car-technologies-that-are-actually-100-years-old/) - I often say, flippantly, that the industry is just now starting to master the technologies of a century ago. That’s been more an impression than a statement of fact; I recall seeing many things in early publications and thinking, “Wow, I had no idea they did that so soon,” but if pressed, I wouldn’t be able [...]
- [Car Spotting – Fifties Flashback Part II](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/car-spotting-fifties-flashback-part-ii/) - I wonder what kind of a spin Rod Serling could have put on this snapshot from the El Patio Motel in the mid-Fifties. Look at the two chaps poolside: “A relaxing moment for Fred Hall and Bill Watson. Two friends who just sat down from a tiring day on the road. Little do they know [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Cadillac Eldorado](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1956-cadillac-eldorado/) - One of the great mysteries of modern celebrity is why someone who has enough scratch for a gold-plated Cadillac Escalade can’t scare up a few more bucks to hire a driver when it comes time to descend into Hollywood and drink enough to raise the eyebrows of W.C. Fields and Winston Churchill. Up-and-coming celebrities who [...]
- [Museum News: Dixie Flyer on Display](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/museum-news-dixie-flyer-on-display/) - If your travel plans include an excursion through the Hershey region of southeastern Pennsylvania between now and April 30, you might want to stop by the AACA Museum and check out the rare 1922 Dixie Flyer Firefly Speedster on display, which is on temporary loan from Kentucky Trailer. Rare might be a bit of an [...]
- [Seen In Scottsdale: Volkswagen Type 2](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/seen-in-scottsdale-volkswagen-type-2/) - The ever charming, always utilitarian Volkswagen Type 2 Transporter, built in Single and Double Cab guises, will be one of the many stars at the January auctions at the numerous auction houses next week. Here are a few of the Type 2s you’ll find in Scottsdale, Arizona: This restored 1956 Single Cab, lot number 9414 [...]
- [From many Muntz ago](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-many-muntz-ago/) - 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 [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Brockway cab](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-brockway-cab/) - 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 [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Byrd’s Big Bertha: the Ultimate Snowmobile](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-byrds-big-bertha-the-ultimate-snowmobile/) - 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...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1984 Land Rover](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1984-land-rover/) - I thought about saving this ex-MOD 1984 Land Rover Series III 109 for this year’s March Military Campaign, but I’m afraid the ad for it may expire before then, so consider this a MMC preview. From the seller’s description: This is an excellent example of a RHD ex-MOD Series III. This was one of the last [...]
- [Four-Links – Neko Case’s Cougar, Deora 2, Amphicar driving impressions, The Chargers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-neko-cases-cougar-deora-2-amphicar-driving-impressions-the-chargers/) - * I must be getting old if I don’t know who Neko Case is, but that’s her, and that’s the 1967 Mercury Cougar from the cover photo of her latest album, Middle Cyclone. Now, she’s put the Cougar up for auction, with the proceeds benefiting 826 National, a non-profit group that encourages creative writing by [...]
- [Scooter Commuter](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/scooter-commuter/) - It’s Friday afternoon, you’re not feeling up to working, and your boss has probably knocked off for the day. Fine time, then, to ogle the London traffic in this Look at Life video on scooters from 1962. (via)
- [SEMA compiles Tag & Title Toolbox](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sema-compiles-tag-title-toolbox/) - Navigating the thicket of multitudinous and sometimes conflicting state laws regarding collectible vehicles – and that includes everything from hot rods and street rods to kit cars, antiques, dune buggies, lifted and lowered vehicles, you name it – can often be frustrating and confusing, especially if you don’t live in Vermont, where we’re sure they’d [...]
- [Hot Wheels’ 2011 Garage series offers more variety than ever before](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hot-wheels-2011-garage-series-offers-more-variety-than-ever-before/) - photo courtesy 1stopdiecast.com Hot Wheels’ Garage series, now in its third year, has finally figured out this whole premium-diecast thing: $3 price point, metal body and chassis, soft tires, and attractive cars done to a high level of detail. (In other words, they discovered Johnny Lightning’s old niche, a decade on.) Now that they’ve got [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Rambler Custom](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1960-rambler-custom/) - It may just be me, but it seems like I only ever see Ramblers from this era in one of two conditions: rusted-out junkyard denizen with broken windows sitting on its brake drums, or well preserved original (or near-original). This attractive 1960 Rambler Custom four-door sedan definitely falls in that latter category. From the seller’s [...]
- [Class of ’86 – Chevrolet Monte Carlo Aerocoupe/Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-86-chevrolet-monte-carlo-aerocoupepontiac-grand-prix-22/) - Image courtesy montecarloss.com Reeves had an excellent suggestion for this week’s candidate for the Class of 1986: the Monte Carlo Aerocoupe and its cousin the Grand Prix 2+2. Conceived to help the two GM divisions become more competitive against the more aerodynamic Ford Thunderbird that was tearing up the NASCAR tracks at the time, both [...]
- [Just throw some nails in those tires and keep riding.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/just-throw-some-nails-in-those-tires-and-keep-riding/) - What do motorcyclists do when the weather gets too cold and slippery? Ice race. And the International Championship Events or ICE is midway through its 35th season of cold weather competition. Round 7 of the season takes place this Friday and Saturday at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. More than 20 [...]
- [Hemmings Finds of the Day – big-block Dodge Coronet project cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-finds-of-the-day-big-block-dodge-coronet-project-cars/) - Nearly one right after the other came these two big-block Dodge Coronet project cars, which means you get a choice for your Hemmings Find of the Day today: a 1965 Dodge Coronet 500 or a 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T. From the R/T seller’s description: All of the pieces are here to build your dream muscle [...]
- [Saving the World Two Strokes at a Time](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/saving-the-world-two-strokes-at-a-time/) - Oh look, it’s EcoMotors International, some new greenie-car startup company with a “revolutionary” engine design. I bet it’ll save all the polar bears while running on a blend of hemp oil, wildflowers and moonbeams. Ha! Just what flavor of hippie vegetarian baloney is this? And what automotive genius is running this company? Let me guess: [...]
- [From Ford’s plastic car we got… imitation meat?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-fords-plastic-car-we-got-imitation-meat/) - I’ve had this picture hanging around in my Inbox for a while, courtesy Geoff Hacker, and I thought today, the anniversary of Henry Ford’s patent (2,269,451) for a method of producing a plastic-bodied car, would be as good a time as any to post it. We won’t get into the details of the car itself, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Hudson Big Boy pickup](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1947-hudson-big-boy-pickup/) - We no dummies here at Hemmings. We know you got a big charge out of the Studebaker Coupe Express we highlighted a couple weeks ago, so we knew we’d have to make the white triangle fans happy and post up this 1947 Hudson Big Boy 3/4-ton pickup when we came across it. From the seller’s [...]
- [Bullitt director Peter Yates dies](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bullitt-director-peter-yates-dies/) - Film director and four-time Oscar nominee Peter Yates, who helmed every car-chase-fanatic’s favorite movie, Bullitt, has died. He was 81. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate was a stage actor before turning to directing; he directed two films in England, 1963′s Summer Holiday and 1967′s Robbery, before he came to America and cut his [...]
- [E-types are everywhere in Scottsdale](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/e-types-are-everywhere-in-scottsdale/) - 2011 is the 50th birthday of one of the greatest sports cars ever built (and, in the words of Road & Track, “the greatest crumpet collector known to man”), the Jaguar E-type. This fact has not escaped the attention of the auction houses: There will be no fewer than 14 E-types for sale during the [...]
- [Coma maintains motorcycle overall lead after Stage 9 of the Dakar Rally](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/coma-maintains-motorcycle-overall-lead-after-stage-9-of-the-dakar-rally/) - Despite finishing ninth on Tuesday, Marc Coma still holds a narrow overall lead in the 2011 Personal Dakar Argentina-Chile Rally. Stage 9 was won by American Jonah Street on his Yamaha. Jonah was followed by Frans Verhoven on a BMW and David Casteau on a Sherco bike for this stage. Following closely behind Coma for [...]
- [Gassing up with Mickey Thompson and the Challenger I streamliner](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gassing-up-with-mickey-thompson-and-the-challenger-i-streamliner/) - Nowadays, when somebody decides they want to tackle some world land-speed record or another, they usually arrive at the Bonneville Salt Flats with a giant enclosed trailer towed by equally giant trucks, with an entire entourage of mechanics, aerodynamics experts, videographers and money men in their wake. In August 1959, Mickey Thompson towed his Challenger [...]
- [Snow’s a-comin’](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/snows-a-comin/) - So my buddy Jeff down in Georgia is all bummed that he’s stuck in the house with eight inches of snow on the ground. I tol’ him to get out and have some fun like these hoodlums. The footage is remixed from the longer video below, which sho...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1928 Graham-Paige sound train](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1928-graham-paige-sound-train/) - As anybody who visited the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance last year will recognize, this 1928 Graham-Paige limousine is no typical product of a visionary’s one-off fantasies. Instead, it’s one of the 15 or 16 trackless trains (also called “sound trains”) that Hoosier Harry McGee built for various companies to promote their wares. From the seller’s [...]
- [Barrett-Jackson to auction ’73 Corvette in Scottsdale for Chip Miller Foundation](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/barrett-jackson-to-auction-73-corvette-in-scottsdale-for-chip-miller-foundation/) - With the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction coming up fast, many of the featured lots are beginning to spool up interest in anticipation of the big show. One that we recently learned of is a ’73 Corvette coupe being offered to raise funds for the Chip Miller Charitable Foundation. Miller’s name is familiar to many auto enthusiasts [...]
- [Vermont to host AACA Meet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/vermont-to-host-aaca-meet/) - The Antique Automobile Club of America will hold its first-ever regional meet in Vermont on May 19-21. The Eastern Division Spring Meet will be hosted by the Green Mountain Region and will be held at the breathtaking Stowe Mountain Lodge resort in the idyllic northern Vermont town of Stowe. More than 400 finely restored collector [...]
- [The 40-MPG diesel-powered Auburns of Clessie Cummins](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-40-mpg-diesel-powered-auburns-of-clessie-cummins/) - If nobody else, Clessie Cummins had proved to Americans the viability of the diesel engine. Familiar with the Indianapolis 500 since crewing for Ray Harroun in the first such race in 1911, he returned in 1931 with a Duesenberg-built, diesel-powered race car that finished 13th, but managed to not only run the entire race without [...]
- [Moving the memories of Mack](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/moving-the-memories-of-mack/) - One of the attractions for passionate vehicle people in Macungie, Pennsylvania, has long been the Mack Trucks Historical Museum, located on Main Street, just steps from the huge show field at Macungie Park and a Mack assembly plant. Since last summer, the museum’s collection has been moved to the newly organized Mack Customer Center in [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Jensen Healey Mk II](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1973-jensen-healey-mk-ii/) - Quick, someone alert the Jensen Healey Preservation Society! We’ve hit the motherlode. 1973 Jensen Healey MK II Convertible. Several cars available, including parts cars and 1972 to 1975 Jensen Healeys. Also available are six Jensen GTs. Ranging from good condition to parts car. All cars are stored under cover in dry southern Arizona. Entertaining all [...]
- [Eliot Ness and the 1939 Fisher Body plant riot in Cleveland](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/eliot-ness-and-the-1939-fisher-body-plant-riot-in-cleveland/) - After three weeks, tensions started to run high in Cleveland. The city’s largest automotive factory, the Albert Kahn-designed seven-story Fisher Body plant on the corner of Coit Road and East 140th Street, which dated to 1921 and at the time built two-door Chevrolet bodies, had been strike-bound since the UAW-CIO – at the time a [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle station wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1967-chevrolet-chevelle-station-wagon/) - What was that I was saying yesterday about gas going up, so it’s time to buy small cars again? Well, this 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com isn’t exactly small, but it does feature a modern fuel-injected V-8, which’ll return much better mileage than the original engine on those long road trips [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Pre-War Cobra: 1934 Railton](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-pre-war-cobra-1934-railton/) - The comparison that Arch Brown hinted at in the headline of this driveReport that appeared in SIA #86, April 1985 – that between the Railton-Terraplane and the Shelby Cobra – comes close to describing this trans-Atlantic hybrid with its high-performance American power and British body, though the story is rather more complicated than that, as [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1960-austin-healey-sprite-2/) - While I’ve always been partial to the later non-bugeye versions of the Sprite, this red and restored 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite, with its drilled steelies, poverty caps and tonneau, is still rather fetching. We all know gas is going to climb back up toward a bazillion dollars a gallon, so perhaps now is the time to [...]
- [Four-Links – Mint 400 desert race, world’s fastest van, 1930s dry lakes racing, Trans Am in Minnesota](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-mint-400-desert-race-worlds-fastest-van-1930s-dry-lakes-racing-trans-am-in-minnesota/) - * Over at Off-Road Action, Wes posted a set of Doug Sutton’s photos from the 1971 Mint 400 desert race, which featured a variety of machinery, from Broncos and dune buggies to bikes and four-wheel-drive Barracudas. *Continuing with the race theme, BigLorryBlog (huh? racing?) posted some photos and a video this week about the original [...]
- [Stolen pickup alert – 1965 Chevrolet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/stolen-pickup-alert-1965-chevrolet/) - Hemmings Nation, it’s time to peel your eyes and put your ears on again to help one of our own. Reader Lewey Hammett of Anderson, South Carolina, returned home after the New Year’s weekend to discover his 1965 Chevrolet pickup gone from its resting spot in his backyard. According to Lewey’s description of the pickup: [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1949 Hudson Super Six](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1949-hudson-super-six/) - In honor of Michel Gondry’s upcoming Green Hornet movie, I thought I’d go digging through the Hemmings classifieds not for a 1965 Imperial, but for an actual green Hornet. The closest I could find, however, was this green 1949 Hudson Super Six, which is still worth a look. From the seller’s description: Originally an Arizona [...]
- [Pontiac-Oakland Museum is on!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pontiac-oakland-museum-is-on/) - I’ve received word from Tim Dye that, after an amazingly short gestation, the Pontiac, Illinois, city council has given final approval for a museum celebrating the beloved GM brand. Tim will be providing further details soon, but he’s been approved by the city as the manager for the project, and funding is in place. It’s [...]
- [The tifosi’s favorite holiday](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-tifosis-favorite-holiday/) - We can all relate to a birthday bash like this. We heard this week from Bill Warner, founder and chairman of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, who informed us that the 2012 edition of the Florida gathering – that’s 2012, not this year’s – will salute the 50th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GTO, a car [...]
- [Class of 1986 – Ford Taurus](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-1986-ford-taurus/) - Image courtesy jeff-young-design.com With a new calendar year, we get to consider a whole new crop of cars that have now passed the quarter-century mark and thus, as many widely consider, officially become classics. But, as we all know, some cars are more deserving of that status than others, so we’re opening up debate over [...]
- [Unimpeded Radio Reception for Camaro](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/unimpeded-radio-reception-for-camaro/) - The danger in recycling automotive styling cues is that what worked then may not work now. Radio-equipped Sixties cars came with a mast antenna attached to the body by some manner of fastener. Internet viewers apparently revolted upon seeing a similar fixed-mast antenna on the trunk of a 2011 Camaro convertible. With little time to [...]
- [Paul Zazarine, 1952-2011](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/paul-zazarine-1952-2011/) - Well-known automotive journalist and one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Pontiac GTO, Paul Zazarine, has passed away. While working at Dobbs Publishing in Lakeland, Florida, Paul was the editor of Musclecar Review, helped launch Corvette Fever, Mopar Muscle and JP magazines. Paul was also on the board of directors for the National Corvette [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Chevrolet Corvette](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1968-chevrolet-corvette/) - Okay, okay, okay. Yesterday’s Corvette sport wagon wasn’t your favorite. Maybe it wouldn’t have received such a negative reaction if its history were better documented, as is the case with this 1968 Chevrolet Corvette, one of two L88 cars campaigned by James Garner’s American International Racing team at Daytona. From the seller’s description (which also [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – memories of Titusville, PA](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-memories-of-titusville-pa/) - Not to pick on gswetsky too much, but he’s recently uploaded quite a few auto-themed photos of Titusville, Pennsylvania, circa early 1960s, to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, and we thought they were worth highlighting here. Always nice seeing ...
- [“She’s so rock steady/And she’s always ready”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/shes-so-rock-steadyand-shes-always-ready/) - Time for another music video featuring both a hot rod (it looks to me like it started out as a 1935 Dodge DV) and what Mal Fuller calls “chain-dragging music.” This time, it’s the Australian group Spiderbait and their cover of Leadbe...
- [Much more than the Hildebrand and Wolfmuller motorcycle to be sold at Bonham’s Las Vegas auction](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/much-more-than-the-hildebrand-and-wolfmuller-motorcycle-to-be-sold-at-bonhams-las-vegas-auction/) - Sure, the Internet has been abuzz about the 1895 Hildebrand and Wolfmuller steam-engine derived, gas-powered motorcycle that is the featured bike in Bonhams’ Las Vegas Motorcycle Sale coming up this Thursday. But it is worth your while to check out the rest of the motorcycles being offered at this sale too, some of them almost [...]
- [So few small-scale third-gen WRX models are out there, Subaru had to do one itself](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/so-few-small-scale-third-gen-wrx-models-are-out-there-subaru-had-to-do-one-itself/) - Funny how these things go. The first-generation Subaru Impreza WRX, the rally-homologation sensation that we suspect will be a shoo-in collector favorite in a couple of decades’ time, was barely modeled in small-scale in its own lifetime; only an obscure Hungarian outfit, Metchy, deigned to commit it to tooling. (All of the CM’s rally variants [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Chevrolet Corvette sports wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1973-chevrolet-corvette-sports-wagon/) - My first thought was that this 1973 Chevrolet Corvette converted into a sport wagon was the product of John Greenwood’s experimentation with the body style, but some quick googling shows that Greenwood’s conversion(s) were meant for the later rubber-bumper third-gen Corvettes. It appears, then, that this one came from an earlier design, possibly by Chuck [...]
