Hemmings Auto Blog

* What better reason for a cross-country road trip than to attend the monthly meeting of a club meeting? Or, at least, that was the thinking behind the drive made by four couples in their Jensen Healeys traveling from Chicago to Southern California and documenting their adventures on Facebook. * Read more

Photos courtesy Ken Freeman. Some TV and movie cars don’t take much to replicate: Slap an “01,” push bar, and stars and bars on your orange 1969 Dodge Charger, for example, and you’re 90 percent of the way to a General Lee. Others require meticulous attention to detail and the Read more

Most vintage sprint cars on the market these days have either seen full restorations – including gold-leaf lettering and plenty of chrome chassis parts – or remain track warriors with selected upgrades mixed in with beat up body panels. Not many are like this Hudson-powered 1949 Hillegass sprint car for Read more

Lotus racing cars. Photo courtesy Barber Motorsports Park. Vintage auto racing is nothing new at Barber Motorsports Park, located on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama. The Barber Historics, however, is an all-new event for the facility, which blends Historic Motor Sports Association-sanctioned racing with a swap meet, a “Barber-que” with Read more

Early 1920s Packard hood ornament. Photo by Kurt Ernst. Among the featured marques at this year’s ninth-annual Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance will be Packard. Since 1899, we’ve all been “asking the man who owns one” about his Packard, and this year’s Concours will give you the chance to see Read more

1974 Nickey Stage III Camaro. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. From the late 1950s onward, Nickey Chevrolet in Chicago, Illinois, built a reputation as one of the country’s go-to dealers for high performance parts, and later, turnkey cars. When the Camaro debuted in 1967, Nickey claimed to be Read more

In the comments to the last look at Disneyland’s parking lot – because, to many of us gearheads, the parking lot at Disneyland circa mid-century is the most magical place on earth – Groby posted a link to another such shot, this one looking toward the hotel and taken in Read more

We’re gonna head this one off at the pass: Yes, this 1968 Ford Torino GT for sale on Hemmings.com has aftermarket wheels. Even if the seller isn’t including the original wheels with the car, so what – wheels and tires are incredibly easy to swap around for performance, personalization, or Read more

The first Vignale-bodied Cunningham C-3. Phots by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Cost be damned, Briggs Swift Cunningham II was going to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans with an automobile of his own making. When the Automobile Club de l’Ouest mandated that cars entered at Le Mans in Read more

Photo by Jim Fluharty / NASCAR Illustrated. An outstanding auto racing analyst and familiar NASCAR pit lane reporter, Steve Byrnes died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. Steve was just 56 years old. Steve had been a staple in pit lane at NASCAR races since he was hired Read more