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 […]

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 […]

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 […]