Sixteen Candles – The Sequel

This isn’t part of it, but I’ve been getting some feedback since I tapped out a column for the April 2010 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, which, in part, described my discovery of a Marmon-powered Ford coupe in one of the terrific Don Montgomery hot rod history books. Hemmings Nation citizen Gaylord T. Willett, who […]

A new flowering

Colin Chapman has been gone for nearly 30 years, and the business is now under Malaysian ownership (Proton). But the Lotus Cars of today produces some fascinating stuff, led by the Evora and the 2-Eleven. Lotus is making moves to recoup its racing history, too. A reconstituted Team Lotus has joined Formula 1. Lotus and […]

Maverifico!

Last month’s Hemmings Cruise to the Mexican Riviera yielded some spectacular pleasures for the eyes. This wasn’t one of them.  As to a mass-casualty incident, our eyes were drawn to this four-door Ford Maverick at curbside outside a seafood restaurant in Mazatlan. The bent-up Jalisco license plates on both ends are current, so presumably, it […]