Hemmings Daily: Black Friday shopping? Check out Hemmings Auctions!

The Hemmings office is closed for the Thanksgiving weekend, but the odds are high that many of us will be still be spending our free time browsing through cars for sale online. (And if we're not looking at cars, we will be thinking about cars.) The official start of the holiday shopping season seems like as good of an excuse as any to consider buying something special for the garage. To help nudge you towards that next purchase, here are some of the latest cars for sale at Hemmings Auctions, lumped in to semi-arbitr [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Friday, November 29, 2019 ANNOUNCEMENTS The Hemmings office is closed for Thanksgiving weekend, and comment moderation will be delayed due to the holiday. We'll be back to our normal schedule on Monday. [Black Friday shopping? Add these Hemmings Auctions cars to your list]( [Black Friday shopping? Add these Hemmings Auctions cars to your list]( Posted by Mike Austin - The Hemmings office is closed for the Thanksgiving weekend, but the odds are high that many of us will be still be spending our free time browsing through cars for sale online. (And if we're not looking at cars, we will be thinking about cars.) The official start of the holiday shopping season seems like as good of an excuse as any to consider buying something special for the garage. To help nudge you towards that next purchase, here are some of the latest cars for sale at Hemmings Auctions, lumped in to semi-arbitr... [Read More]( [Sponsor]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1986 Chevrolet C10]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1986 Chevrolet C10]( Posted by Mike Austin - Repainted 1986 Chevrolet C10 pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: Excellent condition 1986 Chevrolet C10 Short Bed 2wd. Black with saddle tan interior. All original 305 4bbl Quadrajet and TH350 automatic transmission. Air conditioning, power brakes, power steering. No rust, very straight body. New base coat/clear coat paint job after sanding down to bare metal and disassembling truck (doors, bed, bumpers, trim, windows). New front and rear sport bumpers, new mirrors, new grill and headlig...[Read More]( [How Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac sold their first compacts]( [How Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac sold their first compacts]( Posted by Jeff Koch - Model year 1960 was the year of the American compact, when Chevrolet, Plymouth, and Ford launched their three-quarter-scale "compact" cars for the new suburban generation. They made the big splash, and they paved the way. For 1961, Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac stepped up with three versions of what was essentially the same car--the unitized construction Y-bodied compact, which shared rough dimensions with the Chevrolet Corvair, but replaced the rear-mounted air-cooled flat-six with more or less conventional powertrain...[Read More]( [Sponsor]( [Reminiscing: A journey shared with a Catalina]( [Reminiscing: A journey shared with a Catalina]( Posted by Mike Austin - It was late spring 1969. This teenage farm boy had just experienced an event that was almost the equivalent of losing his virginity. School was out and I was helping a neighbor put up a fence across his pasture. That's when I spotted her. Abandoned, she squatted behind a corn crib; it was a 1962 Pontiac Catalina, two-door hardtop. Although partially hidden by tall grass, it was obvious that it had some serious rust issues. Dirt and bird crap covered most of her. Yet the maroon paint still had a few shiny spots...[Read More]( [Sponsor]( [This Day in Automotive History] THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY 11/29/1996: Last day at VW for Jose Ignacio Lopez UPCOMING EVENTS [CruisinNocona.Org]( December 6, 2019 - Nocona, TX [Gateway Classic Cars Customer Appreciation Holiday Party]( December 7, 2019 - La Vergne, TN [Gateway Classic Cars Customer Appreciation Holiday Party]( December 7, 2019 - Lake Mary, FL [Gateway Classic Cars Customer Appreciation Holiday Party]( December 7, 2019 - West Deptford, NJ [Gateway Classic Cars Customer Appreciation Holiday Party]( December 7, 2019 - Deer Valley, AZ [Gateway Classic Cars Customer Appreciation Holiday Party]( December 7, 2019 - Ruskin, FL [See All Events]( [Sponsor]( FEATURED AUCTIONS [1956 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz]( [1956 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz]( [1970 Chevrolet Chevelle]( [1970 Chevrolet Chevelle]( [1975 Chevrolet C20]( [1975 Chevrolet C20]( [1963 Rambler 660]( [1963 Rambler 660]( [1970 Chevrolet Camaro]( [1970 Chevrolet Camaro]( [1966 Chevrolet Chevelle]( [1966 Chevrolet Chevelle]( [1975 Volkswagen Westfalia]( [1975 Volkswagen Westfalia]( [1973 Dodge Monaco]( [1973 Dodge Monaco]( [1970 Mercedes-Benz 300SEL]( [1970 Mercedes-Benz 300SEL]( [1975 Bultaco]( [1975 Bultaco]( [Vintage Mercedes Benz Service sign]( [Vintage Mercedes Benz Service sign]( [$3,800]( [View All Classifieds]( FEATURED IN THE BLOG [When Kjell Qvale met the MG and gave sports cars a foothold in America]( [When Kjell Qvale met the MG and gave sports