- [Dealerships in a time of transition](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dealerships-in-a-time-of-transition/) - What struck me the most as I browsed through the selection of more than 120 vintage Chevrolet (and some Oldsmobile and Cadillac) dealership photos that Craig Hover posted to Picasa last month is just how much dealerships changed during that time. The photoset seems to start in about 1961 or 1962, depicting mom-n-pop places, usually [...]
- [Open Diff: Ethanol alternatives, and is it really bad?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/open-diff-ethanol-alternatives-and-is-it-really-bad/) - In my recent post about potential E15 gasoline you had the opportunity to sound off about why you don’t like the stuff. In with those comments, there were also some interesting suggestions on how to address the issue. So now, I’m asking you two questions: Is there really a problem, and what do we do [...]
- [Microcars at Mecum, and Other Assorted Imports](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/microcars-at-mecum-and-other-assorted-imports/) - January is a busy month with regards to auctions, especially in Scottsdale, Arizona. But just after the clean-up crews have called it a day out west, things start to jump to life in the Orlando region of Florida: Mecum Auctions rolls in to Kissimmee for their annual event, which runs from January 26-30. We’ve already [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1972-chevrolet-monte-carlo/) - Heyyyyy, Chevrolet never made a Monte Carlo convertible, right? Then why do we see a 1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo for sale on Hemmings.com with its top down? (As it should be; after all, why build a personal luxury car and not offer it as a droptop?) Reportedly, it’s fairly easy to create phantom Monte convertibles [...]
- [Auto Racing in Maine, 1911](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auto-racing-in-maine-1911/) - The Stanley Museum in Kingfield, Maine, is creating a virtual museum, thanks to a $5,000 matching grant from the Maine Humanities Council. The online exhibits, using material drawn from the museum’s collections and archives, will be featured on the Maine Memory Network, a project of the Maine Historical Society. The first of the museum’s exhibits [...]
- [The predecessor of all modern-day Eurotuners](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-predecessor-of-all-modern-day-eurotuners/) - Since first spotting the above photo submitted by twin6 to the H.A.M.B.’s incomparable Photos Taken Before WWII thread, I’ve been meaning to investigate Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen‘s front-wheel drive, negative-cambered contraption, but the caption scrawled onto the photo – “Rose’s Auto- Rose City, Mich.-Colbath Artist” – doesn’t lead to any known automotive tinkerer. The only [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Fiat 600](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1962-fiat-600/) - Those with a current or ongoing desire to own a 1962 Fiat 600 are so advised to take a look at this California raised water-cooled successor to the air-cooled Fiat 500. The great frozen Northeast and accompanying tons of ice dissolving road salt have deleterious effects on any automobile more than a few years old. [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Scottsdale preview: Barrett-Jackson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-scottsdale-preview-barrett-jackson/) - Barrett-Jackson briefly scaled back from their 1,000-plus-car extravaganzas of yore, but they’re back to strength now and my do they get the cars. B-J’s size and market penetration allow them to pull in consignments and consignors that others can’t, which leaves room among the Pro Touring Camaros, celebrity-edition Lamborghinis and Car-Nosaurii for truly interesting cars. [...]
- [Stamp of Significance](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/stamp-of-significance/) - One of the most cherished automotive events next year of any kind will be the centennial of the first Indianapolis 500 on Memorial Day. Among a slew of commemorative events in the pipeline for that landmark anniversary is the creation of a U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring the first 500 in 1911, unveiled this week [...]
- [Mickey Thompson Twin-Tempest](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mickey-thompson-twin-tempest/) - Two-cylinders. One 2-71 GMC roots blower. A single Hilborn fuel injector. One magneto. Some nitromethane, and a dynamometer. The resulting 257-horsepower engine shown here was created by taking an already halved Pontiac Tempest four-cylinder engine and halving it again. The cylinder head and block were sealed off by aluminum plates after their appointment with the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1924 Flint touring](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1924-flint-touring/) - If I had a business renting out vehicles to movie studios, I could probably make a mint off of a car like this 1924 Flint touring – it’s exactly the kind of typical 1920s car that seems to populate every movie from that era. Throw in a few weddings every summer and I bet I [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Racing’s Back in the Bahamas](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-racings-back-in-the-bahamas/) - With news that the Bahamas Speed Week is being revived later this year, it’s just a little bit appropriate that we run David Brownell’s account on the first such Bahamas Speed Week revival, from SIA #86, April 1985. Hopefully the same cali...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1958 Volkswagen Beetle](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1958-volkswagen-beetle/) - Welcome to the “Don’t Stop Believin’” edition of the Hemmings Find of the Day, in which we present a 1958 Volkswagen Beetle for sale on Hemmings.com. But wait! It’s no ordinary Beetle. According to the seller, it was once owned by Steve Perry of the rock group Journey. I wonder if the Datsun in the [...]
- [Four-Links – Smithsonian selections, Manhattan ghost bus, Gaggenau, Russian truck of future](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-smithsonian-selections-manhattan-ghost-bus-gaggenau-russian-truck-of-future/) - * The Smithsonian wants your help in deciding which two of its cars it should bring out of storage to display in the National Museum of American History by voting for one of eight historically significant cars. A Tucker (would that be #1039?) is one of the eight. Voting lasts through January 11. (via) * [...]
- [Ah, yes. Jeep, London. Makes sense.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ah-yes-jeep-london-makes-sense/) - We stopped posting auto-related music videos a while back, didn’t we? Diskojoe picks up that ball with this one from Small Faces. He writes: Here’s a little thingie from a 60s Swedish show called My Generation, which features the Small Faces, the best Brit Mod band after the Who (ironically enough, you can hear “My [...]
- [Hellé Nice: La Femme Rapide](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/helle-nice-la-femme-rapide/) - There have been pioneering women in every endeavor, and depending on the era, their achievements have either been acknowledged or forgotten. There were few women who achieved success in the early days of male-dominated auto racing, and one was France’s Hellé Nice. Born Mariette Hélene Delangle, Ms. Nice ran more than 100 hill climbs, rallies [...]
- [Vintage Racer Offered in Scottsdale](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/vintage-racer-offered-in-scottsdale/) - You probably may not know the who, when and where with regards to the above image, but we’re also aware of the fact that some pretty astute readers can instantly peg the subject as a Ferrari. To be more specific, a 1949 Ferrari 166 MM Touring Barchetta, chassis number 0024 M. As for the other [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1946 Chevrolet Suburban](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1946-chevrolet-suburban/) - Are we finally to a point where soccer moms have totally abandoned the Chevrolet Suburban, thus dissolving the stigma around them? Of course, there’s no such stigma related to this 1946 Chevrolet Suburban, which I’m sure no soccer mom would have ever considered driving. From the seller’s description: Very very rare and beautiful 1946 Chevrolet [...]
- [nor Snow: Postal trucks make it through](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/nor-snow-postal-trucks-make-it-through/) - Smithsonian‘s excellent Flickr feed has become quite topical, most recently posting a brief series of great images of US Mail vehicles in adverse conditions as part of a much longer winter theme. There are only five of postal vehicles up now, so to make it interesting I’m going to include their captions but leave the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1937 Studebaker Coupe Express](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1937-studebaker-coupe-express/) - The vast majority of you seemed to appreciate the 1953 Studebaker Kart Hauler that was our Hemmings Find of the Day earlier this week, but a couple of you weren’t very keen on it. Customs aren’t for everybody, we understand, but the concept of a Studebaker coupe-turned-pickup is not without precedent, as we see from [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Scottsdale preview: The New Guys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-scottsdale-preview-the-new-guys/) - There are two new auctions in Scottsdale next month, one brand new from Scottsdale International Auto Museum, one from the more established Motoexotica. With Kruse gone and ICA scheduling no 2011 auctions, it’s really a wash in terms of the number of sales. Like Kruse and ICA, neither SIA Museum nor Motoexotica are trying to [...]
- [Party memories, all gathered up](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/party-memories-all-gathered-up/) - The biggest hoedown, bar none, in the world of truck collecting is the annual National Convention and Antique Truck Show organized by the American Truck Historical Society. Each gathering has been followed up by a professionally produced DVD that not only depicts old trucks on a show field, but goes an extra step and captures [...]
- [The top 10 Hemmings Blog posts of 2010](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-top-10-hemmings-blog-posts-of-2010/) - Cripes, didn’t we just do one of these year-end most-popular blog post roundups for 2009? And now we’ve reached the end of another year, creeping up on 4,500 total posts. This last twelvemonth was actually a pretty big one around these parts: We redesigned the blog earlier this year, we added the famous Mike Bumbeck [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1975 AMC Pacer X](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1975-amc-pacer-x/) - Pacer! In glorious Seventies brown! And this 1975 Pacer X looks to be in original condition! Quick, snap it up before Cars 2 makes these mirthmobiles trendy! From the seller’s description: Alloy Wheels. Tilt Wheel. Air Conditioning Original 8-Track Tape Deck Original Vinyl Seats and Carpet 1975 AMC Pacer “X” with original two-tone tan/brown finish. [...]
- [2011 Dakar Rally starts on New Year’s Day](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/2011-dakar-rally-starts-on-new-years-day/) - The 2011 Personal Dakar Argentina-Chile Rally begins Saturday, with the ceremonial start in Buenos Aires; it will finish in Victoria, Argentina, on the first night. Actual timed racing begins on Sunday, with the first day of racing covering 566 km from Victoria to Cordoba. This the 32nd edition of the rally, taking place in Argentina [...]
- [Restored Olds Rolls Home Top Honors](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/restored-olds-rolls-home-top-honors/) - James and John Kryta of Inline Tube took home championship honors last month from The 2010 Summit Racing Equipment Show Car Series ISCA Finals with their impeccably restored, radiant green 1972 Oldsmobile 442 W-30. The brothers Kryta started the concours-level restoration in June 2009 and completed it on February 15 of this year, in time [...]
- [Introducing Dad to East Coast hot rodding](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/introducing-dad-to-east-coast-hot-rodding/) - With my parents living in North Carolina, I don’t get to see them more than once or twice a year now, so when they came up to visit over the last week, I wanted to get in some guy time with Dad. Too cold for the garage, so the day after Christmas, I took him [...]
- [Front Page News](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/front-page-news/) - Friends of Hemmings Motor News, Dan Carlton and Howard Tanner of DeNooyer Performance and Redline Motorsports, keep racking up accolades with their tuned-up fifth generation Camaros. Most recently, the upstate New York Chevrolet dealer/performance tuner landed one of their cars on the cover of the GM Performance Parts Catalog and were invited by Dr. Jamie [...]
- [The world’s fastest Healey](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-worlds-fastest-healey/) - From England comes news that the Austin-Healey endurance car that averaged 148.13 miles per hour over 1,000 kilometers last year is officially in the record books. After 12 months’ deliberation, the Federation Internationale l’Automobile (FIA) and Britain’s Motor Sports Association (MSA) have certified that the car set 17 records, 11 national and 6 international. The [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1977 Jeep Wagoneer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1977-jeep-wagoneer/) - Okay, who out there made too much money this past year and are now looking for some cool tax deductions before Friday night? Yeah, I know, me too. Those of you in that boat may want to consider making a donation to the Walter P. Chrysler Museum and in return receive buying this 1977 Jeep [...]
- [The Globe-Union Endura: an electric car for the whole family](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-globe-union-endura-an-electric-car-for-the-whole-family/) - Since we last spoke with Bob McKee regarding the pre-fuel crisis Sundancer electric cars that he built, Bob has forwarded on to us plenty of paperwork he thought we might find interesting, including the paper regarding the Sundancer that he (along with Boris Borisoff of Tork-Link and Frank Lawn and James Norberg of ESB) presented [...]
- [“Whoa, almost ran over Kissinger!”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/whoa-almost-ran-over-kissinger/) - Diskojoe’s back with another auto-related MST3K in which the boys poke fun at “Last Clear Chance,” a less-than-grisly driver’s ed video with plenty of 1950s cars in color. That Idaho State Patrol Ford that appears throughout th...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Studebaker Kart Hauler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1953-studebaker-kart-hauler/) - If you really wanted a sedan-turned-pickup, there are plenty of options for you out there, from the European versions done to skirt tax laws to the Australian Utes, to the hillbilly-engineered versions to be found here in the United States. This 1953 Studebaker “Kart Hauler” is none of the above; instead, it’s a genuine 1950s-built [...]
- [Records on the wall](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/records-on-the-wall/) - By now, we should all know about the Bloodhound SSC, the British land-speed racing effort that aims to set the ultimate land-speed record and top 1,000 MPH in the process. In honor of it, Stefan Marjoram recently created a poster that showcases in-scale profile drawings of each of the vehicles that captured the official world [...]
- [Darrell Gwynn Foundation to auction Wood Brothers replica Mercury at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/darrell-gwynn-foundation-to-auction-wood-brothers-replica-mercury-at-barrett-jackson-scottsdale/) - The Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale is a big event, and one that has come to be known for a number of special feature sales, often to benefit charities, in addition to the collector-car lots that serve as its core. Among the highlighted lots this year is a Mercury that was built to commemorate the Daytona [...]
- [Car Spotting – Fifties Flashback, Part I](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/car-spotting-fifties-flashback-part-i/) - Over the years, when the mood hits me at a swap meet or flea market, I’ll stop what I’m doing and sift through a stack of vintage postcards. If there’s a Buick somewhere in the shot, I buy it (so long as the price is reasonable). Only later do I sit back and really look [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Chevrolet pickup](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1965-chevrolet-pickup/) - Okay, time for the annual, “What did you nice Hemmings Blog readers get your wonderful Hemmings Blog editor for Christmas” post. And… Hey, wait a minute! Nothing! Not even a lump of coal! Well, I’ll tell you what: How about you all chip in and get this 1965 Chevrolet pickup for dear ol’ Dan, and [...]
- [SIA Flashback – 1961 Volvo PV544: Collectable, Useful, and Tough](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-1961-volvo-pv544-collectable-useful-and-tough/) - Hard to believe that when Arch Brown wrote this article on the Volvo PV544 for SIA #85, February 1985, the featured car was just a couple dozen years old. For some perspective, that’d be the same as HCC writing a story about the first Ford Taurus nowadays. Then again, as Brown elaborates, the 1961 PV544 [...]
- [Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/wont-you-guide-my-sleigh-tonight/) - A couple years ago, we linked to the one-horse open sleigh that Bart Stephens Stevens (aka Speedrome) built from discarded and unusable Model T parts. Well, what’s a Christmas sleigh without Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer to lead it? So Bart went back to work last year on a Rudolph, made from four pistons, a bulk [...]
- [A Christmas wish](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-christmas-wish/) - ‘Twas the night before Christmas; I quietly lay, And listened for hoofbeats, And Santa Claus’ sleigh. Then without any warning The jolly old fellow Slipped in through my doorway, And chuckled, “Why hello!” “How happens it, Santa, I heard no sleigh bell? I asked very softly–the while the rest snored. He whispered, “Don’t tell– But [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1923 T-bucket](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1923-t-bucket/) - Like vanners, real T-bucket enthusiasts have kept the flame lit for their niche of the hot rodding world since the heady days of Grabowski. Unlike custom and sport vans from the Seventies, it seems T-buckets haven’t yet been considered for a revival in popularity among the hipsters, which means that now is the time to [...]
- [Class of ’85 – Chevrolet Astro/GMC Safari](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-85-chevrolet-astrogmc-safari/) - Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com I can’t let the Class of 1985 go by without mention of my personal favorite vehicle from that year, the 1985 Chevrolet Astro and its twin, the GMC Safari. Full disclosure up front: My parents bought a 1985 Safari brand new – blue, poverty caps, and it had the Borg-Warner T-5 five-speed [...]
- [“Down the road I go/slidin’ all the way”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/down-the-road-i-goslidin-all-the-way/) - Things are gonna be a little quiet around here the next few days, so we’ll leave you with a traditional Upper Midwestern Christmas carol by Da Yoopers that I find hard to believe we’ve yet to post here. (IGA reference FTW!) Happy Holidays!...
- [Legislation: E15 Battle Royale brewing](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/legislation-e15-battle-royale-brewing/) - With additional reporting by Mike McNessor In this corner, in the red trunks: America’s single largest agricultural lobby and associated hangers-on; numerous local boondoggle ethanol plants; and a number of bought and paid-for Senators and Representatives. The challenger, in blue trunks, and coming out swinging: America’s Darling, Ford; GM; the AAM, AIAM and NMMA; and [...]
- [Rallye Monte Carlo Historique pays homage to famed rally’s centennial](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/rallye-monte-carlo-historique-pays-homage-to-famed-rallys-centennial/) - Daytona Speedweeks may be the rite of emergence from racing’s winter hibernation on our shores, but in Europe, it’s the running of the Monte Carlo Rally. That event is so venerated that, as with Le Mans, Monaco and Goodwood, it’s spawned a hugely popular offshoot limited to historic vehicles. This year’s Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique, the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Shelby G.T.350](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1967-shelby-g-t-350/) - One would have thought that over the last few years, every Shelby – especially every Shelby G.T.350 – would have been brought out of long-term storage, spiffed up, and shown off for all the world to see. Guess not, as we see from this one-owner 1967 Shelby G.T.350 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s [...]
