Hemmings Daily: Four garages, large and small, added to National Register of Historic Places

Images via Google Street View. A curmudgeon's repair shop. A block-wide maintenance garage for intercity buses that became an FBI crime lab. A small neighborhood gas station. A radiator man's small complex servicing Route 66 travelers. Rural and urban, abandoned and under renovation, four early-20th-century garages from across the country made the National Register of Historic Places this month, all for their own distinctive reasons. While the register includes a wide variety of buildings, monuments, entire di [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Friday, October 13, 2017 [Four garages, large and small, added to National Register of Historic Places]( [Four garages, large and small, added to National Register of Historic Places]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Images via Google Street View. A curmudgeon's repair shop. A block-wide maintenance garage for intercity buses that became an FBI crime lab. A small neighborhood gas station. A radiator man's small complex servicing Route 66 travelers. Rural and urban, abandoned and under renovation, four early-20th-century garages from across the country made the National Register of Historic Places this month, all for their own distinctive reasons. While the register includes a wide variety of buildings, monuments, entire di... [Read More]( [Sponsor]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1955 Ford F250 flatbed]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1955 Ford F250 flatbed]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - From the seller's description: Ford: 1955 F-250 with factory Ford script flatbed with aluminum diamond plate bed insert. Original barn find in PA. Full restoration recently completed. Equipped with professionally overhauled 292 V-8, 3-speed transmission, new clutch and pressure plate, and cedar side gates. SeaCrest green with off-white roof, grille and wheels. Original six volt system with Optima battery. Underside of bed is professionally coated with black bedcoating. Equipped with three sets of seat belts. Spare ...[Read More]( [Holden to convert its last factory into heritage museum]( [Holden to convert its last factory into heritage museum]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Holden HT Monaro. Images courtesy Holden. As Holden prepares to end production in Australia for good later this month, the GM subsidiary has planned a number of ways to remind Australians of all the good times they had, including a Holden-only cruise and the conversion of part of the company's last factory into a museum. The Australian carmaker has set October 20 as the last day of production at the company's Elizabeth, South Australia, factory, after which it will continue to sell re-badged cars built oversea...[Read More]( [Sponsor]( [Ford's Mustang Mach 1 - rally champion?]( [Ford's Mustang Mach 1 - rally champion?]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - Ford Mustang Mach 1 magazine ad courtesy Lov2XLR8.no. Introduced in August 1968 as a 1969 model, Ford's Mustang Mach 1 was intended to be the Swiss Army Knife of pony cars. With a matte-black hood, hood pins, and a "competition suspension" as standard issue, it looked the part of a road racer, and the available 428-cu.in. Cobra Jet V-8 made it a contender on the drag strip. Nearly lost to time is the fact that the first Mach 1 was also a competent rally car, earning Ford the 1969 SCCA Manufacturer's Rally Champio...[Read More]( [Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, 1950s, part 1]( [Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, 1950s, part 1]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: 1950s Location: Lakeside Avenue, Weirs Beach, New Hampshire Source: WeirsBeach.com What do you see here?...[Read More]( [Sponsor]( [HemmingsPRO] Seller Listings [Learn More]( [1953 Chevrolet 1500]( [1953 Chevrolet 1500 $22,990]( [1992 Buick Roadmaster]( [1992 Buick Roadmaster $10,900]( [1959 Oldsmobile Super 88]( [1959 Oldsmobile Super 88 $38,900]( [1973 MG B]( [1973 MG B $9,450]( [1931 Oldsmobile]( [1931 Oldsmobile $16,850]( [1966 Fiat 1500]( [1966 Fiat 1500 $35,750]( [This Day in Automotive History] THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY 10/13/1902: Ohio Automobile Co. becomes Packard Motor Car Co. 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Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. In December 1998, a reborn Excelsior-Henderson produced its first new motorcycle in 67 years. Just 2,000 Super X models were built before the company ran out of funds, prompting a bankruptcy filing and the closure of its Belle Plaine, Minnesota, factory. On January 27, 2018, the Excelsior-Henderson brand name, all registered trademarks, web domains, previous motorcycle and frame designs, and expired patents will be offered for sale in Las ...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1959 Oldsmobile Super 88 Holiday SceniCoupe]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1959 Oldsmobile Super 88 Holiday SceniCoupe]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - From the seller's description: This stunning 1959 Oldsmobile Holiday Scenic Coupe drips glamor. Completed in late 2016, it has been to 5 shows and taken 5 trophies. Originally sold to Wayne Soike of Walnut Creek, California on June 6, 1959, this car was built in California at the GM Southgate plant. Purchased in the high desert country of central Oregon in 2011, this Oldsmobile has resided under cover in Portland, Oregon while undergoing rebuild and restoration and is currently garaged in Portland. This 5 year unde...