cars a foothold in America]( [The Jeep YJ was necessary because people kept suing AMC over the CJ]( [The Jeep YJ was necessary because people kept suing AMC over the CJ]( [See All Featured Blog Posts]( FOLLOW US: [Hemmings Instagram]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [Join us on Facebook]( [View our Flickr pool]( [View Newsletter Archives]( WEEK IN REVIEW Thursday, November 28, 2019 ["Make Winter Driving Safer" in the early 1980s]( ['Make Winter Driving Safer' in the early 1980s]( Posted by Thomas A. DeMauro - Tom? I called up to my 18-year-old son, who was in his room. What? he replied. Come down to the living room, please. Why? Because I want to show you this vintage film I found on the Internet Archive. Now? If I wanted you to come down here later, I wouldn't be calling you now. So yes, now. That's how this little exercise began, with all the excitement that typical 18-year-olds usually muster up for doing anything with their parents. Though my son h...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1987 Toyota Corolla]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1987 Toyota Corolla]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Right-hand-drive 1987 Toyota Corolla for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: This original Japanese imported AE86 is finished in brown exterior with custom interior. Paint is driver quality with some bubbling and imperfections not uncommon to vehicles of this age. Car has been lowered with front coilovers and upgraded shocks and springs in the rear Wheels are real work meister 3 piece wrapped in older Dunlop tires all around. Car has been modified and upgraded with the following - Freshly ...[Read More]( [Tech 101: Preparing your vehicles and summer toys for winter]( [Tech 101: Preparing your vehicles and summer toys for winter]( Posted by Jim O'Clair - A snowbound 1967 Buick LeSabre. Photo by dave_7. Once again, as fall winds down towards the short days of winter and much colder temperatures, it is time to store away that classic or summer recreational vehicle. The effort you expend in properly storing your recreational vehicles and classic cars over the next few months will pay large dividends when the thaw of spring and the warmth of the returning sun urges you to begin outside enjoyment once again. Most of the suggestions we offer are easily available and...[Read More]( [Open Diff - your worst winter driving experience]( [Open Diff - your worst winter driving experience]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - 'Tis the season. 'Tis the season for slushy, skiddy, screamy white-knuckled times on the highway, that is. The season for determining the limits of your driving ability and of the capability of your tires. The season for budgeting a few hours for what should be a 15-minute round trip. The season for a nice snowy winter drive. A good half of the comments in the recent Toronto carspotting article related some of your most miserable experiences driving through winter storms. Like PatW's 5-mile trip through 20 inches...[Read More]( [The vilification of Leo Beebe: Ford's mission to win Le Mans in 1966]( [The vilification of Leo Beebe: Ford's mission to win Le Mans in 1966]( Posted by Hemmings contributor - Leo Beebe at Le Mans in 1966. All photos courtesy of Ford Motorsport. Editor's note: This piece comes to us from Hemmings reader and contributor Frank Comstock, a friend of the late Leo Beebe. "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." Henry Ford "Great leaders inspire a sense of mission. Good people with a proper sense of mission will find a way to get the job done." Leo Beebe Fifty years have elapsed since Ford Motor Company's overwhelming vic...[Read More]( [In his own words: Mario Andretti on his highs and lows in the Indy 500, and why it's still a career-defining race]( [In his own words: Mario Andretti on his highs and lows in the Indy 500, and why it's still a career-defining race]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - Editor's Note: This year marks the 50th anniversary of Mario Andretti's win at the 1969 Indianapolis 500. Following our coverage of this in last week's Hemmings Daily, we were given the opportunity to speak with Mario and get his own take on the 1969 race, the controversy surrounding the events of 1981, what may be lacking in today's drivers, and whether or not we'll ever see another American atop an F1 podium. KE: At the conclusion of the 1969 Indy 500, you called your victory "my biggest win." In the years si...[Read More]( [The story behind that photo of the Pinto in front of the Mt. St. Helens eruption]( [The story behind that photo of the Pinto in front of the Mt. St. Helens eruption]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - A towering plume of ash rises in the distance of the photo, swirling with menace and threat, lightning arcing within it. As if to accent the peril, the canyon of trees that frame the gray clouds themselves have gone dark toward their tops, occluded by unseen looming clouds of ash. One shaft of morning light still reaches the lower branches of the trees, splashing over a cut of greenery and the least probable thing in the photo: a red Ford Pinto with a blue dirt bike hitched to its bumper, angled across a forest road...