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Clearing the desk, grandly
I came upon a communication from an interested reader that I had put aside for a while. A long while, actually. Nearly five years before I realized that I had it. We received a packet of photos from...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1931 Ford Model A speedster
Anybody who’s tuned in to the vintage car rallying scene in recent years has surely seen a preponderance of Model T and Model A-based speedsters, and for good reason: With little bodywork to speak of,...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1911 Marmon Model 32 speedster
If you’ve never had the chance to take a ride in a brass-era car, make sure you do so in your time on this big blue ball. It’ll make you think differently about this old car hobby of ours. Count...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1916 American LaFrance speedster
Collecting and restoring old fire trucks is tough. First of all, they’re big, so finding the space to store and work on them is a hassle, and you’re going to need a whole new set of tools to work on...
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Edsel Ford’s six-cylinder Model T speedster heads to auction
Photos courtesy Classic Motorcar Auctions. In October 1907, Frank Kulick – Ford’s first factory racing driver and a close friend of Henry Ford’s – found himself hurtling toward the outside wall of the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1923 Ford Model T speedster
Most Model T-based speedsters tend to use aftermarket bodies from Ames or any of the dozens of companies that provided speed parts for the T in the 1920s or 1930s, but the builder of this 1923 Ford...
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Speedsters to converge at Speedy Bill’s
Photos courtesy Museum of American Speed. Those stripped-down, lightened, noisy takeoffs on the Ford Model T known as speedsters have an exalted place in automotive history, not just as the first true...
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Gentleman Racer: Mike Santiago’s single-seater Ford Model T speedster
Photo courtesy of Heather Dobosz. This is what it was like for Mike Santiago, sitting in his white, #18, single-seat, bobtail speedster – its four cylinders cantering 120-plus horses through a Lakes...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1924 Ford Model T speedster
One of a pair of Model T speedsters the sellers inherited from an estate, this 1924 Ford Model T speedster seems a little more authentic to the day and age, with a minimalist aftermarket body, monocle...
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In our garage: bronze silicon welding a galvanized fuel tank
My ’31 Ford speedster in my dad’s garage as of several months ago. Note the chunky bronze filler neck atop the oval gas tank just aft of the seat skins. Photograph by the author. All tech photographs...
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Inspired there, replicated there: Italian builds homage to Edsel Ford’s 1934...
All photos courtesy Riccardo Grasso. Typically it’s Americans who replicate Italian cars, what with all the Fauxrarris, Lampostorghinis, and Seventies kit cars built, not the other way around. One...
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On the ground at the 2015 Jalopy Showdown
Jeremiah Thomas leads this pack of eight-cylinder and banger-powered roadsters as it tears around turn three at the Latimore Valley Fairground track. Photography by the author unless otherwise noted....
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1937 Bugatti Type 57/59
What would a Bugatti built for the American market look like? Well, according to famed GM designer Dave Holls and a few other folks, something like this 1937 Bugatti Type 57/59 Special for sale on...
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Sharp Sting on a Soft Budget
Antique cars are expensive, right? Especially if you’re going to build something with a modicum of period correctness and run it at The Race of Gentlemen. Don’t tell that to Jon Keesey of Glenmoore,...
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A pair plays to a full house: Mazda reveals two MX-5 concepts at SEMA
The Mazda MX-5 Speedster concept. Photo by author. The fourth-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata is just beginning to hit dealerships, but the Japanese automaker is wasting no time in exploring the model’s...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1934 Ford speedster
For one of the better-known of Edsel Ford’s series of speedsters, it’s rather amazing there’s just one replica of it (that we know of) running around, the Italian-built 1934 Ford that we featured...
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Edsel Ford’s first V-8 speedster set the stage for Ford’s Design Department
Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. For decades, Edsel Ford’s first V-8 speedster remained out of sight, considered lost to the world, save for three old black-and-white photos. Huge...
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Miss Fire – a Kamm-tailed gow job
Matt Kutz’s Kammback phaeton speedster cuts a dashing figure in spectator parking at The Race of Gentlemen. Photos by the author. We spotted Miss Fire here as she wheeled into the impromptu Friday...
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Four-Links – roundtheworldrallyOlds, Macauley’s speedster, Yanks in the...
Erik Andersen over on the H.A.M.B. has a plan. He’s bought an Olds 88, intends to prep it as a rally racer, and then wants to drive it around the world by entering it into as many rallies as he can....
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Forties Fronty
Don’t let its black paint and full fenders fool you–this Ford Model T Runabout is far from stock. Photos by the author. Henry Ford advertised his Model T as “The Universal Car,” with the implication...
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