Frank Currie, pioneer of the modular rear end, passes at age 87
Posted by Daniel Beaudry - Frank Currie with his 1966 Ford Mustang G.T. 350. All photos courtesy of Currie Enterprises. >From hot rods to land speed vehicles, drag racers to muscle cars, street rods to off-roaders and desert ralliers, it's hard to think of a motorized application that hasn't benefited from Frank Currie and his company Currie Enterprises. Currie passed away in Yorba Linda, California, on the evening of March 2nd at the age of 87. Born in 1929 in Anaheim, California, Currie was in the right place at the right time for a ... Read On>>
Hemmings Find of the Day - 1962 Pontiac Tempest convertible Posted by Kurt Ernst - To broaden the appeal of its compact Tempest, introduced for the 1961 model year, Pontiac added a convertible model to the lineup for 1962. Even in its debut year, the drop-top Tempest was a hit, selling 20,675 units, enough to make it the third-most popular variant in the model's lineup. How many survive today is anyone's guess, but this 1962 Pontiac Tempest convertible, for sale on Hemmings.com, appears to be a particularly nice example. Said to be rust-free, the Tempest benefits from a laundry list of recent wo...Read On>>
La Jolla Concours d'Elegance to show off "French Curves" Posted by Kurt Ernst - The 1936 Delahaye 135 Competition owned by Ken and Ann Smith. Photo courtesy Ken Smith. The prewar French automotive industry produced countless practical and utilitarian vehicles, yet it is the work of a few exclusive companies that often comes to mind when French cars of the period are discussed. This year's La Jolla Concours d'Elegance, set for Sunday, April 10, honors these design masterpieces with a European Classic subclass entitled "French Curves," celebrating the rolling artwork of Bugatti, Delahaye, Hisp...Read On>>
Canted Quads: Lincoln's 1958 models offered a new twist to headlamps Posted by Matt Litwin - 1958 Lincoln Premiere; image by the author. The Lincoln marque can invoke a variety of opinions regarding its status in the domestic luxury car market, especially the Continentals. First-person accounts of the lengthy masterpieces are continuously conveyed, each slightly different due to the different tastes and automotive generation variants. Take, for instance, our featured 1958 Premiere, which was positioned between the base Capri and top of the line Continental Mark III. At Lincoln, engineers and stylists had...Read On>>
The Un-Honked Hero of George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" Posted by David Conwill - Images courtesy of Renault, unless noted. The New York Times and National Public Radio broke a story on March 1 that Musicologist Mark Clague of the University of Michigan, who is in the process of re-evaluating the musical works of George Gershwin, has used Gershwin's own handwritten score and an early recording to determine that the taxi horns that appear in his 1929 composition An American in Paris have essentially been portrayed incorrectly ever since Gershwin's untimely death in 1937. George Gershwin,...Read On>>
Hartford, Connecticut, 1960s Posted by Daniel Strohl - While we might've been ambivalent about the decade of last week's Hartford photo sourced from the collection Joe Sokola sent us, there's no doubt these two photos came from the Sixties. And, bonus, we got street signs to tell us roughly where the photographer stood: above near the corner of Pearl and Ann streets looking southwest, and below near the corner of Pearl and Main streets looking north. What do you see here? ...Read On>>
This Day in Automotive History | 3/8/1950: | The first Volkswagen Type 2 Transporter (aka VW bus) is produced. | | 3/8/1969: | Pontiac debuts Trans Am |
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