[Read More]( Wednesday, November 27, 2019 [How to talk Texan like Carroll Shelby]( [How to talk Texan like Carroll Shelby]( Posted by Hemmings contributor - In the new feature film Ford v Ferrari, Matt Damon, who hails from Massachusetts, tries his hardest to "talk Texan" in his starring role as Carroll Shelby. I knew Carroll for the last half century or so, and can say it was close, but no cigar. Shelby moved to California in the mid-'50s to be a race driver and started several businesses there. In addition to building the eponymous Cobra and Mustangs in the '60s, he owned several other businesses including a race tire dealership and wheel companies. Early on, he le...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1950 Chevrolet pickup]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1950 Chevrolet pickup]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - SSR-chassis 1950 Chevrolet pickup for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: Sits on 2004 Chevy SSR chassis sporting a 325 ci Vortec V8 with 300 hp and 335 lb/ft torque Vrated 205/50 Hankook Ventus radials, 17 x 7 Chevy Trailblazer wheels Custom Interior has power leather seats, cruise control, A/C, Bose 6CD 6 speaker sound system w/ amp, power steering, 4 speed automatic transmission This is no Trailer Queen! See more Chevrolets for sale on Hemmings.com....[Read More]( [Honda's Motocompo scooter: the box that thought outside the box]( [Honda's Motocompo scooter: the box that thought outside the box]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - By Honda's original sales projections of 10,000 units per month, its three-year experiment building the Japanese-market Motocompo scooter was an abject failure. Just under 53,400 of the plastic-bodied urban commuters were assembled from 1981 to '83, but today, that rarity has made the Motocompo, also known as the NCZ50, a sought-after and collectible bit of '80s Japanese design eccentricity. To understand Honda's design logic, one must look at a bigger picture. The Motocompo wasn't really intended to be a...[Read More]( [Viva Las Vauxhall - 1974 Vauxhall Viva]( [Viva Las Vauxhall - 1974 Vauxhall Viva]( Posted by Mark J. McCourt - It was not what you might expect: In 1960s America, General Motors was experimental and unorthodox, its first generation of compacts including Chevrolet's air-cooled, rear-engine Corvair and Pontiac's "rope drive" Tempest, while overseas in England, the contemporary compact Viva from GM's Vauxhall division was Ford Falcon-like in its rote conventionality. But that British compact proved just what its market wanted, and would become a popular best seller that endured through three generations and 16 years. We've spent ti...[Read More]( [Minneapolis, 1974]( [Minneapolis, 1974]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: 1974 Location: SE 4th Street and SE 14th Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota Source: Linda Gammell, via Hennepin County Library Digital Collections What do you see here?...[Read More]( Tuesday, November 26, 2019 [Kenosha's Killer Coupe - 1969 AMC AMX]( [Kenosha's Killer Coupe - 1969 AMC AMX]( Posted by David Conwill - Hot rods didn't used to have back seats. Sure, there were exceptions, but the general rule from the '30s to the '50s was that sedans were something your parents drove--only coupes and roadsters were worthy candidates for a hopped-up teenage dream machine. If you happened to get one with a rumble seat, well, you probably tore out the seat itself and turned it into a reverse-hinged trunk. That started to change as late-model cars got more popular among the shade-tree racer set, however. The muscle car era blew apart the s...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1970 Honda Trail 70]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1970 Honda Trail 70]( Posted by Mike Austin - Looking for a pit bike or something to explore the local trails? Here's a 1970 Honda Trail 70 for sale on Hemmings.com. Also known at the CT70. From the seller's description: Christmas is coming! And here's the perfect gift: I'm selling this 1970 Honda Trail 70 minibike because I've got a few other projects I want to concentrate on. The bike is in phenomenal shape: it was restored a few years ago (before I got it) and the only flaw is a small tear in the vinyl seat (pictured). I haven't run it in a few years, so it...[Read More]( [Colani's Horch resurrection prototype resurfaces in debt collection auction]( [Colani's Horch resurrection prototype resurfaces in debt collection auction]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Somewhere out there a metal figurine of a naked woman -- her hair windswept back, her body prone but struggling for purchase against some hard-to-overcome force, and her left hand clutching for a grip while her right hand holds a Horch car logo -- likely sits on a shelf or in a box or maybe a display case. That is, it sits anywhere but where it should reside: the long hood of Luigi Colani's 1996 Horch resurrection prototype, a car that comes up for auction next month. Like much of Colani's work, his Horch prototy...