Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Screenshot from American Graffiti. With a dweeb at the wheel, it might not have captured the imagination of moviegoers and cruisin’ fans like Milner’s coupe or Bob Falfa’s black Chevrolet, but the customized white 1958 Chevrolet Impala in George Lucas’s American Graffiti remains one of the stars of the movie, Read more
Studebaker National Museum. Photo by Derek Jensen. In the spirit of the Smithsonian family of museums, Smithsonian Magazine has organized a day this weekend for museums to throw open their doors for free, and at least a dozen automotive museums across the country have agreed to participate. More than 1,400 Read more
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Hey! You out there: Watch this one last video, then get off the couch, turn off this contraption and go make something of yourself. And comb your hair, willya? Automotive vocational training offers a wide selection of opportunities for motivated boys and Read more
Images are from the Hemmings Motor News brochure collection Everybody has to start somewhere. And although the Honda Motor Company‘s first four-wheeled products were the brilliantly designed S(port)500/S600/S800 roadsters of the mid-1960s, Americans buyers weren’t able to purchase those through official channels. The first Honda cars that we could — and did — Read more
One final photo from the Bill Schlaudt collection, shared with us by Bill’s son Louis. Like the Chicago photos, this one dates to 1960, but it shows a much different scene in Kilgore, one full of oil derricks and populated by more trucks. As for where exactly the photo was Read more
Mississippi locomotive. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Each October, Bonhams conducts a sale in conjunction with the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia. It’s an auction that exists solely for selling preserved, unrestored cars, some of them pristine, some needing a ton of work. This year, there’s a new twist: Bonhams will Read more
Images courtesy Early Ford V-8 Foundation. With the Early Ford V-8 Foundation set to inherit about 60 vehicles from donors and members – and with enough space in the foundation’s museum for maybe four more cars – foundation officials have decided to put their $9 million Rotunda replica plans on Read more
Heidi Hetzer’s 1930 Hudson Great Eight “Hudo” at the Hemmings gas station. Photos by Crystal Conwill. Heidi Hetzer is already famous in her native Germany for her automotive exploits, and as reported last month by Richard Lentinello, she is now gathering international renown as she circumnavigates the globe behind the Read more
Hot Rods Forever stamps. Above image courtesy USPS. Images below from author’s collection. If you’re car crazy like me then you’ll collect anything and everything that has an image of an old car on it. Be it a poster, glass, pitcher, postcard or ashtray, if it’s embellished with the illustration Read more
Louis Schlaudt informs us that this photo of his father’s, taken in 1955, depicts the Western Hills Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas. Finding out exactly where the hotel stood is a little difficult – postcards from back in the day note its location on the west side of the city, Read more