- [Mopar Performance introduces Gen III 426 Hemi](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/mopar-performance-introduces-gen-iii-426-hemi/) - If the changes at Chrysler have raised any questions regarding the future of Mopar Performance, recent announcements from the hi-po parts division should serve to put enthusiasts’ minds at ease. The recent Performance Racing Industry (PRI) trade show in Orlando, Florida, was the scene of several significant announcements from the Mopar Performance team regarding new [...]
- [Welcome to Moldova. You want buy cabbage?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/welcome-to-moldova-you-want-buy-cabbage/) - Our good friend Mike Eldred recently returned to the States from a few weeks in Eastern Europe observing the recent elections in Moldova. Sounds like a good time, doesn’t it? Mike wrote: It was a real gas to be in the former Soviet Union and the other East Bloc countries. Moldova was kind of a [...]
- [New Brown Bikeumentary begins filming; release expected in 2012](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/new-brown-bikeumentary-begins-filming-release-expected-in-2012/) - Dana Brown has recently begun filming a new sequel to the classic On Any Sunday, which was directed by his father, Bruce Brown, in 1971. Dana has directed several low-budget documentaries about surfing and desert racing over the last 10 years, including Endless Summer Revisited in 2000, Step Into Liquid in 2003 and Dust to [...]
- [Hemmings find of the Day – 1954 Ford F100](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1954-ford-f100/) - From the near-arctic desk of our pickup truck department comes this winter-equipped Ford F-100 Pickup with six-cylinder power and six-volt electrical system. The all-business truck features a bench seat, rubber floor mats, and a bed made out of a durable and rustproof material that has served for centuries as a renewable and versatile resource. Wood. [...]
- [Quartet of Nickey Chevys, including a Double COPO, to sell at no reserve](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/quartet-of-nickey-chevys-including-a-double-copo-to-sell-at-no-reserve/) - Now back at their traditional location, word comes from Russo and Steele that they plan on ushering through no less that four Nickey Chevys at their Scottsdale auction next month. Not necessarily the first (as lot numbers do not appear to have been assigned as of this writing), but certainly the one to gain the [...]
- [Crosley dealerships from coast to coast](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/crosley-dealerships-from-coast-to-coast/) - Part of the Crosley legend is that Powel Crosley devised an innovative way to sell his cars: Rather than institute a network of dealerships across the country, as every other automaker had, he would sell the cars the same way he sold his radios – through department and appliance stores, many of which already sold [...]
- [Blowing the trumpet for TV Tommy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/blowing-the-trumpet-for-tv-tommy/) - For all its existence, the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in Florida has not only been a warm winter migration point for wonderful cars, but has also demonstrated a consistent affection and respect for racing history. Makes sense, given that co-organizers Bill Warner and Tom Cotter both have been in the sport for decades. One of [...]
- [Velorex Rides Again](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/velorex-rides-again/) - When you think of vehicles originating in the Czech Republic, or former Czechoslovakia, you probably think of Škoda. But if Škoda isn’t esoteric enough for you, you may recall the fabric-bodied Velorex three-wheeler. From the “Strange But True” files comes news of the rebirth of the Velorex. While original Velorexes were never imported to the [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Muntz Jet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1953-muntz-jet/) - While there are plenty of instances of madmen building cars throughout history, to our knowledge, there was only one car built by somebody who considered himself a madman, and this 1953 Muntz Jet, based on a design by Frank Kurtis, is advertised as the next-to-last Jet built. If that’s the case, then it must have [...]
- [Stolen and wrecked Mustang’s recovery progresses](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/stolen-and-wrecked-mustangs-recovery-progresses/) - Longtime readers may recall the tale of Mike and Sheri Gomez’s 1969 Ford Mustang from last year; it was one of the most popular Hemmings Blog posts of 2009. If not, a quick recap: Mike, like most of us, had been restoring his dream car in his own two-car garage in his spare time. It [...]
- [Just another garage in Gotham?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/just-another-garage-in-gotham/) - The pairing of the automobile and the narrow, teeming, crowded canyons of New York City is endlessly fascinating. The Standard Catalog lists 334 different manufacturers based in New York City (most of which, surely, built no more than one or two cars, if any), but beyond that, the Big Apple has a history of dealerships, [...]
- [Would you buy this truck in diecast form?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/would-you-buy-this-truck-in-diecast-form/) - We got an unprecedented e-mail inquiry over the weekend from the proprietors of ARMCO Models 56 in Sydney, Australia. Models 56 specializes in small runs, usually 500 copies, of Oz-prototype models. Many of them are Aussie saloon racers, including a wildly modified Corvair once driven by the storied Frank Gardner. They’re now asking you folks [...]
- [Itching to Own a Vintage Race Car?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/itching-to-own-a-vintage-race-car/) - To put it bluntly, vintage race cars are cool. Sure, they may not be for everyone, but they still make up a segment of the collector-car hobby that doesn’t seem to have a ceiling right now (we’re talking growth and popularity, not an arbitrary figure hampered by the economy). Proof of this – to some [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1912 White Model 30](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1912-white-model-30/) - While better known for the large commercial trucks it produced, White in fact started out at the turn of the century building both trucks and passenger cars, the latter in both steam and internal combustion varieties and most famous for their presidential associations. This 1912 White Model 30 for sale on Hemmings.com can be found [...]
- [Jack’s shoebox Ford](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/jacks-shoebox-ford/) - On a constant basis, car guys ask me how to get the younger generations involved in restoring, collecting and hopping up old cars, as if today’s youth aren’t interested. They are, and the answer amounts to breaking down the barriers that prevent kids from actually laying their hands on old cars: educational barriers, generational barriers, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1940 Mercury custom by Rick Dore](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1940-mercury-custom-by-rick-dore/) - Ah, we meet again. We last spotted this 1940 Mercury custom by Rick Dore at RM’s Amelia Island auction earlier this year, where it appeared to have been painted a much lighter pearlescent blue-green; perhaps it’s just the lighting that accounts for the darker shade in these photos. Now it’s traveled up the East Coast [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Mr. Way’s Wonderful Woodie](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-mr-ways-wonderful-woodie/) - Not everything that turned out of the pre-war coachbuilders’ shops was some outlandish show car for the ultra-rich. Instead, many times, they were simply called upon to build exactly what somebody of means wanted when the automakers didn’t. Thus is the story behind the 1939 Chrysler Imperial woodie wagon that Bohman and Schwartz built in [...]
- [This Day in Automotive History: Lido takes the helm](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/this-day-in-automotive-history-lido-takes-the-helm/) - Lee Iacocca, left, with Don Frey and the 1965 Ford Mustang Though Henry Ford II – the Deuce – remained head honcho at Ford Motor Company throughout the 1960s and 1970s, serving as CEO and chairman from 1960 through 1979, the presidency of Ford went through a few different men’s hands during that time. The [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 BMW 503](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1957-bmw-503/) - Earlier this week, when discussing the Lancia Flaminia based Loewy Loraymo, it was inevitable that we mention the custom BMW 507 that preceded it in Loewy’s European trip. The stock 507, however, was the product of a design by Goertz, who also provided BMW with the design for this 1957 BMW 503 that we see [...]
- [Four-Links – track T, Fidel and an Alfa, Leslie Special recycled, the Japanese Harley](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-track-t-fidel-and-an-alfa-leslie-special-recycled-the-japanese-harley/) - * Over on Autoholics, the latest evolution of the CarDomain blog, FuryPaul recently posted photos of his trip to the Owls Head Transportation Museum, where he spotted this Model T modified for railroad track inspection. It’s the cowcatcher that we dig the most. * I thought Fidel owned an Oldsmobile? Motoring Con Brio offered a [...]
- [Cascade, Idaho, July 1941](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/cascade-idaho-july-1941/) - What exactly led Russell Lee to Cascade, Idaho’s Main Street, camera and color film in hand, in July of 1941? We know that, at the time, he was employed by the Farm Security Administration – the same program that employed Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Marion Post Wolcott, among others, to document rural America’s struggles [...]
- [One of the two authenticated Captain Americas gets toasty](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/one-of-the-two-authenticated-captain-americas-gets-toasty/) - The initial report from KVUE in Austin, Texas and Jalopnik earlier this week was that Gordon Granger, who owns one of the two Captain America bikes from the Easy Rider movie, had a fire at his storage facility on Monday. The bike was one of eight stored in the warehouse, along with 22 classic and [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Barrett-Jackson fires back](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-barrett-jackson-fires-back/) - Terry McGean/HMN photograph A lot of strong words came pouring out in the comments last week when we reported on Russo and Steele’s Scottsdale relocation woes, and included the text of a press release where they call out Barrett-Jackson. Yesterday, B-J released what the papers would call a strongly worded statement in rebuttal, suggesting that [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Shirdlu](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1963-shirdlu/) - I’ve been following this unique handbuilt fiberglass 1963 Shirdlu H-Mod racer for a while on the H-Mod mailing list, and now I see it’s up for sale on Hemmings.com. H-Mods, which rarely followed any sort of pattern and exhibited a wide variety of engineering solutions (and powertrain selections) to get the most out of 750 [...]
- [Class of ’85 – 1985 Ford Mustang 5.0 LX sedan](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-85-1985-ford-mustang-5-0-lx-sedan/) - Image via oldcarbrochures.com This next suggestion for the Class of 1985, the Ford Mustang LX sedan, comes from reader Rick Roso, who writes: Forget 1985′s GT — only came in the fastback hatch, too much filligree, overweight, insurance companies freaked, too. LX sedan… stiffer chassis, a lot lighter, Q-ship “secretary car” look. Ticking the 5.0 [...]
- [Zora on hot rodders](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/zora-on-hot-rodders/) - As CorvetteBlogger.com reminded us this morning, it was 57 years ago today that Zora Arkus-Duntov wrote his famous letter to Ed Cole entitled “Thoughts Pertaining to Youth, Hot Rodders, and Chevrolet” and on display at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Judging from the ubiquity of the small-block Chevrolet over the next half-century [...]
- [LoJack for Classics-equipped stolen Chevelle recovered](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lojack-for-classics-equipped-stolen-chevelle-recovered/) - About two months ago, we brought you news of the then-new LoJack For Classics stolen vehicle recovery system (currently available in select counties in 28 states; the complete list can be found here) that had been designed specifically for the collector car market. On December 5, the system received its first test in Vallejo, California. [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1976 Pontiac Catalina](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1976-pontiac-catalina/) - From the Get Some Full-Size American Car While Gasoline Is Still Cheaper Than Bottled Water Department (GSFSACWGISCTBWD) comes this super-clean all-original 1976 Pontiac Catalina. The Pontiac is loaded, with the optional bi-level air conditioning, pushbutton AM/FM radio, and Pontiac RTS handling package as standard equipment. Radial tires, Pliacell shock absorbers, and fatter anti-roll bars were [...]
- [Good Reading for Grumpy Race Fans](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/good-reading-for-grumpy-race-fans/) - I’m eagerly awaiting a copy of Grumpy’s Toys The Authorized History of Grumpy Jenkins’ Cars, by Doug Boyce due out next month from Car Tech. I first heard about the book not from the publisher but from a Facebook fan page set up by the book’s author, Boyce. For a few months he’s been posting [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – 1907 Fiat](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-1907-fiat/) - For a while now, Hemmings Nation Flickr pool member gswetsky has been uploading photos of the 1965 Detroit Old Car Festival, which looked to have been an excellent event, attended by multitudes of brass and veteran-era cars. We bet if he would have taken a few photos of the parking lot, we’d be poring over [...]
- [Le Mans, the year after, a first-person perspective](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/le-mans-the-year-after-a-first-person-perspective/) - Every car guy knows Le Mans, its history and its traditions, but how many of them actually know the Circuit de la Sarthe? And how many of them know the many configurations of the track over the years? Fortunately, we recently came across this first-person, driver-narrated video of Mike Hawthorne running a Jaguar over the [...]
- [The Great Race returns for 2011](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-great-race-returns-for-2011/) - Those of you who have followed vintage car rallying over the last couple of years may have noticed that the Great Race name has been conspicuously absent from those events, put on by the Vintage Car Rally Association. But now we here at Hemmings, along with our friends at Coker Tire, are happy to announce [...]
- [Sourcing a Chevy that sticks](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sourcing-a-chevy-that-sticks/) - Sport trucking is a big deal and hugely entertaining, and not just for guys who bought Dodge Ram SRT-10s, either. Modified trucks of the classic era can be an utter blast to drive, especially once outfitted with proper chassis pieces, such as these designed and built specifically by Hotckis Sport Suspension for the 1967-1972 Chevrolet [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1987 Rolls-Royce Camargue Convertible](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1987-rolls-royce-camargue-convertible/) - If a Corniche is just too common, you might be interested in this open-air 1987 Rolls-Royce Camargue. How’s this for exclusivity? There’s exactly one of these in all the wide world. I actually set eyes on this car at the Gooding auction at Pebble Beach earlier this year, where it was a no-sale, and I [...]
- [Loewy’s Lancia: A Flaminia with a fish-face](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/loewys-lancia-a-flaminia-with-a-fish-face/) - During the late 1950s, Raymond Loewy made a break from designing cars for Studebaker and went on a European trip, designing cars for Jaguar, BMW, and as we see from the January 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, Lancia as well. The Loraymo, as Loewy called it, was based on a 1959 Lancia Flaminia chassis and [...]
- [“Yeah, there was a dwarf, right in the hub…”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/yeah-there-was-a-dwarf-right-in-the-hub/) - Hey, a piece of auto-related pop culture ephemera that didn’t come from diskojoe! From back in the early days of Saturday Night Live (Season 1, Episode 10, 1975) comes “Mechanics Bedtime Story,” a skit featuring Dan Akroyd as a somewhat believable mechanic. Akroyd’s played quite a few characters heavily involved with old American iron: He [...]
- [Haven’t we met somewhere before?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/havent-we-met-somewhere-before/) - Longtime readers who receive the next issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotics (Feb 2011, on sale shortly!) may get a sense of de ja vu when viewing the next cover: the lovely Alfa and BMW pictured there have, indeed, been featured previously. Lest anyone think we’re slacking off and can’t find different cars to feature, [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Bud Ward – “Maybe Later”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-bud-ward-maybe-later/) - Photo by Mark McCourt Word comes from Bud Ward in Arkansas that “Bud has canceled all auctions due to ongoing divorce.” We’re darn sorry to hear that, as not only was Bud Ward a sponsor of our Concours in the past, but they was good people, too, and Bud & Co. spent time at Hemmings [...]
- [Get your free copy of Hemmings Digital!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/get-your-free-copy-of-hemmings-digital/) - In the spirit of giving this holiday season, we here at Hemmings wanted to do something a little special for our readers, so we’re offering a free digital copy of our January 2011 issue of Hemmings Motor News. If you’re not familiar with Hemmings Digital, it’s all the content of our big book, including both [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Consecutive Cushmans](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-consecutive-cushmans/) - Though we’re apparently into the roof-collapsing snow season even before the first day of winter, those so inclined to ride in pairs with addresses in the sunshine states could do far worse than to end up with this matching set of 1963 Cushman Silver Eagles. Not only are these two-wheeled runabouts in restored and ready-to-go [...]
- [Local boy done good: John Penton’s scrapbook](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/local-boy-done-good-john-pentons-scrapbook/) - This is why you should support your local library. While poking around on ohiomemory.org recently, I came across a couple of scrapbooks created by Al Born, a member of the official Penton Motorcycle racing team, one of which was presented to John Penton in 1999. Penton – a native of Amherst, Ohio, is today remembered [...]
- [The Five Minute Hemmings Car Quiz](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/the-five-minute-hemmings-car-quiz/) - Recently, I ran across this Liberty Mutual ad that appeared in magazines dating from 1961. On the surface, there’s nothing special about it; just another insurance company stating their willingness to stand by you no matter the circumstances. On the flip side, it’s a snapshot into the past – staged or not – giving today’s [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Ford Custom](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1957-ford-custom/) - There’s long been an appreciation among drag racers for the stripper look: That is, get a two-door post car and denude it of excess trim or gadgets, slap a set of blackwalls on steelies with pie plates, all in the “go, don’t show” philosophy. Indeed, this 1957 Ford Custom would have been one of the [...]
- [An expected 3-inch Green Hornet Imperial model arrives in an unexpected venue](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/an-expected-3-inch-green-hornet-imperial-model-arrives-in-an-unexpected-venue/) - Most of us are, by now, aware that Seth Rogen’s remake of The Green Hornet will be out in theaters on Friday, January 14, 2011. And you’d think that a die-cast of the masked hero’s Kato-driven Imperial would be a shoo-in for the toy aisles. Right? Well, sort of. There is a Green Hornet car [...]
- [U-R What You (dreamed that you’d) Drive](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/u-r-what-you-dreamed-that-youd-drive/) - While reorganizing the bookshelves at home, I pulled out an old favorite title that I hadn’t read in some years – Tom Couch’s U-R What You Drive. I got this book when it was brand new, in 1987, and although I have no memory of what else I may have received that year, this gift definitely became one of my [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Volkswagen dune buggy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1962-volkswagen-dune-buggy/) - Man, I want a dune buggy in the worst way. As in, enough to be willing to put up with the ill-advised and cheapskate modifications and half-assembled projects that will inevitably come along with a dune buggy in my price range. And this dune buggy on a 1962 Volkswagen pan with an unidentified “Manx-style” body [...]
- [SIA Flashback – Beetles Beautiful and Bizarre](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-beetles-beautiful-and-bizarre/) - In moderation, most things are just fine. Take, for instance, the trend of rebodying the Volkswagen Beetle. Once the Beetle became ubiquitous and dirt-cheap, everybody with a chopper gun started to use the Bug as the basis for bringing their notebook-margin doodles to life. Yet there were many refined, restrained and quality-focused coachbuilt Beetles, mostly [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Ford Econoline pickup](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1963-ford-econoline-pickup/) - Admittedly, this 1963 Ford Econoline pickup isn’t in the best of shape. Dings, dents, rust, torn seat covers, flat paint. But we’ve seen worse, and these little snubnoses are fast becoming popular after years of being ignored and thrashed as beaters. From the seller’s description: retired U.S. Airforce SAC Dow Field,Bangor,Maine.This truck is mostly complete,down [...]
