Hemmings Auto Blog

Servicing a Ferrari can sometimes cost as much as an entirely new car. And then there’s their apparent propensity to catch fire. But out of adversity comes opportunity, and Eric Hutchinson embraced the former to create the latter when he bought a fire-damaged 1978 Ferrari 308 GTS and converted it Read more

Still image from video below. Possibly possessing the longest subtitle ever—The People From Fisher Body Who Help Bring A Modern Automobile Body “Up From Clay” – The Bodybuilders is a GM Photographic production presented by The Fisher Body Division of GM. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at how GM’s bodies Read more

All those parking lot shots we run in this carspotting series with the cars so packed in tight you wonder how they get out the ones in the middle? This photo we came across on the University at Texas San Antonio’s Digital Collections shows what one of those lots – Read more

This 1973 AMC Matador for sale on Hemmings.com, a four-door sedan ordered by the government to use as an MP car, probably couldn’t be more basic with its bench seat, column-shifted automatic, lack of extraneous trim and dirt-brown paint. In fact, one has to wonder how some extravagances like the right-side Read more

Image via Google Maps. Old Studebaker dealership buildings tend not to attract the attention of big-city mayors or generate headline news these days. One in Phoenix, however, has proved the exception to that rule when demolition began on it earlier this month, prompting preservationists and that city’s mayor alike to Read more

Paul Goldsmith at the 1958 Indianapolis 500. Photos courtesy IMS. They came from different eras but still amassed impressive records in the sport of auto racing. That’s why Paul Goldsmith and U.E. “Pat” Patrick will be inducted into the Auto Racing Hall of Fame, which is organized by the Indianapolis Read more

This week’s tool was commonplace at full-service gas stations during the 1950s to the mid-1970s. It was a sales tool used by the attendants to sell additional products in the days when you would get your oil, coolant and washer solvent checked with every fill-up. You might have also gotten Read more

This month’s story on a one-of-149 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T convertible four-speed looked strangely familiar to a couple of Hemmings Muscle Machines staffers. In the June issue (#153) of Hemmings Muscle Machines, you’ll read the story of a remarkable ’70 Dodge Challenger R/T four-speed convertible. It’s appeared in print one other time: Read more

Going back through some old bookmarks, I see we never used these three photos from the Duke University Libraries for our carspotting series. At least two of them we can positively identify the location: Above, we’re on Broad Street just across from Military Park in Newark; and at the far Read more

Everybody reading this should know by now that I am constitutionally unable to pass on featuring any shortened vehicle, and this 1974 Volkswagen shorty bus for sale on Hemmings.com is no exception. No mere cut-n-shut, this one appears to have been thoroughly restored and finished and possibly even put on Read more