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 […]

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 […]

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 […]