- [Four-Links – classics star in On the Road, Vinsetta Garage closes, Kaiser’s XJ002 Bolide, quad-engine Mustang](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-classics-star-in-on-the-road-vinsetta-garage-closes-kaisers-xj002-bolide-quad-engine-mustang/) - *From Telstar Logistics comes a post with news that filming for a movie based on Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” was taking place in San Francisco this past week, and that a few streets of SF were lined with all sorts of immediate pre- and post-war cars. Looks like I’ll have to move that book [...]
- [Remembering GM’s Design Chief, Chuck Jordan: 1927-2010](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/remembering-gms-design-chief-chuck-jordan-1927-2010/) - Charles M. “Chuck” Jordan, retired General Motors Vice President of Design, has died at age 83. A California native, Chuck Jordan won the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild model car competition, and was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering. He soon joined the GM Styling Staff [...]
- [“Tell you what, bring it in, we’ll have a look at it”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tell-you-what-bring-it-in-well-have-a-look-at-it/) - Another car-related piece of pop culture from diskojoe, who writes: This is a sketch from a UK TV program done by John Cleese a year or so before Monty Python began called “How To Irritate People” that features Michael Palin & Graham Chapman that was a prototype of the “Dead Parrot” sketch that was based [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Russo and Steele un-relocates](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-russo-and-steele-un-relocates/) - Image by azglenn The enmity between Barrett-Jackson and Russo and Steele is no secret, and isn’t new. Most often, it’s been expressed in conflict over location, conflict I thought was at an end when in October, Russo and Steele announced a new, permanent auction location. But now, well, Russo’s going back to their original location. [...]
- [Having a rare Harley DAH is pretty neat, but how about three?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/having-a-rare-harley-dah-is-pretty-neat-but-how-about-three/) - Harley-Davidson was sick of getting their hill-climbing butts kicked by Excelsior Super-X and Indian 45s in the late Twenties. The AMA had established a 45-cubic-inch class for hill climbers in 1927, and both of those competitors immediately started producing winning bikes for that category, while Harley chose to compete with bikes using their underpowered 30-1/2-cubic-inch [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1939 Fiat NSU Roadster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1939-fiat-nsu-roadster/) - It’s nearly impossible to think of two cars with as little in common as Fiat’s pre-war people-mover, the 500 “Topolino,” and that sumptuous, 21st-century chariot of the uber-rich, Maybach’s 57S. And yet, there is a link: Each was the basis of a limited-production variant produced by the German coachbuilder Weinsberg. Strictly speaking, what lies beneath [...]
- [Ford unveils two new factory-built racers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/ford-unveils-two-new-factory-built-racers/) - Those who lament the passing of the “good ol’ days” of factory involvement in high performance should be taking note of the things going on in the industry during the past few years, particularly in Dearborn. Ford Motor Company has a long and storied history of racing involvement, but some of the programs to emerge [...]
- [Class of ’85 – Toyota 4Runner](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-85-toyota-4runner/) - Image courtesy toyotareference.com For the next two candidates of the Class of 1985, we’re going to consider a couple of vehicles suggested by readers. Ben argues that the 1985 Toyota 4Runner should definitely be considered collectible. He writes: it’s way cooler than a station wagon and a more capable 4wd than a Cherokee. 1985 was [...]
- [Didn’t expect that from a ‘Vette (Chevette, that is)](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/didnt-expect-that-from-a-vette-chevette-that-is/) - Last year, Phil Hatzos sent along some photos and information on his 1976 Chevette, which he’d stuffed full of a 3.4L V-6 out of a 1995 Camaro, fitted with a Roots blower. Cruising the My Hemmings pages, I see that he recently uploaded a couple ...
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1934 Ford Model Y](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1934-ford-model-y/) - Following the excellent gallery of photos from the Oakland roadster show in the 1980s, we got to wondering whatever happened to most of those show cars from that era. With the amount of time and energy invested into them, they surely haven’t been crushed, and we can’t imagine many of them seeing regular street use, [...]
- [Will blisterpacked Tomica models be coming to a Toys”R”Us near you?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/will-blisterpacked-tomica-models-be-coming-to-a-toysrus-near-you/) - We’ve already reported that Tomica is back in a big way in the USA, selling playsets and cars exclusively at Toys”R”Us. But the one thing we’ve heard most consistently was: What if I just want the cars? How can I get Tomica models stateside without having to buy a set? An answer might be at [...]
- [This desert is alive](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/this-desert-is-alive/) - The worst thing you can say about most automotive concours is that they’re dead stagnant, sometimes too much like seeing dinosaur bones in a museum. The folks who organize the Desert Classic Concours d’Elegance in Palm Springs, California, have other ideas. The 2011 concours has been expanded to a full week, led off by two [...]
- [Who do ya think ya are? Barney Oldfield?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/who-do-ya-think-ya-are-barney-oldfield/) - Jack Shea, himself an occasional contributor to the Hemmings Blog, has recently been helping Fred Hill of LaGrande, Oregon, digitize his photo collection and identify the cars pictured in it. One of the more interesting photos they’ve run across was this one of Barney Oldfield (note the cigar) piloting Walter Christie’s front-wheel-drive racer. Fred noted [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1981 Pontiac Grand Prix](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1981-pontiac-grand-prix/) - Though Buick V-6 faithful are probably loading red-hot Garrett turbochargers filled with boiling gear oil into catapults aimed at Vermont as they read this, the first thing we thought about while gazing upon this burgundy-on-burgundy 1981 Pontiac Grand Prix was removing the aspirated 110-horsepower V-6 luncheon loafer and shoehorning in a supercharged 556-horsepower GM eRod [...]
- [El Mirage Conditions Uncooperative but Scooter Land Speed Records Established Anyway](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/el-mirage-conditions-uncooperative-but-scooter-land-speed-records-established-anyway/) - Because of the closure of the El Mirage Dry Lakes by the Bureau of Land Management, the inaugural US Motor Scooter Land Speed Trials had to be relocated to Route 66 in Devore, California, at the 11th hour. The weather was not cooperative there either; that, and the late change in venue probably kept at [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Missouri Mopar Collection this weekend](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-missouri-mopar-collection-this-weekend/) - I couldn’t find out too much about this sale; I consider myself lucky to have come up with the flyer, frankly. Nor do I know much about Gary Kolthoff – he’s apparently in Iowa, and not reachable at his Missouri office. The elderly dear who took my address (so she could mail me the sale [...]
- [Going electric in the age of cheap gas: the McKee-built Sundancer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/going-electric-in-the-age-of-cheap-gas-the-mckee-built-sundancer/) - Of the many unusual and innovative vehicles on display at the first Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in 1973 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,it appeared that just three were functional enough to provide rides around the parking lot for the besuited attendees. While two of those three came from General Motors, the third, the [...]
- [Pearl Harbor and the last 1942 Packard](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pearl-harbor-and-the-last-1942-packard/) - Today, as I’m sure you’re all aware, marks the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the event that ultimately led the United States into World War II. Coincidentally, while recently browsing the Making of Modern Michigan online photo database, I came across this picture of the last 1942 Packard built before the company [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1931 Henney](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1931-henney/) - You all know Henney as the coachbuilder that turned out plenty of funeral cars, especially for Packard later in the companies’ existences. But in the 1920s and early 1930s, the Illinois-based company also built a very limited number of passenger cars (live passenger cars, that is), including this 1931 Henney convertible, which is being touted [...]
- [T-Bird Leads the Flock at Mecum Kansas City](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/t-bird-leads-the-flock-at-mecum-kansas-city/) - The top sale from Mecum’s Kansas City Auction last weekend was this 1957 F-code Thunderbird, one of between 208 and 211 T-Birds built in 1957 with a McCulloch VR57 Phase II supercharger. The car, which sold for $186,000, was restored by Hill’s Automotive of Racine, Ohio, and has won honors from the Classic Thunderbird Club [...]
- [Gilmore Car Museum Campus Welcomes New Ford Model A Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gilmore-car-museum-campus-welcomes-new-ford-model-a-museum/) - Located in Hickory Corners, Michigan, the Gilmore Car Museum Campus (aside from its own compilation of vintage vehicles) has an impressive lineup of individual marquee and/or theme-specific facilities: Classic Car Club of America Museum, Pierce-Arrow Museum, Franklin Collection at Hickory Corners, the Tucker Historical Collection and Library, Cadillac-La Salle Foundation and the Lincoln Motorcar Foundation, [...]
- [Kustoms Unlimited: the Oakland Roadster Show in the ’80s](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/kustoms-unlimited-the-oakland-roadster-show-in-the-80s/) - Following a link in a comment the other day led us to what is, possibly, the greatest Flickr photo set we’ve seen in recent memory (aside from, of course, the photosets contributed to the Hemmings Nation Flick pool). Fred Childers was a frequent visitor to the Grand National Roadster Show when it was held in [...]
- [A ’59 El Camino Hits The Road Again](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-59-el-camino-hits-the-road-again/) - A couple of months back, Editor-In-Chief Lentinello put a call out to Hemmings Motor News readers asking for restoration stories and photos. The response has been impressive, to say the least. Though most people think you can crack open a catalog and buy anything for any Chevrolet (which is not completely inaccurate), the X-frame full-size [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Lotus](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1962-lotus/) - It never occurred to me until now just how much a Lotus Seven is like a Jeep CJ. Both are simple to the point of austerity, but they are that way for a purpose, whether it be for off-road utility or for putting the driver in touch with road, as a sports car should. This [...]
- [Auction Pulse: At Scottsdale, Duesenbergs come out to play](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-at-scottsdale-duesenbergs-come-out-to-play/) - As the undisputed stars of American cardom, the Scottsdale auctions always bring a rich harvest of Duesenbergery, and at least four are already consigned, with even more on deck for auctions later in winter and spring 2011. It’s a rare Duesenberg indeed that doesn’t have extended stories attached, for good or ill, but I’ll start [...]
- [Welcome to London, Yanks! Your TR3 is waiting](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/welcome-to-london-yanks-your-tr3-is-waiting/) - Back in the export-or-die Fifties, British car companies tried everything they could think of to tap into the prosperous U.S. market. Here, American buyers step right off a BOAC four-prop Douglas DC-7C airliner to find their spanking new Triumph TR3s waiting for them on the tarmac. (How eager was Triumph for cash? We wouldn’t be [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1961 Chevrolet Apache panel truck](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1961-chevrolet-apache-panel-truck/) - Drool, drool, drool. For something like this, I would sell multiple vital body parts. Not only is this a 1961 Chevrolet Apache that hasn’t yet rusted to dust, it’s a 1961 Chevrolet Apache panel truck with four-wheel-drive. The only thing that would make this any more drool-worthy would be if it were a GMC, but [...]
- [SIA Flashback – When is a Plymouth not a Plymouth? When it’s a Powell!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-when-is-a-plymouth-not-a-plymouth-when-its-a-powell/) - The story of the Powell, like that of many postwar American independents, is a fascinating one, and even if you’ve heard the basics of it before, as I’m sure most Hemmings Blog readers have, there’s still some interesting tidbits to glean from Jim Benjaminson’s account of the Powell in SIA #84, December 1984, such as [...]
- [Hemmings Finds of the Day – 1972 Pontiac Grand Prix and 1973 Chevrolet Monte Carlo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-finds-of-the-day-1972-pontiac-grand-prix-and-1973-chevrolet-monte-carlo/) - I love it when two similar, but separate cars come through the Hemmings.com classifieds at nearly the same time, affording us an opportunity to compare and contrast. For example, just recently, two of GM’s early 1970s personal luxury cars popped up, a 1972 Pontiac Grand Prix, and a 1973 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, both in similar [...]
- [Four-Links – 1959 LeMans, mystery off-road bus, Samsen designs, DeSoto dealership](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-1959-lemans-mystery-off-road-bus-samsen-designs-desoto-dealership/) - * I’ve heard it argued before that if 100,000 people attended a race and just one percent of them took cameras, that’d be 1,000 people with pictures of that race. That’s why we keep seeing great new collections of race photography popping up, such as the excellent color images of 1959′s LeMans recently posted to [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Maserati Quattroporte](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1965-maserati-quattroporte/) - One look at this dark blue beauty had us wondering what sort of automobile Tonino Delli Colli, cinematography director of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, would drive in between takes out on the plateau region of Spain? We have no idea, but there’s a better than average chance that someone who managed to [...]
- [Not so Mad Max BMW, preserving pleasing German motorcycling history.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/not-so-mad-max-bmw-preserving-pleasing-german-motorcycling-history/) - Photos courtesy of Max BMW Max BMW‘s Heritage Service Department, at their North Hampton, New Hampshire, location, has recently been turning out some simply fantastic vintage bike restorations. We will be featuring one of those bikes, a beautiful R69 in an upcoming issue of Hemmings Motor News. While doing some research for that article, we [...]
- [A hot deal in Texas](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-hot-deal-in-texas/) - These rigs don’t show up very often at auctions in any way, so it was very surprising to see this 1983 American La France pumper show up as a lot at the Leake Car Auction in Dallas earlier this month. In fact, we thought at first that it was there to protect the auction site, [...]
- [Class of ’85: Ford LTD Crown Victoria](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-85-ford-ltd-crown-victoria/) - Image via oldcarbrochures.com During the 1980s and 1990s, it seemed that by the time you passed retirement age, Ford simply gave you an LTD Crown Victoria. The elderly of those decades weren’t like the elderly of today, out buying Honda Elements and Scion xBs; noooo, the favored chariot of the blue-haired, Bermuda-shorts-and-black-socks crowd of yesteryear [...]
- [One race car, two different paths](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/one-race-car-two-different-paths/) - This is a legitimate NASCAR race car, with a very strong history, that will rumble in front of the crowd at the Russo and Steele auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, come January. It’s also more than that, because this 1972 Ford Torino represents a state of transition for NASCAR, the formula of its top class and [...]
- [Chris Burden’s Metropolis II: the greatest Hot Wheels track ever devised?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/chris-burdens-metropolis-ii-the-greatest-hot-wheels-track-ever-devised/) - Have Hot Wheels been raised to the status of high art? Quite possibly. For some, it is an item of deep meaning and contemplation: It represents the thrum of the unsleeping City of Angels, the perpetual motion unceasing. Viewed from above, it’s as if you’re watching blood course through the maze of veins, bringing oxygen [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1977 AMC Matador Barcelona II](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1977-amc-matador-barcelona-ii/) - The copy for this listing begs a question, and it’s a good one. When was the last time you saw a 1977 AMC Matador Barcelona II? Some of you may have an answer, but this is the first one we’ve ever seen with this unique and archetypal Seventies color scheme. Keen-eyed readers may remember the [...]
- [From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool: Rally Moke!](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-rally-moke/) - A couple weeks back, we asked what you could envision doing with a Mini Moke shell that’s for sale on Hemmings.com. Hugo90, who often contributes images to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool in response to the day’s blog posts, answered our question with this shot of a Moke on the Castrol International Rallye in Canberra, [...]
- [“Pardon my backfire!”](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pardon-my-backfire/) - Diskojoe is fast turning into our autos-in-pop-culture correspondent, with all the suggestions he’s been sending our way. His latest, rediscovered over the Thanksgiving holiday, is this 1953 Three Stooges short titled “Pardon My Backfire,” which puts Larry, Moe, and Shemp in a garage fixing old cars. There’s a 3-D version as well, if you can [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1955 Imperial Newport](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1955-imperial-newport/) - This, my friends, is how America built sports cars in the Cold War. The contemporary Corvette and the Thunderbird were poorly sorted iterations of vaguely understood concepts compared to this 1955 Imperial Newport, with its Hemi engine, its bulkily elegant lines and chrome bumpers heavy enough to smash through a concrete Commie missile silo without [...]
- [Indy 500 Centennial Celebration](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/indy-500-centennial-celebration/) - Mercedes-Benz isn’t the only one celebrating an anniversary in 2011 – so is the Indianapolis 500. To celebrate the history and tradition of this great automobile race, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be hosting a very special event called the 100th Anniversary Celebration of Automobiles. Only cars built from 1911 to 1961 will be part [...]
- [Lingenfelter Camaro makes an 8.99 pass at 159 MPH](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lingenfelter-camaro-makes-an-8-99-pass-at-159-mph/) - Lingenfelter Performance Engineering stuck a toe into the 8s with an LS-9 powered 2010 Camaro SS (on 12-inch slicks and with a two-stage nitrous system) at Maryland International Raceway recently. The Camaro’s quickest run was 8.997 seconds at 158.80 MPH. Lingenfelter says the car is putting out 1,243hp and 1,328-lbs.ft. of torque at the wheels, [...]
- [A virtual tour of the historic Tarrytown assembly plant](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/a-virtual-tour-of-the-historic-tarrytown-assembly-plant/) - GM announced last week that it plans to host open houses at each of its 54 U.S. factories and give tours to the public. Which, we’re sure, will be fascinating for gearheads of all stripes, but what about some of the General’s long-gone factories? And what if you’d rather see vintage cars being assembled? Fortunately, [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1912 Renault Coupe DeVille](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1912-renault-coupe-deville/) - What’s the first thing to come to mind when you think of James Cameron’s Titanic? (Other than that awful warbly theme song?) (BTW, just try getting that song out of your head for the rest of the day. You’re welcome.) That’s right, the steamy scene in the back of the car in the hold. While [...]
