Hemmings Daily: One-off sport customs to gather for featured class at Pebble Beach

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One-off sport customs to gather for featured class at Pebble Beach Posted by Geoff Hacker - Norman Timbs Special. Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker Not quite a sports car, not quite a custom car, the one-off cars we've come to call sport customs blended a little bit of both and have always been considered in a class of their own. At this year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, a group of significant sport customs will take the field in a literal class of their own. Most stories about custom cars start in the 1950s and stories about American sports cars start with the introduction of the 1948 Jaguar XK120 a... Read On>> Hemmings Find of the Day - 1951 Mercury Posted by Daniel Strohl - Stories oftentimes make the car, even if the story is as simple (yet complete) as the one behind this 1951 Mercury four-door for sale on Hemmings.com. Maybe knowing where the car was sold and how long the original owner held on to it doesn't add value to the car, but it certainly adds character. From the seller's description: Was purchased by Theresa Perrella June 4th, 1951. It was sold by the P. W. Sherman Motor Company in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Sherman sold Lincoln, Mercury, Packard and International trucks. Ms...Read On>> Masters of Chicken Scratch returns with more hot rod art in Volume 2 Posted by Terry McGean - There's something inside car geeks that drives them to transfer the images in their heads to paper. Early signs can be seen in the scribbles of cars tearing up the margins of notebooks as adolescent motor-minds drift away from the drudgery of schoolwork and into fantasies of speed and the machines that might enable it. Among those legions of scribblers lurk genuinely talented individuals, some of whom manage to recognize their ability and pursue its development. Such combinations of gearhead and artist have yielded ...Read On>> From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool - Mount Tarrangower, 1975 Posted by Daniel Strohl - In response to the recent posts on British hillclimbs from correspondent Gina Dungworth, Hugo90 over on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool uploaded several photos he took of the Mount Tarrangower hillclimb in November 1975 in Maldon, Victoria, Australia, including the above shot of a severely lightened Hillman Imp charging hard up the hill. Got car show shots from today or yesteryear that you'd like to share? We'd love to see 'em on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool. ...Read On>> This Day in Automotive History 7/16/1935:  Oklahoma City, OK, gets first parking meter in U.S. Upcoming Events Hemmings Cruise-ins July 13th, 2012 - Bennington, VT 7th Annual Sports & Exotic Car Show August 4th, 2012 - Saratoga, NY 8th Annual Car Lover's Cruise August 13th, 2012 - Rome, Italy New England Concours d'Elegance September 28th-30th, 2012 - Saratoga, NY Featured Photo Gallery Fifties Tail Lamps Advertisement		Featured Classifieds 1973 Plymouth Cuda $43,000 1961 Ford Thunderbird $12,700 1955 Austin-Healey 100M $68,500 1939 Studebaker Commander $24,000 1948 Chrysler $126,000 1958 Buick Century $34,500 1964 only GTO,Lemans and Tempest Spinner Hub Caps $400 Featured in the Blog One of the last of the AFB races: Lockbourne, 1953 Diesels at Daytona Follow Us:
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