[Read More]( [Preciously Preserved Pontiac - 1967 Pontiac Firebird]( [Preciously Preserved Pontiac - 1967 Pontiac Firebird]( Posted by Thomas A. DeMauro - Arriving nearly three years after the Barracuda and Mustang, and about five months after the Cougar and Camaro, the Firebird was a late entry into the pony car menagerie. Its 11th-hour addition to GM's F-body program, as well as cost considerations, locked it into sharing its chassis, inner structure, and most of its body with its Chevrolet counterpart. Nevertheless, once Pontiac was in, it was all in, so every effort was made to differentiate the Firebird from the Camaro and to cultivate its upmarket status. The promin...[Read More]( [Highlights from the Galpin Hall of Customs at the 2019 LA Auto Show]( [Highlights from the Galpin Hall of Customs at the 2019 LA Auto Show]( Posted by Mike Austin - Every year at the Los Angeles Auto Show, local mega dealer Galpin Autos takes over a small space between the two main exhibit halls of the LA Convention Center and turns it into the Galpin Hall of Customs. Among the new cars meant to induce visits to Galpin's showrooms are several custom and rare cars, either on loan or created by Galpin's own custom shop. Here are some highlights from this year, captured by photographer by Drew Phillips. The Grasshopper Famous for gracing the cover ofHot Rodmagazine i...[Read More]( [Vancouver, British Columbia, 1980s]( [Vancouver, British Columbia, 1980s]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: circa 1980s Location: Alma Street and Fourth Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Cananda Source: City of Vancouver Archives What do you see here?...[Read More]( Monday, November 25, 2019 [Do these 10 cars live up to their weather-based names?]( [Do these 10 cars live up to their weather-based names?]( Posted by Jeff Koch - Look, cars need to be called something. After you run out of famous people, and exotic places, and wild animals, and you've plucked all of the possible letter-and-number combinations from the alphanumeric Scrabble bag, what's left? Weather. It's all around us, it affects how we go about our daily lives, and it packs frightening, unimaginable power. Probably no one would buy a car called a Nor'easter or a Chetco Effect. (No one in an English-speaking country, anyway.) But a Mistral? A Zephyr? A Zonda? Oooo...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1972 Citroen DS21]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1972 Citroen DS21]( Posted by Mike Austin - 1972 Citroen DS21 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: Yes, I love my Citroen and you will too. The main reason I am selling is that my left arthritic ankle does not like the clutch action. In San Francisco there are lots of hills. The car runs great and always turns heads. To learn about these special DS Citroens see Jay Leno Garage You tube of 1971DS Citroen in action at: This 1972 Citron D Spcial is powered by a 2,175cc ...[Read More]( [Hop To It: 1983 Volkswagen Rabbit brochure]( [Hop To It: 1983 Volkswagen Rabbit brochure]( Posted by Mark J. McCourt - Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Volkswagen is now rolling out the eighth generation of its global best seller, the Golf, some 45 years after the industry-influencing first-generation car's release. That car, which Americans first received in 1975 under the Rabbit nameplate, had a couple of iterations on our shores, with the late, square-headlamp examples being imported from Westmoreland, Pennsylvania. The models in this 1983 brochure, representing the secon...[Read More]( [First-built AMX/3 to get long-overdue restoration]( [First-built AMX/3 to get long-overdue restoration]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - In June of 1969, under codename E18, BMW engineers took delivery of an aggressively styled mid-engine coupe for development and testing. Except the car wasn't theirs, wasn't even built in Germany, and was destined for the American market. That car, the first-built American Motors AMX/3, did eventually make its way to the United States, where it proceeded to sit for decades before a recent sale got the ball rolling on a once-promised restoration. "(This is) arguably the rarest American muscle car in existence," Ge...[Read More]( [There is a website dedicated to period-correct Japanese wheels and it is amazing]( [There is a website dedicated to period-correct Japanese wheels and it is amazing]( Posted by Mike Austin - I don't even know where to begin with this blog post, because my mind is blown by the fact that a website like Kyusha Shoes exists. It's not just a database of photos of old wheels, but a searchable database including brand, production year, diameter, and bolt pattern. And it's big, with 252 different wheels as of this writing. This is one of those rabbit holes that reminds you that the internet can still be great. From the website's own description, "Kyusha (aka ) is a Japanese word literally meaning old c...