[Read More]( [1975 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year Bill Puterbaugh, 1936-2017]( [1975 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year Bill Puterbaugh, 1936-2017]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - Bill Puterbaugh, after qualifying for the 1975 Indianapolis 500. Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 was a childhood dream of racer Bill Puterbaugh, whose persistence finally paid off on his seventh attempt to make the grid. Thanks to coaching from veteran Lloyd Ruby, Puterbaugh was the fastest rookie in the 1975 race, and his seventh-place finish on race day earned him Rookie of the Year honors. On Monday, October 9, Puterbaugh died at his Indianapolis home, at the ag...[Read More]( [Pretty, Practical, and Popularly-Priced: 1935 Plymouth full-line brochures]( [Pretty, Practical, and Popularly-Priced: 1935 Plymouth full-line brochures]( Posted by Mark J. McCourt - Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News The United States may still have been suffering the effects of the Great Depression in 1935, but that challenging economic setting only motivated the automakers to improve their offerings, rather than coasting on previous successes. While each of the low-priced Big Three automakers updated their 1935 models, it could be said that Plymouth made the most extensive changes, and arguably had the freshest and most contemporary-looking car in the $400-$700 ...[Read More]( [Harare, Zimbabwe, 1960s]( [Harare, Zimbabwe, 1960s]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1960s Location: Harare, Zimbabwe Source: Tony Ward's collection on Flickr What do you see here?...[Read More]( Wednesday, October 11, 2017 [R.E. Olds museum offered chance to buy its building from Lansing for $2]( [R.E. Olds museum offered chance to buy its building from Lansing for $2]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Image via Google Street View. Kristi Schwartzly still recalls the morning she came to work at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum to find that a roof leak had flooded the executive director's office. Nothing in the museum's collections got soaked, but the incident may very well not have happened if the museum owned the building, something the city may soon arrange for the museum. "It is a setback to us that the city owns the building," she said. However, as the Lansing State Journal reported last week, Lans...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1971 Datsun 240Z]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1971 Datsun 240Z]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - Lightly restomodded 1971 Datsun 240Z for sale. From the seller's description: late series 1 car. 240 twin carb head, 280Z block, 280ZX 5 speed trans, TBC Motorsports ceramic header, 3 core Koyo alum radiator. Panasport 8 spoke wheels. No rust top or bottom. Great paint, excellent interior. Heater bypassed, but all there. Rebuilt R180 differential. Addco 1 1/8" frt sway bar, 7/8" Suspension Technologies rear sway bar, Eibach struts and springs. Repainted original 907 Dark Green. Original snorkel air box, radio and o...[Read More]( [Simeone Museum to host "Shelby: The Trans-Am Years 1966-'68" discussion and book signing]( [Simeone Museum to host 'Shelby: The Trans-Am Years 1966-'68' discussion and book signing]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - The Shelby-built Trans-Am Mustang of John McComb, which sold for $400,000 in January 2013. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. Chuck Cantwell is no stranger to fans of early Shelby Mustangs. As project engineer for the GT350 and its track-centric variant, the GT350R, Cantwell supervised the conversion of Ford's youth-oriented sporty car into a legitimate contender in SCCA competition, then backed this up by creating a notchback variant legal for the popular Trans-Am series. On November 18, Cantwell and co-author Greg ...[Read More]( [Viva el Vocho!]( [Viva el Vocho!]( Posted by Terry Shea - All photos by the author. In Mexico, the people consider the venerable Beetle a Mexican car. Oh, sure, they know it's a German car. They get that. But the VW Type 1 sedan, or Vocho, as its affectionately known there, has well embedded itself into the fabric of Mexican society over many decades. From learning to drive to first family cars to a fleet of taxis in the nation's capital that was unrivaled in size the world over, the simple, reliable, and durable Volkswagen Bug played a critical role in the moderni...[Read More]( [Anywhere, USA, 1963]( [Anywhere, USA, 1963]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1963 Location: unknown Source: Jim and Chester's Garage What do you see here?...