Hemmings Auto Blog

As a working vehicle for the last several decades, of course this 1946 Diamond T popcorn wagon for sale on Hemmings.com has seen a number of upgrades: neon signs and lighting, linoleum surfaces inside, modern vending equipment. But it appears the basic body and drivetrain are all original despite the Read more

In 1967 and 1968, Virgil Exner and his son took on a couple projects for Dow Chemical, which wasn’t so much interested in getting started as a carmaker as it was in highlighting its automotive products division. Both were modeled in clay, and as Dean’s Garage wrote this week, the Read more

All photographs and captions, courtesy of  The Ford Dealership Volume I: 1903-1954, by Henry Dominguez. Car dealerships are, to most people, forgettable places. They exist simply to display inventory and, if all goes well, provide a place where paperwork can be signed. But automotive enthusiasts like Henry Dominguez, author of several Ford-focused Read more

Did any of the drivers in this photo of Corvallis’s NW Fourth Street looking north from SW Monroe Avenue, which we came across on the University of Oregon’s Flickrstream, think they were up to anything particularly special that day in the Sixties when an unknown photographer hung out a seventh Read more

The current owner of this W114 “Stroke 8” Mercedes-Benz, for sale on Hemmings.com, makes no mention of the car’s mileage, but these durable sedans were so loved by cab drivers that Stuttgart continued to build the 114/115 series for a full year after they were scheduled to go out of Read more

1986 Ford RS200 Evolution. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company. Ford built 146 RS200 models before the FIA pulled the plug on Group B rallying, and of these, just 24 were converted by the factory into higher-performance Evolution trim. Able to run with (and often, leave behind) more Read more

Photos courtesy GSL 25 Championship. While we noted a couple weeks ago that hundreds of Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild models have gone missing in the decades since GM bought the models from the boys across America that submitted them for the contest, that doesn’t mean none remain. In fact, dozens Read more

Richard Petty, signing autographs for fans. Photo courtesy of Petty’s Garage. Seven NASCAR championships. Seven Daytona 500 victories. Two hundred victories in NASCAR’s top series, an unassailable record. Those are some of the reasons why the King, the legendary Richard Petty, has been selected as the second recipient of the Read more

Sonny Madrid (right), with Jimmy Hernandez and Gloria, the model from the inaugural issue of Lowrider. Photo courtesy Jimmy Hernandez. Sonny Madrid might have started Lowrider magazine by accident, as some claim, or purely for reasons of profit, as others suggest, but he ultimately became one of the movements most Read more

A vintage California black plate. Photo by Jerry “Woody.” When California’s DMV announced that, should the Legacy Plate Program succeed in bringing back the state’s iconic black plates, many feared that the plates would simply be featureless flat plates with screenprinted digits. As it turns out, the plates, which will Read more