Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by the author. Of all the unconventional shapes that dreamers and designers applied to conceptual automobiles during the streamlining craze of the Twenties and Thirties, perhaps none made the transition to production automobiles as successfully as the fastback roofline, applied to sporty closed cars as small as tiny economobiles and as large as lumbering land barges. To celebrate its varied history, the Concours d'Elegance of America will host a class dedicated just to the fastback. If the fastback bodys... Read On>> 
Hemmings Find of the Day - 1976 Mercury Monarch Ghia Posted by Kurt Ernst - It isn't likely that the first owner of this 1976 Mercury Monarch Ghia, for sale on Hemmings.com, purchased his car for investment purposes, intent on preserving it for future generations. Life, as the saying goes, is what happens while we're busy making other plans, and four decades after this car rolled off the assembly line it reportedly shows just 7,602 miles on the odometer. Said to be all-original, down to the paint and even the tires, this Monarch might be the finest remaining example of the breed left on t... Read On>>
Quarter Mile Foundation begins crowdfunding Project 1320 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Stills from Project 1320 crowdfunding video. Zero to 265 in seven years might not sound that impressive on the dragstrip, but that figure takes on a whole new dimension when applied to nabbing interviews with some of drag racing's legends while they're still alive, the goal of the Quarter Mile Foundation's Project 1320, and one reason why the foundation has set up a crowdfunding effort. Launched in 2009, Project 1320 is the brainchild of Traci Hrudka, the daughter and niece of Mr. Gasket founders Tom and Joe H... Read On>>
The birth of the classic Airstream Posted by Hemmings contributor - Photos from the Airstream Archive, except where noted. With the purchase of the Bowlus-Teller design and equipment, the look and feel of what was to become the iconic silver slipstream Airstream trailer began to take shape. Wally hired some of the Bowlus-Teller employees, primarily those experienced in the special construction techniques for building the advanced trailers, and set to work redesigning the Road Chief to incorporate his own ideas. His first goal was to address design problems. For one t... Read On>>
Midweek Matinee: Sailing Along, Plymouth style, 1937 Posted by Ed Heys - All photos are frame grabs from video below. Wilding Picture Productions presents for us today an in-your-face advertisement for the 1937 Plymouth, with no pretense of being anything other than an 11-minute class in Non-Stop Salesmanship 101. Unlike their counterparts at the Jam Handy Organization compound, who might have led with an extended primer on the history of sailing, we have here one all-too-brief clip of a tall ship. Period. Through the marvels of technology, though, we do get a series of film frame ali... Read On>>
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1958 Posted by Daniel Strohl - Howard Arbiture, fed up with all the Vegas, Los Angeles, Vermont, Hartford, and New York photos we've been running in the carspotting series, decided we needed some Milwaukee sprinkled in there, so he sent us this one from the Milwaukee Public Library's digital collections showing the intersection of Fond du Lac Avenue and 37th Street, sometime in 1958, with a used car lot for us to pick over. What do you see here?... Read On>>
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