Hemmings Daily: Honolulu, Hawaii, 1973

Honolulu, Hawaii, 1973 Date: October 1973 Location: Kalakaua Avenue, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii Source: Charles O'Rear, via U.S. National Archives What do you see here? Lees verder Hot Wheels crowns a new Legends Tour winner to be turned into a die-cast model For the second year in a row, the Hot Wheels Legends Tour picked one car to be immortalized as a 1:64 scale die-cast toy car at the SEMA Show. This time around, the finalists came from 20 different car shows in the United States and Mexico. The grand prize went to this 1957 Nash Metropolitan, […] Lees verder Mercedes-Benz 540 K wins Best of Show at Hilton Head Island Concours This striking 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Cabriolet won the coveted Best of Show honors at Sunday's Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance. Owned by collector Robert Jepson, Jr. of nearby Savannah, Georgia, and restored by Prueitt Automotive Restoration in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, the exquisite quality of this supercharged beauty was breathtaking to behold. The show field […] Lees verder Hemmings Find of the Day: 1989 Ford Probe GT Turbocharged unrestored 1989 Ford Probe GT for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: Three owners and 160,000 original miles, No Rust, No Accidents. This offering is for a Rare and carefully revitalized survivor car. It has Original Paint and Interior with minimal repairs performed to maintain the survivor class of this Unique Show Car. […] Lees verder Bill Lear once tried to build an Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Reno just to test his steam-powered racer Bill Lear gestured confidently off toward the horizon outside of Reno while bulldozers pushed dirt behind him. Here, he told reporters, would rise an Indianapolis Motor Speedway of the west, a grand design with the sole purpose of developing a steam-powered racer to take on the field at the actual speedway back east. Neither ever […] Lees verder SEMA 2019: Day two video walkaround, looking at custom trucks It's time for another video walkaround at the 2019 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. In today's installment, Dan Stoner is joined by Hemmings Editor in Chief Terry McGean for at the cars and trucks on display outside of the convention hall. Which, it turns out, is mostly trucks. Dan and Terry discuss the history […] Lees verder Denver, 1975 Date: May 1975 Location: Denver, Colorado Source: Boyd Norton, via U.S. National Archives What do you see here? Lees verder