Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Nash Haul-Thrift

Yesterday’s Hemmings Find of the Day blurred the lines between truck and car just a little bit, and today’s find, this 1947 Nash Haul-Thrift, blurs those lines a little bit more. From the seller’s description: 1947 Nash 3148 Haul-Thrift 1-1/2 ton stake body truck, 26180 original miles, engine rebuilt 28 years ago, repainted 25 years […]

SIA Flashback – 1956 Hudson Hornet Special

Hybrids are all the rage today, but AMC had a hybrid on the market more than 50 years ago… Oh, wait, different kind of hybrid. However, both the modern-day Prius and the Hudson-Nash “Hash” of the mid-1950s did both get chided on their looks, so there’s at least one thing they both had in common. […]

Mystery junkyard of the past

While going through some old boxes looking for the photos from yesterday’s post of vintage HMN ads, I came across this grouping of photos of an old junkyard. I couldn’t find mention of it anywhere in the August 1978 issue that yesterday’s photos came from, thus I wasn’t able to find any information on exactly […]