Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Photos by the author. David Lockard might have been the only person who dressed the part of a doughboy to go along with the 1918 Packard 3-ton Army transport truck that trundled onto the show field at the AACA’s Fall Hershey meet, but he and the truck had a whole Read more
On Friday, October 16, 32 British cars left Quakertown, Pa., beginning a nearly 600-mile trip to raise money for sick children while making a point about the reliability of cars from Old Blighty. Three days later, those same 32 British cars pulled into the parking lot of a restaurant in Milford, Read more
Here we thought all Europeans in the Sixties got their groceries from streetside vendors and drove European cars exclusively, but this photo that Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked posted proves that’s not the case, at least not in Stockholm, with plenty of cars – including a couple American beasts Read more
1956 Ferrari 290 MM, in the same livery raced by Fangio in 1956. Photos by Tim Scott, Fluid Images and courtesy RM Sotheby’s, unless otherwise noted. After losing to Lancia in 1954 and Mercedes-Benz in 1955, Ferrari took victory in the 1956 Mille Miglia very seriously. Though Maserati was the Read more
David Hobbs, circa 1976. Photo courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Once each year, the foundation that operates the Simeone Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, famed globally for its stunning collection of as-raced competition cars, presents the Spirit of Competition award to a prominent figure in the world of motorsports. This Read more
The 1960 Lark added two new body styles to the line’s 1959 debut: a convertible and the four-door wagon shown here. In a world where a “full size” GM or Ford vehicle is about 10 inches shorter than its equivalent from Model Year 1960, it can be tough to envision daily Read more
Four Tubes. Photo by Jeremy Brooks. “You know, I’ve seen operating rooms dirtier than your garage,” a former co-worker once said to me. Blame it on my obsessive German nature, but when I’m crawling around on hands and knees looking for that dropped nut, bolt or washer, I prefer to Read more
Even after gorging on Las Vegas carspotting photos a few weeks ago, it’s never too soon to head back to Sin City. After all, as a tourist destination, the cars on the streets and in the parking lots there are ever changing, so we’re never gonna see the same automotive Read more
GM was definitely in a downsizing mood as the 1970s drew to a close. In 1976—reacting to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulations enacted in 1975 and set to take effect in 1978—the General announced it would spend $15 billion trimming its luxury-liner-sized cars down to proportions more suited to Read more
The “Beast of Turin” Fiat S76. Still image from video by Stefan Marjoram, below. It is, by all accounts, massive and violent, standing nearly as tall as the men who built it. Its fire-spewing 28.5-liter (1,729-cu.in.) inline four-cylinder engine proved powerful enough to propel the Fiat S76 Grand Prix car Read more