Six decades on, Jaguar to complete production of the XKSS
Posted by Kurt Ernst - Jaguar XKSS. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. On February 12, 1957, a fire began in a tire storage area of Jaguar's Browns Lane plant in Coventry, England, consuming much of the assembly area before being brought under control. Among the cars destroyed by the conflagration were nine XKSS (for XK Super Sport) models, the road-going variant of the legendary Jaguar D-Type, along with the assembly jigs needed to build the cars. Now, nearly six decades later, Jaguar Classic will finish production of the XKSS, comple... Read On>>
Hemmings Find of the Day - 1963 King Midget Series III roadster Posted by Daniel Strohl - Who knew you could get Keystone-style mag wheels for a King Midget, the pride of Athens, Ohio? And they fit on this dressed-up - at least, as dressed-up as a Spartan King Midget can get - 1963 King Midget Series III roadster for sale on Hemmings.com, a car that's been treated to a full restoration and, apparently, a pampered show-going life since then. From the seller's description: Extensive body off nut & bolt restoration, everything rebuilt or new. Bright red w/ white top, red & white interior, mag wheel...Read On>>
Plans call for transforming Iowa airport into quarter-mile dragstrip Posted by Daniel Strohl - Image courtesy Google Maps. Other than a nine-hole golf course and Interstate 29, there's not much around the former Onawa Municipal Airport - just a long strip of concrete in the middle of the Iowa cornfields - which makes it just about ideal for a dragstrip, say supporters who hope to bring quarter-mile racing there later this year. Commissioned in April of 1959 and operated for the last 20 years by the city of Onawa, which lies about a hard stone's throw from the Nebraska border, the airport with its sole 3...Read On>>
Presenting the Hemmings $25,000 Editor's Choice Challenge Posted by Kurt Ernst - The $5,000 Challenge was started as a way to prove that the collector car hobby can still have an affordable point of entry, but it highlights a mere fraction of the cars we have for sale in our classifieds. Worse, perhaps, was that the choices came from a single editor's perspective, which got the aforementioned editor thinking about ways to diversify the "challenge" series. Below is the net result, something we're calling the $25,000 Editor's Choice Challenge. Opened up to our magazine and online editors, the p...Read On>>
Behind the Bucktooth: Buick's monstrous 1950-only grille Posted by Matt Litwin - 1950 Buick grille; image by the author. If 1949 was the year that put Buick at the forefront of elegant, modern, post-war design, then 1950 has to be the year that should have seen--if anything--mild facelifts that only improved the new look from Flint. This, in fact, happened to some degree, as is often the case when a complete redesign is a few years into the future. But of all the mechanical advancements and visual updates that appeared, it was the new face of Buick that stole the headlines. Upon introduction, th...Read On>>
Las Vegas, 1955 and 1960 Posted by Daniel Strohl - We're sure it's no coincidence that Vintage Las Vegas posted two collections including shots of the Silver Slipper Saloon in quick succession recently, and as it just so happens both feature a decent selection of cars parked out front. Above, we see a snap from 1960 as somebody was cruising the Strip, and below a similar Strip-cruise shot from 1955. What do you see here? ...Read On>>
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