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| ANNOUNCEMENTS There will be no Hemmings Daily on Independence Day, Monday, July 4. Have a safe and happy holiday, and we'll return with a regular weekday edition on Tuesday, July 5. | Chevrolet celebrates the Camaro's 50th birthday with plant tours, a car show, and Dream Cruise events 
Posted by Kurt Ernst - Photos courtesy Chevrolet. The Chevrolet Camaro made its public debut on June 28, 1966, so it's fitting that Chevrolet chose June 28, 2016, to announce a series of Michigan events commemorating the 50th birthday of the bowtie brand's pony car. From August 18-20, Chevrolet will host a Lansing Grand River plant tour, a "Camaros and Coffee" car show in Detroit, and a dedicated Camaro heritage display during this year's Woodward Dream Cruise. The original Chevrolet Camaro hit dealerships in late September of 1966,... Read More |  | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1972 Ford Mustang convertible Posted by Daniel Strohl - >From the seller's description: 1972 Ford Mustang convertible for sale on Hemmings.com. MACH I convertibles were Not produced for model years 1971-1973. This convertible was ordered/built with options found on a MACH I. (Ford stopped building convertibles for ~10 years after 1973) Original Specifications: Convertible, 351 Cobra Jet, Ram Air (last year available on 4-V, due to emission certification), Automatic C-6, A/C Restore and/or Repairs (numbers matching): Engine and Suspension, Rebuild Engine (approx. 50...Read More | Inliners to gather for straight-six shootout during convention Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by Mike Yoksich, courtesy Greg Koesel. Going fast in a straight line doesn't necessarily require a V-8 engine or even one with overhead valves, as a group of inline- and flathead-powered drag racers intend to prove at next month's special drag racing session in conjunction with the annual Inliners International convention. "The general impression in the United States is that the straight-six is a baseline engine good for truck usage or for good fuel economy," said Greg Koesel, who organized the inliners-...Read More |  | Collector car on a budget - 1960 Custom Imperial four-door sedan Posted by Kurt Ernst - Richard Douglas with sons Lloyd (L), Asa (C) and Zeb (R). Photos by author. Richard Douglas is a big fan of our $5,000 Challenge series, as it drives home the message that one doesn't need to be wealthy to purchase a collector car. A carpenter by trade with a wife and three sons to support, Richard's own budget to shop for a collector car was limited to $4,000. That was enough to purchase this 1960 Custom Imperial four-door sedan, which Richard, accompanied by sons Lloyd, Zeb and Asa, recently drove five and ...Read More | The Aero Wars come to Ford dealerships: The 1969 Ford Torino Talladega Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1969 Ford Torino Talladega. Brochure images courtesy Old Car Manual Project. It was the Dodge Charger 500 that fired the first salvo in NASCAR's "Aero Wars" of 1969 and 1970, but Ford wasted little time in shooting back. Though nowhere near as outlandish as the later Dodge Charger Daytona and Plymouth Superbird, the 1969 Ford Torino Talladega (and its Mercury cousin, the Cyclone Spoiler II) proved tough to beat throughout the 1969 season, and thanks to homologation rules, those with the $3,456 asking price could ...Read More | Los Angeles, 1961 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Here we thought we'd sufficiently scoured the Internet for traffic jam photos of yesteryear, but of course the Los Angeles area has an endless supply of traffic jams, so there's still plenty more photos such as today's carspotting photo out there to discover. Specifically, according to a historic photo gallery of the San Fernando Valley, this photo depicts the Hollywood Freeway (the 101) just northwest of Vineland Avenue, looking north-ish, in october 1961. What do you see here?...Read More |  | THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY | 7/1/1908: | Briscoe, Brush and Maxwell form United Motors | | 7/1/1931: | First Canadian-built Graham Prosperity Six produced | | 7/1/1956: | Pontiac names "Bunkie" Knudsen general manager |
| UPCOMING EVENTS Portland Vintage Racing Festival
July 8, 2016 - Portland, OR
Goodguys 19th PPG Nationals The Big One
July 8, 2016 - Columbus, OH
Rumble by the River Classic Car Show
July 8, 2016 - Big Bend, WI
Hemmings Cruise-in/National Collector Car Appreciation Day
July 8, 2016 - Bennington, VT
Wilson Center Cruisin'
July 8, 2016 - Brookfield, WI
Gould's Microcar Classic
July 8, 2016 - Brookline, MA
