Hemmings Auto Blog

Debuting in 1962 as a personal luxury coupe under the Studebaker brand, the Avanti has enjoyed more lives than the average house cat. Studebaker’s production of the Avanti ended in 1963, but the model was quickly resurrected by the Avanti Motor Corporation, which continued to produce cars (under several owners) Read more

Photo via HMN archives. “That was a game changer; now what should we do?” Susan Edwards, the director of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, asked Ken Gross. The art deco automobiles exhibit that Gross curated for the Frist had just wrapped after attracting hundreds of thousands Read more

Sunset on Highway 50. Photos courtesy Travel Nevada, unless otherwise noted. Some old friends drove up for a visit last weekend, and though our Vermont home is a mere three hours from theirs in New Jersey, we don’t see them as often as we’d like. My friend and his wife, Read more

Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Despite an on-again, off-again production run that spanned decades, the Marcos GT remained truly unique in the sports car world. Here was a car that combined an ultra-low (43 1/4 inches!), unbelievably swoopy fiberglass body with -at least initially- a Read more

From Jeff at Vintage Las Vegas comes a very un-Vegaslike photo because, unless there’s some casino owner preparing an old right-hand-drive car themed resort, it ain’t from Vegas. Instead, Jeff noted that the back of the photo gives the location as South Africa, though nowhere in particular in that country. Read more

Not much in the description of this 1968 Buick Riviera for sale on Hemmings.com to tell us how much work it’s taken to get it to this point, but with less than 75,000 miles on the clock, we can presume that it hasn’t taken much, other than regular maintenance and Read more

1957 Ferrari 335S. Photos courtesy Artcurial. When Artcurial sold a historically significant, ex-works Ferrari 335S for 32,075,200 euros (now, $35.6 million) at its Paris auction on Friday, February 5, it was quick to point out that the car had set a new world record price for a Ferrari at auction. Read more

With an eye on ensuring a place for historic vehicles as autonomous cars and other new technologies become commonplace, the Federation Internationale des Vehicules Anciens has declared 2016 as World Motoring Heritage Year and will bring the global discussion on preservation to its first Heritage Forum at the Amelia Island Read more

Photo by John Butte. [Editor’s Note: While the Silver Streak Model T recently came off its exhibit at Peoria’s Riverfront Museum, it’ll soon move on to a somewhat bigger stage: the Model T Museum in Richmond, Indiana. To get the whole story on the Silver Streak, we went to its Read more

Story and photos by Joe Essid. In the first two parts of Project Apollo, I discussed finding, buying, and shipping my vintage car. That part of the story had largely been out of my hands, but once the car showed up, its future was mine, with the help of a Read more