Hemmings Daily: Woodies and wooden boats team up for show

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Woodies and wooden boats combine for upcoming show Posted by Daniel Strohl - It's not often that owners of woodies get to show their cars alongside their aquatic counterparts, but that's just what will happen at this weekend's Wine Country Classic Boats annual boat show, where the wooden boat folk have invited wood-bodied automobiles to display with their wood-hulled boats. Presumably only the latter will take to the water. "There didn't seem to be a lot of events featuring woodies here in this part of the country," said Jerry Ludwig, a member of the National Woodie Club and Upstate New Y... Read On>> Hemmings Find of the Day - 1951 Ford ambulance Posted by Daniel Strohl - Old ambulances and hearses seem to rank right up there with panel vans and air-cooled Volkswagens in the category "Vehicles most likely to be used as a canvas for overactive imaginations." That's okay, but we're glad to see some restored to their original configuration, such as this 1951 Ford ambulance, bodied by Siebert, for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: SIEBERT ambulance-an ex-U.S.Navy vehicle, supposed to be one of only ten ever built. This unusual Ford's odometer only shows 14,687 miles, ...Read On>> Mercedes-AMG Celebrates 45th Anniversary Posted by Terry Shea - The Red Pig, AMG's famed 300 SEL 6.8 race car from 1971. Photo courtesy Mercedes-AMG Just as BMW's M division celebrated its 40th anniversary in May, Mercedez-Benz lit a few more candles for its vaunted performance group as AMG marked the 45th anniversary of its founding. While now a part of Mercedes-Benz as a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, AMG was originally an independent entity, founded in 1967 by two Mercedes engineers, Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher. They started their business in an old mi...Read On>> This is why you don't feed them after midnight Posted by Daniel Strohl - I spent part of this past weekend defiling the AMO National car show in Andover, Massachusetts, with Project HMX and noted quite the proliferation of small-body AMCs there. Aside from my heap, there were at least half a dozen Hornet/Concord/Spirit AMXs, a handful of Eagles, a Spirit sedan, and plenty of Gremlins, including a few you aren't likely to see at your local cruise night. One of the more entertaining of the Gremlins is the one above, which Peter Cambrola built out of a Rupp Gremlin go-kart. Originally bu...Read On>> Upcoming Events Hemmings Cruise-ins July 26th, 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 BMWs Advertisement		Featured Classifieds 1957 Chevrolet $35,000 1951 Mercury $23,900 1983 Porsche $995,000 1969 Plymouth GTX $59,900 1957 American $13,900 Carol Shelby Wheels 14" x 7" with 225-60 Tires $750 Featured in the Blog The 40-MPG diesel-powered Auburns of Clessie Cummins Jack's 12 Gauge Garage Follow Us:
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