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WEEK IN REVIEW | | Thursday, June 30, 2016 | Raced by a trio of American legends, a very special Ferrari 750 Monza heads to auction Posted by Kurt Ernst - Ferrari 750 Monza chassis 0510M. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby's. It was raced in-period, with impressive success, by Phil Hill, Carroll Shelby and Jim Hall. For the past six decades, it's been in Hall's private collection, and it's reportedly one of the few four-cylinder Ferrari sports racers of the day to retain its original drivetrain. Restored in the mid-1990s, the 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza campaigned by three American racing greats heads to auction in Monterey this August. Ferrari sports ...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1958 GAZ M21 Volga Posted by Daniel Strohl - Getting this 1958 GAZ M21 Volga for sale on Hemmings.com home might be a little tougher than just scheduling a pickup with a transporter, and there might be a little more paperwork to go with its purchase than with most collector cars but, hey, not only has it been restored - not an easy task, especially for those of us on this side of the pond - but it's been restored well, judging from the pictures. From the seller's description: Completely restored with new chrome, full original , absolutely all new parts from S...Read More | Automotive publisher Chet Krause dies at 92 Posted by Jim Donnelly - Chet Krause at Iola in 2013. Photo courtesy John Gunnell. Chet Krause spent his entire life in Iola, Wisconsin, where he got his start tearing down Ford Model Ts for salable parts. He bootstrapped those experiences into a long line of books and magazines aimed at hobbyists, mainly of the automotive variety. Krause died Saturday in Iola, having suffered from worsening congestive heart failure, at the age of 92. He left a literary legacy that will endure forever. It began in 1952 when Krause began publishing a m...Read More | Midweek Matinee: Knights on the Highway, 1938 Posted by Ed Heys - All photos are frame grabs from video below. With a sleep-inducing introduction awkwardly read from cue cards by Murray, then-president of the American Road Builders' Association, we wonder if the Jam Handy film crew might have scheduled this particular gem after hours. Way after. Even the good dispatcher looks as if he's nodding off, though an alert Trucker Joe seems to have his wits about him. Motoring out of the terminal in his gleaming new Chevy rig, Joe knows his stuff and strictly adhe...Read More | America's Most Individual Car: 1958 Ford Thunderbird brochure Posted by Mark J. McCourt - Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Ford secured the Thunderbird's future for decades to come when it debuted the second generation in 1958. This small, six-panel fold-out brochure is dated "1/58" and exclusively highlights the new fixed-roof Hardtop model, rather than showing both that and the traditional Convertible; the 1958 Hardtop would eventually outsell the contemporary Convertible by a large margin, moving 35,758 units to the Convertible's 2,134, with these four-seaters' combine...Read More | Ferndale, Michigan, 1950s Posted by Daniel Strohl - According to captions that follow this photo around the Internet, we're in Ferndale - specifically just west of the intersection of Nine Mile and Woodward - sometime during the Fifties. And if we check out the modern-day street view of the location, we can surmise that the photo was taken from the top of what is now the Ferndale Arts Building. But that's all pretty dry - we need some stories and some color to go along with the scene. So tell us what you see here?...Read More | | Wednesday, June 29, 2016 | Detroit park to commemorate Ford Hunger March, key event in auto industry unionization Posted by Daniel Strohl - Images via MotorCities National Heritage Area, Walter P. Reuther Library. Plans for what will be Detroit's newest park call for plenty of trees and gardens, walkways and reflection pools, even a kayak launch. In all, the plans appear serene and peaceful, a respite from the surrounding industrialization, though the event that the park is intended to commemorate was anything but: one of the bloodier confrontations in Detroit labor history and one of the triggers for the unionization of the auto industry. The org...