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“You just never think it’d happen to you,” Jamie Alexander of Fort Worth, Texas, said. But Jamie found himself the victim of another collector car theft this past week, and he’d like to ask Hemmings Nation to keep its collective Read more

The modern-day street view of the intersection of Venice and La Cienega boulevards in Los Angeles is nigh unrecognizable compared to this scene, snapped in 1953 from a street car trestle no longer there, as found on the UCLA Libraries Read more

As we’ve come to expect, David Rose of Hitting Redline did a fine job gathering footage at the last Hemmings cruise night for the season last week and has compiled it into a short but sweet video. He also recently Read more

Frequent Hemmings Nation Flickr pool contributor coconv has been scanning some of his old slides, mostly of street scenes such as this one in Ouray, Colorado. It’s a little fuzzy, but the carspotters out there should have little trouble with Read more

Now that we’re all back from the Mediterranean, let’s resume the street scene series, shall we? Today’s shot of the parking lot surrounding the construction of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair science pavilion’s arches comes from the Seattle Municipal Archives Read more

The hard work’s done, it seems. While this 1965 Lancia Flaminia Zagato Super Sport for sale on Hemmings.com runs and drives, thanks to a recent mechanical refurbishment, it falls squarely into the driveable dream category, with fading paint and a Read more

As I mentioned in the Boom Stick post, I wanted to further isolate the air intake from the hot underhood air with an enclosure of some sort. After spending some time looking for inspiration under the hoods of modern muscle Read more

It seems like the Corvair was always playing a game of catch-up over its decade of existence. Chevrolet introduced it to catch up to the demand for compacts initiated by the Volkswagen, and later added a turbocharged model to catch Read more