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Littlefield Collection sale to offer a menagerie of militaria
The DUKW Amphibious Truck, or “Duck” as it’s more commonly known. Photos courtesy Auctions America. When the military vehicles from the Littlefield Collection cross the stage this weekend, the lot...
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Cars of Futures Past – 1961-1968 Amphicar 770
An Amphicar underway in Lakeland, Florida. Photo by Jared. The problem with conventional automobiles is this: Hardcore 4x4s aside, they need roads to operate on. While trucks with enough ground...
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Four-Links – Alaskan Highway trucks, LS Chevette, amphibious asteroid,...
* The U.S. Army used 100,000 or so GM CCKW and Studebaker US6 trucks to build the Alaska Highway during World War II, and plenty of them still survive, many of them in T.J. Wheelman’s collection in...
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Wheel Stories from the Patent Files: Cheston Eshelman
Cheston Lee Eshelman’s electric car patent filing. All drawing excerpted from patent filings. Editor’s note: Ryan Chirnomas is a patent attorney and classic car enthusiast in Washington, D.C. In this...
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Walt Disney World’s newest restaurant offering Amphicar tours
Amphicar 770. Photo from the Hemmings archives. When Downtown Disney’s newest eatery, The Boathouse, opened on April 13, the venue debuted more than upscale dining and waterfront views of Orlando,...
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Cabrio-love: 1989 Volkswagen Cabriolet brochure
All brochure images are from the collection of Mark J. McCourt The long-serving, eternally popular Volkswagen Type 1 (Bug) Convertible finally reached the end of the line in 1980, but its replacement...
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Four-Links – Russian amphibian, SCTA archives, Willets Point, Decrauzat
* Whether a Soviet concern built this amphibious car in the Communist Sixties, as English Russia reported, or whether it was a homebuilt affair built from scraps and corrugated tin, we’ll probably...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Wishes on Wheels, Amphicars in Lake Erie, Art of the...
Some of the acting’s a little gee-whiz, and the dubbing is way off, but Wishes on Wheels, a 26-minute journey through the mid-Fifties Plymouth assembly line process, includes plenty of excellent color...
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Behind the scenes at Omix-ADA’s Jeep museum
The Omix-ADA military Jeep collection, plus a Chevy Bel Air. Photos by Jeffrey Ross. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Jeffrey Ross, who recently toured the Omix-ADA Jeep Collection while...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Burt Munro, floating Austin, They Drive By Night
By now, we’ve probably all seen “The World’s Fastest Indian,” the story of New Zealander Burt Munro’s quest to set a land-speed record at Bonneville, but to get an idea of how closely that film hewed...
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Air-cooled, but water-bound: One-off “Corphibian” floats to auction
Photos by James DeCamp, courtesy Mecum Auctions. While legend has it the original Volkswagen Beetle could float, Chevrolet’s rear-engined answer to the Beetle and its many variants never developed a...
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Up close with the Amphicars of Disney Springs
Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Jeffrey Ross, whose work has appeared in various outlets including the Hemmings Daily, Autoblog, Road & Track and Off-Road.com. Of all the rides and...
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Four-Links – Stevens Lakester, top 10 Chevrolet race engines, Coleman’s...
Brooks Stevens fans are generally Brooks Stevens fans because the industrial designer took an out-of-left-field approach to many of his designs, and none came from further afield than his Evinrude...
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When Porsche built a Jeep: The Type 597 Jagdwagen
1958 Porsche 597 Jagdwagen. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding & Company. In 1954, the newly expanded German military had a need for a domestically sourced, four-wheel drive,...
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