Hemmings Auto Blog

To a certain group of British motorists, Christmas doesn’t so much hold the promise of holiday cheer, drinking eggnog, and unwrapping presents. Rather, the holiday – specifically Boxing Day – brings with it the Exeter Trial, better known as the London to Exeter and Back Winter Club Run, which the Read more

U.S. Route 90. Photo by jbparrott. It seems that everybody has either a plan to travel Route 66 one day or a story from a trip down the fabled Mother Road, given the number of responses to our recent story on the 90th anniversary of that ribbon of asphalt. But Read more

Continuing our dip into the Historic American Engineering Records overview of the Bronx’s Third Avenue El, we’ve got a look at either side of the 180th Street station, with cars parked on both sides and a couple buses providing that last mile and a film of road salt starting to Read more

One fine candidate for driveable dream status is this 1973 Imperial LeBaron four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com. It’s got a few cosmetic issues, a little rust, and a handful of power accessories to fix, but it’s also pretty solid throughout, complete, and was recently treated to a warmed-over 440. Read more

Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. As lore has it, Dale Earnhardt was just about ready to hang up his helmet in 1974 and turn his back on racing for good when he got the opportunity to test a factory-built kit car Chrysler was developing. Encouragement from the Chrysler engineer on hand Read more

The 2,000,000th Land Rover Defender. Images courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. By any measure, it was an unusual auction: A single lot was presented on stage at Bonhams’s Bond Street showroom in London, England, and all proceeds from the sale went to a pair of charities, the International Federation of Red Read more

Cover: Patrick Depailler’s Tyrell P34 at the 1976 Dutch Grand Prix. Photos courtesy of McKlein Publishing. Do you have a passion for racing in the 1950s through the 1970s? An interest in Formula One, sports cars, touring cars and rally cars? Do you subscribe to the theory that when it Read more

1972 AMC Javelin AMX print ad, courtesy Production Cars. In 1971, Mark Donahue delivered American Motors’s first Trans-Am championship behind the wheel of a Javelin AMX. The manufacturer wasted no time in promoting this, and a 1972 print ad proclaimed the new Javelin AMX was “The closest you can come Read more

Ronan at Ran When Parked recently came across this postcard scene of a ski resort parking lot somewhere in the Alps, and with a little digging, we think we’ve pinpointed it as Serre-Chevalier in the far southeast of France. When it was taken continues to elude us, so let’s try Read more

Pontiac’s mid-engine, rear-drive, two-seat Fiero debuted for the 1984 model year, and consumers immediately began asking for a more powerful engine than the 2.5-liter “Iron Duke” four-cylinder found beneath the hood. For 1985, Pontiac responded with a 2.8-liter six-cylinder option, which increased output from 92 horsepower to a slightly more Read more