Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Ever wonder what the story was behind those three or four photos floating around the Internet showing Goodyear’s prototype light-up tires from the Sixties? So did Ryan at the Jalopy Journal, who recently met an engineer who was with Goodyear at the time and filled Ryan in on the details Read more
Photos by Michael Paul Smith, courtesy Animal Publishing Group. If, by now, you haven’t seen the works of Michael Paul Smith, you haven’t been paying attention. The prolific model maker who makes his diecast car dioramas look stunningly real has been profiled in the New York Times, on ABC News, Read more
They tell us you can’t save them all, and nothing better illustrates that point than a walk through a junkyard (scrapyard, salvage yard, auto recycler, automotive end-of-life facility, or whatever other business card euphemism is in fashion these days). Steve Engeman, also known to Hemmings Nation Flickr pool members as Read more
Definitely not an introvert’s car. The modifications on this 1951 Mercury leadsled for sale on Hemmings.com might date to the 1980s, but it doesn’t look all that outdated compared to some of the kustoms that guys are churning out these days and could probably still win awards as it sits. Read more
1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C-S. Photos courtesy of Goodwood Festival of Speed. June was a good month for the Mullin Automotive Museum; not only were five Figoni et Falaschi-bodied cars from its collection invited by Lord March to participate in the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed’s Cartier Style et Luxe Concours, a Read more
Photo by author. We all have our own habits when it comes to working on our car. Organization is a recurring consideration when getting down to the job at hand. Spending an hour trying to track down the parts for your weekend project can be mentally defeating. Putting parts in Read more
Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum (left) and RM Sotheby’s (right). The accepted color schemes for different countries in international motorsports – green for Britain, blue for France, etc. – often don’t correspond to those countries’ traditional flag colors. During the 1970s, however, one American racer consistently draped his competition Corvettes Read more
This week’s 1986 Pontiac Fiero Find of the Day generated quite a bit of discussion, proving that people remain passionate about GM’s mid-engine two-seater nearly three decades after production ended. Like many automobiles with a tarnished reputation (Ford’s Pinto and Chevy’s Corvair come to mind), the Pontiac Fiero became a Read more
The Fabulous Bargain Fair in this photo we snagged from Jim and Chester’s Garage may or may not have been in Mentor, Ohio – why include the city and state of the establishment on the sign out front, after all? – but it’s probably close enough, and we didn’t come Read more
Hudson’s innovative postwar cars are a landmark in automotive design, with their road-hugging stepdown layout, monobuilt construction and aerodynamic shape. The high beltline and low greenhouse of these cars give them an even lower and flatter profile that manages to look relevant today in an age when all new cars Read more