Hemmings Auto Blog

Reader Joe Doyle of Boxford, Massachusetts, sent us this postcard from Sparks, Nevada, not because he’d recently stayed at the Nugget Lodge – if it even still exists in this form – rather because he came across it in a house he was remodeling and thought we’d enjoy scanning over Read more

Without a two-tone paint scheme like we’ve seen on many other de Sakhnoffsky Bantams, this 1939 American Bantam Speedster for sale on Hemmings.com might look a little plain (ignoring, of course, the chrome trim, the skirts, the sporty body style…), but under the hood it looks rather fab, thanks to Read more

BMW dealership in Berlin, 1929. Photos courtesy BMW AG. Founded on March 7, 1916, airplane manufacturer Bayerische Fleugzeug-Werke AG would go on to become Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW), adopting the spinning propeller logo now known the world over in 1917. Regardless of the company’s name or logo, March 1916 is Read more

Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Photo by Carl Grant. Of the 48 states outside of Michigan that at one point saw automobile production, perhaps none had developed its automotive industry quite as extensively as Indiana, a state that some believe could have eclipsed its neighbor to the north in building Read more

Still image from video below. I’m a pushover for old driver’s education videos, and this one is entertaining. Digitized and uploaded by A/V Geeks for the Prelinger Archives in San Francisco, this film was produced in 1964. It’s called The ABCs of Defensive Driving Tactics, and was made with the Read more

Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News Big things happened at General Motors for model year 1977, including the hugely successful redesign of the full-sized models that saw them dropping inches and pounds… up to 12 inches and more than 600 pounds, to be more specific, all in Read more

The advantage of doing carspotting scenes from Bennington (to us, anyways) is that we don’t have to spend a lot of time identifying the location. For instance, these two photos from the Vermont Landscape Change program show Northside Drive in August of 1969 – above at the intersection out front Read more

With a couple of Mille Miglias under its belt, its original engine, and a complete history – not to mention simply being one of the limited-production SMM competition versions patterned after a car driven to prominence by Tazio Nuvolari – it’s probably okay that this 1947 Cisitalia 202 SMM Spyder Read more

Photo by Andrew Seaman. With smaller-than-expected cuts to the ethanol mandate released on Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency signaled its willingness to surpass the ethanol blend wall, spurring many to call for a revamp of the Renewable Fuel Standard. While the blend wall – the theoretical maximum amount of ethanol Read more

The 426 Street Hemi. Photos courtesy FCA. Neither the 426-cu.in. V-8 nor hemispherical cylinder heads were new ideas at Chrysler in 1962, but it was Tom Hoover and his group that married the two in an attempt to build an engine that would win the 1964 Daytona 500. Though developed Read more