Hemmings Auto Blog

Model kits do a good job of priming kids’ interests in more adult pursuits, like cars or planes. As Mac’s Motor City Garage pointed out this week in a look back at the Visible V-8 kit, which dates to the late 1950s, they can occasionally serve as educational tools as Read more

A battery topper, which does just what the name implies, looks cleaner and more correct than the aftermarket battery under it. Photos by the author. Even though we have recently enjoyed record high temps for the season, we know it can’t last. Soon it will be very cold outside in Read more

See? I’m perfectly capable of posting non-wintry street scenes during winter. Just take a look at these two additional photos from the Richfield Historical Society from the Sixties – above, dated 1964, showing Young’s Pharmacy; and below, dated 1967, showing Richfield Elementary School. Not a flake of snow to be Read more

All photos courtesy FCA. Pretty much as we predicted last year, FCA waited until this year to celebrate Jeep’s 75th anniversary, only going so far back as the Willys Quad and MA prototypes of 1941 in its official history of the brand. On the one hand, one would expect that Read more

Robert Carini. Photo courtesy Klingberg Vintage Motorcar Festival. Robert Carini may not have achieved the level of fame realized by his son Wayne, star of Velocity television’s Chasing Classic Cars, but he was no less respected in the collector car community. A perfectionist with a passion for the Ford Model Read more

We encountered veterinarian and all-round vintage enthusiast Greg Leck of Bangor, Pennsylvania at the Hemmings pre-Concours Cruise-In Spectacular on Saturday, September 26, 2015. What first caught our eye was Greg’s period-perfect looks, including vintage felt hat, suspenders and two-tone spectator shoes—and he wasn’t even by his car yet! When we Read more

I promise, today’s carspotting photo won’t kick off another week of snowy street scenes, but I can’t say that I won’t latch on to windows of wintry weather when I see them. So when perusing what we haven’t yet used from the Richfield Historical Society’s Flickrstream, we kinda had to Read more

Well yes, it certainly does move! Those hop ups and motorcycles get going pretty fast over that eighth-mile stretch of beach sand. But what we really mean is that the date of the race is changing, and organizers are also adding a second location to the calendar. Though this year Read more

In 2004, the ACEMCO Racing team debuted a new Saleen S7R in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Championship, placing second in the GTS class behind the all-conquering Corvette C5-R. Chassis 029R, the Saleen S7R driven by Terry Borcheller, David Brabham and Johnny Mowlem, later went over to Europe, competing Read more

Retired designer Rodell Smith. Still from American Dreaming trailer. Aiming to eliminate the industrial stigma the art world has attached to automotive design and renderings, two collectors and chroniclers of the works of art have assembled a showing of car and truck renderings in the heart of Detroit and have Read more