[Read More]( Tuesday, October 10, 2017 [One of five built, 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow tops Hershey sale]( [One of five built, 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow tops Hershey sale]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow. Photos copyright Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby's, unless otherwise noted. Not exactly a production car, yet something more than a concept, the 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow was intended as the car that "couldn't be ignored." Just five were ever built, each priced 25-percent higher than the most expensive production Cadillac of the day, and three are known to survive today. Last Friday, one of the three remaining examples, part of the Thomas F. Derro Collection for the past 2...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1919 Nash Quad]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1919 Nash Quad]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Restored Buda-engined 1919 Nash Quad for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: This truck, like all Nash-Quads is four wheel drive and has four wheel brakes. Some models even had four-wheel steering, although this one is the two-wheel steer version. It has a 312 CID Buda, hand-crank four cylinder gas engine with magneto ignition. It's rated at 28 HP. According to the warranty plate, the truck has a top speed of 14 MPH. A few civilian versions of the Nash-Quad were built after WWI. I found this tru...[Read More]( [1936 Mercedes-Benz 290 Cabriolet A takes Best of Show at reborn Palos Verdes Concours]( [1936 Mercedes-Benz 290 Cabriolet A takes Best of Show at reborn Palos Verdes Concours]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - The 1936 Mercedes-Benz 290 Cabriolet A owned by Aaron and Valerie Weiss, Best of Show at the 2017 Palos Verdes Concours d'Elegance. Photos courtesy Palos Verdes Concours d'Elegance. In June of 2016, the Palos Verdes Concours d'Elegance announced it was taking a one-year hiatus, after hosting the 2015 event at the Los Verdes Golf Course. Earlier this month, the show, now held at the Louis Zamperini Airfield in Torrance, California, returned for its 25th running as planned, and Best of Show was claimed by the 1936 ...[Read More]( [Recommended Reading - Speed and How to Obtain It]( [Recommended Reading - Speed and How to Obtain It]( Posted by Jim O'Clair - I picked up this third printing of JEG Harwood's Speed and How to Obtain It at a bookstore while traveling with the Hemmings Great Race this past June. I paid very little for it, but it is full of technical tricks, speed charts, and tuning insights, plus it even has a special section on tuning for racing at Brooklands, complete with a map of the old track. The book was first published by Iliffe and Sons Ltd. in the U.K. in 1925 and my third edition was printed in 1930, but there have been many editions of it ...[Read More]( [Dundas, Ontario, 1982]( [Dundas, Ontario, 1982]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1982 Location: Dundas, Ontario Source: Musee Steinberg's on Flickr What do you see here?...[Read More]( Monday, October 9, 2017 [Bugs in Baja - Volkswagen marks 50 years of desert racing]( [Bugs in Baja - Volkswagen marks 50 years of desert racing]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - Volkswagen-powered Baja racers. Photos courtesy Volkswagen of America. In the late summer of 1967, the newly formed National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA) enlisted the help of Bruce Meyers, builder of the Volkswagen Beetle-based Meyers Manx dune buggy, in soliciting sponsorship from Volkswagen for the inaugural Mexican 1000 Rally. The response received from Volkswagen of America's offices in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, was less than promising, threatening litigation for any attempt at linking the brand ...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1932 Chevrolet boattail prototype]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1932 Chevrolet boattail prototype]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Holden-built 1932 Chevrolet boattail prototype for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: This car was produced by GM for the Australian market with the boat tail wooden pattern body prepared for Holden Coachbuilders in Australia. Chevrolet made just 10 of these cars. One stills survives, and of course this prototype. GM stole the design from their subsidiary Vauxhall in the UK from a car made called a Hurlingham Roadster. This factory design pattern was thought to have been destroyed 85 years ago....[Read More]( [SEMA's vice president of governmental affairs, Steve McDonald, dead at age 56]( [SEMA's vice president of governmental affairs, Steve McDonald, dead at age 56]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - Steve McDonald speaks at a SEMA Town Hall meeting. Photo courtesy SEMA. Steve McDonald's name may not be familiar to everyone in the old car hobby, but his battles against overbearing governmental regulations are. A driving force behind such SEMA efforts as the Low Volume Vehicle Manufacturer's Act of 2015 and the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports (RPM) Act of 2016, McDonald died unexpectedly on Tuesday, September 26, age 56. After the EPA removed language from its revised greenhouse gas standards that...[Read More]( [Open Diff - Would you go in halfsies on a collector car?]( [Open Diff - Would you go in halfsies on a collector car?]