Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Used car dealerships make for great vintage carspotting photo locations, but new car dealerships? Not much variety there most of the time, but as we see from these three May 1965 Vermont Landscape Change photos depicting what was then Beckwith and Smith – which sold Chevrolets, Buicks, Pontiacs, and Oldsmobiles Read more
Californians might not have to deal with rust to the extent we in the Northeast do, but they typically encounter other problems with older cars: worn-out high-mileage drivetrains, sun-faded paint, heat-baked interiors. This 69,000-mile 1970 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com, though, shows little of those maladies, thanks Read more
Roy Sjoberg and Bob Lutz get ready to take the white mule on its maiden voyage. Photo courtesy Roy Sjoberg. The exhaust wail from a Chrysler V-8 bounced off the brick and concrete walls of the Chrysler Highland Park complex, and though the car producing that wail had long vanished Read more
Photos courtesy Andre Chapman. He might not have the name recognition of most other professional drag racers, but Funny Car racer Eliott J. Platt—who died this weekend at the age of 75—notched up enough victories to be considered one of the top black drag racers in the country for a Read more
Photo by the author. Invariably, buying a used, high-mileage late-Seventies vehicle will result in one of life’s biggest headaches: untangling the vacuum and emissions tubing rats’ nest mess left behind by the previous owners. Straightening out those holiday light strings and nets that you just dumped into a box at Read more
Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars The postwar PVs were the cars that introduced Volvo to the wider world; the PV444 and PV544 of the 1950s and 1960s established this Swedish automaker’s enviable reputation for durability and surprising performance. Perhaps the PV544′s most prominent international motorsports victory was its Read more
As Andrew Patterson pointed out when sharing this photo of downtown Nassau that his grandfather took while on a business trip in 1966, there were indeed plenty of U.S.-built cars sharing the Bahamian roads with British cars at the time. We’re not entirely sure of the location – and it Read more
I was once one of the masses, disregarding Mazda’s sports-car-for-the-people as “too underpowered to be interesting.” Then, a friend tossed me the keys to his SCCA Showroom Stock MX-5 Miata race car and said, “Just drive it.” The result was eye-opening, and a month later I’d purchased my very first Read more
1968 Chevrolet Impala SS. Photos by Jeremy Cliff, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Starting in 1968, Chevrolet no longer built the Super Sport as a separate Impala model, as it had since 1964. Instead, it was a trim option available on a range of Impalas, including the popular Sport Read more
The Rivals exhibit at The Revs Institute. All photos courtesy The Revs Institute. As fans of 1950s Formula One racing know, Mercedes-Benz dominated the sport upon its return to competition at the 1954 French Grand Prix. Upstart and under-funded rival Lancia later posed a legitimate challenge to the Mercedes squad, Read more