- [Dusty Detrius of the Dallas Dynasty](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dusty-detrius-of-the-dallas-dynasty/) - It hadn’t been a good couple of weeks for America’s Team when I showed up in Dallas last Wednesday to start covering the Leake Auction downtown. The Dallas Cowboys, or more accurately, their owner possessed of the Texas-sized ego, Jerry Jones, had recently booted the team’s coach, Wade Phillips. Then I found this amid the [...]
- [Auto Union Silver Arrows in the New Millennium](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auto-union-silver-arrows-in-the-new-millennium/) - If you will find yourself in the vicinity of Ingolstadt, Germany, in the next month or so, you might consider stopping by the Museum Shop at the Audi Museum Mobile to pick up a copy of Audi Tradition’s stunning 2011 calendar, where it is exclusively being sold for €29.90, or roughly $40. Called Time Warp: Auto Union [...]
- [Bruce Larson’s Dragonsnake on the Market](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/bruce-larsons-dragonsnake-on-the-market/) - Bruce Larson’s Dragonsnake Cobra – CSX 2093 – will be available for purchase once again. When last we saw it, Mecum Auctions had it at their annual Kissimmee, Florida, event held in late January. This was back in 2007, and it sold for a whopping $1,417,500 (which included a 5 percent buyer’s premium) – it [...]
- [Lost and Found overflow: Pac-Man’s Crosley](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lost-and-found-overflow-pac-mans-crosley/) - Looking like something Ghia would have built circa 1958, instead we see that Eugene Eick of Middleport, New York, built this sports car using a Crosley chassis and sheetmetal body sometime in 1957. He claimed it cost him just $350 and took just nine months to build, and for his efforts, he won Mechanix Illustrated‘s [...]
- [2011 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Classes Announced](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/2011-pebble-beach-concours-delegance-classes-announced/) - If you’re already looking at the 2011 collector-car calendar, trying to decide which events to attend, organizers of the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance recently announced their 2011 class structure and special features. Topping the list will be a 125th anniversary celebration of the automobile, or more specifically, three classes devoted the Daimler/Mercedes/Benz/Mercedes-Benz. Also part [...]
- [Superformance unveils new Corvette Grand Sport replica](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/superformance-unveils-new-corvette-grand-sport-replica/) - There is a relatively small group of race cars from the history of American motorsport that continue to have a significant impact on the automotive world even decades after their competition careers concluded. In the case of the Corvette Grand Sport, the impression left by just five cars still reverberates throughout the enthusiast community nearly [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1936 White](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1936-white/) - There’s no denying how cool it would be to have this 1936 White Yellowstone tour bus for sale on Hemmings.com. The question is: What would you do with it? Use it as a party bus for your collector-car friends to pile into on the way to a car show? Start your own Yellowstone touring company? [...]
- [Motoruota: The Monowheel That Might’ve](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/motoruota-the-monowheel-that-mightve/) - The Motoruota as it appeared in a 1927 issue of Motorcycling magazine Dedicated monowheel addicts will notice that in last week’s post on the Goventosa monowheel, we made no mention of Douglas Self’s Museum of Retro Technology and his extensive collection of monowheel photos. That’s because we committed the cardinal sin of historical research: We [...]
- [Today, 100 years ago](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/today-100-years-ago/) - 1911 Nance. So help me, I like the early history of the automobile. There was seemingly infinite optimism and ambition and more than that, just so much going on. I thought it would be fun, at least for me, to take a single day a century ago as a snapshot. Then as now, it was [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1933 Chevrolet pickup](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1933-chevrolet-pickup/) - Most running, driving sub-$10k collector vehicles you’re going to see for sale nowadays are either 1960s four-door sedans or pickups. This 1933 Chevrolet, however, hails from a much earlier era and has been discounted due to aesthetics. We say (as many others would too, we believe) that it’s good to go as it is. From [...]
- [SIA Flashback – 1954 Buick Century Estate Wagon: Buick’s Second Century](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/sia-flashback-1954-buick-century-estate-wagon-buicks-second-century/) - With the Cadillac CTS-V station wagon now hitting the streets, plenty of people are talking about muscle wagons, a segment arguably started by the 1954 Buick Century Estate Wagon – essentially a mid-sized Super Special chassis fitted with the full-size Roadmaster’s 322-cu.in. V-8. Of course, nobody called it a muscle wagon then, but the link [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Dodge Coronet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1965-dodge-coronet/) - We’ve had a couple complaints recently that our Hemmings Finds of the Day were not of the sub-$10k garden-variety-driver type, so let’s rectify that today with this 1965 Dodge Coronet, a sweet little four-door that probably just came out of Aunt Myrtle’s garage. If anybody buys this and sticks a Hemi in it, they deserve [...]
- [Four-Links – buried treasure in Hollywood, Bell’s Bi-Car, Durant on fortune-making, Phantom Corsair](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/four-links-buried-treasure-in-hollywood-bells-bi-car-durant-on-fortune-making-phantom-corsair/) - * It’s rather unbelievable where you can find old tin. Take, for instance, Bumpstick’s story over on the H.A.M.B. of finding a 1940 Ford buried in a ravine behind the Hollywood sign. What’s next, finding a forgotten old car at the top of the Empire State Building? * Bell Vehicles said they were serious about [...]
- [Diecast hunt in Audi’s backyard](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/diecast-hunt-in-audis-backyard/) - Is it not the dream of toy car nerds everywhere to be able to shop in a new place – to travel, to see new things? In 1996, fresh out of New Jersey and never having seen a Wal-Mart, I thought I discovered the Promised Land as I made my way across I-40. A decade [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1937 Ford stakebed](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1937-ford-stakebed/) - It’s easy to assume that any stake-bed pickup nowadays uses a homebuilt or aftermarket bed, but look closer at this 1937 Ford 1/2-ton stakebed, and you’ll see that the platform is actually incorporated into the fenders. That’s because, starting that year, Ford did indeed offer stake and platform-bed pickups from the factory, with the platforms [...]
- [Class of ’85: Jeep Cherokee](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/class-of-85-jeep-cherokee/) - Image via oldcarbrochures.com You knew this was coming, especially after the Jeep ad insert scan I posted last month. Yes, SUVs have been with us in highway-clogging numbers for a quarter-century now, and the model that many auto historians hold responsible for popularizing the compact SUV is the Jeep Cherokee, known to its fans as [...]
- [Match Rocket Matchbox](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/match-rocket-matchbox/) - We must first stress that playing with matches is a dangerous activity. Please take care not to burn the house down while deep frying turkeys or lighting up a chiminea full of gasoline-soaked scrap wood this holiday weekend. That being said, building and launching match rockets can be a fun activity for adults and kids [...]
- [Muscle Turns – 1970s Bathurst 1000](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/muscle-turns-1970s-bathurst-1000/) - Zone out for sponsored pre-roll of this video. Listen for the funky notes from the introduction of Papa Was a Rolling Stone by the Temptations. Zone in. In the words of the narrator… One minute to go. Motors now revving up. Flag’s up. Thousands of horsepower will be unleashed in seconds. There it goes! And [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – Tim Allen’s 1993 Saleen Mustang](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-tim-allens-1993-saleen-mustang/) - It’s one thing if a celebrity once owned a run-of-the-mill car. In such a case, the only thing that differentiates it from a similar car owned by a regular schlub like you or me is the name on a past title. Whoopdedoo. It’s another thing entirely if the celebrity had a car custom built to [...]
- [GM Performance Parts receives EO number for E-Rod LS3 package; others to follow](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/gm-performance-parts-receives-eo-number-for-e-rod-ls3-package-others-to-follow/) - Last year at the SEMA show in Las Vegas, GM Performance Parts made big news with the debut of its E-Rod program of smog-legal crate engine packages. The concept involves using production-based performance engines coupled with their own engine management controllers and wiring harnesses, along with exhaust manifolds and catalytic converters, evaporative emissions canister and [...]
- [Pinto Stampede](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/pinto-stampede/) - If you live out West and have always wanted to attend the big All-Ford Nationals at Carlisle in Pennsylvania, and you just happen to own a Pinto, have we got a cross-country trip for you. A bunch of Pinto owners are forming a group to drive across America to attend this fabulous Ford spectacular. The [...]
- [What ever happened to the Lizard King’s Shelby G.T. 500?](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/what-ever-happened-to-the-lizard-kings-shelby-g-t-500/) - I always fear treading into stories like this because they either bring out the tinfoil beanie troop or lead to some superfan screaming “Yoo no Nothing about the bestest Rock icon in the world, dood!” But here goes nothing. Following the release of the Doors’ self-titled LP in January 1967, the folks at Elektra Records [...]
- [And long ago somebody left with the cup](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/and-long-ago-somebody-left-with-the-cup/) - Fans of the band Cake might be able to tell us why, but it always bothered me that the video for the song “Going the Distance,” which seemed tailor-made for some car-on-car action, didn’t feature even a snippet of automotive visuals. Fortunately, in this YouTube age, there are plenty of people willing to correct that [...]
- [Kurt Vonnegut’s Saab Story](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/kurt-vonneguts-saab-story/) - I was happy to see in The New York Times last weekend that the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library opened recently – though not quite as thrilled to learn that I’d have to trek out to Vonnegut’s hometown, Indianapolis, Indiana, to visit. Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle was heavily influenced by the author’s work as a [...]
- [Auction Pulse: Auburn traveler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/auction-pulse-auburn-traveler/) - Things got really funky back in the last days of Kruse. Searching for a sale, cars crossed the block multiple times in the same auction, but with different lot numbers. When they didn’t sell, if the car belonged to Kruse – and they owned many – it was often transported to the next sale, and [...]
- [Hemmings Find of the Day – 1981 Checker Marathon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1981-checker-marathon/) - I’m going to bet that this 1981 Checker Marathon never really saw taxi duty over the last 30 years. As Checker enthusiasts have reminded me several times in the past, Checker would essentially build you a car any way you wanted it, and this wouldn’t be the first civilian-issued Marathon to get taxi stripes. Yet [...]

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- [Dog Collectibles](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/) - Amos ‘N Andy In a Fresh Air Taxi Antique Toy Dogs and Collectibles Black Forest Hand Carved Dog Black Forest Hand Carved Dog Holding a Clock DFW Elite Toy Museum | Antique Traveling Animal Crate G.I. Joe and the K-9 Pups Hudson’s Soap Dog Drinking Trough Komikal Kop Snappy the Miracle Dog Store Window Tapper
- [Media Attention](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/media-attention/) - Media About Toy Museum DFW Elite Toy Museum featured on FOX4 DFW Antique Toy World Article April 2007 An Interview With Antique Toy Model Car Collectors Ron Sturgeon and Rodney Ross Media About Toys Tin Motorcycle Toy Ack Ack Squad Car Press Release Adams wheel grader release DFW Donations DFW Elite
- [Past Exhibitions](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/past-exhibitions/) - Visit past exhibits at DFW Elite Toy Museum including Malcom Forbes collection and Oddities, Antiquities and Rarities Exhibit. Visit DFW Elite Toy Museum in Ft. Worth Texas.
- [About the Toy Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-toy-museum/) - DFW Elite Toy Museum’s newly furnished display room features some truly rare and expensive antique toys. Whether you’re a car fan, toy collector, or just enjoy seeing rare antiques, you’ll take great pleasure in seeing what we have on display at DFW Elite Toy Museum. The owner and collector, Ron Sturgeon, has always been fascinated
- [Eva Braun Mercedes](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/eva-braun-mercedes/) - This is the Tippco “Eva Braun” car. It’s exceedingly rare; fewer than five are known to exist in the world. Many historians say this toy was never made while others say it was. Some historians avow that Hitler gave it to Eva, while others disagree Read more about Eva Braun Letter to Ron about the
- [Toys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/toys/) - The massive toy collection of collector Ron Sturgeon.
- [More Toys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/) - .
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- [About The Toys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/) - Ron started collecting the museum’s toys in the 1980s. We’ll let Ron tell his own story: When I began collecting toys, I was already in love with Mercedes, and other fine European marques. I decided then that I would aspire to own every Mercedes toy made. I was naive. It didn’t take me long to
- [Words from Ron on Collector Toys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/words-from-ron-on-collector-toys/) - April 2000 First I have a few common comments and clarifications on toy collecting. A box almost always increases the value of a toy a minimum of 25 percent. The boxes can easily double a toy's value with rarer, older toys. There are no known examples of some toys including a box and to find
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dfw-elite-toy-museum/)
- [The Death of Cleopatra](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/the-death-of-cleopatra/) - Life-sized Automaton c. 1885 most probably English. Poured wax figure modeled as the Egyptian queen, with closed eyes, inset flowing hair, articulated bare breasts, her head turned to the left supported by a curved arm, her outstretched right arm encoiled by an asp with moving head and darting tongue, a second asp at her feet,
- [AKC Breed Magazine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/akc-breed-magazine/)
- [Cars with Dogs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/cars-with-dogs/) - Look at these antique car toys with canine companions included. Car fanatics, toy collectors and dog lovers agree that this is one truly unique collection. You don't want to miss out on our rare toy cars and canines at DFW Elite Toy Museum. Located in the heart of the Metroplex our cars and other collectibles is one
- [In Dog About Town | Dallas News](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/in-dog-about-town-dallas-news/) - Recently Dallas News spoke about our museum. "*Pooch-friendly DFW Elite Toy Museum is hosting a belated grand opening celebration from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday. While you’re there, check out their dog collectibles. 5940 Eden Drive, Haltom City. $10, includes hors d’oeuvres and wine. Proceeds will go to cavalierrescueusa.com." You can see the full
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum Grand Opening to Benefit Canine Rescue](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dfw-elite-toy-museum-grand-opening-to-benefit-canine-rescue/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rodney Ross, Curator DFW Elite Toy Museum 5940 Eden Dr Fort Worth, TX 76117 817-834-3625, ext. 232 rodneyr@rdsinvestments.com DFW Elite Toy Museum Grand Opening to Benefit Canine Rescue to be held from 6 to 9pm on Thursday, October 20, 2011 Haltom City’s toy museum, home to rare toys and models,
- [Alaska Airlines magazine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/alaska-airlines-magazine/)
- [Video Page](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/video-page/) - Videos from the Toy Museum This video is from the recent cavalier event hosted at our dog friendly museum.. There were lots of puppies there and we had a blast with all the toys too!
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum on Through the Lens](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dfw-elite-toy-museum-on-through-the-lens/) - We were just featured on CBS Dallas Through the Lens!
- [Check out our feature on the repository of cool stuff](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/check-out-our-feature-on-the-repository-of-cool-stuff/) - The Repository of ‘Cool Stuff’ Colleyville Man Has Fun with Automobile History By Jean Weaver Contributing Writer Self-made millionaire Ron Sturgeon of Colleyville blends investing with preserving automotive history as his collection of small-scale model cars grows to almost 3,000 small-scale models at his local DFW Elite Toy Museum. Sturgeon is constantly looking for rare
- [Journal of Antiques and Collectibles](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/journal-of-antiques-and-collectibles/) - Journal of Antiques & Collectables-toy museum june 2011 The DFW Elite Toy Museum was featured in The Journal of Antiques and Collectables Texas Toy Museum Acquires Malcolm Forbes' Ship Models Fort Worth, TX- Some exquisite ship models from the extensive life time collection of publishing magnate and legendary collector Malcolm Forbes have docked in Texas.
