Hemmings Daily: ‘Zip to Zap’ 50th anniversary car show

'Zip to Zap' 50th anniversary car show If Woodstock had been held in North Dakota, with a car show — celebrating the 50th anniversary "Zip to Zap." Photos by author. Readers beyond a certain age may recall a strange event that occurred in North Dakota on May 11, 1969. Months before Woodstock, the same year, college students from all around the nation […] Lees verder Daily Briefing: Museum receives historic running chassis; Automotive Hall of Fame offers scholarships; E.L. Cord talk at the National Automobile Museum The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum of Auburn, Indiana, recently received a large and very historic donation. The running and restored 1926 Duesenberg Model A chassis comes from Perry and Margie Pintzow of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The chassis' voyage from New Mexico to Indiana was a journey home, as the museum is housed in the Auburn-Cord-Deusenberg […] Lees verder The Final Saab Story: NEVS to auction the last Trollhattan-built 9-3 Photography by Daniel Björner, and courtesy of NEVS The world's most dedicated Saab enthusiasts converged in Trollhättan, Sweden, the weekend of June 7-9 to attend the 2019 Saab Car Museum Festival. It was during this event that NEVS -the electric car-focused company that purchased the former Saab Automobile AB factory and assets out of the 2011 bankruptcy of […] Lees verder The Last Overland project aims to return an Oxford-Cambridge Land Rover from Singapore to London In an era when the British Empire found its hold on colonies around the globe loosening, a group of recent graduates from England's two most distinguished universities piloted a pair of Land Rovers from London to Singapore along a route that some consider impassable today. Yet one of those trucks, helmed by one member of […] Lees verder Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Buick Skylark Sport Coupe From the seller's description: 1967 Buick Skylark Sport Coupe. Original 60,102 miles. Garaged Since New. 2nd Owner. V8 engine 300, auto transmission. Selling for aging parent who no longer drives. Dad purchased the Skylark in 1980 from the original owner, a local elderly woman, who kept it garaged since new. At that time the Skylark […] Lees verder Chicago, 1960s Date: 1960s Location: East Ohio Street and North McClurg Avenue, Chicago, Illinois Source: via University of Illinois at Chicago Digital Collections What do you see here? Lees verder Open Diff – What are the best books for an automotive library? As you can see from the above photo I just took of the Hemmings Motor News library, form follows function when it comes to our shelves. That's largely because we'd rather spend our library budget on reference materials in our quest to make Hemmings the most accurate possible source of collector car information. And yet, […] Lees verder