Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Photos by Lynn Gardner and Tom McQueen. What were the oligarchs and plutocrats to do? Aside from the professional car builders and a few specialty shops cranking out pickups and station wagons from big full-frame cars, coachbuilding as most car enthusiasts recognize it was long dead and buried by the Read more
The items are spread out so you can see them a bit better. Note the brown key case is actually a hinged metal box unlike the black trifold leather case. Photos by author. If you enjoy driving your classic car, a few vintage accessories can enhance your time travel experience Read more
Yes, snow. Before anybody complains about seeing the white stuff in our carspotting photos again, wahh—we’ve seen it already here in Vermont, so the rest of you get to experience it with us. And these two photos from the Vermont Landscape Change program do indeed come from the Green Mountain Read more
1937 Fiat Topolino. Photos courtesy AACA Museum. Though primarily a European and Japanese niche, microcars have an enduring appeal, even in the United States. How else would one explain the popularity of these cars at auction, or when featured in special displays by automotive museums from coast to coast? On Read more
The former Syracuse Mile race track. Photo courtesy Google Earth. A milestone of the sorrowful kind occurred in the world of American auto racing this month. The historic one-mile dirt track at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse hosted its final race, ending a run of big-track motorsports that Read more
It’s no secret that the science of advertising has evolved in the decades since World War II. Today, ads have seconds, not minutes, to get their point across, and the average consumer has grown far more cynical to the pitch. Few modern consumers would sit through a 20-minute infomercial on Read more
It takes some reading between the lines of the seller’s description of this 1985 Audi 4000S for sale on Hemmings.com to see beyond the checklist of items that need to be addressed on the car. That is, if a missing molding, a timing belt, and a cooling fan issue are Read more
Chevrolet sure wanted to reinforce the Corvette’s image as a sports car with its 20-minute film introducing the Corvette Sting Ray, what with the opening montage of Euro sports cars (and the occasional Cunningham) and the intermediate break to listen to Dave MacDonald and Dick Thompson driving the cars around Read more
We’d be hard pressed to consider this 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Seville for sale on Hemmings.com as original, what with the rebuilt engine and transmission and recarpeted interior. But we’re assured the car was refurbished to its original specifications due to the fact that its original owner – who garaged and Read more
While “The Slug,” a 1960 Morris J2 van in Australia, doesn’t look all that different in its completed form from how it appeared when it sat, sans wheels and tires, in a farmer’s field, that’s by design: An airbag suspension mounted to scratchbuilt notched frame sections helps keep the old Read more