Too much (fuel) is never enough: The 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 tanker
Posted by Kurt Ernst - Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. When Chevrolet released the newly styled 1963 Corvette Stingray coupe, it did so with the knowledge that a select group of customers would want to take these cars road racing. To make this as easy as possible, it created the Z06 package, which effectively created a race-ready Corvette for an additional $1,818.45, a price that included a massive 36.5-gallon fuel tank. These cars, and the ones separately equipped with RPO N03 (the code for the oversize fuel tank) became known as "tan... Read On>>
Hemmings Find of the Day - 1986 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.3-16 Posted by Kurt Ernst - After partnering with Britain's Cosworth Engineering to develop a 320-horsepower, 2.3-liter engine for its proposed 190 E rally car, Mercedes-Benz pulled the plug on the project when rival Audi debuted its soon-unbeatable Quattro. Left with a capable chassis and a willing engine, Mercedes turned to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) series, but racing its hot 190E meant building homologation versions for the street. The result was the limited-production 190E 2.3-16, a car sold in the United States for ju...Read On>>
2016 Elegance at Hershey is a "Celebration of Speed" Posted by Kurt Ernst - Oscar Davis's 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring spider. Photo by Michael Furman, courtesy The Elegance at Hershey. Choosing a theme for a concours d'elegance event is hard enough, but choosing a single automobile to represent that theme is harder still. When The Elegance at Hershey organizers decided on a "Celebration of Speed" for this year's event, scheduled for June 10-12 at the Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the car ultimately chosen by the group to promote the show was the 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B To...Read On>>
Open Diff - What other vehicles should be on the National Historic Vehicle Register? Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo courtesy NASA. In two years, the Historic Vehicle Association has placed or announced that it will place more than a dozen cars and trucks on the National Historic Vehicle Register, which should by now give us a pretty good pattern to go on for prognosticating what other vehicles could make the list. Anything unique certainly has a shot, but more than that, the car or truck has to have some measure of significance, and as we saw this week with the selection of President Reagan's Jeep CJ-6 and President T...Read On>>
The $5,000 Challenge, it's the journey (or the destination) edition Posted by Kurt Ernst - To some, the appeal of the collector car hobby is bringing a tired car, perhaps just a few skinned knuckles away from being sold for scrap, back from the brink. To others, the allure lies in the drive, not in time spent troubleshooting, wrenching and painting. Very often, one's ability and/or bank account determine the path into the hobby, so this edition of the $5,000 Challenge (and yes, we're back to a $5,000 cap this time around) serves up a range of cars, from those needing very little to those requiring a full-...Read On>>
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1960s Posted by Daniel Strohl - In an effort to get us "off the Hartford train," reader Greg Beaulieu directed us toward Nova Scotia's online photo archives, particularly the photos that depict downtown Barrington Street in the early Sixties. "It is interesting in that it was the main commercial street of the city until the Halifax Shopping Center opened in the early 1960s, which wiped out a lot of the commercial activity," Greg wrote. "The pics attached seem to have been taken through the rear window of an electric trolley as it progressed down t...Read On>>
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