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McPherson auto restoration program to celebrate 40 years with Kiekhaefer 300C

Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photos courtesy McPherson College C.A.R.S. Club. Big anniversary party coming up for McPherson College's auto restoration program, so of course they've planned a celebration. Instead of cake, though, the students in the program have decided to show off one of their latest restoration projects - a Chrysler 300C that Carl Kiekhaefer had modified for a NASCAR road racing series. First, some background. In 1974, Garrison Haines "Smokey" Billue sold his LPG storage company for $10 million (about $77.6 million in to... Read More

Hemmings Find of the Day - 1949 Chrysler Windsor sedan

Posted by Kurt Ernst - >From the seller's description: 1949 Chrysler Windsor with a straight six cylinder flat head "Spitfire" engine and "Fluid Drive" transmission. This car has a very unique history. It was bought new on 10-28-1949 at Noyes Garage in North Falmouth Massachusetts by then Governor of Massachusetts Christian A. Herter, who also used the car in D.C. when he was The Secretary of State under President Eisenhower. She was discovered on his property as a barn find in the early 90's. The car has original Mass. plates, Bill of sa...Read More

World's largest automotive patent collection joins Gilmore Car Museum's collection

Posted by Daniel Strohl - Design patent 190225, granted May 1961. A collection of more than 396,000 patents, dating back to the 1790s and assembled over the better part of a century, has made its way to the Gilmore Car Museum where, for the first time in its history, it will become available to the general public. "I was thrilled they even thought of us," Jay Follis, the museum's director of marketing, said of Kettering University's donation of the collection. "They could've easily disposed of the patents instead." Though the collec...Read More

Scavenger Hunt: drive me wild

Posted by Daniel Strohl - Due to the format of our Hemmings Find of the Day feature, we don't always get to highlight the more unusual vehicles in the Hemmings.com classifieds, but that doesn't mean they're not worth checking out. And there are some oddities and off-the-wall one-offs sprinkled throughout the listings, among them the all-wood 1936 Ford above. Your task is to find the wildest, wackiest, or just plain bizarrest vehicles lurking in the Hemmings.com classifieds. The cars that most represent the spirit of individualism. The stu...Read More

Las Vegas, 1972

Posted by Daniel Strohl - Date: September 1972 Location: downtown Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?...Read More

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