Hemmings Auto Blog

Usually, photos of college campuses that appear in our carspotting series show overflowing parking lots, cars triple-parked and carving out parking spaces from thin air. However, these two photos of the University of Vermont courtesy the university’s Landscape Change Program, both taken sometimes in the 1950s (and both showing opposite Read more

Before the Mercedes-Benz Gelaendewagen became the high-zoot status symbol it is today, it was a simple and utilitarian transport for the German military. Like its big brother the Mercedes-Benz Unimog, the G-wagen is supremely capable off-road, and sans the electronic bling of modern versions, just about bulletproof in reliability. This Read more

Images courtesy GM. In mid-Sixties America, front-wheel drive represented—at the same time—automotive past and future. Many others had tried it, but their efforts seemed relegated to the history books, with the last of the bunch 30 years gone. And yet the coming tide of imported cars included many a puller-type Read more

1911 Oldsmobile Autocrat—the Yellow Peril. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby’s, unless otherwise noted. Race cars, typically speaking, lead a hard life. Driven at speeds that tax every major system and component, most are quickly used up and cast off, sold for pennies on the dollar to fund a Read more

All photos are frame grabs from video below. Here’s the real low-down on proper driving, as narrated by one who would know: that special card tucked into your wallet. Or purse. Or fanny pack, but we’re fairly certain they didn’t yet exist when this was filmed. “I am a privilege Read more

Images from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News When was the last time you saw a Marina? We can’t really remember, either, and maybe that’s because, out of the three model years it was sold here (1973-1975), roughly 23,000 were purchased, and an estimated 24 remain. Our U.K. friends Read more

The photographer behind yesterday’s carspotting post, Chalmers Butterfield, is credited for a number of other photos we came across, many of them from Colorado, so we thought we’d round them all up here. Above, we see East Bennett Avenue looking west in Cripple Creek, and below we see (in order) Read more

Though not a fleet vehicle, per se, it’s likely this 1982 GMC Rally Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com got fleet vehicle care in its first life without all the accompanying fleet vehicle mileage, which is likely why it remains both unrestored and free of the insidious rust-through typical of Northeastern Read more

Photo courtesy of AACA Museum. Its exact history is something of a question mark, but with a build date that goes back to the First World War, the 1917 Packard Twin Six 2-35 motorhome recently donated to the AACA Museum by Dick Seybolt of Monkey Island, Oklahoma, may be the Read more

Images courtesy Volvo Cars Heritage, unless otherwise noted Swedish cars may not be as common in South Carolina as those hailing from America, but the marque with the iron mark will be out in force at the 2015 Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance, the weekend of October 31-November 1. Read more