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Big Oil conspiracy continues! 244 mpg Fiat 600!
A few weeks back, we brought you the (alleged) 376 mpg Opel, noting that it (allegedly) was the result of a (unconfirmed) Shell ultra-mileage test on (clandestine) superheated vapor fuel technology,...
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And in this corner, four Fiats
Any number of cars have multiple clubs, some of which live in peace, some, not so much (you know who you are, Austin-Healeys and Thunderbirds). FIAT owners have long had a place on that list, with two...
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Dukes of Scania
Flickr + Bo & Luke = A neverending Dukesfest, international edition. We don’t need no steenkin’ Chargers. Somewhere in Scotland, The Dukes of Scania: And “of Fiat” “of Smart” “of Suzuki” Gettin’...
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Fast cars and beautiful women at Nirvana: W. Gould Brokaw, the real Jay Gatsby
W. Gould Brokaw at the wheel of his Renault racing car, Ormond Beach, 1904. Dan wrote up a very thoughtful piece last week on the idea that troubled used car dealer and bootlegger Max Gerlach was F....
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Four-Links – first Jeeps on the Rubicon, amphibious car catalog,...
* Jeep’s corporate owners at Chrysler have plastered the Rubicon name all over recent Jeep products, and for good reason – the legendary off-road trail has been a proving ground for Jeeps since the...
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What is Old is New Again
Having spent a couple days in New York City attending the media preview of the New York International Auto Show, we couldn’t help but notice that automakers’ heritage has become a great branding tool,...
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Imports at Carlisle
Mark McCourt and I have been back from the big import show in Carlisle since Sunday night, but what with deadlines and all, I haven’t had a chance to go through my photos until now. You can’t talk...
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How Strang met his death
Lewis Strang in a Thomas at the French Grand Prix, 1908 Many men participated in the dawn of organized motor racing in the U.S., and many lived hard and died young. Lewis P. Strang stands shoulder to...
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Sixties South Africa far from represented in automotive advertisements
Is it possible to think of South Africa anytime before the Mandela era and dissociate it from the images of apartheid that remain with us? Perhaps if all you saw of the country were its automotive...
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No kiss for winning?
As I mentioned when I posted the photo of the Jeep assembly line last week, Chrysler’s media site doesn’t have nearly as many vintage photos (“heritage photos,” as Chrysler calls them) as Ford’s, but...
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Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Fiat
I promised you plenty more Fiat 500 pictures from the Chrysler media archives, so let’s use one for this week’s Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge. Of course, Fiat is a giant...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1987 Fiat X1/9
While Fiat left America in 1982, the same year it stopped building the X1/9, Bertone kept production going through 1989, and a Malcolm Bricklin company kept importing them through 1987, which explains...
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Fiat rewards U.S. enthusiasts
Fiat aficionados who have kept the marque’s flame burning in the United States have been rewarded by the automaker with a surprise gift: The first opportunity to place reservations for the Fiat...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Fiat 130 Coupe
One of the best looking Fiats of its era, this 130 Coupe for sale on Hemmings.com was a delicacy reserved for jet-setting Europeans; Americans would have to content themselves with Fiat’s sports cars...
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Fiats and Lancias head to Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee, America’s Music City, will be the gathering place for Fiat and Lancia enthusiasts this coming July. The 2011 Fiat Freak Out, the annual convention of Fiat Lancia Unlimited, the...
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Amphicars and Presidential Humor
As entertaining a notion that a President of the United States even owned an Amphicar is, President Lyndon B. Johnson was a certified practical joker when it came to automobiles that doubled as boats....
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1967 Fiat 1300 Abarth Coupe
We are all too familiar with the road going entertainment that 1300 cubic centimeters of internal combustion fury can unleash when packaged in a lightweight rear-wheel drive car. Our own personal...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1939 Fiat NSU Roadster
It’s nearly impossible to think of two cars with as little in common as Fiat’s pre-war people-mover, the 500 “Topolino,” and that sumptuous, 21st-century chariot of the uber-rich, Maybach’s 57S. And...
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From the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool – 1907 Fiat
For a while now, Hemmings Nation Flickr pool member gswetsky has been uploading photos of the 1965 Detroit Old Car Festival, which looked to have been an excellent event, attended by multitudes of...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Fiat 600
Those with a current or ongoing desire to own a 1962 Fiat 600 are so advised to take a look at this California raised water-cooled successor to the air-cooled Fiat 500. The great frozen Northeast and...
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