Hemmings Daily: Remembering the American motel; experiencing the Chevelle's bad Bond ripoff

Reader Greg Beaulieu forwarded this website that captures the golden age of American Motels, each a different example of mid-century architectural design and tourist trap aesthetic. They're catalogued by state, so see if your favorites are listed. * It took a while, but we're finally starting to see Japanese modified car styles appearing on American cars, specifically muscle cars like this in-progress Dodge Charger that Stance Is Everything recently captured up in Canada. * The photo above reportedly s

View in Browser | Subscribe Sunday, October 2, 2016 Four-Links - The American Motel, stanced Charger, Tamagawa Speedway, Jaguars reborn Posted by Daniel Strohl - Reader Greg Beaulieu forwarded this website that captures the golden age of American Motels, each a different example of mid-century architectural design and tourist trap aesthetic. They're catalogued by state, so see if your favorites are listed. * It took a while, but we're finally starting to see Japanese modified car styles appearing on American cars, specifically muscle cars like this in-progress Dodge Charger that Stance Is Everything recently captured up in Canada. * The photo above reportedly s... Read More Hemmings Find of the Day - 1976 Cadillac Eldorado coupe Posted by Kurt Ernst - >From the seller's description: 1976 Cadillac Eldorado Coupe Superb Florentine Gold Firemist With 37,736 Miles. The Eldorado was built in June, 1976. The car was purchased used from Bianco Cadillac in Corta Madera, just north of San Francisco, in 1979, with 9,109 miles. The car was used for vacations to Los Angeles and Seattle and presently has just over 37,000 miles...that's an average of less than 1000 miles per year. The Eldorado was always garaged and never taken out in the rain. It sports the original factor...Read More Hemmings Sunday Cinema - bad Chevelle Bond ripoff, TROG, The Man From Hong Kong Posted by Daniel Strohl - As Mac at Mac's Motor City Garage described this 1966 promo for the Chevelle SS 396, it's bad - not so bad it's good, but still fascinatingly bad. Whoever Chevrolet hired to produce it must've conceived it over a three-martini (or more) lunch, shot it in an afternoon, and not expended one more thought on it than they had to. * With The Race of Gentlemen coming up in a couple weeks, might as well check out this short video taken at the spring event. * Enough with the funny stuff for bad car chases (for now). Le...Read More Hemmings Find of the Day - 1984 Dodge Caravan Posted by Daniel Strohl - All original 1984 Dodge Caravan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: This one is in very nice almost all original condition with very nice interior, power driver's seat, good carpet, no tears in the seats, good glass, very nice original paint, and it starts right up and drives just fine. The brakes work, and the transmission shifts smoothly. The power steering is smooth. It just had a valve grind, new head gasket, and new valve stem seals. It it almost entirely all original. The valve cover was ...Read More LAST WEEK'S MOST READ The Lincoln that might have been - the David Holls-designed 1932 Model KB Boattail Speedster Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1932 Lincoln KB Boattail Speedster. Photos by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy RM Sotheby's. In an alternate universe, Edsel Ford might have commissioned a custom-bodied Lincoln Speedster from Paris, France, carrosserie Hibbard & Darrin, complete with pontoon fenders, a tapered rear deck, and a hood that stretched to the horizon to cover the hot-rodded V-12 beneath it. In this universe, it never happened, yet the car exists, the result of one man's passion and another man's flair for design. Next month, this one-of-a...Read More LAST WEEK'S BEST DISCUSSION Open Diff: What's the most obscure automotive nickname you've heard? Posted by Daniel Strohl - Images via OldCarBrochures. Recently, thanks to regular commenter italianiron, we were introduced to a nickname for the chrome trim pieces that adorn the rear flanks of 1951-1952 senior Packards: bottle openers. Seemed a lot of our other regular commenters hadn't heard this term before, which led italianiron to wonder out loud whether we knew of other such uncommon sobriquets from automotive history. Specifically, he pointed out how nicknames for certain parts or shapes on a car can lead to general terms for t...Read More THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY 10/2/1912: William S. "Bunkie" Knudsen born 10/2/1959: Chevrolet debuts Corvair UPCOMING EVENTS Medinah Shriners 9th Annual Car Show October 9, 2016 - Addison, IL Cars for Kids Automobile Show October 9, 2016 - Litchfield, CT Transporterfest October 9, 2016 - Brookline, MA 1st Annual Ride for Wishes October 9, 2016 - Prairie du Rocher, IL North Branford Fire Dept. 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