Hemmings Auto Blog

Chase Morsey photo via Bob Fria. His knees shook as he sat waiting outside Henry Ford II’s office. Chase Morsey, then 29 years old and less than a year into his time at Ford Motor Company, knew he was right – his research backed it up – but he still Read more

Ford Heacock III. Photo courtesy Ford Heacock III. Established as CollectorGuard insurance in 1990 by Ford Heacock III, Heacock Classic insurance has earned a reputation for customer service among classic car owners. On Tuesday, March 1, the company announced its sale to insurance program administration specialist NSM Insurance Group, a Read more

Photos by J. Daniel Beaudry If you began reading Hemmings in the 1950s or ’60s, there’s no doubt you’d recognize what car this interesting piece of sculpture represents. But as the hobby has shifted from the Ford Model T and Model A and what the AACA terms “Full Classics” into Read more

A restored Calamity Jane, offered for sale in Hemmings in 2011. Photos courtesy Hemmings archives unless otherwise noted. For those of us raised in the United States from the 1950s into the 1990s, the ever-present threat of nuclear war was acknowledged, but not necessarily dwelled upon. Fallout shelter signs were Read more

Whether it was produced for Warner Brothers or for Chrysler (even our resident Mopar expert, Tom DeMauro, can’t recall seeing anything like it), these prototype road runner models for sale on Hemmings.com – an actual casting and a Plaster of Paris model from which it was derived – would still Read more

Photos by the author. Perhaps one day soon, students in certain post-secondary institutions will be able to pursue advanced degrees in automotive preservation, just as they can now study the historic preservation of buildings and architecture. To pave the way for such a future, the Historic Vehicle Association has partnered with Read more

Here are a few examples of items normally used in the kitchen or bathroom that can help make projects in the garage easier. Photos by author. Areas like the garage, workshop and basement are sometimes treated as the second-class rooms of the home. They get the hand-me-downs. For example, your Read more

Photo courtesy of Frank Wnek/The Morganeer. The Sports Car Club of America has announced the creation of two classes for pre-1975 sports cars in its popular Solo autocross program, giving owners of classic cars a way to participate against cars of similar technology. The rules for the new classes, Heritage Classic Street and Heritage Read more

Thanks to Mark Peter Drolet on Tumblr, we came across this Jack Garofolo photo of Harlem in the 1970s, but tracking down the exact location proved a little more difficult. Florsheim Shoes and A.J. Lester were both chains, but after reading up on the history of Freedom National Bank, we Read more

Photos via Customs and Hot Rods of Andice. The catalogs and reference books all say it shouldn’t exist, but according to both its owner and the shop that built it, the 1939 Oldsmobile Series 60 that won the Ridler Award at this past weekend’s Detroit Autorama not only came from Read more