Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2024 i Hemmings Classic Car

“Cleaning and remodeling the dumping ground has been an ‘on a rainy day’ topic for years.” WE HAVE A digital workspace dubbed Content Dumping Ground. The name was created on a whim at the onset of the 2020 pandemic when it was obvious Hemmings’ facility would be locked down, relegating our staff to the cozy confines of hastily erected at-home office nooks. The unglamourous Dumping Ground—for short—was an organized transient space for our day-to-day editorial work, the content that made the technical jump from editor’s laptops to printed copies. If it was going to be printed, it was thrown in there. We never missed a deadline. Recently, someone posed the idea of renaming Content Dumping Ground to something more sophisticated to match its poignant purpose. Some of us have grown…

EMAIL YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS TO: mlitwin@hemmings.com I ENJOYED THE FEATURE IN THE DECEMBER ISSUE about John Corey’s 1996 Buick Estate wagon. We owned a ’96 for many years and put about 325,000 miles on it before the car failed to pass emissions testing. It meant I could no longer license it in the Phoenix metro area, so I reluctantly sold it. Every summer we drove the Buick from Arizona to Bethany Beach, Delaware, usually putting 8,000 miles on it each round trip. The Roadmaster wagon was the most comfortable road-trip car I ever owned, and it wasn’t unusual to drive it 300 miles without stopping. It almost always averaged 25 mpg on the highway at speeds of 80 mph or more! Returning from Delaware we usually had it loaded with…

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THE VANDERBILT CUP RACE BOARD GAME (1906) ASKING PRICE: $1,100 FOUND AT: 2023 AACA EASTERN FALL MEET (HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA) WE’VE TRUMPETED the age-old AACA Eastern Fall Meet adage frequently—“If it exists, you’ll find it at Hershey.” It’s not a whimsical saying. Nearly seven decades on, the meet has proven it true time and again, and not just in terms of rare cars and parts. “You’ll find it at Hershey” applies to everything from petroliana, to literature, to scale models. Add to that vintage automotive-themed board games, including this entirely complete copy of The Vanderbilt Cup Race spotted for sale at the 2023 gathering of the faithful. If you’ve never heard of it, you have good reason. It is exceedingly rare. To learn about the game, and its rarity, we conversed with…

Send your search questions to swapmeet@hemmings.com BUICK RIVIERA PROPORTIONING VALVE Q: I am trying to find a proportioning-valve kit for a 1968 Buick Riviera equipped with four-wheel drum brakes. This application requires a side mount. I do not have a GM part number for this part. The engine is a 430-cu.in. V-8. I found a front disc/rear drum proportioning valve kit from OPGI, but it will not work on a four-drum system. PETE STEWART VIA EMAIL A: The brake system in a 1968 Riviera with drum brakes would not use a proportioning valve. Proportioning valves were used in later-model Buicks and on disc-brake systems. Your Riviera would have a distribution block on a drum/drum system with a low-pressure switch and two inlets from the master cylinder and three outlets. Two of…

WE ALL DREAM of finding some treasure sealed up and left to gather dust until we happen to stumble across its resting place. The engine seen on these pages, property of Bob Berggren, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, is that sort of thing. “Vinny Casidy, a gentleman who is very big in car parts, had bought a container from the Owls Head Transportation Museum in an auction and in that was some Model A stuff and some Model T stuff,” Bob says. Among Casidy’s load of curiosities were two crated engines; one of them was a stock Model A engine, the other was this modified Model B unit. The Model B was a 50-hp updated version of the Model A engine, built for use in Ford cars and trucks from 1932 to…

1969 MERCEDES-BENZ 300 SEL 6.3 The 300 SL was the original Mercedes-Benz performance legend, but the 300 SEL 6.3 began a dynasty of high-powered Benz sedans that blended speed and luxury in equal measure. This 1969 6.3, which ultimately sold within its market range as a Make Offer listing, appeared in great condition with damage-free silver paint over uncreased leather seating. The red interior presented very well with working A/C, and it looked factory-correct via a hidden Sirius satellite radio receiver. The eponymous 300-hp V-8 engine was noted to be a rebuilt replacement that operated with no problems, and neither it nor the backing automatic leaked. A comprehensive video and ample photos helped sell this car. Reserve: $99,000 Selling Price: $87,150 Recent Market Range: $78,000-$108,000 1950 CHEVROLET STYLELINE DE LUXE…

