Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
With just 500 built, the Jensen C-V8 ranks among the rarest of high-performance British GTs. Like its better known successor, the Interceptor of 1966, the Jensen C-V8 combined a brawny American V-8 with sporting coachwork and a luxurious, hand-assembled interior. These exclusive cars were among the fastest four-seat production cars you Read more
GM likely has a “Raiders of the Lost Ark”-style warehouse full of forgotten artifacts from the company’s century-plus in business. All the Chevrolet production records? In there, probably. Harley Earl’s frozen head? Stuffed away back there too. And right between them, maybe, are all the hundreds if not thousands of Read more
The Hille’s restored 1963 Volvo P1800. Photos by Tim Hille, unless otherwise noted. You and your son have just completed a six-year restoration of your cherished 1963 Volvo P1800. QUICK! What do you do next? A) Put a cover on it and don’t let anyone touch anything without cotton gloves, Read more
Thanks to reader Jim Norton and his high school yearbook, we get to see what the parking lot outside Putnam County High School in Eatonton, Georgia, looked like after classes let out on what appears to be a typical school day. A lotta dirty buses, yes, but also plenty of Read more
2016 Ford GT. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. In 1966, Ford GT40s swept the podium at Le Mans, signaling to Ferrari that its era of dominance in endurance racing was officially over. GT40s delivered victories at the Circuit de la Sarthe from 1967-’69 as well, but by 1970 the cars Read more
Introduced in 1966, the Fiat 124 Sport Spider became one of the most beloved cars in Fiat’s history. By 1982, however, the design was seen by Fiat as dated and waning in appeal, but Pininfarina, the company that designed and built the car under license for Fiat, disagreed. Instead of Read more
Photo by dave_7. You can’t fault James Martin for trying. Over the course of four decades, he made no fewer than four attempts to build cars and market his automobile inventions, each successively more unconventional and, ultimately, unsuccessful. The last of those, the three-wheeler woodie known as the Martin Stationette, will Read more
Dick Simon at the 1987 Indy 500. Photos courtesy of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The folks who organize the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway have fulfilled a promise: All 33 cars at the June 13 Indy Legends Pro-Am will team an Indianapolis 500 veteran with an Read more
Since launching the $5,000 Challenge as a semi-regular feature, we’ve routinely received reader comments along the lines of, “Why not raise the limit to $10,000 to get a wider variety of vehicles to choose from?” I’ve tried to protest, pointing out that $10,000 crosses a line from “affordable” to “unobtainable” Read more
1969 Pontiac brochures, photographed by the author. Have you ever thought about just how many high-performance cars were offered in 1969? Well, here’s your chance. Recently, while writing a Buyer’s Guide on a 1969 GTO for Hemmings Muscle Machines, I was once again reminded of what a fertile model year Read more