- [Lone Star Adventure: Toy Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/lone-star-adventure-toy-museum/) - Richard Ray at Fox 4 News wrote this about our Toy Museum " HALTOM CITY, Texas - With our Lone Star Adventure series we like to seek out fun places and little-known gems that are close to home but you may not have heard about. This week's feature qualifies on all accounts. FOX 4's
- [Store Window Tapper by JH & PR Potter](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/store-window-tapper-by-jh-pr-potter/) - Store Window Tapper by J.H. & P.R. Potter of Oakland, CA This is a 1930’s store window tapper made by J.H. & P.R. Potter of Oakland, CA. It was designed to be displayed in a store front and draw customer attention by tapping on the window when passersby walk past the storefront. When it is
- [G.I. Joe and the K-9 Pups](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/g-i-joe-and-the-k-9-pups/) - G.I. Joe and the K-9 Pups G. I. Joe and the K-9 Pups made by Unique Arts are also in this rare toys collection. This silly tin wind-up army sergeant with some battle weary pups at his sides stands just over 9” tall with a built in key. When wound up he walks rather
- [Komikal Kop](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/komikal-kop/) - The Komikal Kop by Louise Marx Shown here is the Komikal Kop Car, or “Comical Cop” and his dog made by Louise Marx. On the back of the car it says, “Beat it The Komikal Kop,” and on the front of the car it says “Traffic B.” This tin litho wind-up car was made
- [Snappy the Miracle Dog](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/snappy-the-miracle-dog/) - Snappy the Miracle Dog Snappy the Miracle Dog in his dog house is also shown. When you call his name, he rolls out of his dog house. He has two signs on either side of the front of the dog house and there is a mechanism that would propel him out of the doghouse
- [Amos ‘N Andy In a Fresh Air Taxi](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/amos-n-andy-in-a-fresh-air-taxi/) - Amos ‘N Andy In a Fresh Air Taxi In this picture are American made wind-up motorized antique toys featuring dogs. This classic toy represents the radio and TV show that was extremely popular at the time, Amos ‘N Andy. In this collection is “Amos and Andy in a Fresh Air Taxi” from the 1930’s
- [Black Forest Hand Carved Dog Holding a Clock](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/black-forest-hand-carved-dog-holding-a-clock/) - Black Forest Hand Carved Dog Holding a Clock This 1930’s Black Forest hand carved dog is holding a clock. You can see much detail in the work when it came to the dog’s fur. This dog is standing on a raised pedestal and is holding a clock. Dog lovers and collectors alike will truly
- [Black Forest Hand Carved Dog](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/black-forest-hand-carved-dog/) - Black Forest Hand Carved Dog This is a 1930’s Black Forest hand carved dog. Upon examining the dog’s fur you can see that there is great attention to detail from the top of his nose to the very bottom of his hind legs. It is made entirely out of wood and any dog lover or
- [Antique Toy Dogs and Collectibles](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/antique-toy-dogs-and-collectibles/) - Collection of Antique Toy Dogs and Other Collectibles In this picture are various friction powered, wind-up, and battery operated vehicles with dogs. Also shown are several antique battery operated stuffed dogs. Many of the dogs are animated, with moving features; some of the early European items feature small bellows that allow the dog to
- [Hudson’s Soap Dog Drinking Trough](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/hudsons-soap-dog-drinking-trough/) - Cast Iron Dog Drinking Trough This antique dog drinking trough was made by Hudson’s Soap. It is made of solid cast iron and was designed to sit in front of a store to water passing pooches. Embossed on the side is “Drink Puppy Drink” and this antique collectible at the DFW Elite Toy Museum is
- [DFW Elite Toy Museum | Antique Traveling Animal Crate](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/dog-collectibles/antique-traveling-animal-crate/) - Animal Crate for Use While Traveling This early twentieth century animal crate was designed for people who traveled with their pets by railroad. The pets were usually confined to the baggage car. This is a traveling home for a small pet complete with a sliding drawer to hold food and allow for porters to
- [Charity Events](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/contact/charity-events/) - Host a Charity Event at DFW Elite Toy Museum and We’ll Underwrite It Use our facility for a charity fundraiser and get 100% of the proceeds. We will underwrite the event so that your charity gets every penny that is raised. Your only cost for hosting an event at the DFW Elite Toy Museum
- [My First Toy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/marklin-toy-start/) - The Marklin Toy That Started Me Collecting By Ron Sturgeon, owner of DFW Elite Toy Museum I was in London and saw a Toy Auction Today sign. When I reached the end of the street, I didn’t know I had arrived at Sotheby's. At that point, I may not have known what Sotheby's was. However,
- [About the light in our gallery](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-light-in-our-gallery/) - Operay Surgical Lamp 1930’s-1940’s Operay Multibeam Surgical Lamp. Manufactured by Operay Laboratories in Madison, Wisconsin. One of the most extraordinary surgical lamps ever made. The bulb is in the center dome and reflects out to mirrors and then down to the operating area to prevent shadows. This model was actually used by Dr. O.W.
- [The New Exhibition](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/new-exhibition/) - An Exhibition Full of History The DFW Elite Toy Museum’s newest addition is the Ship Gallery, which houses nine of the most elaborate model ships in the area. The first thing you see through 10-foot glass windows is the 137-inch long full-hull rigged builder’s model of “Kangitiki,” a British twin-screw passenger liner. Sporting a full stock
- [Donate a Toy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/donate-a-toy/) - Make a donation to preserve our antique toys At DFW Elite Toy Museum we are proud to invite you to join us in preserving our memorial collection of antique toys and toy cars. The collection is extensive, which is why we need your help to keep it clean and fully refurbished so visitors may continue
- [Help Us Identify Our Toys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/help-us-identify-our-toys/) - If you’ve got an eye for toys, help us identify some of ours At DFW Elite Toy Museum we have thousands of individual pieces in our collection. It goes without saying that some of those pieces have yet to be identified. If you happen to have knowledge of collectible and antique toys, and could possibly
- [Rebuttal to the Eva Braun Car stories from a qualified person who prefers to remain anonymous](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/eva-braun-mercedes/eva-braun-part-4/) - This story is soooo old hat, that it starts to be boring. Fact: there has never been an “Eva Braun” car. Neither a gold 540K, nor any other type of Mercedes, nor any other brand for that matter. Fact: the so-called “Eva Braun car” is a creation commissioned by the late Tom Barrett to get
- [Fischer santa car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/fischer-santa-car/) - This Fisher Father Christmas auto is from Germany c. 1912, one of the rarest tin litho auto examples with Father Christmas at the wheel. Extensive graphic detail and die-cut stamping depicting teddy bears and toys on the sides of the vehicle, while the back seat contains a small feather tree. This elusive example is the red
- [Toy Donations Accepted](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/donations-accepted/) - DFW Elite Toy Museum Now Accepting Donations of Toy Collections Today’s toys are mostly electronic gadgets that keep kids rooted in one spot for hours on end. But sitting in attics and basements around the world are toys from a bygone era – when toys were more likely to exhibit craftsmanship and whimsy, and ran
- [AC4817 Automobile Driving Trainer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/we-need-help/ac4817-automobile-driving-trainer/) - AC4817 Automobile Driving Trainer. The world’s first driver’s education classes were developed at Lane Technical High School in Chicago, Illinois, and used this machine during the 1930′s and 1940’s to help students gain the feel of a moving vehicle before going on the road. Coupled with a motion picture, students learned how to work the
- [Part 6](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/driving-school-models/part-6/) - A very early 1930s German model of a single-cylinder motor that demonstrates how the piston, intake, exhaust and crank shaft work. A 1950s German model of a three speed transmission with reverse demonstrated with a hand crank. A press steel and cast iron model of a single-cylinder cutaway motor that demonstrates carboration as well as
- [Part 5](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/driving-school-models/part-5/) - A 1950s German school model that demonstrates the motor transmission and differential as well as breaks, all clear plastic covers to show function of the automobile. It is powered by 220 volts. A rare blue 1930s Hohm German driving school model powered by 220 volts. This is a rare blue 1930s Hohm German driving school
- [Part 4](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/driving-school-models/part-4/) - A wall-mounted school model of traffic lights powered by 220 volts. A 1950s wall-mounted electric school model that shows operation of brake lights, turn signals and running lights for cars, trucks and motorcycles. A wall-mounted school model of traffic lights powered by 220 volts. Another variation of a single cylinder cutaway motor. A single-cylinder overhead
- [Part 3](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/driving-school-models/part-3/) - A front view of an early VVR school model with a noticeable difference in the grill. A 1950s German school model of a working 4 speed transmission. A very rare pre- war model of a German school model. A 1950s German school model of front steering, brakes and suspension. A 1950s German driving school model
- [Part 2](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/driving-school-models/part-2/) - A large wooden classroom driving school console is pictured here. It was used for teaching driving skills as well as repairs. The model features working traffic lights, and has a 220-volt power supply. Ron Sturgeon acquired it in 2003. A lower view of a 1950′s German VVR driving school model of a 4-4 wheel drive.
- [Part 1](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/driving-school-models/part-1/) - Documents and stories about driving school models: Information from fahrschulmodell.com Driving School Models (PDF) Oldtimer Magazine, February 1995 Many of the items on display are from European Driver’s Schools. Early driving schools in Europe taught car owners and/or chauffeurs how to work on their automobiles, as well as how to drive them. This was originally
- [Driving School Models](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/driving-school-models/) - Enjoy this video of early driving school models .
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- [Mercedes Prototype Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/mercedes/mercedes-prototype-cars/) - If you have any information on this model, please contact us! Pictures of body shell Copies of e-mails and various text during research. Please help with any additional information on source, value, etc. All metal except for the radiator, which is wood, and the rubber tires. Excerpts from e-mails between various parties with discussion About
- [We Need Help](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/we-need-help/) - We need help finding information on the following toys. Please send any information you might have regarding the models listed below: Bugatti -If you have any information on this model, please contact us! This is an extremely fine, handmade model of a Bugatti. Metal, with fine leather outfitting, and fabric covering. The detail of the
- [Welch Clutch](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/we-need-help/welch-clutch/) - Collector is looking for this W.M. Welch clutch model. If you have one or know someone who does please send us an email. I’m also interested in other models made by this manufacturer..
- [Fuhrer Wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/we-need-help/fuhrer-wagon/) - .
- [Hohm Tractor Cutaway](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/wanted/hohm-tractor-cutaway/) - I am looking for this rare Training Model, made by Hohm, of a tractor cutaway. See below for pictures. I am also looking for a Tippco model that I believe exists. Tippco made a Fuhrer Wagon, a black model that carried Hitler and his top brass. They also made a similar car called the Staff
- [Wanted](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/wanted/) - Looking for these 2 toys. Pictures and text courtesy of a Antique Toy World & Jack Herbert Another late 1930’s Mercedes, also rare, but stretching only 8 3/4 inches in length This is a 1938-39 Mercedes convertible two door sedan whose production was abruptly stopped because of pending war work..
- [Mercedes Race Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/race-cars/mercedes-race-cars/) - Small racer in front is gasoline powered!.
- [John Snowberger Race Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/race-cars/john-snowberger-race-cars/) - Agajanian Special No. #98, handmade by John Snowberger, limited No. #14 of 25, signed on the bottom by Troy Ruttman. Mint condition. Watson Roadster No. #1 Indy Car “Bowes Seal Fast Special,” hand made by John Snowberger, limited No. #5 of 12, white with red trim. Watson Roadster Indy Car, No. #98 “Willard Battery Special”
- [Blue Bird Land Speed Record Car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/race-cars/blue-bird-land-speed-record-car/) - .
- [Race Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/race-cars/) - A rare version of the Tippco No. 6 car. This die cast model of a 1954 Mercedes racing car transporter was called the Blue Wonder. .
- [Rolls Royce Models](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/rolls-royce-models/) - Catalog pages from the auction for these toys From the collection of Count Giansanti-Coluzzi. Rolls Royce Steamauto “Lili of Paris”, fine model “depiction” by J.P. Hartmann – Paris l975, Tin HL Hood opens, with brakes and two oscillating cylinders, steerable with “suspension”, also instrument panel, Driver and “props” intact, L 17 3/8″, Z1 Rolls Royce
- [Full Scale Race Car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/mercedes/full-scale-race-car/) - If you have any information on this model, please contact us! “Aluminum body design-prototype of legendary race car” “Mercedes Silberpfeil” in scale 1:1, made in 1938 in Schwabisch-Hall (near Stuttgart) as an aluminum lightweight construction, size: 146 x 47 x 53 inch, original condition. A sensational collector’s item and spectacular museum piece for any advanced
- [1932 Fiat Balilla 2DR Sedan](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/1932-fiat-balilla-2dr-sedan/) - This rare toy, a silver model of a 1932 Fiat Balilla two-door sedan still has a lot of salesmanship left under the hood! Complete with solid Pirelli tires, it was formerly in the collection of Baldacci Lapo of Florence, a noted Italian automotive memorabilia collector. This example exhibits tarnishing, but overall is a very nice
- [Talbot Design Model](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/talbot-design-model/) - 1938 Manufacturer's Design Model for the Talbot Lago TI 50c "Cabriolet" After Sunheani-Talbot-Darracq combined financial collapse in 1935, Anthony Lago bought the French firm and renamed it Talbot Lago, a name it held until the line was discontinued in 1959. Lago’s engine modifications turned the line’s popular but aging six-cylinder sport engine into a higher-performance
- [Amazing and Rare 1905 Complete Small Size "Boa Constrictor" Horn](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/amazing-and-rare-1905-complete-small-size-boa-constrictor-horn/) - The boa constrictor is a large snake that lives in tropical parts of the world. It kills its prey by squeezing it to death with its body. The offered item is not quite as deadly, but it still kills … by its awesomeness! This amazing and rare small-sized boa constrictor horn, dating to 1905, features
- [1840 Model of French "Landau" with Armorial Crest of a Count on Doors](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/1840-model-of-french-landau-with-armorial-crest-of-a-count-on-doors/) - The grandeur of this illustrious item is apparent to even the most casual observer. Presented is a remarkably well-preserved model of a French “Landau.” A step up from your man-on-the-street buggy, landaus were fashionable carriages used by more well-to-do riders. This clean, mid-19th century example has a golden crest (believed to be that of a
- [Mercedes Race Car Model 165 R/C](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/mercedes/mercedes-race-car-model-165-rc/) - This is a very large scale radio-controlled model 165 Mercedes Benz race car, one of About six known to exist. This car was made in the mid 1980s by Jerry Mrlik, a retired engineer for General Motors. He and Ron Phillips started production of high-end, hand-built radio controlled cars. After spending roughly $1.5 million in
- [Fiat Balilla Roadster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/fiat-balilla-roadster/) - Antique Toy World April 2007 Emails from the builders son who was reconnected with the model over the internet, clarifying details of the model and his father Article about the model in a European magazine/web posting Article about the Count from the NY Times, circa 1984 1939 Fiat Balilla scale Roadster, hand-built in 1968 through
- [Carriage For GM Dealers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/carriage-for-gm-dealers/) - Special permission by Fisher Body was granted to Silver Creations, Ltd. to recreate the Royal Coach and thus mark its Golden Anniversary. With master silversmiths hammering out pieces of the Coach from the original plans, the long past age of coach building returns again. Special permission by Fisher Body was granted to Silver Creations, Ltd.
- [1955 Mercedes W196 Race Car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/michelle-conti/1955-mercedes-w196-race-car/) - .
- [Ferrari 553 Squalo F1 Racer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/michelle-conti/ferrari-553-squalo-f1-racer/) - .
- [Iso Grifo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/michelle-conti/iso-grifo/) - .
- [Michelle Conti Lamborghini Espada](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/michelle-conti/michelle-conti-lamborghini-espada/) - .
- [1958 Ferrari 250TR built by Michelle Conti Sr](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/michelle-conti/1958-ferrari-250tr-built-by-michelle-conti-sr/) - This is a one-off scratch built 1:10th scale example of the Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill driven No.14 car that raced at the 1958 Le Mans. This is one of the master’s later works of art and one of the most beautiful. This tin glazed/brass bodied model is finished in Rosso livery and comes with
- [Michelle Conti](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/michelle-conti/) - Michele & Maurizio Conti – The definitive Book written on the Conti family and their models Oliver Strebel-Ritter and Peter Wallman invited anybody who owned a Conti model to come forward and be included in the book. Membership is select and complementary as there were only About 350 models total. osr@worldcollector.co.uk On May 18, 2003
- [Land Speed Record Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/land-speed-record-cars/) - .
- [1930 Mercedes SSK by Count Carlo Felice Trossi](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/mercedes/1930-mercedes-ssk-by-count-carlo-felice-trossi/) - Scale 1:16, 11 1/2 inches long, weighs approximately 5 pounds Unusual, unique, exquisite, all that and more describe this fabulous master miniature. The Black Prince is an object of art, a masterpiece so skillfully executed that it will be admired in years to come, like a rare painting, sculpture, or any other extraordinary object which
- [1/4 Scale Porsche 914](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/14-scale-porsche-914/) - Article about the 914 from a German newspaper This model of a PORSCHE 914 was built by Mr. G. Ohrstrom of Sweden and required in excess of 5,000 man-hours. Working features include: Differential motor (electric) Rack and pinion steering Hand brake Opening front and rear hoods Removable targa roof Removable wheels Hood locks Spare wheel
- [Handmade German Models, Kunze](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/handmade-german-models-kunze/) - .
- [Cars With Dogs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/cars-with-dogs/) - .
- [Mercedes Robot Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/mercedes/mercedes-robot-cars/) - Mercedes Press Release 1999 Ron Sturgeon has been collecting all types of car models for over 10 years. His collection currently contains about 3,000 models, the majority of which are tinplate Mercedes. You may have seen articles on this collection in one of several magazines. A centerpiece of the collection is a group of seven
- [Mercedes](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/mercedes/) - .
- [Edmunds, Miller Race Car #16](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/edmunds/edmunds-miller-race-car-16/) - Don Edmunds has a long history in racing, from the late 1940′s through 2002. He has spent most of his life building race cars. Now he builds scale models. Read more about Don Edmunds' model, and racing career .
- [Edmunds, Gilmore Special "Catfish"](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/edmunds/edmunds-gilmore-special-catfish/) - Don Edmunds has a long history in racing, from the late 1940′s through 2002. He has spent most of his life building race cars. Now he builds scale models. Read more about Don Edmunds' Gilmore special "Catfish" .
- [Edmunds, Gilmore Speedway Special](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/edmunds/edmunds-gilmore-speedway-special/) - Don Edmunds has a long history in racing, from the late 1940s through 2002. He has spent most of his life building race cars. Now he builds scale models. The Gilmore Speedway Special is powered by an overhead valve 4- cylinder ignition engine, and is the most complex running model ever built by Edmunds. It
- [Edmunds](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-special-rare-toys/edmunds/) - Don Edmunds was an American racecar driver and car builder. He got his first start at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1957 and won the 1957 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year after finishing 19th over Bill Cheesbourg, Elmer George, Mike Magill, and Eddie Sachs. Edmunds’ Indy career ended in a serious practice accident at the
- [Rodney's Favorite Toy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/rodneys-favorite-toy/) - I have known Ron Sturgeon for around 20 years or so and worked for him About 10 years. The other day he asked me to pick out my favorite toy in the museum. In a word, “Impossible.” I have a passion for antique toys. I collect, buy and sell them from my home as a
- [Bill's Favorite Toy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/bills-favorite-toy/) - My favorite model has to be the Porsche 914, 1/4 scale model. I’ve been a fan of the 914’s forever and used to race one. My wife still owns one which she races occasionally. I can’t imagine how anyone could spend so much time on a model, it’s that incredible. I believe it has more
- [Powered Large Toys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/powered-large-toys/) - A 1930s-era Mercedes Benz Grand Prix Racer. This toy was commissioned by the parents of a very lucky boy. This Honda-powered race car is one-of-a-kind and was hand built. It will run approximately 60 mph, bringing joy to any young boy..
