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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Shotwell, Hanksville, La Polizia e sconfitta
As Leno notes in this week’s Jay Leno’s Garage video, the Shotwell Indian-powered three-wheeler was the subject of his very first video, but he recently decided to revisit the homebuilt vehicle for a...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Peel, Budweiser’s rocket car, Poliziotto Sprint
Even those of us who thought we knew everything about the only carmaker based on the Isle of Man will have something to glean from this video tribute to Cyril Cannell, whether it’s his story about how...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – BTTF Toyota, The Banger Boys, Mark il poliziotto
For most people, the most iconic vehicle from the Back to the Future films is the DeLorean. Fair enough. For one guy in Massachusetts, it was always the Toyota pickup, and 30-plus years later, he owns...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Leno Under Glass, Checkers in Finland, Piedone lo...
Sure, it’s a bit sensational to show Jay Leno in the famed Hemi Under Glass wheelstander as it takes a tumble for Jay’s show, but it’s also a part of the car’s history now, something to be noted...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – NASCAR Chargers, Matchboxes, One Two Three
While the vintage racing footage includes plenty of glimpses of all sorts of NASCAR notables from the aero war era, the focus on this two-part documentary is on the Chargers and on Dodge’s efforts to...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Johnny’s Flux Capacitor, short history of Holden, Un...
Before the news gets too old, Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor, his electric 1974 Enfield 8000 ECC, which we’ve linked to in the past, recently ran in the 9s. While poking around on YouTube, we came...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – drag racers invade England, Jeep in War and Peace,...
Drag racing in Britain got a big push forward when the NHRA took several of its big names and their cars over for exhibition races in the mid-Sixties, as seen in this British Pathe video that Mac’s...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – those great VW ads, kiddie monowheel, East Corridor
Perhaps one of the most memorable and influential ad campaigns – not just for automobiles, but of all time – was that run by DDB for Volkswagen. To get to the bottom of why it worked so well and how...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Watkins Glen found footage, cross-country Econoline,...
Found footage of old race events is pretty awesome, but some of the videos put together with that footage rather lacks. Not so with the one The Chicane recently spotlighted, which shows the action at...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Yugo Next, Spyker resto, Visit to Minotaur
There’s something missing from this video introduction to the early 1990s Yugo Next art exhibition that took place in New York City and that was comprised entirely of old Yugos repurposed into...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Clarkson on British car industry, Smith System of...
Before Top Gear, the BBC paid Jeremy Clarkson to talk about cars in a show called Clarkson’s Car Years, and in one 2000 episode he detailed the death of the British car industry, using a Triumph Stag...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – designing Australia’s own car, Henry Ford’s...
While researching the story on the Holden collection auction earlier this week, we came across this short video on the design and engineering of the first Holden. It’s a story pretty much every...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Ferrari on Ferrari, the first turbine Chrysler,...
Dating to 1984, this 25-minute interview with Enzo Ferrari is probably the best such interview put down on video and the best account of Ferrari from Ferrari himself. * Chrysler didn’t just whip up...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – bad Chevelle Bond ripoff, TROG, The Man From Hong Kong
As Mac at Mac’s Motor City Garage described this 1966 promo for the Chevelle SS 396, it’s bad – not so bad it’s good, but still fascinatingly bad. Whoever Chevrolet hired to produce it must’ve...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – 1977 Bathurst, Pegaso on the stand, Pink Panther
With the big annual Bathurst race coming up, let’s check out a Bathurst from nearly 40 years ago with the 1977 running up Mount Panorama. (via) * Who doesn’t want to experience the Pegaso’s desmo V-8...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Ettore Bugatti, Hannah’s Bug, Curse of the Pink Panther
Like Enzo Ferrari, Ettore Bugatti is one of the most revered European auto builders whose cars only barely eclipsed the story of his life, as told in this short video biography that Mac’s Motor City...
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