Am I bragging? Yes!
Why does this job rule so much? Because I get to speak with guys like Bill Jenkins or Dennis Manner, who developed the Buick Stage 2 components, or Ben Smith, who designed and developed the 1957 Ford...
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Packoupe?
Came across this mystery model in the collection of radio-guy, also known as Steve Erenberg. According to the description on Steve’s website, it’s a hand-made 1953 Packard design model with metal...
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Teague designs AMX. But not that Teague, and not that AMX
When Lee Iacocca, helming Chrysler, bought AMC in 1987, he not only dismantled the country’s last major independent car manufacturer, he shredded every AMC fan’s hope that the brand would someday be...
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Jack Carroll’s illustrations, part 2 – exteriors
Of the six years that Jack Carroll spent at AMC, five were in the interior studio, where he produced the sketches and renderings we saw yesterday. That sixth year he spent in the exterior studio,...
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Six Degrees of Automotive Personalities Separation – Dick Teague and Carroll...
Let’s try something different this week. Throughout the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge, we’ve always focused on how the cars and the companies that built them can be...
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SIA Flashback – Packard’s Request, They Asked For It
Indeed, the classic upright grille styling, which by the mid-1950s had been as dead as a doornail, was missed by Packard customers and salesmen. They kept asking for Packard to bring that little...
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The Iconic Hupp 20 at Worldwide
We all have cars we’re unreasonably in love with, and I’m not alone in having my buttons pushed by the original Hupmobile, the 1909 Model 20. I don’t recall where I came across this February 1965...
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Four-Links – second Corvette ZL1 restored, Casa de Cadillac, 25th anniversary...
* Of the two factory-built Corvette ZL-1s, the Monaco Orange one has been kept largely out of the public’s eye over the years, but as Steve Burns at CorvetteBlogger reported this week, it recently...
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Collection of one-off Packards to take the lawn at Amelia Island
Packard Panther at Pebble Beach 2011. Photo by Mike McNessor. Not often does one car collector get an entire concours class all to himself, but the organizers of this year’s Amelia Island Concours...
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Second oldest Packard, Teague literature collection to highlight CCCA Museum...
Photo courtesy CCCA Museum. One of the earliest Packards will make a rare appearance outside of its museum dwelling, while the public will get its first glimpse of a literature collection compiled by...
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Four-Links – roundtheworldrallyOlds, Macauley’s speedster, Yanks in the...
Erik Andersen over on the H.A.M.B. has a plan. He’s bought an Olds 88, intends to prep it as a rally racer, and then wants to drive it around the world by entering it into as many rallies as he can....
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