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truckin’ A: ATHS at Ballston Spa
My friend Bill Miles suggested I not miss this year’s ATHS show in Ballston Spa, New York, which took place last weekend. I’m glad he did. Not only was it about an hour from Hemmings HQ, but the...
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The 40-MPG diesel-powered Auburns of Clessie Cummins
If nobody else, Clessie Cummins had proved to Americans the viability of the diesel engine. Familiar with the Indianapolis 500 since crewing for Ray Harroun in the first such race in 1911, he returned...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Toyota FJ45
We’ve featured a few FJs before here on the Hemmings Find of the Day, but none quite like this 1965 Toyota FJ45 for sale on Hemmings.com, which has been treated to a number of upgrades, including a...
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Diesel Duesenberg to appear at Goodwood
Visitors to this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed in England will get a rare chance to see Cummins’s No. 8 Duesenberg race car, which completed the Indianapolis 500 in 1931. In celebration of the...
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Diesels at Daytona
Diesel power grew in popularity at an exponential rate in the early to mid-1930s, buoyed by reports of astounding mileage and of the cheap price of diesel fuel versus gasoline – important factors when...
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Four-Links – Leno and the Shark, Cummins at Indy, Sensuous Steel, street...
* Our Forgotten Fiberglass friend Geoff Hacker and his Renault-powered Shark fiberglass car appeared on Jay Leno’s Garage this week. Worth a view. * Cummins put together this neat timeline and history...
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Four-Links – auto shop Buick resto, 1929 L.A. auto show fire, auto advent,...
* We always enjoy hearing about high school auto shop classes taking on restoration projects, like the one at Bettendorf High School in Bettendorf, Iowa, focused on teacher Joe Phillips’s 1928 Buick,...
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