Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
While researching our recent article on the 40th anniversary of the Chevette, we came across plenty of crash videos featuring said subcompact on YouTube, but we also came across this Dodge-created comparison video from 1977 pitting the Colt against the Datsun B210, the Chevette and Vega, and the Ford Pinto Read more
Yes, it has rust, but this 1959 Ford Custom 300 for sale on Hemmings.com also runs and drives and the rust doesn’t appear from the photos to be threatening body integrity, so it could feasibly go back on the road as is and provide maybe a few more years of Read more
In America, if a little is good then more must be better, something we can see in the creation of this custom-built six-wheeled Jeep CJ (a vehicle once described as America’s only true sports car) that Off-Road Action came across not too long ago. * In America, we like to Read more
We’re enjoying some down time with friends and family this weekend, so there’s no Hemmings Daily today. We’ll send out the usual Sunday edition on July 5, and will be back to business as usual on Monday, July 6, but in the mean time, what’s more American than red, white Read more
Photo by author. Hiking the rows upon rows of show cars at the Street Machine Nationals in Du Quoin with Hemmings Daily Editor Kurt Ernst, we saw plenty of buildups that stood out from the crowd with wall-to-wall rear tires, wild paint and graphics and blowers, sometimes one stacked on Read more
While researching Fruehauf trailers for a recent story, we came across this photo of a Fruehauf Trailer sales and service branch in St. Louis, Missouri, from around 1950. There seem to be plenty of clues to the exact location, but we weren’t able to figure out exactly where this branch Read more
What do you get when you cross a hand-built frame with a body influenced by a 1924 Dodge and powered by a 181-cu.in. Mercury Marine engine? The answer, apparently, is this 1924 Dodge Trekster, for sale on Hemmings.com. We’re not sure what makes it a 1924 Dodge, and we’re also Read more
Corky Coker, Doug Sharp, Howard Sharp and Wade Kawasaki at the finish of the 2015 Great Race. Photo by Tommy Lee Byrd. The 2015 running of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty didn’t have the auspicious start everyone had hoped for in terms of weather. As reported Read more
Photos by Mikel Smithson, except where noted. Couldn’t be that hard, many people think, to slam an AMX and a Gremlin together to re-create the long-lost 1968 AMX GT concept car, right? Except that nobody has ever whipped up such an automotive portmanteau, given it the requisite red white, and Read more
Photography by Terry Shea and from the private collection of Terry Shea Let’s face it, the typewriter business only has so much glamor in it, though now that we think about it, it’s probably a hit with nostalgics and hipsters alike. Instead, think back to the early Sixties. Imagine you’re Read more