Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2024 i Hemmings Classic Car

“He Was determined to make a full-bore assault on the stock car scene—to the tune of 16,000 billboards and announcement in 7,500 daily newspapers across the country, plus television ads.” IF YOU’VE BEEN following my musings over the years, then you’ve recognized a lack of Chevrolet in my life. I can count on one hand prolonged direct contact with the storied brand: My dad’s 1988 S10 Blazer “High Country,” which mysteriously ingested fluids daily; a high school friend’s 1981 Citation that he levelled a stone wall with; and a host of early Eighties Malibu coupes we carved into circle track racers during the early Nineties. That’s not to say I’ve not harbored a desire to own a few Chevys. I’ve long admired the slant-nose styling of the 1976 Laguna S-3,…

WHEN I READ THE ARTICLE about the 1953 Ford Customline coupe in the June issue, I went out to my garage to look at my ’54 Hudson Jet. I shouldn’t be too surprised that my Jet looks like a Ford that had been in a shrinking machine; it’s even the same color. I’m told that the resemblance goes back to the extraordinary Chicago huckster, Jim Moran, who sold around 10 percent of Hudson production from his Courtesy Motors dealership. I have heard that, as an influential Hudson board member, Jim insisted that the new Jet compact look like the 1952 Ford. When ’54 rolled around, the upscale Hudson Jet-Liner had taken on much of the trim of the featured Ford coupe. The attached photo illustrates this. −PRESTON STEVENS Austell, Georgia…

“Jeep designers tried to create new models that could be introduced quickly and on the cheap, since parent company American Motors was bleeding red ink.” I’VE SAID IT before, and I’ll say it again: the 1981-’85 Jeep Scrambler was probably the biggest lost opportunity in Jeep history. The sharp-looking compact pickup should have been a hot seller; instead, it flopped. Anyone who was selling new cars and trucks from late 1979 to ’84 will tell you it was the worst retail environment since the Great Depression. Inflation had driven up vehicle prices so rapidly that a new term became commonplace—“sticker shock”—which was the nasty surprise you got upon discovering your next new vehicle was going to cost about twice as much as just five years earlier. On top of that…

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A screaming 426-cu.in. Hemi V-8 strapped in a Charger R/T wasn’t the only way to catch Dodge Fever in 1968. The whole family could, simply by slipping into one of the 33,100 Coronet six- and nine-passenger station wagons built that year, including this top-of-the-line Coronet 500. Boasting a standard 318-cu.in. V-8 and a two-way tailgate, it could be optioned into a neighborhood hit with simulated woodgrain siding and light green paint.…

1955 CHEVROLET BEL AIR Cleanly styled, classic 1955 Chevy Bel Air Sport Coupes are a perennial American favorite for good reason; they offered equal parts looks, comfort, and in V-8 guise, roadability. This Regal Turquoise and India Ivory example had an undated older restoration that appeared to be holding up smartly, since negligible surface rust was noted along with one paint chip, and “a couple paint bubbles” were present. The twotone interior looked comfortable, and flaws divulged included a small section of split vinyl outside of the seating area and a stain in the headliner. Some age was visible underhood, but the 265-cu.in. small-block V-8 was believed factory-installed. This car nearly doubled its reserve. Reserve: $24,000 Selling Price: $49,350 Recent Market Range: $25,000-$65,000 1958 BMW 600 The technological powerhouses that…

SPONSORED BY GULLWING MOTOR CARS In Watervliet, New York, in the back of a nondescript industrial facility of indeterminate age, stands a steelcovered warehouse. It’s empty now, but until April 2024, it was stuffed with someone’s collection of obsolete equipment. There were ’60s children’s bicycles, ’50s farm tractors, quarter-century-old Army-surplus Humvees, semi-trucks, and eight 1967 Chrysler Newports in various states of disassembly and completeness, three of which you see on these pages and which we were privileged to drive after they had passed on to their new owner, Bud Buell of Southern Vermont Auto in Bennington, Vermont. Bud spotted the Chryslers in an online listing by Collar City Auctions and was immediately drawn to the styling of the Mint Green Metallic four-door sedan. “I’m always surfing the auction sites,” he…

1. UNHINGED NO MORE THE FILLING STATION 800-841-6622 After nearly 50 years of popping the hood on your Chevy truck, you may have noticed the rear of the hood is not as flush with the cowl as it was out of the factory. It’s possible your hood hinges are shot and if you’ve been adjusting them with more frequency, it may be easier to replace them. These new reproduction hood hinges are available for your 1973-’80 Chevrolet truck. They are said to be heavier and stronger than the original hinges to provide several decades of reliable function. Available for the left and right side, these hinges will fit GMC and Chevrolet trucks, including C/K 10, 20, 30, Blazer, and Jimmy. They are direct replacements of GM# 6262007 & 6262008, but note…

“Eveninto the early 1950s, cars still looked like potatoes with windows… by middecade the shoebox era began. Cars were shaped like bricks, but with jetfighter fins and red exhaustoutlet taillamps.” “ IF IT LOOKS GOOD, it is good.” That’s been my motto for much of my life. Truth be told, even though I have worked on and restored cars since my teens, I was never a professional mechanic or panel beater. My working career was as an illustrator, magazine designer, and journalist. I worked on cars as a hobby and a way to relax. I fell in love with cars at an early age. They were magical machines, and many were beautiful. I had no idea how cars functioned, though I watched neighbors work on them, I handed wrenches, and…

I GREW UP on Long Island, New York, where for several summers beginning in 1971 I worked at a local beach. There, I would twice fall in love: once with my future ex-wife; and with British cars. My daily driver at the time was a gold 1965 Mustang convertible with a 289-cu.in. V-8 that my dad bought wellused from a corner gas station. The Ford was a backup unit for the family Chevy Impala station wagon. Whenever possible, I parked that Mustang right next to a coworker’s black 1969 Pontiac GTO. His car made the most compelling car sounds I had ever heard, typically while attempting to launch me, a front passenger, into the rear seat. That is until a glistening red 1960 Jaguar XK150 convertible growled and pawed its…