Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Think there are more than a few untrained automobile drivers out there on the road with ya? You’re probably right. Maybe we should enforce some requirements of standard 1930s pilot training. When you know your vehicle well enough, piloting that vehicle safely Read more
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News; photograph courtesy Audi Tradition In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Sweden’s Saabs weren’t the only front wheel-drive, two-stroke, three-cylinder cars that were killing giants in international rallying; West Germany’s DKWs were well established and highly regarded competitors. The three-cylinder engine Read more
Knowing that this photo of one of the parking lots at Whittier College was taken at commencement in 1963, we can reasonably deduce at least a couple things. First, the date, sometime in May or June, whenever Whittier holds its graduation, though we probably could have eventually reached that same Read more
There’s something both functional and aesthetically pleasing about old panel vans, and we never fail to give them a second look when they cross our path (or computer screens). Survivors seem to be relatively rare, since many were worked to death before being towed off for scrap, but most we Read more
Photo courtesy Academy of Art University. While an art school in downtown San Francisco might not seem the likeliest of places to conduct an automotive restoration program, officials at the Academy of Art University believe it’s a natural extension of the university’s existing offerings and have put together what they Read more
1929 Bugatti Type 40. Photos courtesy Keno Brothers Fine Automobile Auctions. Introduced in 1926, the Bugatti Type 40 was intended to be a reasonably priced sport-tourer, and a successor to the company’s earlier Brescia Modifie. It’s unlikely that Ettore Bugatti envisioned Algerian rallies or trans-Sahara treks when he designed the Read more
A snowbound 1967 Buick LeSabre. Photo by dave_7. Once again, as fall winds down towards the short days of winter and much colder temperatures, it is time to store away that classic or summer recreational vehicle. The effort you expend into properly storing your recreational vehicles and classic cars over Read more
A 1969 Lola T70 Mk IIIb works its way through the Daytona infield. All photos by Chris Brewer. Editor’s Note: This story comes to us from regular Hemmings contributor Chris Brewer, who may be the only automotive journalist with a doctoral degree in theology. Chris is the senior editor of Read more
It’s not a bad guess that both of these Hartford street scenes from the collection Joe Sokola sent us were taken at about the same time. Both depict construction on Main Street, both were taken just a couple blocks from each other (above, at the intersection of Main and Gold/Atheneum, Read more
At first glance, this 1965 Sunbeam Tiger for sale on Hemmings.com looks too nice to be a 10,000-mile unrestored original example, but from the detail photos the seller provided, we can see all the minor wear and age indicators that tell us, indeed, it looks to have been well preserved Read more