Hemmings Find of the Day - 1960 Vespa 400

Posted by Mike McNessor - Some companies made the leap from two wheels to four very gracefully and successfully: BMW, Honda, Suzuki and Triumph come to mind. Italian scooter-maker Vespa, however, wasn't one of those companies, though not for lack of effort. The Vespa 400 was one of the most advanced microcars of its day - a clean sheet design that didn't evolve from a motorcycle. Designed by Vespa and manufactured by the French firm, Ateliers de Constructions de Motos et Accessoires, the 400 relied on advanced unit-body construction and r...Read On>>

Hemmings Sunday Cinema - wrist twist steering, Town and Country design, Norske Byggeklosser

Posted by Daniel Strohl - Crazy, right? Mercury's Wrist-Twist steering couldn't have ever worked, could it? Except, as we see in this rather sexist Mercury promo video that Mac's Motor City Garage unearthed showing the steering system in action, it apparently did work. * What do modern designers think about classic car shapes? That's apparently the idea behind Chrysler's recent series of videos, including this one in which interior designer Chris Benjamin looks over a 1948 Chrysler Town and Country convertible in the Walter P. Chrysler Mu...Read On>>

Hemmings Find of the Day - 1952 Ford F1 pickup

Posted by Kurt Ernst - Sometimes, the right weekend car isn't a car at all. Somewhere between restored and resto-modded, this driver-quality 1952 Ford F1 pickup, for sale on Hemmings.com, sports a considerable amount of work in the past year, including new wiring, a 12-volt conversion, a new vintage-look audio system, three-point seatbelts and custom gauges. It's also received a new gas tank, new carburetor and new cab flooring, and the only unaddressed issues appear to be stone chips in the paint and a bit of rust (described as minor) at...Read On>>

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Reagan's CJ-6 one of two presidential vehicles going on the National Register of Historic Vehicles

Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo courtesy Ronald Reagan Library, Historic Vehicle Association. It's got dings and dents. It's been rolled. It's neither the first nor the last of its breed, has no particularly special equipment, and is one of thousands like it to roll off an assembly line. But the Historic Vehicle Association saw fit to choose President Ronald Reagan's 1962 Jeep CJ-6 - even over the pristine CJ-8 that the president also owned - as one of a pair of presidential vehicles to go on the National Register of Historic Vehicles. ...Read On>>

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Toyota's Corolla, the world's most popular automobile, marks its golden anniversary

Posted by Kurt Ernst - First-generation 1970 Toyota Corolla. Photos courtesy Toyota. In November of 1966, Toyota launched a new model in the Japanese market, slotting in below the popular Corona. Called the Corolla, it was Toyota's affordable response to the "motorization boom" that saw Japanese families abandoning cities for the suburbs, following a migration that had taken place here in the 1950s. Five decades later, the Toyota Corolla, now in its 11th generation, has surpassed the Volkswagen Beetle as the most popular nameplate in t...Read On>>

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