Hemmings Auto Blog

Photo courtesy The Henry Ford. It might not be president, but Dan Gurney still won some recognition recently from the annual International Historic Motoring Awards, which presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday. Gurney, 84, has quite the resume to back up that award. His record includes 51 Read more

The 2017 Fiat 124 Spider. Images courtesy FCA. The last time Fiat offered a drop-top two-seater in the United States market, personal computers were a novelty instead of a necessity, cellular telephones were briefcase-sized and the Internet was reserved for the sharing of scientific data instead of cat pictures. Three Read more

Sunrise over the Salt Flats. While flooding of Bonneville is a natural part of its cycle that benefits the salt crust, increased rainfall and the shrinkage and degradation of the racing surface has led to concern about the possible end of racing at Bonneville. Photo by the author.  So often Read more

The Tudor was one of the hottest of all Model A body styles. Ford build more than 1.25 million of them over the A’s four-year production run, so they’re pretty easy to find these days. For ’31 Ford also offered a Deluxe Tudor which added a host of niceties. At Read more

If Bruce Meyer’s garage – or at least one thing in it – isn’t the stuff of dreams for pretty much any car enthusiast, they probably don’t really deserve to be called that. Meyer gives V3llum a run-down of some of the vehicles in his collection as well as his Read more

A car is only original once, and it stands to reason that well-preserved and unrestored cars can command a premium price over restored examples of the same make and model. According to the owner of this 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302, for sale on Hemmings.com, the car is a 24,000 Read more

How did motorists ever get anywhere before GPS units and Google Maps on every smartphone? It certainly wasn’t because they all knew where they were going, as we can see from MotorPunk’s collection of vintage navigation devices, which range in sophistication from the handmade (above, actually used for a slightly Read more

To Rob Ida, there’s no such thing as good enough. While his 1940 Mercury three-window coupe, built for owner Jack Kiely, earned near-universal praise and a Best of Show Design Award from Ford at the 2015 SEMA Show, Rob still saw room for improvement. That quest for perfection, and bit Read more

Another one from the Historic American Engineering Record files on the old Third Avenue El in the Bronx, this one taken where Third Avenue snakes around just south of 161st Street, beside the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse. While the El no longer stands, the courthouse does, though just barely, after Read more

Ah, the most misunderstood of all vehicles: the base model pony car. The whole point of pony cars, after all, going back to the thinking behind the Mustang, was to provide a blank canvas for the buyer to beef up, tart up, and otherwise personalize from new, and pony car Read more