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 […]

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 […]

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 […]