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Renault 11 taxi from "A View To A Kill." Image courtesy IMCDB. Doesn't matter how much money you have in your bank account, there's always gonna be an old car you can't afford. At least, not on your own. But say you had a friend or a group of friends who were willing to pitch in to buy the car with you - would you go in halfsies with them? Fractional car ownership, of course, is not a new concept. We've heard plenty of tales of teens who pooled their money to get a used jalopy in the Twenties and Thirties, and...[Read More]( [Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 1952]( [Surfers Paradise, Queensland, 1952]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: May 1952 Location: Pacific Highway, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia Source: Queensland State Archives via Lindsay Wilson What do you see here?...[Read More]( Sunday, October 8, 2017 [The Alfallac: a curious history]( [The Alfallac: a curious history]( Posted by Hemmings contributor - From car racing to converting to sports car and returning to its original features, know the epic of the Alfa Romeo 8C 308 that was champion in Brazil. An Italian racing car that was converted into a sports model in Brazil. Afterwards, it disappeared, it reappeared in Europe, according to its original characteristics. So it is the Alfa Romeo 8C 308 that belonged to the count Francisco Scarpa, an interesting figure of the history of South America. The industrialist inherited the fortune of the father, the Ital...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1966 Sunbeam Imp Mk II]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1966 Sunbeam Imp Mk II]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Project-status 1966 Sunbeam Imp Mk II for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: this is a MkII and sports Mk2 badges on each door and a Pentastar badge on the passenger side too. These are RWD and rear engine. They have 4 syncromesh gears and with the detuned all aluminium 875cc Coventry Climax engine were quite popular little racecars in their day winning the British Saloon Car Championship from 1970-1972. A fully independent suspension at each corner gave them good handling too. This one was resc...[Read More]( [Four-Links - Not For Sale America, Mustang's true origins?, Lego Batmobile, Cole]( [Four-Links - Not For Sale America, Mustang's true origins?, Lego Batmobile, Cole]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - In a capitalist country, everything is for sale, right? Jason Sales travels the country with a film camera to document the things that aren't for sale, the things that people for one reason or another hold dear, for his project called Not For Sale America. * Could the Mustang have originated at GM? Perhaps, as this story of Robert Cumberford and Stan Mott's time at GM, related on Dean's Garage, hints. * Halloween costumes are no longer just costumes. The props and accessories are just as important, if ...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1964 Mercury Montclair]( [Hemmings Find of the Day - 1964 Mercury Montclair]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - 1964 Mercury Montclair four-door sedan for sale. From the seller's description: We purchased this Mercury from Wonda, the original owner who purchased it from the Oroville, CA Ford Dealership on her birthday in 1964 and has been in CA ever since... original plates too! Wonda purchased the finest car they had on the lot - the 25th Anniversary Edition Mercury Montclair with lots of chrome. She drove it to the market and to church adding just 101,000 miles (on the original 390 cubic inch engine) in the last 50+ years....[Read More]( LAST WEEK'S MOST READ [EPA appears to open the door to cutting the amount of ethanol in gasoline]( [EPA appears to open the door to cutting the amount of ethanol in gasoline]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by Becky Lai. While the Environmental Protection Agency has done so slower than anticipated, it has followed the Renewable Fuel Standard, which calls for steadily increasing amounts of ethanol in the nation's fuel supply, since it passed Congress more than a decade ago. That may change, however, as the EPA signaled this week it could consider using new tools that would allow the agency to reduce ethanol levels. Nothing in the EPA's Notice of Data Ability, issued September 26, indicates that the agency wi...[Read More]( LAST WEEK'S BEST DISCUSSION [Your car already came with a name - does it need another?]( [Your car already came with a name - does it need another?]( Posted by Jeff Koch - Photos by author. A buddy and I cruised up Interstate 17 one evening recently, a comfortable distance north of the legal speed limit. He asked: "So, does it have a name yet?" He referred to the car we were hurtling forth in, my new (to me) '90 Nissan Skyline GT-R. So, I said, "Yes, my car has a name." I call it Skyline. I've never seen the need to name cars, particularly my own: Cars are born with names, even if they're sad manufacturer-assigned alphanumeric combinations that barely pass as identifiers. I t...[Read More]( Hemmings Motor News will not sell or share your e-mail address with other companies. 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