Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
1948 Daimler DE-36 “Green Goddess,” owned by Mark Hyman. Photos by Mark Usciak, courtesy The Elegance at Hershey, unless otherwise noted. In 1948, a car appeared at the Earls Court Motor Show that very nearly defied description. Over 20 feet long and almost seven feet wide, the drophead coupe in Read more
Marlon Brando’s 1969 Harley-Davidson FLH Electra-Glide. Photos courtesy Julien’s Auctions. Marlon Brando, who is better known for sitting astride a Triumph in the 1953 movie The Wild One, was actually a casual Harley-Davidson enthusiast, and his personal 1969 Shovelhead Electra Glide will be a featured item in the upcoming Julien’s Read more
Holden Senior Interior Designer Joe Rudolph. Photos courtesy General Motors. Editor’s note: Bryan Thompson, automotive designer and frequent contributor to Hemmings, is back with more automotive insights. This time he visits Melbourne, Australia, and sits down with Holden Interior Senior Designer Joe Rudolph, to discuss what makes auto design such Read more
Ad photo by author. Another intriguing aspect of reading vintage car magazines, aside from the obvious fun factor of traveling back in time, is finding weird stuff. I think this ad for American Hatch Corp.’s Total Styling Concept for the Camaro certainly qualifies. It ran in the May 1977 issue Read more
The kid? We don’t know, maybe Rob Ketcherside, whose grandfather, David C. Cook, took today’s carspotting photo sometime in 1954 on the grounds in front of the Washington state capitol building. The flowers? We don’t know either. The cars? Well, at least the nearest cars should be easy enough to Read more
We know this 1985 BMW M6 for sale on Hemmings.com pretty well, given that it’s been to many of our cruise nights and Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car shows, and can confirm that it’s been well loved and taken care of over the last several years by somebody who knows Read more
The John Tojeiro-built, MG-powered Barchetta. Photos courtesy RM Sotheby’s. By the early 1950s, John Tojeiro had built a reputation for constructing winning sports racers, so when customer Cliff Davies approached him with an idea for a Bristol-powered, road legal sports racer, Tojeiro welcomed the challenge. Two similar cars were built Read more
All photos by Sean Mathis. Sean Mathis never got the chance to drive his grandfather’s 1959 Cadillac Coupe de Ville – hadn’t even sat behind the wheel – until, that is, the day an auto transporter dropped it off near his house in North Carolina and he took possession of Read more
One thing we haven’t run across much of is collectors who like to have an old bus or two in their collection. We guess, like fire trucks, while the appreciation for them exists, the space and resources for something as big as a bus doesn’t, so they’re mostly sent off Read more
This Le Mans weekend, let’s take a look at the 1961 running of the endurance race thanks to JustBritish raiding the Standard-Triumph video archives. * We’ve always believed that the best car ads – aside from those featuring Joe Isuzu – just give the name of the car and show Read more