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Hemmings Daily: The newest trend in crate engines is… a 161-hp diesel?

The newest trend in crate engines is… a 161-hp diesel?
The SEMA Show is automotive sensory overload. You can only see so many Broncos, Overland Jeep Gladiators, and Toyota Supras before your eyes glaze over. The same goes for looking under the hood, where the Chevy small-block is nearly ubiquitous. So we took notice when two sport trucks showed up to the 2019 SEMA show […]
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Hemmings Find of the Day: 1976 Lotus Eclat
Rare even among the Lotus lineup, it's a 1976 Lotus Eclat for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: Owned and brought back to great shape by an owner/technician at Brit Bits, a classic British service and restoration shop. Time for a new home so I can get to other projects. My history with this […]
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Built to contest La Carrera Panamericana, Mickey Thompson's Allied-bodied Kurtis never got its chance
Mickey Thompson sped along at 100 miles an hour or so. He didn't have another land-speed record or motorsports title in his sights. He didn't even have his hands on the wheel of a specially prepared racing machine. Instead, he was in a rush to get out of Mexico, and though he narrowly escaped retribution […]
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Vancouver, British Columbia, 1980s
Date: circa 1980s Location: West 4th Avenue and West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: City of Vancouver Archives What do you see here?
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Waiting for someday: The longest of the long-term parkers
I'm glad to see from the comments to our most recent Open Diff that I'm not the only one plagued by background anxiety over unfinished projects. If y'all like, I could work to arrange some sort of group therapy sessions for us. On the other end of the spectrum, however, came a good number of […]
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Hemmings Find of the Day: 1989 GMC Sierra 1500
55,000-mile 1989 GMC Sierra 1500 pickup truck for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: 1989 GMC 4X4 fifty five thousand actual miles! Dealer installed custom paint from new. New shocks , new bed cover, bed is like new under bed liner. Inside and out looks like it just rolled off showroom! This is truly […]
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Today we learned: The Fiero wasn't Pontiac's first mid-engine car
Not counting horseless carriages and other early automobiles that placed their engines under and behind-ish the driver, the Pontiac Fiero is often hailed as the first mid-engine American production car, arriving 35 years before the mid-engine Corvette. But, as it turns out, Pontiac's engineers had investigated the mid-engine layout 50 years ago, long before the […]
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