- [Cobra Dragster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/cobra-dragster/) - If you have any information on this model, please contact us! A ¼ scale, 25-pound model made by Performance Drag Products, this model is powered by a 2.3-cubic inch, 3-horsepower Zenoah engine running on a 64:1 fuel/oil mixture and nitrous oxide, and turns 8,500 revolutions-per-minute. Top speed is in excess of 70 mile-per-hour. Drive is
- [Misc Toys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/misc-toys/) - This showcase is full of very rare toys from the world famous collection of the late Count Antonio Giansanti Coluzzi. Ron Sturgeon met with the legendary Count in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2002. Two showcases full of antique cars and trucks in the Toy Museum. 1957 Model, CHRIS CRAFT CONSTELLATION 45 CABIN CRUISER, PRESENTATION MODEL, ELEC
- [Pedal Cars and Carousel Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/pedal-cars-and-carousel-cars/) - This picture is of three Mercedes Benz cars. The car on the far left, acquired by Ron Sturgeon in 1990, was made in France in the early 1950s. This beautiful 190 Mercedes pedal car was restored. The French manufacturer is unknown to us. The blue Mercedes Benz 190SL pedal car in the middle was made
- [Construction Equipment Toys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/construction-equipment-toys/) - .
- [Motorcycles](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/tin-cars/motorcycles/) - .
- [Various Lehmann](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/tin-cars/various-lehmann/) - .
- [Tin Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/tin-cars/) - A showcase of antique Mercedes-Benz race cars, each different and made from a combination of tin litho, steel, plastic, die cast zinc, rubber, and glass. Ron Sturgeon loves race-cars and the Toy Museum features a large selection of this popular type of model. .
- [Jellio Designs "Drive In"](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/art-and-bronzes/jellio-designs-drive-in/) - Information about Jellio Design and it's founder, Mario Maricano. The piece in the toy museum is called Drive In. Before Drive In, we did have a very similar piece called Turbo. 1. When did you start Jellio? Who's behind Jellio? How did you come up with the idea for the company? And why? A: I've
- [Rolls Royce "Spirit Of Ecstasy" Bronze](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/art-and-bronzes/rolls-royce-spirit-of-ecstasy-bronze/) - This is a Rolls Royce “Spirit of Ecstasy” in bronze. This rare and big bronze is 2-feet tall and was a Rolls Royce dealer showroom display. It is mounted on a marble base, and based on the original Charles Sykes Design. .
- [1970 Lladro Porcelain Touring Car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/art-and-bronzes/1970-lladro-porcelain-touring-car/) - The Lladro Porcelain Company was founded in 1953 by three Lladro brothers – Juan, Jose and Vincente – who at the time were farmers with an artistic bent. They started a porcelain business in the Valencian village of Amacera, Spain. Because of the natural artistic abilities of these talented men, the Lladro Porcelain Company is
- [Stanley Wanlass Bronzes](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/art-and-bronzes/stanley-wanlass-bronzes/) - The bronze sculpture, titled 5 Miles to the Gallon, was produced by Stanley Wanlass, a professor at the European Art Academy in Paris and the University of Grenoble in France. In 2005, he headed a design studio based in Oregon. Wanlass is an internationally known automotive sculptor and painter. Five Miles to the Gallon was
- [Art and Bronzes](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/more-toys/art-and-bronzes/) - .
- [British Star Car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/british-star-car/) - In the 1920s, there were two Star Motor companies, one in the United States, a subsidiary of Durant Motors, and another in the United Kingdom, where the American Star Car was marketed under the Rugby badge. If this is an American model, the square-topped grill dates it to after 1923. Determining the year for a
- [Bugatti](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/bugatti/) - If you have any information on this model, please contact us! An extremely fine, hand-made model of a Bugatti. Metal, with the finest leather outfitting and fabric covering. The detail of the motor and radiator is amazing, as is the hood ornament signed, “A. Petit l968, depiction, L 19 ¾.″ .
- [CR Landaulet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/cr-landaulet/) - CR landaulet, very old, with driver, HL and CL, Clockwork intact. L 9 1/2″, Z 2 .
- [Buick TN Limousine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/buick-tn-limousine/) - TN Limousine Buick, Japan, CL, with electric lights, Clockwork intact, Roof LS. L 11″, Z 2-3 .
- [CR (Charles Rossignol) Limousine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/cr-charles-rossignol-limousine/) - CR Limousine, very old, CL, with driver figure. Clockwork and Steering gear, intact. L 6 7/8″, otherwise Z1 Click here for auction catalog with details on this model. Contact me if you have more details on this model Purchased from the collection of Count Giansanti-Coluzzi .
- [Circa 1909 Open Drive Limousine Toy with Figures](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/circa-1909-open-drive-limousine-toy-with-figures/) - An Open Drive Limousine toy with artillery wheels, working door latches, a centrally mounted gas head lamp, with a chauffeur and lady passenger (wearing a pipe cleaner fox stole). Manufactured by Carette. While identification of the pictured vehicle is tenuous, it strongly resembles a very early Mercedes. This rare all-tin motor is in exceptional original
- [Ventura Alfa Romeo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/ventura-alfa-romeo/) - The VENTURA Alfa Romeo C6 2500 Spyder circa 1950. At 16 1/2″, it is longer and a bit more awkward than the Ventura Alfa Romeo 14 1950 1900 Sprint touring car that was issued in a variety of color combinations. To my knowledge, only this Spyder model was ever plated. It appears to be one
- [Toy Nomura Dream Cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/toy-nomura-dream-cars/) - .
- [Helicopter Patent Model](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/helicopter-patent-model/) - Download PDF document with patent filings and drawings and other information on this model 1267A. RARE & IMPORTANT HELICOPTER PATENT MODEL. This extraordinarily rare patent model, numbered 56,057, is believed to be an original Swiss patent model for a Helicopter. At the time of its manufacture, it was not referred to as a “Helicopter,” in
- [Twentieth Century Pet Carrier](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/twentieth-century-pet-carrier/) - In the early twentieth century (and earlier) people traveled with their pets by railroad. Pets were usually confined to the baggage car. This is a traveling home for a small pet complete with a sliding drawer to hold food and allow porters to feed Fido for you. Measures 24″ H x 24″ L x 17″
- [Rare Motorcycles](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/rare-motorcycles/) - .
- [Tippco WWII Models](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/tippco-wwii-models/) - Tipp & Co. (Tippco). Tippco’s history is interesting. Founded in 1912 and named after an early director/employee (?), Miss Tipp, its ultimate owner, Phillip Ullman, was forced to flee Germany in 1933. He went to England, where he founded Mettoy, eventually returning to Germany to recover his company after the war. Tipp’s military vehicles are
- [Tippco Three Axled Trucks](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/tippco-three-axled-trucks/) - Mercedes 3 Axle Trucks MB Club (PDF) Mercedes G Series Triple Axle Cars for Third Reich (PDF) Mercedes-Benz Motorclub - Mercedes G4 (W31) - October 2008 Many years ago I had several conversations with a retired Red Army officer, who served in a motorized squad in May 1945 Berlin and was present when the underground
- [Tippco & Schuco - Mercedes - Various Rare Models](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/tippco-schuco-mercedes-various-rare-models/) - .
- [Tippco VW Buses](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/tippco-vw-buses/) - .
- [Tippco Phantoms](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/tippco-phantoms/) - .
- [Eva Braun - Part 3](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/eva-braun-mercedes/eva-braun-part-3/) - Dear Mr. Sturgeon: Attached, please find copy of an article published recently in the magazine of the “Mercedes-Benz Club of Canada.” I’ll let you be the judge, if the technical prowess of this car is possible, be that in 2002 or in 1938. Now to the paragraph “The automobile is laden with history”: Well: before
- [Eva Braun - Part 2](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/eva-braun-mercedes/eva-braun-part-2/) - The Life of Hitler's Mistress Eva's most famous quote from her diary is: “I certainly took some time to get used to the chamois leather underwear which he wanted me to wear! Today I can only say that it’s the finest, most pleasant and comfortable underwear in the world. It never sticks, and knickers and
- [Eva Braun - Part 1](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/eva-braun-mercedes/eva-braun-part-1/) - Timeline February 6, 1912: Eva Braun is born in Munich, Germany. 1928: Attended Lyzeums. One year commercial education in a monastery with Simbach at the Inn. 1929: Eva Braun first met Hitler in the studio of his photographer friend, Heinrich Hoffmann. At the age of just 17, Eva Braun slipped a love letter into Hitlers
- [Tippco](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/) - .
- [Tippco Santa Car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/tippco-santa-car/) - More information from the Don Kaufman Collection The Tippco Christmas car was printed with extravagant lithography on each side, and equipped with a Christmas tree which can be illuminated. (Quite luxurious for a toy in 1928) According to the 1928 Moko (Moses Kohnstarn) store catalog, an example was available with Part No. 5258, which allowed
- [About Ron Sturgeon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/about-the-museum/about-ron-sturgeon/) - DFW Elite Toy Museum is the personal collection of Ron Sturgeon, a Dallas-based entrepreneur, real estate investor and author of How to Salvage Millions from Your Small Business and Green Weenies and Due Diligence. Listen to a podcast about Ron’s latest business book. View all of rons books. Along the automotive road to success, Ron
- [Tippco Autobahn Kurier](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/tippco/tippco-autobahn-kurier/) - Autobahn Kurier article Jan. 07 (PDF) Probably the most difficult to find of all the German-made tinplate toy automobiles from the middle-to-the-end of the 1930s is this streamlined Autobahn Kurrier sedan from Tipp & Company. From 193G through to 193, the Tippco Catalogue listed their “Geschlossener Sportwagori,” an incredible 13 1/2′ long new-art streamlined Mercedes
- [1928 Mercedes-Benz SSK](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/1928-mercedes-benz-ssk/) - Custom made, one-of-a-kind scale model (pedal car) Built in 1997 by a father and son in Duisburg, Germany. Only factory- made pieces are headlights, wheels and tires. Specifications: (In Black) Scale:1/2.5 Build time: 700 hours. Bodywork/chassis: aluminum/steel. Tires: Continental 12.5″ X 2.25″, mounted on wire wheels. Dashboard: wood. Instruments: reproduction of originals, but non-functional. Steering
- [Chrysler Imperial](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/chrysler-imperial/) - .

## Photo Albums

- [Misc Photos](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/photo-albums/misc-photos/)
- [Visitors At The Museum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/photo-albums/visitors-at-the-museum/)
- [American Pickers- Fort Knox Of Toys](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/photo-albums/american-pickers-fort-knox-of-toys/) - Look for the segment titled “Fort Knox of Toys”. It was a great show, and I can honestly say its 100% authentic, unlike many other syndicated show.

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- [MG Metro](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mg-metro/)
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- [front-engine dragster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/front-engine-dragster/)
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- [Packard 110](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/packard-110/)
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- [GT 351](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/gt-351/)
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- [EPA](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/epa/)
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- [Thunderbird](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/thunderbird/)
- [Import Motors](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/import-motors/)
- [Jack Sheppard](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jack-sheppard/)
- [Joe Sheppard](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/joe-sheppard/)
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- [Dick Adams](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/dick-adams/)
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- [hydraulic drive](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hydraulic-drive/)
- [plastic car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/plastic-car/)
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- [Raymond Russell](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/raymond-russell/)
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- [Full Classics](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/full-classics/)
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- [land yacht](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/land-yacht/)
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- [OJ Simpson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/oj-simpson/)
- [Grand Spaulding Dodge](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/grand-spaulding-dodge/)
- [Panhard](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/panhard/)
- [Trabant](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/trabant/)
- [Yue Loong Super Homer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/yue-loong-super-homer/)
- [Jeff Teague](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jeff-teague/)
- [Jaguar Mk2](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jaguar-mk2/)
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- [Garden State Concours d'Elegance](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/garden-state-concours-delegance/)
- [Joepep](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/joepep/)
- [Pepitone Creative Services](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pepitone-creative-services/)
- [brake plumbing](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/brake-plumbing/)
- [Inline Tube](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/inline-tube/)
- [Wilwood](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/wilwood/)
- [Paige](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/paige/)
- [Paige-Detroit](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/paige-detroit/)
- [mustang](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mustang/)
- [SAAC](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/saac/)
- [Shelby](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/shelby/)
- [audi](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/audi/)
- [FSO Syrena Sport](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/fso-syrena-sport/)
- [jalopies](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jalopies/)
- [Saab](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/saab/)
- [Shelby American](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/shelby-american/)
- [Torsten Johansson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/torsten-johansson/)
- [stock car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/stock-car/)
- [Sudbury Massachusetts](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/sudbury-massachusetts/)
- [Corvair II](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/corvair-ii/)
- [GM Styling](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/gm-styling/)
- [XP-849](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/xp-849/)
- [XP-873](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/xp-873/)
- [XP-892](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/xp-892/)
- [Fischer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/fischer/)
- [internal-gear transmission](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/internal-gear-transmission/)
- [Martin Fischer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/martin-fischer/)
- [slide-valve engine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/slide-valve-engine/)
- [Turicum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/turicum/)
- [Puma](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/puma/)
- [Electric fan](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/electric-fan/)
- [Empire Auto Radiator](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/empire-auto-radiator/)
- [Ford flathead](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-flathead/)
- [Innocenti](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/innocenti/)
- [Autocars Co.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/autocars-co/)
- [Sabra](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/sabra/)
- [Sussita](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/sussita/)
- [photo shoots](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/photo-shoots/)
- [Porsche](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/porsche/)
- [DAF](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/daf/)
- [four-wheel-drive conversions](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/four-wheel-drive-conversions/)
- [Model T](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/model-t/)
- [Washington DC](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/washington-dc/)
- [Bremen](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bremen/)
- [Sebring](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/sebring/)
- [Sterling](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/sterling/)
- [pareidolia](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pareidolia/)
- [steering wheel](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/steering-wheel/)
- [tachometer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/tachometer/)
- [AutoFair](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/autofair/)
- [Charlotte](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/charlotte/)
- [Mark Donohue](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mark-donohue/)
- [Mark Knopfler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mark-knopfler/)
- [100-6](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/100-6/)
- [Goldie](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/goldie/)
- [Keels & Wheels](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/keels-wheels/)
- [WWG Houston Classic](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/wwg-houston-classic/)
- [Longhorn](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/longhorn/)
- [Oliver Albert](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/oliver-albert/)
- [Houston](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/houston/)
- [WWG](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/wwg/)
- [Eiseman Automobile Co.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/eiseman-automobile-co/)
- [Euclid Square Garage](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/euclid-square-garage/)
- [Wigmore Coliseum](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/wigmore-coliseum/)
- [David LaChance](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/david-lachance/)
- [Dealer Auctions](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/dealer-auctions/)
- [Ford Econoline](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-econoline/)
- [Plymouth Superbird](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/plymouth-superbird/)
- [478th Air Service Squadron](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/478th-air-service-squadron/)
- [driving impressions](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/driving-impressions/)
- [Renault Alliance](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/renault-alliance/)
- [Lincoln Zephyr](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/lincoln-zephyr/)
- [Mack AB](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mack-ab/)
- [comparos](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/comparos/)
- [DeSoto](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/desoto/)
- [fuelie](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/fuelie/)
- [Imperial](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/imperial/)
- [Jaguar SS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jaguar-ss/)
- [SS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ss/)
- [Texas](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/texas/)
- [Flxible](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/flxible/)
- [Australian cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/australian-cars/)
- [Ford Mustang](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-mustang/)
- [gas stations](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/gas-stations/)
- [Guy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/guy/)
- [Harry Bentley Bradley](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/harry-bentley-bradley/)
- [Holden](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/holden/)
- [Bullrun](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bullrun/)
- [Hemmings Motor News](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hemmings-motor-news/)
- [restomods](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/restomods/)
- [rumble seat](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/rumble-seat/)
- [Triumph 2000](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/triumph-2000/)
- [La Salle](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/la-salle/)
- [Moxie](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/moxie/)
- [delivery vans](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/delivery-vans/)
- [Fageol](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/fageol/)
- [Twin Coach](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/twin-coach/)
- [Robert Johnson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/robert-johnson/)
- [Krager](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/krager/)
- [Motorhome Mania](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/motorhome-mania/)
- [Fairlady](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/fairlady/)
- [publicity stunts](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/publicity-stunts/)
- [Ruggedness Run](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ruggedness-run/)
- [Terraplane](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/terraplane/)
- [Brooks Stevens](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/brooks-stevens/)
- [Wally Cohn](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/wally-cohn/)
- [Siata](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/siata/)
- [celebrity-owned cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/celebrity-owned-cars/)
- [Hunter](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hunter/)
- [Mae West](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mae-west/)
- [dragster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/dragster/)
- [Bennington Vermont](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bennington-vermont/)
- [street scenes](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/street-scenes/)
- [Winnebago](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/winnebago/)
- [Jaguar XJ220](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jaguar-xj220/)
- [British cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/british-cars/)
- [Electric cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/electric-cars/)
- [Emile Claveau](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/emile-claveau/)
- [Fiat Bravo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/fiat-bravo/)
- [Cale Yarborough Special](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cale-yarborough-special/)
- [Mercury Cyclone](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mercury-cyclone/)
- [Spoiler II](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/spoiler-ii/)
- [Cadillac Coupe de Ville](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cadillac-coupe-de-ville/)
- [Keesler Air Force Base](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/keesler-air-force-base/)
- [Matchless](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/matchless/)
- [Morgan](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/morgan/)
- [chain drive](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/chain-drive/)
- [Henderson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/henderson/)
- [midget racing](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/midget-racing/)
- [Brockway](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/brockway/)
- [Fort Wayne Clutch](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/fort-wayne-clutch/)
- [kevlar](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/kevlar/)
- [Alberto Gorgoni](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/alberto-gorgoni/)
- [Dan LaLee](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/dan-lalee/)
- [Edsel Ford](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/edsel-ford/)
- [Frank Spring](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/frank-spring/)
- [McQuay-Norris](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mcquay-norris/)
- [raymond loewy](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/raymond-loewy/)
- [Walter Dorwin Teague](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/walter-dorwin-teague/)
- [IH](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ih/)
- [International Harvester](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/international-harvester/)
- [Datsun 1200](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/datsun-1200/)
- [Grout](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/grout/)
- [Boonsboro Maryland](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/boonsboro-maryland/)
- [Jetmobile](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jetmobile/)
- [Mechanix Illustrated](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mechanix-illustrated/)
- [Richard Harp](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/richard-harp/)
- [Ford Customline](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-customline/)
- [Ford F-250](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-f-250/)
- [Pontiac](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pontiac/)
- [Pontiac Safari](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pontiac-safari/)
- [Datsun Z](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/datsun-z/)
- [or is that Zed](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/or-is-that-zed/)
- ['Cuda](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cuda/)
- [220 SE](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/220-se/)
- [Aston-Martin](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/aston-martin/)
- [auction](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/auction/)
- [Clive Cussler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/clive-cussler/)
- [Jeff's Resurrections](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jeffs-resurrections/)
- [Keels and Wheels](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/keels-and-wheels/)
- [Model A](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/model-a/)
- [Munday Collection](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/munday-collection/)
