Ad of the Week: Sort of…

Last week I blew it – perhaps just as badly as the officials in the US soccer game (FIFA World Cup) – and simply forgot to present an interesting Ad of the Week. So this week I opted to switch it up a bit and show you some pages from vintage dealer brochures for Buick’s […]

Build this 100-MPH sports car for under $500!

A few months ago, in the Lost and Found pages of Hemmings Classic Car, we began the hunt for the remaining Mechanix Illustrated Specials, a type of do-it-yourself car that capitalized on the late 1940s/early 1950s sport-special craze, but which combined elements of early kit car building, hot rodding and junkyard digging. Mechanix Illustrated offered […]

Lost Dealerships: 1961 Buicks

Here’s what happens when you do a little cleaning over the weekend. Now that my storage area in my garage is nearly complete – and another step closer to user friendly – I began sifting through some of the boxes that have been migrating in from other regions of the Northeast. In other words, my […]