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Part car, part boat, all washed up: the 1907 Ravaillier

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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 […]

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Tagged amphibious vehicles, featured posts, George E. Crater, Gontallier, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, Jules Julien Ravaillier, Julian P. Thomas, Lost and Found, one-offs and homebuilts, Ravaillier, Ravaillier Canot-Voiture-Touriste, Waterland I  
 

Road trip of a lifetime: Across the country via Dodge, 1925-1926

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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 […]

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Tagged cross-country trip, dodge, Dodge truck, featured posts, George Chamberlain, motorhomes and travel trailers, road trips and cruising, Tam Chamberlain, trucks and Jeeps  
 

Fran Hernandez: a life in pictures

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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 […]

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Tagged Autolite, family albums 'n four-speeds, featured posts, ford, Ford Mustang, Ford Mustang Boss 429, Fran Hernandez, Hemmings Muscle Machines, hot rods and customs, Mercury, Mercury Cougar, personalities, racing, Rambler, SCCA Trans-Am  
 

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