Hemmings Motor News Blog

We've dipped our toes into the Pink Mustang scene before, and now we've come across another one on Hemmings.com, for sale out of Roswell, Georgia, for $14,950. From the seller's description:

1965 MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE, that has been finished in the 'Playboy Pink' color, with very nice paint and body, this couples the nice White bucket seated interior, full factory console, automatic C4 transmission shifts and drives very well, fresh black carpet factory C5, 6 cylinder engine, 1v carberator . . .

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Off the top of our heads, we don't know how many examples of the Elmore were built during its eyeblink in history. It was briefly produced, beginning in 1902, by I.V. Becker and his sons, James and Burton. It was named for the location outside Clyde, Ohio, where Becker operated a stave mill before turning, for a short while, to building cars.

Elmore was an adherent of two-stroke power, which made it attractive to Billy Durant, who scooped it up in 1909 as he was forming General Motors. Neither Durant nor the Elmore lasted, the latter relegated to the ages by 1912.

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The difference between prototypes and show/concept cars is that the latter get put on display for all to see while the former are usually hidden away or discarded. The fellas at Hooniverse found some photos of a couple excellent Mopar show cars from the muscle era. Check out the 1970 Super Charger (left).

Another subset of show cars you hardly see mention of anymore? 1960s Japanese show cars. Fortunately for us, Japanese Nostalgic Car dug up this photo of the 1965 Toyota Dream Car and touched off a good discussion about it.

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One morning in 1979, car builder Frank Kurtis of Glendale, California, opened his mail to find that a sports car he had created 40 years before was alive and thriving 6,000 miles from home. Frank, of course, is the Kurtis whose racing cars dominated the Indianapolis 500 during the 1950s.

Kurtis was a self-taught designer who learned his metal-working arts at the Don Lee coachbuilding plant in Los Angeles in the 1920s. During the next decade he build many custom cars for himself and others, using bits and pieces gleaned from wrecking yards to create distinctive and handsome specials.

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The talent and craftsmanship of some of our fellow automotive hobbyists never ceases to amaze us. We were recently introduced to Gary Tatman, of Glen Burnie, Maryland. Gary has created some incredibly detailed carvings of famous racing sports cars and Formula One cars like the Ferrari F2002 and F2003-GA, the 1965 Lotus 33b "Climax", the 1976 Tyrrell P-34 six-wheeler, the Ford GT-40 and the 1970 Porsche 917k.

Gary is currently considering starting work on a 1955 Corvette, and he's set to begin work on a sculpture of Ken Anderson and Peter Windsors's US F1 car for 2010; he'll be going to their factory in Charlotte, North Carolina, in December, to do research on the finished car to produce a lobby display.

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