IF RICE-A-RONI is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “San Francisco,” you’re probably my age. The Golden Grain Macaroni Company (makers of the side-dish-in-a-box until it was purchased by Quaker Oats in 1986) advertised its product with the “San Francisco treat” slogan for years. But there was another San Francisco treat: the Kleiber automobile. If you’ve never heard of it, I’m not surprised. Kleiber (rhymes with cyber) wasn’t blessed with longevity. But like International Harvester and Autocar, it continued as a truck manufacturer, briefly. The story began in 1889 when Paul Kleiber, a 25-year-old blacksmith living in Germany, booked passage on a ship bound for America. After an interlude in Chicago, Kleiber moved to San Francisco where he got a job as a blacksmith, and within…

The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is unequivocally North America’s definitive celebration of the world’s finest automobiles. An invitation to display a vehicle at this annual spectacle of elegance and rarity is highly coveted among restorers and car owners alike from around the world. Don’t believe us? August 20, 2023, marked the concours’ 72nd occasion in which the Pebble Beach Golf Links’ famed 18th fairway again became a stage for just 216 cars presented by owners from 18 different nations and 30 of the 50 U.S. states. Pebble, as it’s collectively known among collector car enthusiasts, is renowned for organizing special classes honoring marques, coachbuilders, and types of compelling automobiles, and 2023 was no different. Special classes memorialized Lamborghini’s 60th Anniversary, Spanish sports car builder Pegaso, McLaren’s 60th Anniversary, American Dream…

SPONSORED BY GULLWING MOTOR CARS Despite its supremacy on the fledgling NASCAR stock car circuit, and the headline news that came with it, Hudson’s sales had spiraled down for three straight years. Talks in late 1954 were intensifying to combine the floundering company with equally troubled Nash to create a new independent manufacturer, American Motors Corporation. Yet only a few months before the merger contract was signed, Hudson, still independent, rolled out the final car it would create before American Motors was formed. As a stab at making a lower-priced version of the legendary Hornet, the new 1954 Hudson Hornet Special was a middling success, to be charitable. Introduced midyear, it barely helped Hudson, which sold fewer than 25,000 Hornets and Hornet Specials that year as AMC came into being.…

1. CONTINENTAL CLASS CHEVS OF THE 40S 877-735-0587 You can deliver a dramatic new look to your 1951-’52 Chevrolet while freeing up trunk space with the installation of one of these new continental kits. Each kit comes with your choice of either a full-face closed cover or an open-center cover, as well as a chrome tread cover. The kits are designed to fit most models and body styles, though minimal modifications may be required in some instances. Hardware is provided, but the bumper face bar and spare wheel/tire are not included. Ask about part number 987265D for more information. $1,936/KIT chevsofthe40s.com 2. BLAZER BONDING STEELE RUBBER PRODUCTS  800-447-0849 New rear quarter window gasket sets are now available for Double Wall Top-style 1969-’72 Chevy Blazers and 1970-’72 GMC Jimmys. Featuring vulcanized, or bonded, ends,…

Merriam-Webster defines the word caprice as, “a disposition to do things impulsively.” It’s fitting that Chevrolet paired a trip to Europe with its grand Custom coupe in 1967. Caprice was designed to be a special car, brimming with elegance—from special trim to lavish cabins—and bolstered by extra features, a sophisticated suspension, and power when called upon—available at a price that promoted spontaneity.…

“This tray was called a pickup bed…an accessory that you could pick up at the dealership’s parts department.” I RECENTLY SOLD my 1958 Chevrolet Apache 3100 and now I miss it. Anyone who likes to work on and restore old cars needs a pickup sooner or later. I don’t desire the huge macho lollypops seen and heard on today’s highways–the ones with enormous tires, dazzling chrome bars, and more lights than a semi. I just need a traditional pickup. The kind used to haul 10 sheets of 8-foot-long drywall, or half a ton of garden mulch. The origin of “pickup” for small utilitarian trucks seems obvious. You use them to pick up cargo. But that’s not accurate. In 1925, someone at Ford had the idea of offering a cargo tray…

I GREW UP in Southern California in the 1960s, when car culture was a big influence on a boy. Slot cars and plastic models were the gateway drugs, so to speak, which were followed by go-karts and minibikes. I lived in a rural area on the family chicken ranch where there was plenty of room to rod around on hardpacked dirt. My dad, who built much of his own farm equipment, fabricated a gokart for my older brother when he was 5. I inherited the kart when my brother moved on to bigger things. Of course, I modified it by installing a larger engine. One of my nearby buddies back then was Gary, also from a gearhead family. His dad enjoyed cutting down old Lambretta motor scooters to make dirt…