Four-Links – Bugs on ice, Screwball Confidential, Mikrus, 1980s car show
* More fallout from researching the Antarctic Snow Cruiser and the first car in Antarctica. In the 1960s, the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition used a handful of bugs to crawl around...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
My mother has always referred to Karmann Ghias as “pickles.” I have no idea how that nickname ever came about, but in honor of her birthday today, let’s take a look at this pickle 1974 Volkswagen...
View ArticleShow Your Colors
American Honda Motor Co. has recently debuted a small but soon-to-grow collection of apparel that was inspired by the cars, bikes and scooters of the automaker’s glory days of the 1970s and 1980s....
View ArticleFour-Links – Tucker Carioca, VW Iltis, French road trip, world’s ugliest trucks
* While researching the post from earlier this week on the unearthed Tucker in Brazil, I came across this interesting bit of info: Apparently, Rob Ida – he of the Tucker replica and street-rodding...
View ArticleStrange dune buggies and neoclassics in Old Town
Took a little vacation down Florida way the last several days – a get-outta-the-cold, get-some-sand-under-your-toes trip – and ran across a nice-sized cruise-in at Old Town in Kissimmee. Typical...
View ArticleFour-Links – another round-the-world GPA, Triple Trouble, Bay Area dirt-track...
* Wes Kibble recently pointed out that Ben Carlin wasn’t the only guy who tried to take a Ford GPA around the world. Inspired by Carlin, Lionel Forge made his own plans for a GPA round-the-world trip,...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco
While we have the rolling 25-year cutoffs for most shows to give us some idea of what’s newly considered collectible, there are indeed other standards which we can use to determine when a car becomes...
View ArticleGreat Moments of Discovery
From the Miraculous Revelations and Surplus Materials Department here at Hemmings Publishing comes today’s handy recycling and reuse tip. Thanks to the valley of ingenuity that is Spring Carlisle, we...
View ArticleFour-Links – Corvette homecoming, British Macks, soap box derby, Baja battler
* Both CorvetteBlogger and the New York Times this week ran stories this week on the very first Corvette, the Motorama Corvette also known as XP-122, returning to the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria...
View ArticleIronstone Concours offers a chance to take a ride in a 1913 Stutz
Courtesy of the staff at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada, attendees of the 15th annual Ironstone Concours d’Elegance will have the opportunity to get a ride in a 1913 Stutz Bearcat....
View ArticleClass of ’86 – Volkswagen Vanagon Syncro
Image courtesy vanagon.com Cars seem to matriculate to collectibility much sooner than pickups, vans or heavy-duty trucks. That could have something to do with the amount of time spent in initial...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1973 Volkswagen Thing
It’s too bad the seller of this 1973 Volkswagen Thing put a brand-new top on it. While it looks great raised (and we’re guessing it looks a bazillion times better than the old top), a Thing deserves...
View ArticleDriving Impression: 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI
Note: I write up driving impressions of virtually every car I photograph, within a couple of days of the drive, so everything is fresh in my memory. Occasionally, because of the constraints of format...
View ArticleHPOF Vehicles to be featured at Bristol AACA meet
2009 Hershey Meet HPOF entrant 1914 Haynes owned by Virginia's George Duke Bristol, Tennessee’s, Bristol Motor Speedway, the fastest half-mile on the NASCAR circuit, will usher in an automotive event...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Fiberfab Avenger
For some reason, all the various GT40-lookalike kit cars seemed to go unbuilt at far higher rates than other VW-based kit cars, which makes this 1972 Fiberfab Avenger for sale on Hemmings.com –...
View ArticleNew VW camper on the “block”
You grew up with Legos, and perhaps you still build things out of the ubiquitous plastics with your kids, grandkids, or by yourself. You may find this large-scale Lego replica kit of a 1962 Volkswagen...
View ArticleMystery badge
A friend of mine recently showed me this badge he found in a box of Volkswagen parts he’d bought, and asked if I knew what it belonged to. I didn’t, and neither did any of the Volksphiles here at...
View ArticleFrom the My Hemmings pages – Willys MB and KDF 82E ridealongs
Over on the My Hemmings pages, the folks from the Hanson Mechanical Collection shared a couple of ridealong videos for a couple of WWII military vehicles in the collection, one from each side of the...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Volkswagen-powered minirig
Had enough with the driveable dreams and project cars we’ve been highlighting for Hemmings Finds of the Day this week? Us too. So let’s go with something completely different, something like this...
View ArticleFour-Links – Fastback de Ville, So Cal streamliner replica, Chevrolet’s...
* One of frequent commenter Casey Shain’s hobbies is photochops, and one of his most recent chops is rather brilliant – a Cadillac Coupe de Ville with the roof from a GM full-size fastback of that...
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