Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Reportedly used in two “Herbie” movies, this 1963 VW Beetle sold for $126,500. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Volkswagen Beetles are recognized and (generally) loved around the world, but the best-known and most beloved Beetle of all is likely Herbie, the star of a Disney movie franchise that’s grossed over $280 million Read more
Photo by Richard Lentinello. He certainly wasn’t the first person to recognize the collectibility of old cars, but Leo Gephart did help lay many of the stones in the foundation of the collector car hobby as it exists today, leading many to mourn his death last week at the age Read more
Amphicar 770. Photo from the Hemmings archives. When Downtown Disney’s newest eatery, The Boathouse, opened on April 13, the venue debuted more than upscale dining and waterfront views of Orlando, Florida’s, Lake Buena Vista. The restaurant boasts a collection of rare boats built from the 1930s through the 1950s, but Read more
Amphicar 770. Photo from the Hemmings archives. When Downtown Disney’s newest eatery, The Boathouse, opened on April 13, the venue debuted more than upscale dining and waterfront views of Orlando, Florida’s, Lake Buena Vista. The restaurant boasts a collection of rare boats built from the 1930s through the 1950s, but Read more
In the future, it’s highly unlikely that anyone will look back at 1970s with wide-eyed awe, at least from an automotive styling perspective. For those of us who came of age in and around the decade, however, 1970s cars may well have been our first automotive objects of desire, and Read more
While we were able to pinpoint the location of the last trackside carspotting photo that we got from Gmund 356 as Bridgehampton, this one poses a little more of a challenge. Still, there’s probably enough here for anybody familiar enough with SCCA tracks in the Sixties to deduce the place Read more
We need to see more of this. I’m not necessarily talking about four-doors, or about big engines disguised as smaller ones, or about blackwalls and dog-dish hubcaps, as exhibited on this 1967 Chevrolet Bel Air for sale on Hemmings.com. They’re all intriguing elements, and we can debate them all to Read more
Photos courtesy Mark Melvin. For decades, the pink AMX that AMC gave away in 1968 wore one coat of different colored paint after another to hide its factory-original hue. The coverup, however, came not from an overabundance of testosterone on the part of the car’s owner, rather on the part Read more
1972 Nissan Skyline GT-R. Photo by Masuda Kazuhisa, courtesy RM Auctions. In 2014, the Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance, held annually in Forest Grove, Oregon, introduced a class dedicated to pre-1979 Datsun Z cars. The class proved so popular that it will be back for 2015, joined this year by an Read more
John Dillinger’s 1933 Essex Terraplane. Photo courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. John Dillinger was America’s most notorious bank robber, and having selected that form of livelihood, had to know a thing or two about fast cars. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, Indiana, is now displaying a getaway Read more