A couple weeks back, we asked what you could envision doing with a Mini Moke shell that’s for sale on Hemmings.com. Hugo90, who often contributes images to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool in response to the day’s blog posts, answered our question with this shot of a Moke on the Castrol International Rallye in Canberra, […]
As entertaining a notion that a President of the United States even owned an Amphicar is, President Lyndon B. Johnson was a certified practical joker when it came to automobiles that doubled as boats. What follows is a tale from then Special Assistant to the President Joseph A. Califano, Jr.: The President, with Vicky McCammon […]
In the January 2011 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, which should be hitting mailboxes and newsstands shortly, I reviewed Robert Cunningham’s “Orphan Babies: America’s Forgotten Economy Cars, Volume 2,” an excellent and comprehensive followup to his first volume of research into the sorts of cars that usually got relegated to the one-liner notes and oddity […]