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1987 Chevrolet Camaro IROC Z28 Posted by Mike McNessor - The 5.0 Mustang launched a performance subculture in the 1980s spawning magazines, specialty businesses, events, references in Vanilla Ice songs, etc. The Mustang was cheap, fast and begged to be modified. By the end of the decade, the staging lanes at local dragstrips were clogged with Foxes. If you were a Chevrolet person at this time you weren't exactly overwhelmed by the Camaro. It was a decent enough car - it handled really well - but where was the fuel injection? Where were the manual transmissions - it ...Read More | Museum-fresh 1994 Jaguar XJ220 sells for $357,500 in Santa Monica Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1994 Jaguar XJ220. Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy Auctions America, unless otherwise noted. With a Nurburging Nordschliefe lap of 7:46.36 and a 213 MPH top speed, it was once the fastest production car in the world. First exhibited with V-12 power and all-wheel drive, the production version used a twin-turbo V-6 to power its rear wheels only, a design change that prompted lawsuits from potential buyers. Just 275 examples were built from 1992 - '94, with each selling for 470,000 pounds (then, $900,000), which m...Read More | Is the World of Speed the best racing museum you've never heard of? Posted by Hemmings contributor - More than 300 invited guests and members view 33 genuine Indy cars from nine different decades - a full field under one roof - celebrating the 100th running of the 500. Photos by Don Homuth. Editor's Note: This piece comes to us from regular Hemmings Daily contributor, concours judge and former North Dakota State Senator Don Homuth. On any given day some 150,000 cars whiz through Wilsonville on Interstate 5. Some are commuters, some are on business, or drug runners (really), or shoppers heading toward the Woo...Read More | 20th Century Conestoga Posted by David Conwill - Photos by the author What could be more apt than criss-crossing the country in a motor home from the same company that sent hundreds of Conestoga wagons down the Oregon Trail? Believe it or not, this isn't the first Class C-type motor home we've seen built on a Studebaker truck chassis of this era, although it is the first time we've had the privilege of inspecting one "in the tin" so to speak. This 1962 Studebaker Transtar showed up at our Cruise Night on June 23 and imagine our surprise when we found out t...Read More | Barre, Vermont, 1965 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Why, yes, we have seen this intersection before - several times, in fact, but none of them as early as 1965, when this photo of downtown Barre was taken, according to the Vermont Landscape Change program. And if we're going to focus on the change between this photo and the previous (later) ones, we can't overlook how the vehicles differ between the decades. What do you see here?...Read More | | Tuesday, June 28, 2016 | GMC van bearing Banksy mural art estimated to bring up to $400,000 at auction Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photos courtesy Bonhams. The choice of the van was intentional. The pseudononymous street artist Banksy has claimed many a run-in with the police and made authoritarianism a common motif in his artwork, so what better canvas for him than a slab-sided GMC step van that once allegedly served SWAT duty? This week that van and its murals will head to a contemporary art auction in London, where it's expected to become the most expensive step van sold at auction. Banksy, known for his stencil-based graffiti about as...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1908 Ford Model T "Dizzy Lizzy" Posted by Daniel Strohl - Though this 1908 Ford Model T for sale on Hemmings.com may not have been an original stunt parade car from the first half of the 20th Century, it has its own unique history - specifically as a stunt parade car for Disneyland's daily Main Street parades in the early 1960s. Seems like Ol' Walt himself was a stickler for authenticity, too - this "Dizzy Lizzy" doesn't seem to differ substantially from actual stunt parade cars we've seen. From the seller's description: This Model T was owned by the current owner's grand...Read More | What's in a name? In the case of Charles Kuralt's 1984 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler, an additional $6,805 Posted by Kurt Ernst - Charles Kuralt's 1984 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. According to three years of pricing history on Hemmings.com, Jeep CJ-8 Scramblers carry an average asking price of roughly $26,500, with the nicest examples commanding as much as $34,995. Celebrity-owned models are an exception to the rule, and last weekend a particularly clean (and claimed original) 1984 Jeep CJ-8 once owned by On the Road star Charles Kuralt crossed the auction stage in Connecticut, selling for a fee-inclusive price of ...Read More | "Cruisin' Classics" with Shell, circa 1989 Posted by Thomas A. DeMauro - Photography by the author. My son recently found a vintage cassette called Cruisin' Classics Volume II 70's & 80's, which was offered by Shell. Knowing that I'm always looking for automotive-related blog subjects, he bought it for me. Produced by CBS, it's part of a series that not only chronicled selections of popular songs from the 1950s through the 1980s, performed by the various original artists, but unfolding the cover insert also reveals an enclosed rebate card for Shell oil and oil changes. Here...Read More | Recommended Reading - Lamborghini Urraco & The V8s Posted by Richard Lentinello - Photos by author. Back in the late 1970s and early '80s Motorbooks International published a line of small hardcover books called the Osprey AutoHistory series. These compact books were 7 1/2 x 8 1/2 in size, and ran 136 pages in length. The numerous photographs were black and while, but there was an eight-page color section in the center that depicts the many different car models that were produced. As historical books go, this entire series is worth owning as the information within is concise, informativ...Read More | West Hartford, Connecticut, 1960s, part 2 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Just up the street from our last look at West Hartford comes this batch of street scenes from the collection that Joe Sokola sent us, showing a stretch of businesses along Farmington Avenue just east of Girard. Quite possibly for the first time in this entire collection of photos, we see a Hartford municipal vehicle, and it appears to be the oldest vehicle in the set, for whatever that's worth. What do you see here? ...Read More | | Monday, June 27, 2016 | One-off hot rod combined Packard, Auburn, and Marmon parts; put the "speed" in speedster Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Dick Saunders likely didn't care a lick about labels like Full Classic or particulars like which class he'd park with on the show field. Rather, he probably cared more about how fast he got to the show field in his amalgam of Packard, Auburn, and other old car parts that added up to a boattail speedster that will hit the auction block later this summer. Saunders, of Rensselaer, New York, who had worked for a Packard distributor in Albany, reportedly had a habit...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1961 Chevrolet Corvair 700 Lakewood Posted by Daniel Strohl - At what point does a restoration on a car become an "older restoration?" Perhaps that doesn't depend so much on time passed since the restoration, but on a car's usage since and maintenance of its restoration. For example, this 1961 Chevrolet Corvair 700 Lakewood station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com is coming up on a full decade since its resto, but it still looks like it just rolled out of the shop. From the seller's description: This car was fully restored in 2007, this charming red wagon was invited to the Hem...Read More | Header genius Jere Stahl, 1935-2016 Posted by Jim Donnelly - Jere Stahl. Photo by Ed Almquist. If you've never heard his name, you almost certainly grew up outside the northeastern United States, but we still bet you were familiar with his products. Jere Stahl was a gifted mechanic and designer out of the York, Pennsylvania, area who came up with his own line of equal-length exhaust headers that set a firm standard of performance during his tenure. Stahl died on June 21, and sources said he had been suffering from cancer. Originally from Romulus, Michigan, Stahl got the...Read More | From the Toolbox #9 Posted by Kurt Ernst - Photo by Randy Rundle. As with the previous installment, this tool (or more correctly, die set) comes to us from reader Randy Rundle. Though the scale is not provided, the largest die (on the right) probably measures about five inches in diameter, give or take an inch. The smaller die, on the left, likely measures about four inches in diameter. Each "pocket" on the pair of dies is probably 5/8" to 11/16." We've also removed a bit of text from the die on the right, since leaving it in would have diminished the ...Read More | In Our Garage: Installing a new wiring harness Posted by Steve Berry - After years of playing whack-a-mole with electrical gremlins in my 1971 Volvo 1800E, I decided to start from scratch with a brand-new wiring harness. However, as you can tell from the nearly two-year absence of updates on this project, you can see that it's no mere weekend project. Still, it's not impossible, especially with the right tools and plenty of planning. THE WIRING KIT A universal wiring kit is