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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1966 Chrysler 300
There was a time when any 440-powered four-door would have been a parts car, regardless of the shape it was in. Nowadays? Cars like this 1966 Chrysler 300 are being sold as a whole, running,...
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From across the heavens …
Comes this. Well, actually, from across the parking lot at Fonda Speedway in New York, the historic dirt track, where I stumbled upon this a month ago. It’s a 1973 Mercury Comet, one of about 29,000...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1971 Plymouth Valiant
Most of the collector car world is focused on old cars that have some additional element to them – some degree of collectibility or flash or exoticness or muscle. Aside from our Driveable Dream...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Packard Cavalier
While yesterday’s Valiant four-door can be regarded as a simple old car, this 1953 Packard Cavalier, also a four-door, merits consideration as something above and beyond – a true classic, if you will....
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Buick Special
At our recent New England Concours d’Elegance, we had a convertible Buick Special of this vintage, which showed just how striking these cars are, even set against other collector cars. This 1962 Buick...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Dodge Phoenix
For the second time in just a few days, we’ve found a four-door from the Eisenhower Era with 70-something thousand miles on it, this time a 1960 Dodge Phoenix four-door. As econobiker noted the other...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Mercury Commuter
Bless the late 1950s styling excesses in American automobiles, for without that period of exuberance, we would never have seen a car quite like this 1960 Mercury Commuter for sale on Hemmings.com....
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Studebaker Lark VI
A V-8 might be nice in any older car, but for the true experience of driving an economy car from the late 1950s/early 1960s, you need a six-cylinder engine. This 1960 Studebaker Lark VI for sale on...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1976 Checker Marathon
Of course, the Crown Victoria will some day be fondly recalled and even collected by us old car nuts. How do we know? Easy – compare it to the Checker. Both rode on relatively ancient platforms, both...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1961 Pontiac Tempest
No surprise that, of all the Tempests you see on the market nowadays, almost none of them are the first-generation compacts that had more in common with the Corvair than the GTO. Chalk it up to a...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Packard Cavalier
In yesterday’s post on the GAZ M12 ZIM, it was suggested that the GAZ looked like a Packard. While the later GAZ M13 certainly bears a striking resemblance to the mid-Fifties Packard, we thought the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1961 Ford Fairlane
Americans have never felt quite comfortable with the idea of a four-door performance car, which is why this 1961 Ford Fairlane four-door for sale on Hemmings.com stands out. We can only guess why the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1951 Mercury
Stories oftentimes make the car, even if the story is as simple (yet complete) as the one behind this 1951 Mercury four-door for sale on Hemmings.com. Maybe knowing where the car was sold and how long...
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Stolen car alert – 1937 Buick Century
“You just never think it’d happen to you,” Jamie Alexander of Fort Worth, Texas, said. But Jamie found himself the victim of another collector car theft this past week, and he’d like to ask Hemmings...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Hudson Hornet
We’re used to seeing random Fifties four-doors turned into knockoff cop cars, but this Packard-powered tri-tone 1956 Hudson Hornet for sale on Hemmings.com is apparently the real documented deal, as...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Mercury Monterey
On a car advertised as an unrestored original – such as this 1959 Mercury Monterey four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com – the minor flaws are less blemishes to be rubbed out than a warrior’s...
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Outtakes from our month with a Jag
We recently spent a whole month with a 1967 Jaguar Mk2 (yeah, we know, our job is tough), thanks to the generosity of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car subscriber and British car enthusiast David...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air
We’re guessing this 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com hasn’t resided in New Hampshire its entire life. A largely original car (and I don’t think anybody would give the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1966 Chrysler New Yorker four-door hardtop
Nice car, this 1966 Chrysler New Yorker four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com. But here’s something to consider: Those who dig unrestored cars point to the personal histories imbued in them, so...
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