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Hemmings Daily: Minneapolis, 1974

Minneapolis, 1974
Date: 1974 Location: SE 4th Street and SE 14th Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota Source: Linda Gammell, via Hennepin County Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
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Honda's Motocompo scooter: the box that thought outside the box
By Honda's original sales projections of 10,000 units per month, its three-year experiment building the Japanese-market Motocompo scooter was an abject failure. Just under 53,400 of the plastic-bodied urban commuters were assembled from 1981 to '83, but today, that rarity has made the Motocompo, also known as the NCZ50, a sought-after and collectible bit of […]
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Hemmings Find of the Day: 1950 Chevrolet pickup
SSR-chassis 1950 Chevrolet pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: Sits on 2004 Chevy SSR chassis sporting a 325 ci Vortec V8 with 300 hp and 335 lb/ft torque Vrated 205/50 Hankook Ventus radials, 17 x 7 Chevy Trailblazer wheels Custom Interior has power leather seats, cruise control, A/C, Bose 6CD 6 speaker […]
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How to talk Texan like Carroll Shelby
In the new feature film Ford v Ferrari, Matt Damon, who hails from Massachusetts, tries his hardest to "talk Texan" in his starring role as Carroll Shelby. I knew Carroll for the last half century or so, and can say it was close, but no cigar. Shelby moved to California in the mid-'50s to be […]
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Detroit, 1961
Date: December 1961 Location: overlooking Putnam Street, Detroit, Michigan Source: Win Brunner, via Detroit Public Library Digital Collections What do you see here?
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Hemmings Find of the Day: 1987 Toyota Corolla
Right-hand-drive 1987 Toyota Corolla for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: This original Japanese imported AE86 is finished in brown exterior with custom interior. Paint is driver quality with some bubbling and imperfections not uncommon to vehicles of this age. Car has been lowered with front coilovers and upgraded shocks and springs in the […]
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Reminiscing: A journey shared with a Catalina
[Editor's note: This "Reminiscing" story, edited by Richard Lentinello, comes to us from reader Emmett Soloman of Fort McCoy, Florida.] It was late spring 1969. This teenage farm boy had just experienced an event that was almost the equivalent of losing his virginity. School was out and I was helping a neighbor put up a […]
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