[Read More]( [Driving to be the best: Chrysler's 1987 lineup on high quality VHS]( [Driving to be the best: Chrysler's 1987 lineup on high quality VHS]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - No matter how much we may like cars, do any of us really enjoy going to a dealership? Haggling, getting sucked into the four-square method, politely chuckling at the dealer's bad jokes, all when we really just want to look at the cars, compare their specs, get under the hood, and be a car geek. Today, we've got the Internet for all that research. In 1987, car shoppers didn't. But they -- or, at least, some of them -- did have VHS players, so Chrysler decided to get all fancy and use that epitome of Eighties tech ...[Read More]( [Chicago, 1976]( [Chicago, 1976]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: February 1976 Location: outside McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois Source: Ray Gora via Vintage Tribune What do you see here?...[Read More]( Sunday, November 24, 2019 [Driving to be the best: Chrysler's 1987 lineup on high quality VHS]( [Driving to be the best: Chrysler's 1987 lineup on high quality VHS]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - No matter how much we may like cars, do any of us really enjoy going to a dealership? Haggling, getting sucked into the four-square method, politely chuckling at the dealer's bad jokes, all when we really just want to look at the cars, compare their specs, get under the hood, and be a car geek. Today, we've got the Internet for all that research. In 1987, car shoppers didn't. But they -- or, at least, some of them -- did have VHS players, so Chrysler decided to get all fancy and use that epitome of Eighties tech ...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1972 Dodge Charger SE]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1972 Dodge Charger SE]( Posted by Mike Austin - 1972 Dodge Charger SE for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: 1972 Dodge Charger SE, original 318 engine and transmission. Weekend driver. Always garaged, ZERO RUST, PERFECT BODY. Original factory air, front disc's added. No water leaks, original interior. Find more Dodges for sale on Hemmings.com...[Read More]( [Four-Links - Dan Post archive, NYTimes on Bonneville, modern Stutzes, Fiat Minozio]( [Four-Links - Dan Post archive, NYTimes on Bonneville, modern Stutzes, Fiat Minozio]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - If it appears Geoff Hacker's been MIA lately, it's because he was focused on putting together an archive of all of Dan Post's publications on custom cars from postwar California. Dan Post was there at the beginning -- writing and learning about what he saw -- and sharing it across the country. He started in 1944 -- that was the first year he started writing and sharing what he learned about customizing cars -- and this was about a year before World War II ended. Dan Post witnessed the best of what was happening ...[Read More]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1981 Volkswagen Caddy]( [Hemmings Find of the Day: 1981 Volkswagen Caddy]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - 16-valve swapped 1981 Volkswagen Caddy for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description: This classic Mark 1 Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup is in nice overall condition with many tasteful and fun upgrades. Reliable and comfortable, can be driven today with confidence. Body good shock towers, good A-pillars, good paint, very straight. Paint color slightly mismatched on left front fender, a few old body work blemishes on right rear fender, minor surface rust in rear bed. Shortened front bumper mounts for clea...[Read More]( LAST WEEK'S MOST READ [Cars that just wouldn't stay away, even after they sold]( [Cars that just wouldn't stay away, even after they sold]( Posted by Jeff Koch - Once upon a time, when you sold a car, that was the end of it. You said goodbye, it was traded in, you exchanged cash for a title from a newspaper ad, and you never saw it again. Or so I thought. Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Because it doesn't seem to with me. I haven't sold that many cars in my life, yet over time, consistently, those few cars have come back to haunt me to varying degrees. The first was my dad's '73 VW Beetle. A car he bought new, a car I grew up in the back of, a car that l...[Read More]( LAST WEEK'S BEST DISCUSSION [Confessions of an elderly "mechanic"]( [Confessions of an elderly 'mechanic']( Posted by Michael Lamm - I've been 18 for most of my adult life. But then last spring, I suddenly woke up to my real age, 83, when our family physician, Dr. Walt, diagnosed me with pneumonia. I'd never been sick a day in my life, and I figuredstill convinced that I was 18that pneumonia didn't sound all that terrible. But my nose wouldn't turn off, and about a week after I got the diagnosis, I started getting these achy pains in every bone, muscle, tendon and joint in my body. So Nurse JoAnne, my good wife, told me to go bac...[Read More]( Hemmings Motor News will not sell or share your e-mail address with other companies. For more information about this newsletter, email webmaster@hemmings.com or write to: Customer Service, Hemmings Motor News, 222 Main St., Bennington VT 05201. If you do not want to receive this newsletter from Hemmings Motor News, you can [change your email preferences here](.