2017 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance pays tribute to Brumos Racing

Posted by Kurt Ernst - Peter Gregg, in the #59 Brumos Porsche, leads Al Holbert at Road Atlanta in 1974. Photos by Bill Warner, courtesy Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance. Brumos Racing has been (mostly) inactive since the end of the 2013 season, but the name still strikes a chord with fans of sports car racing worldwide. Fittingly, given its proximity to Brumos's Jacksonville, Florida, home, the 2017 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance will pay tribute to Brumos Racing with a special "Cars of Brumos Racing" class. Brumos began as... Read More

Hemmings Find of the Day - 1961 Chrysler 300G

Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1961 Chrysler 300G for sale. From the seller's description: Very nice restored black coupe, factory options on this car include: p/b, p/s, p/w, p/seat, p/door lock(vacuum), tinted glass all around, 7 button radio, rear window defoger, p/antenna. Body was rotisserie restored, very solid body to start with, very very nice base/clear paint job.All components on this car were examined, cleaned, restored or replaced. Rebuilt 413 cross ram , 375 HP and 495 Ft-pd torque, correct 300 specs three speed torqueflite auto, sus...Read More

Miura, gullwing Mercedes up for supercar of the century honors

Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by Jeff Koch. Most of us will never drive one, let alone own one - their rarity and rarified price tags define them, after all - but supercars nevertheless inspire many a debate when it comes to pairing superlatives and automobiles. Fastest? Most advanced? Most expensive? Which made the topic a perfect one for the Classic and Sports Car Show to broach when it decided to crown the greatest supercar of the last century with the public's help. Like American muscle cars, supercars are believed by many to hav...Read More

GM tells the story of the Firebird II

Posted by Kurt Ernst - The Firebird II brochure from the 1956 GM Motorama. Images courtesy of Lov2XLR8.no. Driver information display. Adjustable pedals. Beverage cooler. Ventilated seats. Encoded key. Semi-autonomous operation. Two-way communication with an operator in the event of an emergency. Today, these are features that can reasonably be expected on any mid-priced family sedan, but in 1956, the year the GM Firebird II was first shown to the public, much of this list was the the stuff of science fiction. Described as "the late...Read More

Year, Make and Model - 1954 Plymouth Belvedere

Posted by Jim Donnelly - Photos by Jim Donnelly. Editor's note: This piece includes excerpts from a story that appeared in the June 2012 issue of Hemmings Motor News. The middle of the 1950s were filled with excitement over the availability of affordable V-8 power, but in some cases, the venerable straight-six remained viable for a long time. As an example, let's turn our attention to this extraordinarily well-optioned 1954 Plymouth Belvedere, which was in its final year as a purely six-cylinder automotive offering. It was modern, i...Read More

Western United States, 1970s

Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: sometime between 1969 and 1977 Location: somewhere in the Western United States Source: EagleFoodCenters14 on Flickr What do you see here?...Read More

THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY

10/17/1938:	Daredevil and stuntman Evel Knievel born (as Robert Craig Knievel), Butte, Montana
10/17/1968:	"Bullitt" starring Steve McQueen is released
10/17/1973:	First Arab oil embargo begins
10/17/1994:	Round-trip taxi ride from London to Capetown, South Africa, ends in London ($65,000 fare)

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