Hemmings Auto Blog

All photos are frame grabs from video below. Towering high above Chicago’s Illinois Central rail yards once stood a 23-story monument to the American Dream, a fearless labor force, Chevrolet’s impressive advertising budget and—apparently—limitless cheap electricity. If the film’s murky night scenes are to be believed, this sign dominated the Read more

Somehow, in all the multitudinous shots of Rutland’s Grant’s shopping plaza we’ve run in our carspotting series, we’ve overlooked a few good images, so we dipped back into the Vermont Landscape Change archives yet again for three more huge-by-large photos from August 20, 1970, featuring Rutlanders going about their daily Read more

Even extremely original and low-mileage cars are subject to the passage of time and the deterioration it brings. This 1966 Buick Riviera GS for sale on Hemmings.com, for example, might only have had one careful owner who put just 28,000 miles on it, but as of late, it apparently needed Read more

Photos courtesy Lance Miller. When police descended on a private showing of a long-missing Corvette three years ago, it touched off an intense court battle over who really owned the car, one of three Corvettes that Briggs Cunningham took to race at Le Mans in 1960 and perhaps one of Read more

The NCM Motorsport Park layout, showing the track, parking lot and nearby houses. Image courtesy National Corvette Museum. On Monday, June 29, the National Corvette Museum Motorsport Park was presented with a Notice of Violation by the Bowling Green City-County Planning Commission, technically shuttering the track and ceasing construction activities Read more

Photos courtesy James Bonno. Keeping a car in the family often allows car enthusiasts to maintain a sense of connection with ancestors who might have bought the car new or put in plenty of miles behind its wheel. So does it allow family members to bond over that car, as Read more

Brochure images from the Hemmings archives Before the Volkswagen Sedan became an American best-seller, the title of the best-selling imported car was held by an attractive little rear-engined French car- the Renault Dauphine. This product of Renault Régie Nationale France was designed from the start as a car for the masses, as Read more

Wait, Las Vegas isn’t all casinos and glitzy gimmicky hotels, neon, and a grillion light bulbs, nor has it always been so? Based on most photos of Sin City, including those we’ve shown in our carspotting series, it’s probably hard for most folks to peer past the facade and see Read more

How exactly it made its way up from Brazil to the States, we don’t know, but this 1983 Puma GT for sale on Hemmings.com at least appears to be a good-looking, well-kept, and apparently high-performing example of the breed—a suitable ambassador, if you will, for people who don’t know much Read more

1962 Western Pacific Airstream. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Airstream has earned a reputation for building travel trailers long on luxury and style, but few know that the company occasionally constructed utilitarian variants for industrial customers. In 1962, Airstream was asked to build 10 trailers, each 40 feet Read more