Hemmings Find of the Day – Frankenstein’s car

What the ad on Hemmings.com for Frankenstein’s car from the epic Death Race 2000 doesn’t state is that it was built by the legendary Dean Jeffries, which would normally make “the fastest car ever designed” a prime collector car. I think it’s high time I watch that film again. From the seller’s description: The Monster […]

Simon and Kirby meet Virgil Exner

So in the upcoming Captain America movie, Cap will be riding around on a modern disc-brake Harley poorly dolled up to look like a WWII Indian. More intriguing, however, is this car on the same set in England, which looks like it might have started out as one of Virgil Exner’s Esquire neoclassics before prop […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1978 Pontiac Trans Am

Eastbound and down… Y’know, there just aren’t many instances of a car company taking advantage of pop culture promotion of its cars like the Bandit Trans Am. Off the top of my head, all I can think of are the Graduate Alfa Romeo Spiders and the recent Bumblebee Camaros. Anyway, this 1978 Pontiac Trans Am […]