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 […]

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 […]

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 […]