Hemmings Auto Blog

Whoever it was that recently sent me an archive page dedicated to Esso gas stations in Norway – because we get submissions like that all the time! – thank you. Several of the photos on that page make for decent carspotting photos, including these three, which come from Sandnes (above), Read more

Though this 1966 Pontiac Grand Prix for sale on Hemmings.com didn’t originally come with a four-speed, a) it’s what the owner wanted, b) it’s probably what a good chunk of potential buyers would like as well, c) there’s probably plenty of automatic-equipped GP’s left in the world, and d) GP’s Read more

The Fiat 124 Sport Spider and the Alfa Romeo Spider, two Italian twin-cam beauties introduced 50 years ago this year, will be among the special classes at the 11th annual Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car Show, scheduled for Saturday, August 6, at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs, New Read more

Photos courtesy Albert Kahn Associates, Library of Congress. He designed theaters and houses for senators and industry titans. He designed apartments and university buildings. But most people outside of the world of architecture know of Albert Kahn for the massive automobile plants he and his associates created, in the process Read more

Seldon Cooper’s former 1987 Volvo 240, now a resident of the AACA Museum. Photos courtesy AACA Museum, unless otherwise specified. In September of 2012, Maryland resident Seldon Cooper pulled into Lehman Motors Volvo for the 200th oil change on his 1987 Volvo 240 sedan, turning the odometer past the one-million Read more

The close of the 1970s wasn’t exactly the high-water mark for performance cars from American manufacturers, yet that didn’t keep automakers from marketing them. In 1979, Chevrolet produced a consumer pamphlet featuring a cover shot of IROC Camaros in competition, with the bold proclamation “From people who know what performance Read more

Who knew you could get Keystone-style mag wheels for a King Midget, the pride of Athens, Ohio? And they fit on this dressed-up – at least, as dressed-up as a Spartan King Midget can get – 1963 King Midget Series III roadster for sale on Hemmings.com, a car that’s been Read more

Jaguar XKSS. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. On February 12, 1957, a fire began in a tire storage area of Jaguar’s Browns Lane plant in Coventry, England, consuming much of the assembly area before being brought under control. Among the cars destroyed by the conflagration were nine XKSS (for XK Read more

Image courtesy Google Maps. Other than a nine-hole golf course and Interstate 29, there’s not much around the former Onawa Municipal Airport – just a long strip of concrete in the middle of the Iowa cornfields – which makes it just about ideal for a dragstrip, say supporters who hope Read more

The $5,000 Challenge was started as a way to prove that the collector car hobby can still have an affordable point of entry, but it highlights a mere fraction of the cars we have for sale in our classifieds. Worse, perhaps, was that the choices came from a single editor’s Read more