- [Nomad](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/nomad/)
- [Worldwide auctioneers](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/worldwide-auctioneers/)
- [Jaguar XK-140](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jaguar-xk-140/)
- [Joe Wilhelm](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/joe-wilhelm/)
- [Baja 1000](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/baja-1000/)
- [Gunnar Andersson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/gunnar-andersson/)
- [Volvo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/volvo/)
- [Volvo 142](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/volvo-142/)
- [AMC Gremlin](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/amc-gremlin/)
- [American Motors](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/american-motors/)
- [Gremlin](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/gremlin/)
- [VW](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/vw/)
- [Auburn](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/auburn/)
- [Kruse](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/kruse/)
- [Worldwide](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/worldwide/)
- [Jaxon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jaxon/)
- [Miller Pontiac-Chevrolet-Cadillac](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/miller-pontiac-chevrolet-cadillac/)
- [White River Junction Vermont](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/white-river-junction-vermont/)
- [Cherry Bomb](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cherry-bomb/)
- [cruise-ins](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cruise-ins/)
- [houndstooth](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/houndstooth/)
- [Indy pace car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/indy-pace-car/)
- [Jensen](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jensen/)
- [Peerless](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/peerless/)
- [Enzo Ferrari](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/enzo-ferrari/)
- [Herbie](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/herbie/)
- [Arthur Goddard](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/arthur-goddard/)
- [Barker engine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/barker-engine/)
- [Bucciali](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bucciali/)
- [Chevrolet Vega](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/chevrolet-vega/)
- [Joan Newton Cuneo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/joan-newton-cuneo/)
- [Land Rover](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/land-rover/)
- [Wilmington Vermont](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/wilmington-vermont/)
- [Buick Century](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/buick-century/)
- [Stage 1](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/stage-1/)
- [Charles Jaeger](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/charles-jaeger/)
- [coil springs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/coil-springs/)
- [rotary engine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/rotary-engine/)
- [Automotive Fine Art Society](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/automotive-fine-art-society/)
- [Barry Rowe](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/barry-rowe/)
- [Ferrari 250 GT SWB](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ferrari-250-gt-swb/)
- [Harold Cleworth](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/harold-cleworth/)
- [Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pebble-beach-concours-delegance/)
- [Pebble Beach Tour d'Elegance](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pebble-beach-tour-delegance/)
- [Firebird III](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/firebird-iii/)
- [Pontiac Grand Prix](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pontiac-grand-prix/)
- [Dodge Charger](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/dodge-charger/)
- [Overhaulin'](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/overhaulin/)
- [SEMA](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/sema/)
- [Lincoln Continental](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/lincoln-continental/)
- [Ronald Reagan](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ronald-reagan/)
- [Ford Thunderbird](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-thunderbird/)
- [Judge](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/judge/)
- [Silver Hawk](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/silver-hawk/)
- [Triumph TR6](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/triumph-tr6/)
- [Freestone & Webb](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/freestone-webb/)
- [Historics at Brooklands](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/historics-at-brooklands/)
- [Bob Whitehead](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bob-whitehead/)
- [MI Special](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mi-special/)
- [Toyota Starlet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/toyota-starlet/)
- [TRD](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/trd/)
- [G.J.G.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/g-j-g/)
- [New York Guard](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/new-york-guard/)
- [Jeepney](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jeepney/)
- [Philippines](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/philippines/)
- [AACA](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/aaca/)
- [New Bern North Carolina](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/new-bern-north-carolina/)
- [dynamometer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/dynamometer/)
- [AMC Concord](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/amc-concord/)
- [Chevrolet Suburban](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/chevrolet-suburban/)
- [mud](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mud/)
- [snowstorm](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/snowstorm/)
- [B.F.Goodrich](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/b-f-goodrich/)
- [Jerry Titus](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jerry-titus/)
- [Pontiac Firebird](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pontiac-firebird/)
- [Tirebird](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/tirebird/)
- [Esso](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/esso/)
- [maps](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/maps/)
- [Cadillac Cimarron](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cadillac-cimarron/)
- [Italdesign](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/italdesign/)
- [Ford Fiesta](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-fiesta/)
- [dirt track racing](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/dirt-track-racing/)
- [Hindustan Ambassador](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hindustan-ambassador/)
- [radio control](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/radio-control/)
- [speedways](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/speedways/)
- [Suzuki Jimny](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/suzuki-jimny/)
- [Suzuki LJ10](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/suzuki-lj10/)
- [Indian Scout](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/indian-scout/)
- [International Scout II](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/international-scout-ii/)
- [Bridgehampton](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bridgehampton/)
- [Chevrolet Citation](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/chevrolet-citation/)
- [X-11](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/x-11/)
- [Checker](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/checker/)
- [Eagle Kammback](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/eagle-kammback/)
- [Pacer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pacer/)
- [Rebel Machine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/rebel-machine/)
- [fifth wheel](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/fifth-wheel/)
- [GM Proving Grounds](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/gm-proving-grounds/)
- [Queen](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/queen/)
- [Plymouth Belvedere](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/plymouth-belvedere/)
- [4-4-2](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/4-4-2/)
- [4-4-2 W-30](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/4-4-2-w-30/)
- [Cutlass S](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cutlass-s/)
- [Cutlass S W-31](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cutlass-s-w-31/)
- [F-85](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/f-85/)
- [F-85 W-31](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/f-85-w-31/)
- [W-30](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/w-30/)
- [W-31](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/w-31/)
- [A.B.C. Starter Company](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/a-b-c-starter-company/)
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- [Fruehauf](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/fruehauf/)
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- [street-legal](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/street-legal/)
- [Tamale Wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/tamale-wagon/)
- [Chevrolet Ute](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/chevrolet-ute/)
- [Ford F-1](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-f-1/)
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- [scale model](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/scale-model/)
- [Isuzu](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/isuzu/)
- [McNamara Pontiac](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mcnamara-pontiac/)
- [Orlando Florida](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/orlando-florida/)
- [Bugatti](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bugatti/)
- [Fiat 1100D](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/fiat-1100d/)
- [1800ES](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/1800es/)
- [car corral](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/car-corral/)
- [Carlisle](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/carlisle/)
- [Citroen](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/citroen/)
- [Goliath](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/goliath/)
- [Stag](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/stag/)
- [swap meet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/swap-meet/)
- [Isdera Commendatore](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/isdera-commendatore/)
- [1974 fuel crisis](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/1974-fuel-crisis/)
- [Bohn](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bohn/)
- [Brazilian Fords](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/brazilian-fords/)
- [crewcabs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/crewcabs/)
- [Skorpion](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/skorpion/)
- [Battistini](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/battistini/)
- [roadster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/roadster/)
- [cab-over engine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cab-over-engine/)
- [Forward Control](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/forward-control/)
- [L'Universelle](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/luniverselle/)
- [highwheeler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/highwheeler/)
- [Case](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/case/)
- [Hoodoo](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hoodoo/)
- [Indy 500](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/indy-500/)
- [Lewis Strang](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/lewis-strang/)
- [Savannah Grand Prix](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/savannah-grand-prix/)
- [Vanderbilt Cup](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/vanderbilt-cup/)
- [Walter Christie](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/walter-christie/)
- [COPO](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/copo/)
- [Hemmings cruise-in](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hemmings-cruise-in/)
- [Camper Special](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/camper-special/)
- [Club Wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/club-wagon/)
- [F-Series](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/f-series/)
- [Ford Bronco](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-bronco/)
- [Ranchero](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ranchero/)
- [deer strike](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/deer-strike/)
- [Ford Model A](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-model-a/)
- [Ford F250](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-f250/)
- [428CJ](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/428cj/)
- [Cougar Eliminator](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cougar-eliminator/)
- [Mercury Cougar](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mercury-cougar/)
- [F.A.S.T.](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/f-a-s-t/)
- [Musclepalooza](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/musclepalooza/)
- [Musclepalooza XI](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/musclepalooza-xi/)
- [Wilshire Shaker](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/wilshire-shaker/)
- [cars on poles](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cars-on-poles/)
- [orange](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/orange/)
- [whatzit](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/whatzit/)
- [Messerschmitt KR175](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/messerschmitt-kr175/)
- [Lincoln KB](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/lincoln-kb/)
- [purple](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/purple/)
- [Studebaker Avanti](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/studebaker-avanti/)
- [AMC SC/Rambler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/amc-scrambler/)
- [graphics](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/graphics/)
- [hoodscoops](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hoodscoops/)
- [Hurst/Olds](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hurstolds/)
- [Morgan Plus Four Plus](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/morgan-plus-four-plus/)
- [Argentina](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/argentina/)
- [Bob Gurr](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bob-gurr/)
- [Brazil](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/brazil/)
- [IKA](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ika/)
- [lead sled](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/lead-sled/)
- [White COE](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/white-coe/)
- [AMC Rebel Machine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/amc-rebel-machine/)
- [Chevrolet El Camino](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/chevrolet-el-camino/)
- [parts cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/parts-cars/)
- [project cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/project-cars/)
- [Woodstock Connecticut](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/woodstock-connecticut/)
- [gasoline](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/gasoline/)
- [oil](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/oil/)
- [refining](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/refining/)
- [Toyota FJ40](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/toyota-fj40/)
- [Ford Maverick](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-maverick/)
- [four-door](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/four-door/)
- [Mercury Comet](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mercury-comet/)
- [eight-wheeler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/eight-wheeler/)
- [ShamRockAway](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/shamrockaway/)
- [Bandini](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bandini/)
- [Bandini Siluro](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bandini-siluro/)
- [Cliff Reuter](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cliff-reuter/)
- [etceterini](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/etceterini/)
- [Mike DiFazio](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mike-difazio/)
- [Capri](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/capri/)
- [Mercury Capri](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mercury-capri/)
- [Peugeot](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/peugeot/)
- [Peugeot 504](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/peugeot-504/)
- [Renault 16](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/renault-16/)
- [Saab 99](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/saab-99/)
- [hunting car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hunting-car/)
- [Cadillac V-8](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cadillac-v-8/)
- [Checker A3](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/checker-a3/)
- [Checker A4](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/checker-a4/)
- [AMCA](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/amca/)
- [ATCA](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/atca/)
- [rhinebeck](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/rhinebeck/)
- [Maedel's Speed Shop](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/maedels-speed-shop/)
- [speed shops](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/speed-shops/)
- [Ted Maedel](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ted-maedel/)
- [Toledo Ohio](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/toledo-ohio/)
- [Consulier GTP](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/consulier-gtp/)
- [Mosler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mosler/)
- [Pegaso](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pegaso/)
- [Cecil Kimber Run](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cecil-kimber-run/)
- [Central Jersey Centre](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/central-jersey-centre/)
- [Eastern NY MGA Club](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/eastern-ny-mga-club/)
- [M.G. Drivers Club of North America](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/m-g-drivers-club-of-north-america/)
- [MG Car Club](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mg-car-club/)
- [MG TF 135](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mg-tf-135/)
- [Mosport](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mosport/)
- [New Jersey MG T Register](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/new-jersey-mg-t-register/)
- [Roger Pratten](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/roger-pratten/)
- [427 Cobra](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/427-cobra/)
- [Brubaker Box](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/brubaker-box/)
- [Cadillac hearse](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cadillac-hearse/)
- [Corvette station wagon](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/corvette-station-wagon/)
- [Graham](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/graham/)
- [hearses and flower cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hearses-and-flower-cars/)
- [Herb Adams](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/herb-adams/)
- [Lincoln K](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/lincoln-k/)
- [Vivant](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/vivant/)
- [VW kit cars](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/vw-kit-cars/)
- [Diamond T](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/diamond-t/)
- [Seagram's](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/seagrams/)
- [Smith Brothers Body Works](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/smith-brothers-body-works/)
- [Audi 100L](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/audi-100l/)
- [Audi Super 90](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/audi-super-90/)
- [Austin 11/55](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/austin-1155/)
- [Citroen GS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/citroen-gs/)
- [Datsun 1600 SSS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/datsun-1600-sss/)
- [Datsun 2000](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/datsun-2000/)
- [Datsun Bluebird](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/datsun-bluebird/)
- [Ford Cortina](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-cortina/)
- [Ford Escort GT](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-escort-gt/)
- [Mini GTS](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/mini-gts/)
- [Opel Kadett](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/opel-kadett/)
- [Opel Manta](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/opel-manta/)
- [VW Beetle](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/vw-beetle/)
- [Orphan Car Show](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/orphan-car-show/)
- [Studebaker Lark Daytona](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/studebaker-lark-daytona/)
- [Ypsilanti Michigan](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ypsilanti-michigan/)
- [Indianapolis Indiana](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/indianapolis-indiana/)
- [Bugatti Type 35](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bugatti-type-35/)
- [Cadillinc](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cadillinc/)
- [cutaway drawings](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cutaway-drawings/)
- [four-wheel drive](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/four-wheel-drive/)
- [Monopoly token](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/monopoly-token/)
- [pedal car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/pedal-car/)
- [Rex Burnett](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/rex-burnett/)
- [snowmobiles](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/snowmobiles/)
- [Excalibur Series IV](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/excalibur-series-iv/)
- [Excalibur J](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/excalibur-j/)
- [Howard "Dutch" Darrin](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/howard-dutch-darrin/)
- [funeral car](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/funeral-car/)
- [quarter-elliptic springs](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/quarter-elliptic-springs/)
- [Jack Miller](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/jack-miller/)
- [Ford Model U](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-model-u/)
- [Dearborn Assembly Plant](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/dearborn-assembly-plant/)
- [Ford Skyliner](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-skyliner/)
- [Bellflower California](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/bellflower-california/)
- [Don-A-Vee AMC](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/don-a-vee-amc/)
- [go-karts](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/go-karts/)
- [karting](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/karting/)
- [vintage karting](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/vintage-karting/)
- [Anywhere USA](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/anywhere-usa/)
- [Rambler American](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/rambler-american/)
- [Chrysler Town and Country](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/chrysler-town-and-country/)
- [Cologne](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/cologne/)
- [Ford-Werke](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ford-werke/)
- [Germany](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/germany/)
- [Köln](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/koln/)
- [hood emblem](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hood-emblem/)
- [Chevrolet Master Deluxe](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/chevrolet-master-deluxe/)
- [High View House](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/high-view-house/)
- [Sigrid Lodge](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/sigrid-lodge/)
- [Watkins Glen New York](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/watkins-glen-new-york/)
- [Audi 200](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/audi-200/)
- [Hurley Haywood](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/hurley-haywood/)
- [quattro](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/quattro/)
- [SCCA Trans-Am](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/scca-trans-am/)
- [Automodello](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/automodello/)
- [Gene's Foreign Car Service](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/genes-foreign-car-service/)
- [Griffith](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/griffith/)
- [Rockford Illinois](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/rockford-illinois/)
- [Series 200](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/series-200/)
- [David Greenlees](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/david-greenlees/)
- [Los Angeles](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/los-angeles/)
- [Nikola Tesla](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/nikola-tesla/)
- [Tesla turbine](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/tesla-turbine/)
- [Waltham speedometer](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/waltham-speedometer/)
- [conversion](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/conversion/)
- [Lincoln](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/lincoln/)
- [service vehicle](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/service-vehicle/)
- [tow truck](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/tow-truck/)
- [Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Club](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/auburn-cord-duesenberg-club/)
- [Stinson](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/stinson/)
- [Long Island](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/long-island/)
- [Walter White](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/walter-white/)
- [inline six](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/inline-six/)
- [OHC6](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/ohc6/)
- [straight six](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/straight-six/)
- [AMC Javelin](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/amc-javelin/)
- [Corvan](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/corvan/)
- [Leyland](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/leyland/)
- [Trans Am](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/trans-am/)
- [estate auction](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/estate-auction/)
- [Nash Rambler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/nash-rambler/)
- [Plymouth Duster](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/plymouth-duster/)
- [Schwenksville Pennsylvania](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/schwenksville-pennsylvania/)
- [Studebaker Wagonaire](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/studebaker-wagonaire/)
- [Besler](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/besler/)
- [Doble](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/doble/)
- [Albert Kunze](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/albert-kunze/)
- [four-wheel steering](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/four-wheel-steering/)
- [Monroe Robert Grier](https://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/tag/monroe-robert-grier/)
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