Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Stills from Project 1320 crowdfunding video. Zero to 265 in seven years might not sound that impressive on the dragstrip, but that figure takes on a whole new dimension when applied to nabbing interviews with some of drag racing’s legends while they’re still alive, the goal of the Quarter Mile Read more
Photos from the Airstream Archive, except where noted. [Editor’s Note: Hemmings Classic Car contributor and columnist Patrick Foster has a new book out all about the Airstream trailer. We’ve asked his publisher for an exclusive excerpt from the book, which we’ve included here. The book, Airstream: America’s World Traveler, is Read more
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Wilding Picture Productions presents for us today an in-your-face advertisement for the 1937 Plymouth, with no pretense of being anything other than an 11-minute class in Non-Stop Salesmanship 101. Unlike their counterparts at the Jam Handy Organization compound, who might have led Read more
Howard Arbiture, fed up with all the Vegas, Los Angeles, Vermont, Hartford, and New York photos we’ve been running in the carspotting series, decided we needed some Milwaukee sprinkled in there, so he sent us this one from the Milwaukee Public Library’s digital collections showing the intersection of Fond du Read more
Even restorations age – that car you redo today won’t remain pristine forever – but when the car’s removed from daily driver status, it tends not to age quite as fast. This 1966 AMC Rambler Classic 770 four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com, redone 20 years ago, has aged rather Read more
Photo by Steve Berry. Claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency’s pending race car ruling poses a restriction on personal freedom, four Congressmen this week introduced a bill intended to thwart the EPA’s oversight on competition vehicles by specifically excluding them from the Clean Air Act. House Resolution 4715, also known Read more
A 1953 Vincent Black Shadow, what a well-heeled Rocker may have ridden in the day. Photos courtesy AACA Museum. Though both groups were actively rebelling against societal norms, the Mods and Rockers of 1960s England went about it from entirely different perspectives. The leather-clad Rockers, obsessed with 1950s American rock Read more
The 1962 Corvette in as-recovered condition. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. In 2015, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, added a maintenance department, housed in the former pre-delivery inspection shop. Now, a year later, the museum has recognized the need to add preservation and restoration to the department’s Read more
On the California Mille, 2015. Photos courtesy Porsche AG. In 2015, vehicles from Porsche’s “Rolling Museum” made over 280 appearances at events stretching from Europe to North America to China. The museum’s 2016 schedule is equally crowded, with events that will put museum cars on public roads and race tracks Read more
Thanks to reader Jack Shea, today’s carspotting comes rather close to the Hemmings backyard with a shot of Jumpin’ Jack’s Charcoal Pit and Twin-Freez in Scotia, about an hour away from Bennington. Looks like it’s been consistently busy since it opened in 1952, which makes for great carspotting. Hopefully there’s Read more