Hemmings Daily: Daily Briefing: HVA partners with Hilton Head; Life of Rod Hall to be celebrated

Daily Briefing: HVA partners with Hilton Head; Life of Rod Hall to be celebrated Special Class at Hilton Head Concours The staff at the Historic Vehicle Association announces a special class devoted to cars that they inducted into the National Historic Vehicle Register at this year's Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance. The featured cars will be the 1947 Tucker 48 Prototype "Tin Goose," 1907 Thomas Flyer, 1933 Graham 8 […] Lees verder Auction Alert: Bid on a 1936 Ford and 1970 Challenger T/A Today's pair of cars scheduled to close out bidding are a clean and well-preserved 1930s Ford Tudor, and some rare Mopar muscle in a 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A. Both cars will conclude on Hemmings Auctions today, so be sure to check out the current status of these classy choices. 1936 Ford Tudor The 1936 Fords […] Lees verder Restoring a one-off Airstream, gold-flake bathtub and all [Editor's Note: We recently connected with Paul Lacitinola, the publisher of Vintage Camper Trailers magazine, regarding a rather unique Airstream that he recently restored, one of only two that the factory finished with gold anodizing. Here he tells us how he found it and subsequently restored it.] The silhouette of an Airstream trailer has remained […] Lees verder Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Pontiac Safari Original owner 1972 Pontiac Safari for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: Original owner of the car. The inside is in pretty good shape – the front driver's seat has a hole in the seat. The cushion is a little soft on the left side of the bench seat. The rest of the seats […] Lees verder Seattle, 1977 Date: 1977 Locations: Pacific Highway (above), First Avenue and Battery Street (below), Seattle, Washington Source: John Margolies, via Library of Congress What do you see here? Lees verder This six-wheeled Citroen CX looks odd. The reason it was built? Odder still Pierre Tissier probably thought he'd seen it all in the 10 years since he set up shop as a coachbuilder specializing in six- and eight-wheel Citroen automobile conversions. After all, his motto, "Nun Quam Ut Ceteri," loosely translates to "I'll do what others won't," and he'd converted plenty a Cit into vans, limousines, car haulers, […] Lees verder Dodge's design chief wishes people would remove splitter guards – Hemming Daily Briefing Why the guy in charge of Dodge and SRT styling doesn't like those yellow splitter guards you see on Hellcats, our own Richard Lentinello is signing his latest book at the Hershey Fall Meet, and a full-size 3D-printed Lamborghini. "I wish they would take them off" High-performance variants of the Dodge Charger and Challenger leave […] Lees verder