Hemmings Daily: London, 1980

London, 1980 Date: circa 1980 Location: Euston Road, London, England Source: Nick via Wikimedia Commons What do you see here? Lees verder Collection of Colani prototypes, including some Automorrow racers, fails to sell at auction Just a month after designer Luigi Colani died, a number of his full-size design studies and working one-off cars – including some of his Automorrow racers designed to break records at the Bonneville Salt Flats – appeared incomplete and damaged at auction and all failed to come anywhere close to their pre-auction estimates. Throughout his […] Lees verder My Triumph Obsession, Part VII: Preserving metal with epoxy The Coventry saga continues with getting the body on my Triumph T3A prepped and covered with primer. With warm days becoming few and far between this time of year, I had to work fast because the epoxy primer needs an ambient temperature above 65 degrees for proper adhesion. Hours of grinding and dozens of sanding […] Lees verder Hemmings Find of the Day: 1964 Ford Falcon Futura Restomod 1964 Ford Falcon Futura for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: This is a really cool, really well done Falcon. It is super fun to drive, and gets a lot more looks and thumbs up than you would ever expect. Everything on it has been upgraded or improved, and it is still very […] Lees verder Jones Beach, New York, 1981 Date: July 1981 Location: Meadowbrook State Parkway headed to Jones Beach, Long Island, New York Source: Don Norkett, via Newsday What do you see here? Lees verder Henry J. Kaiser had a Manhattan converted to steam. It nearly led to crate steam-car engines We live in a golden age of crate engine options. From a catalog, one can order Hemis, LSes, even electric motors. And who knows, maybe we could have also had crate steam engines had a steam-powered Manhattan that Henry J. Kaiser himself commissioned proved successful. By all accounts, Kaiser was pretty open-minded when it came […] Lees verder Daily Briefing: 2020 Lemons schedule, Put-in-Bay Sports Car Races 24 Hours of Lemons 2020 Race, Rally, and Concours schedule Looking for an excuse to buy a $500 car? Look no further than the 24 Hours of Lemons. The 2020 schedule is out for all endurance racing, road rally, and Concours d'Lemons activities. There are now 24 races on the calendar (that number is just […] Lees verder