Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Winnebago

Well, we’ll wrap up Motorhome Mania week with a special Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge using everybody’s favorite motorhome, the Winnebago. Over its 40-plus years as a motorhome manufacturer, Winnebago used many different chassis from many different manufacturers, which should make Winnebago relatively well connected in the automotive world.
This week’s challenge will thus […]

Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Paige

It’s been several weeks since we’ve seen an American brand represented in the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge, so let’s head straight back to Detroit, where “The Most Beautiful Car in America,” the Paige (or, if you prefer the company’s original name, Paige-Detroit), was built.
In a brief scan of the company’s history, I […]

Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Messerschmitt

We haven’t seen many – if any – microcar companies in the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge until now, and that’s probably for good reason: microcar builders tended to go it alone, operating out of small factories with little or no help from major automakers (with the exception, of course, of BMW). Plus, […]