Hemmings Auto Blog

The event poster, designed by Camilo Pardo. Images courtesy AutoMoto International Film & Arts Festival. For the past two years, the AutoMoto International Film & Arts Festival has been one of the many events taking place during August’s Car Week on California’s Monterey Peninsula. This year, the festival is branching Read more

At Don Lee, Harley Earl favored canted windshields, sidemounted carriage lamps and wraparound beltline moldings to add sportiness to his designs. The Deauville roof topped off a typical Earl design. All images courtesy the author. [Editor’s note: Michael Lamm recently issued a 500-copy reprint of the 1996 book A Century Read more

We’ve noted that the survival rate for cars tends to correlate to the price of the car when new, and after checking out this 1928 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron dual-cowl phaeton for sale on Hemmings.com, we think we that perhaps the infrequency of trading hands among more expensive cars might have Read more

* Jeep Wagoneers of the Seventies might be self-evidently the coolest wagons on the planet, but they apparently didn’t sell themselves when new, as we can infer from this six-and-a-half-minute dealer training video discussing the 1973 Wagoneer and what made it dominantly awesome. * Okay, that Wagoneer sales training video Read more

Tom Hoover in 2006. Photo by George Mattar. Tom Hoover, the Chrysler engineer and founding member of the Ramchargers racing team, whose work with high –performance engines would ultimately earn him the nickname “Godfather of the 426 Hemi,” died on April 30 at age 85, following a long-term illness. Hoover Read more

It’d probably be tough to get insurance and state regulators to sign off on putting this 1954 Land Rover Series 1 fire tender for sale on Hemmings.com back into service, which would be a shame, given that it appears ready for just that, equipped with all the ladders, hoses, water Read more

Photo by Josie Musico, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. * For decades, a 1955 Cadillac Coupe de Ville sat perched atop a building in Lamesa, texas, advertising a now-defunct car museum. This week, it came down after a father-son restoration team bought it, planning to fix all the hailstorm damage and potshots it’s Read more

Vollstedt chassis 67-B today, restored to its as-raced-by-Jimmy Clark trim. Photo courtesy of Brady A. Schwartz. On November 26th, 1967, Jimmy Clark—Indy 500 Champion and two-time F1 World Champion—climbed into the cockpit of the yellow-liveried #21 Vollstedt at the start of the 116-lap “Rex Mays 300” in Riverside, California. It was Read more

We car people immediately think of Sebring, Florida, for the famous race there, and it’s thanks to the 1965 edition of the race that we have today’s carspotting photo of downtown Sebring – specifically of Route 17 looking south from the roundabout – with fairly typical traffic for a mid-March Read more

It might have all the sex appeal of a toothbrush and the sportiness of a baby stroller, but who’s to say that every collectible Nissan has to have a Z somewhere in its model name? Besides, this 1985 Nissan Sentra station wagon has a number of things going for it Read more