Hemmings Auto Blog

After our recent look at a couple of Carls Jr. restaurants, Scott McElheney pointed out a Hardee’s 50th anniversary photo retrospective on Flickr that included several photos rip for carspotting. Unfortunately, many of them, including these two, have little context to go with them: only the fuzzy license plates in Read more

The seller of this 1956 Ford Country Sedan station wagon, for sale on Hemmings.com, makes absolutely no claims of originality. In fact, if our reference materials are accurate, the 312-cu.in. V-8 wasn’t available in station wagons for the 1956 model year, meaning this example received a later donor engine at Read more

Photos courtesy Bonhams. Lance Reventlow’s Formula 1 effort – which campaigned front-engine cars at a time when the rest of the world switched away from that layout – was pretty much doomed from the start. The cars built for the effort, however, have become legendary among vintage Formula 1 fans Read more

1941 Indian 741 military bike from the Cycle Warehouse Collection. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Classic motorcycling enthusiasts will be salivating this weekend, specifically Sunday, August 2, when over 200 motorcycles will be up for grabs at Mecum’s Harrisburg, Pennsylvania auction. These machines will be sold following the Mecum collector car Read more

Photos courtesy Greg Long. [Editor’s Note: We recently heard from Greg Long, owner of a Citroen DS scheduled to appear in Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car and the author of “Found: The Lives of Interesting Cars & How They Were Discovered.” Greg describes the book as “‘Automotive Historical Fiction’ – Read more

All photos are frame grabs from video below. Attention vacation planners: have we got a destination for you. If you’re going to take unsolicited travel advice from anyone, who better than the fatherly Lowell Thomas – writer, reporter, broadcaster and world traveler? Having documented his explorations of most everywhere else Read more

Not everything’s bigger in Texas, as we can see from today’s carspotting photo of the Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg, which photographer Norman Dietel took sometime in the early 1960s, and which we came across on the Portal to Texas History. How did they ever fit so many people Read more

Buying an affordable classic car can be a roll of the dice, since most don’t come with complete ownership histories. This 1966 Dodge Dart 270, for sale on Hemmings.com, certainly does, since it’s been in the same family, passed from brother to mother to brother, since it rolled off the Read more

1955 Hudson Italia, chassis IT10024. Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. Chrysler’s relationship with Italian design firm Ghia brought it a fair amount of time in the spotlight, a fact that did not go unnoticed by rival automaker Hudson. Fresh from the success of the Hudson Hornet in Read more

The Team Blower Bentley, car number 9, will appear at Pebble Beach this August. Photos courtesy Bentley Classic. When the checkered flag waved at Le Mans this year, it marked the 85th anniversary of a landmark in British motorsport, victory in the 1930 running of the 24 Hours by Woolf Read more