Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Buick’s limited-production, two-year only Reatta convertible always struck us as a car that should be more popular than it is among collectors. Though styling is subjective, it’s certainly not a bad-looking car, and being a Buick, its ride is comfortable, if not particularly sporting. Yes, Reatta coupes and convertibles had Read more
There’s no mystery to cars, even modern hybrids: They’re just metal, glass, plastic, and electronics, and they can be taken apart and put together in all sorts of ways, as we see from one man’s effort to meld a wrecked Prius with a 1967 Pontiac Firebird that defied conventional restoration. Read more
By William Hall. Photos by the author and Tom Heinrich. Lyn St. James climbs into the cramped cockpit of the 1964 Alfa Romeo TZ 1 and takes a few moments to familiarize herself with the instruments and switches. She wants to know everything; she explains that her learning process is Read more
Introduced into the U.S. military in 1984, the AM General-produced M998 High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV, or Humvee for short) replaced a fleet of light duty trucks that included the M151 ¼ ton Jeep, the Gama Goat and civilian pickup based Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle (CUCV). In the decades Read more
A 1976 Ford Gran Torino, used in the television series Starsky & Hutch. Image courtesy Leake Auctions. Starsky & Hutch, which premiered on ABC television in April of 1975, was hardly the first crime drama to feature an automobile in a starring role. It was, perhaps, the first television series Read more
The disagreement between the National Corvette Museum Motorsport Park and its neighbors on Clark Circle remains ongoing, but on March 17 the track will present an amended noise abatement plan to the Bowling Green City-County Planning Commission it believes will go a long way towards settling the issue once and Read more
One man’s trash, it’s said, is another man’s treasure. While none of the cars gathered for this edition of the $5,000 challenge fall into the “trash” category, each has the potential of being a treasure for the right potential buyer. This week’s selection includes everything from an under-appreciated-in-its-day AMC, to Read more
Mario Andretti, in the Brawner Hawk at Indianapolis in 1965. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Amelia Island, whose concours weekend runs March 11-13, is one of a handful of major car events to presents two best-of-show awards; one for a road car, and one for a competition car. So if Read more
It isn’t likely that the first owner of this 1976 Mercury Monarch Ghia, for sale on Hemmings.com, purchased his car for investment purposes, intent on preserving it for future generations. Life, as the saying goes, is what happens while we’re busy making other plans, and, four decades after this car Read more
Photo by the author. Of all the unconventional shapes that dreamers and designers applied to conceptual automobiles during the streamlining craze of the Twenties and Thirties, perhaps none made the transition to production automobiles as successfully as the fastback roofline, applied to sporty closed cars as small as tiny economobiles Read more