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 9 different decades - a full field under one roof - celebrating the 100th running of the 500. Photos by Don Homuth. Editor's Note: This pieces 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 (OR) on Interstate 5. Some are commuters, some on business, or drug runners (really), or shoppers heading toward the Woodb...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

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July 8, 2016 - Big Bend, WI

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