just that, universal. The 12 circuit Painless fuseblock and harness (PN 764-10102) I decided to use is meant ...Read More | Florida, 1960s, part 3 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Returning to the college parking lot photo series that Dean Luchaco sent us, we see just how bad the parking situation was, with not a spot left in this lot and with cars lining the street that connects the lot to what we presume would be the main campus. We also see that quite a few students had a hard time parking straight - perhaps it's exams week and we're seeing the results of a few too many all-nighters? What do you see here? ...Read More | | Sunday, June 26, 2016 | Four-Links - Royale replica, Airstream debacle, Frist show, Mid-Ohio races Posted by Daniel Strohl - As it turns out, when Ettore Bugatti went to build the Royale, he bodied the prototype with a Packard touring car body. That prototype no longer survives in that configuration, so - as The Old Motor wrote this week - Hevec Classic Cars in the Netherlands decided to build a replica of the Royale prototype, which it recently completed. * Airstreams have a timeless look with those rivets and polished aluminum panels, but that doesn't mean they stand up to the passage of time all that well, as Gary Smith found ou...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1968 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 convertible Posted by Mike McNessor - Oldsmobile's 4-4-2 became a separate model on the all-new '68 edition, rather than an option on the Cutlass. The base Sports Coupe carried a starting MSRP of $3,063, the hardtop Holiday Coupe started at $3,127 and the convertible would set you back $3,341. For their money, 1968 4-4-2 buyers were treated to a standard 350hp 400-cu.in. V-8 with a four-barrel carburetor, three-speed manual on the floor, dual exhaust, Morocceen-tailored bucket seats, front and rear anti-roll bars, boxed rear lower control arms and, o...Read More | Hemmings Sunday Cinema - BTTF Toyota, The Banger Boys, Mark il poliziotto Posted by Daniel Strohl - For most people, the most iconic vehicle from the Back to the Future films is the DeLorean. Fair enough. For one guy in Massachusetts, it was always the Toyota pickup, and 30-plus years later, he owns that very pickup, as we see in this Aficionauto video (via) * "The Banger Boys" is a 1976 documentary that took a look at the British pastime of selecting clunkers from the junkyard, getting them just driveable enough for the track, and then weekend racing them. (via) * Finally, while last week's inseguimento fea...Read More | Hemmings Find of the Day - 1973 Plymouth Satellite Police Pursuit Package Posted by Kurt Ernst - In the early 1970s, Chrysler had a significant share of the law enforcement market, thanks to offerings like the Plymouth Fury, the Dodge Polara, the Dodge Cornet and the Plymouth Belvedere/Satellite. While preserved or restored examples aren't exactly rare, they are uncommon, as the ravages of police work (and later, livery duty) took a toll on cars that were never viewed as collectible. Rarer still are police cars belonging to other state agencies, like this 1973 Plymouth Satellite Police Pursuit Package sedan, ...Read More | LAST WEEK'S MOST READ Period pavement-pounder - 409 powered Bubble Top Bel Air breaks into the top-10 in Portland Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1962 Chevrolet "Bubble Top" Bel Air. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1962, full-size Chevrolet shoppers could order a 409-cu.in V-8 in a variety of Biscayne, Bel Air and Impala models, with a factory-rated output of up to 425 409 horsepower. Drag racers with ties to Chevrolet were producing considerably more horsepower than that, thanks to special parts not available to the general public. Today, many of these once-unobtanium parts can be sourced, so if building a period-correct hot rod, why not go with the tr...Read More | LAST WEEK'S BEST DISCUSSION After 25 years, Dodge pulls the plug (a second time) on the Viper Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1998 Dodge Viper GTS-R coupe. Photos courtesy FCA. It began as a design exercise by Chrysler's Advance Design Studios in 1988, and would have ended there if not for Bob Lutz's crazy idea to build a Shelby Cobra for the modern age. Put into production for the 1992 model year, the Dodge (and later SRT) Viper soldiered on, gaining a coupe and adding horsepower, until its first execution in July of 2010. Reborn for the 2013 model year, the much-improved Viper failed to charm consumers, and a quarter-century after its...Read More |
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