Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
For those of you scouring our carspotting photos for glimpses of Volkswagen Beetles, today’s shot of a crowded portion of the Rodovia Anchieta, likely in our just outside of Sao Paulo, and dated November of 1970, is for you. In fact, it should probably tide you over for the next Read more
The problem with Corvettes is this: they have two seats and precious little storage space, making them suboptimal as a family hauler. In 1994, Chevrolet revived a nameplate from the past to address this, launching an all-new Impala SS on the seventh-generation Impala’s B-body platform. Power came from a 5.7-liter Read more
Photo by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy Auctions America. Other bubbletops have appeared in the years since the Beatnik Bubbletop hit the custom car scene, but none of them quite so radical or quite as large as the conglomeration of Chevrolet, Cadillac, Lincoln, and Chrysler parts that will head to auction next Read more
The millionth Corvette on June 9, 2015. Photos courtesy GM. On July 2, 1992, the one-millionth Corvette built rolled off the assembly line in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Like the first Corvettes produced in 1953, the millionth car was finished in Wimbledon white with a black roof and a red interior. Read more
Pierre Levegh in his 300 SLR at Le Mans in 1955. Photo courtesy of The Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Inc. The 23rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans began like many other races on the Circuit de la Sarthe before it, in clear weather and with the Read more
All photos by Ralf K. At first glance, Desert Valley Auto Parts looks something like a post-apocalyptic wasteland if the end times had occurred in conjunction with the Age of Aquarius: Cars from the Sixties and earlier scattered about a dry desert backdrop, missing parts and looking about as busted Read more
The light must be great for photographers traveling through Banff because every Sixties vacation photo from the town that we’ve seen – including this found photo that was recently posted to Shorpy – shows vivid and sharp colors. Of course, that majestic craggy mountain in the background of almost all Read more
Henry J. Kaiser wanted to launch a second transportation revolution by bringing an affordable automobile to the masses, akin to what Henry Ford had accomplished with the Model T. At its 1951 launch, the Henry J was described as “the most important new car in America,” and initially, the new Read more
1966 Ford Galaxie 500 LTD lightweight. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Factory lightweights, cars built expressly for drag racing, were typically constructed from entry-level models and decontented even further in the name of weight savings. For 1966, Ford built a few stripper Fairlanes with 427-cu.in. Read more
Hal Fillinger drives his 1912 Mercedes-Benz at the 2011 Hershey’s Grand Ascent. Photo by Matt Litwin. What do an airplane-engined 1912 Mercedes-Benz, a one-of-one 1957 Corvette factory racer and a Ford-Auburn hybrid racer have in common? Ordinarily, the answer would be “little, aside from internal combustion,” but on June 14, Read more