Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
As a mechanic, Rolf Gardener once spent his days turning wrenches on Volkswagen Beetles in the town of Batley, West Yorkshire, England. As a Beetle enthusiast, Gardener frequently bought customer cars as they came up for sale, but age catches up with all of us. With retirement looming, Gardener is Read more
The great thing about the collector car hobby is this: There’s a ride out there for everyone, and what’s junk food to some is gourmet fare to others. Think of this edition of the $5,000 Challenge as a Vegas all-you-can-eat buffet, with plenty of variety for a low admission price. Read more
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Today’s special — Vol. 3 No. 4: An appetizer of planes, trains and automobiles that might have been enjoyed before the main course of, perhaps, Spencer Tracy and Lionel Barrymore in Captains Courageous or the Marx brothers in A Day at the Read more
Even if there were visible clues in the background, or if you could read any license plates in this image, we wouldn’t suggest trying to figure out exactly where the photo was taken or how so many vehicles could get jammed into such a tight space. That’s because it wasn’t Read more
Here we thought all the Surreys left in the world had been perfectly restored by now, as impossible as that might seem, but that’s not the case, as we see from this 1961 Willys DJ-3A Surrey for sale on Hemmings.com. It looks as though somebody had tried converting it to Read more
1932 Ford V-8 De Luxe Roadster. Photos by Noggs Photography LLC, courtesy Auctions America, unless otherwise noted. When Ford debuted its V-8-powered Model 18 lineup for 1932, the cars delivered levels of performance, luxury and style never before seen in a mid-priced automobile. Despite the economic woes of the Great Read more
Veterans and active-duty military ride Harley-Davidsons on the deck of the USS Yorktown. Photos by Mic Smith/AP Images for Harley-Davidson. Harley-Davidson was aboard the USS Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on May 6, to announce that it is offering all military veterans, active-duty troops and reservists free admission to Read more
Junior Johnson at the Riverside 500 in 1965. Photos courtesy Ford Motorsport, unless otherwise indicated. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from new Hemmings contributor Steve Thomas. Ripping down a barely-paved county road in the mountains of North Carolina with revenue agents closing in isn’t what you’d typically think Read more
All brochure images are from the collection of Mark J. McCourt The Chrysler Conquest -and its Mitsubishi-badged twin, the Starion- is a perfect representative of the place, time and situation that it came from, being a “captive import,” built by Mitsubishi in Japan and sold in Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth showrooms through the Read more
What is this madness? While browsing through the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Flickrstream, we came across two photos of the intersection of Sheridan Road and Foster Avenue, both looking east toward the lake along Foster, both taken on August 11, 1944, but each showing traffic moving in opposite directions. Read more