Hemmings Auto Blog

* Last year, friends and family of physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman banded together to restore Feynman’s 1974 Dodge Tradesman van. This year, they’re trying to get the Smithsonian to accept it into the museum’s collections. * Swapping one supercharged GM 3800 V-6 into a New Beetle wasn’t Read more

Ah, the simple pleasure of the road trip. Is there a better way to get from point A to point B than in a car you’ve poured your own blood, sweat and (occasionally) tears into? Is there a better way to see the country than at ground level, an ever-changing Read more

Disappearing down the rabbit hole for a few minutes can reveal some intriguing stuff: For example, while looking through Library of Congress photos associated with yesterday’s carspotting scene, we came across one more good photo of the Cleveland streetcar system from sometime in the 1970s taken from the Green Road Read more

Built in limited quantities for the 1970 model year, the Chrysler 300 Hurst Edition carries the distinction of being among the largest two-door coupes produced in modern times. Measuring nearly 19 feet from stem to stern and weighing well over two tons, the luxury muscle car and 300 letter series Read more

The LeMay’s 1966 Ford Mustang. Photos courtesy LeMay – America’s Car Museum. To classic car enthusiasts, a 2,400 mile trek in a 1957 Chevrolet Nomad, a 1961 Chrysler 300G or a 1966 Ford Mustang is the stuff dreams are made of. Make that trek from Tacoma, Washington, to Detroit, Michigan, Read more

Back in March, Great Race and Coker Tire Company owner Corky Coker announced that the 2016 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty – the country’s premier time/distance vintage car rally – would travel along the historic Lincoln Highway. The initial release held tantalizing clues as to some of Read more

Photo courtesy America’s British Reliability Run. Back in 2007, Senior Editor Mark J. McCourt and I took on the America’s British Reliability Run, a two-day, 800-mile rally created to battle the stereotype of British cars as undependable old crocks while, more importantly, raising money to help sick children. We made it all the way from Read more

1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 ad courtesy of Production Cars. For 1971, Ford introduced a newly styled Mustang that had grown noticeably larger and heavier than the model it replaced. Blame it on consumer demand, or perhaps market research, which showed that buyers wanted more room and more luxury from Read more

Typically when we see streetcar lines in the old photos in our carspotting series, we expect to see them ripped up in the modern-day street view, but that’s not the case with today’s photo of the Shaker Heights streetcar line on the east side of Cleveland – specifically at the Read more

Not every resto project requires the same skillset, nor is every project car suitable for just any old car enthusiast. Take, for instance, this 1966 Ford Country Sedan for sale on Hemmings.com. Those enthusiasts who seem to have rust allergies may want to shy away from it, but we’ve met Read more