Hemmings Auto Blog

Photos courtesy Auctions America. For Ford’s 50th anniversary in 1953, its passenger cars received a few minor updates and 50th Anniversary horn buttons, but Dearborn’s familiar red and gray tractor was radically revised. The all-new 1953 NAA rolled out with 50th-year Golden Jubilee badging, an overhead-valve “Red Tiger” four-cylinder engine Read more

The first van in space? According to this old publicity photo from Ford UK, which BigLorryBlog shared eons ago and which we also ran across on a nice history of the Ford Transit van, it was a six-wheeled gullwing-door, bubble-window-in-the-roof Mk II Ford Transit in about 1979. Watch out for Read more

All photos by Terry Shea In the past year or so, I have been trying to assemble a complete set of hand tools, filling in the gaps and adding some tools I didn’t even know I needed. You can never have too many tools, right? Right?!?! Wrenches are a simple Read more

Rather than sticking with one place or time as we do with most of our carspotting photos, today we’ve got three that were all taken in the parking lot of Sears stores in three different locations and at three different times. The first one, above, depicts a store somewhere in Read more

It’s hard to find fault with this 1964 Buick Sport Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. It’s had a few minor upgrades/alterations from stock, and it’s been semi-restored, but it also appears to be a complete, straightforward, and well-documented car, good for ice cream runs or for power parking. Or maybe Read more

Photos courtesy Classic Car Auctions. Up until a few years ago, fans of the British television series The Prisoner believed only one of the four Mini Mokes built for the show had survived. That is, until one of those fans found a second hiding out in a barn in the Read more

The Craftsman Comet R. Photos by Terry McGean. All good things, the saying goes, must come to an end. After a summer spent following the Craftsman Comet to shows and events throughout the Midwest, our time with the car is over, and on Friday, August 7, the custom 1965 Mercury Read more

Tom Amendola’s 1957 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer. Photos by Tom Amendola. Tom Amendola was simply looking for a driver-quality car when he purchased his 1957 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer from its second owner on the day after Christmas in 1990. A decade, a D-500 parts car and a full restoration Read more

The other day, frequent commenter John C. Kovalo shone a bright ray of light onto our frequently contentious comments section. After Howard Arbiture expressed his desire to drive an International KB-1 woodie wagon at sub-highway speeds, John said that if he had the dough he’d buy that wagon for Howard Read more

As we see from the Vermont Landscape Change program, Barry’s Auto Sales, which remains in business today in the exact same place (but in a newer building) on South Burlington’s Williston Road, seemed to trade almost exclusively in Fords and Chevrolets back in September 1963, when these photos were taken. Read more