Tag Archives: Hemmings

Buffalo was once a serious car town. Some of the world’s greatest cars were manufactured here, hence the Pierce Arrow. On Saturday, June 23, the Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum will be hosting an event (8 AM – 11 AM) that pays tribute to the golden age of the automobile. According to the museum, “The Great Race, the world’s premiere old car rally, will bring 120 of the world’s finest antique automobiles to town for the $150,000 event.” Cars built in… Source link

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Proxibid, the world’s most trusted way to connect buyers and sellers of highly valued items like collector cars, and Hemmings, the leading resource for collector car enthusiasts, today announced a strategic partnership that brings Proxibid’s transactional capabilities to Hemmings.com, and exposes dealers to the industry’s most robust collector car network. Now, sellers using Hemmings listing services can… Source link

Racers competing in the Hemming’s Motor News Great Race, a cross-country road rally of antique vehicles took a lunch break at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum Sunday, June 26, 2016 then headed to the finish line in downtown Moline, Illinois. The Great Race is a time/speed/endurance road-rally for vintage vehicles, manufactured at least forty-five years ago. The 2016 event was run over nine days, starting in San Rafael, California on June 18th and ending on June 26th in… Source link

In 1945, when Ernie Hemmings took over the auto parts business his father had founded in Quincy, Ill., Model T and Model A Fords were still too contemporary to be called classics. But popular interest in collecting and restoring vintage cars became so great in the next few years that in 1954 he transformed his mimeographed mail-order catalog into Hemmings Motor News, which became a bible for car collectors. As thick as a phone book, the magazine, now owned by American City Business Journals… Source link