Hemmings Auto Blog

Date: circa 1960s Location: Butler, Pennsylvania Source: Robert Amigh, via Paul D. Johnston Jr. What do you see here?

Photo by Kurt Haubrich. Despite the ongoing rollout of E15 fuel nationwide, a handful of bills introduced in legislatures in D.C. and elsewhere aim to put a halt to sale of the fuel blamed for causing damage to older vehicles. The most extreme of those bills, H.R. 1314, which Virginia Read more

Mario Andretti at the 1969 Indianapolis 500. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Established in 2014 and named for the man who brought motor racing to Watkins Glen, the Cameron R. Argetsinger Award is presented annually by the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMMRC) to the “person in the motorsports industry Read more

Photos courtesy of the Hemmings files; receipts from the author’s family archives My mother and aunt were recently going through some old files in my grandparents’ home when they found some fascinating automotive paperwork, which they put aside for me. Among various registration documents for my grandfather’s antique Fords were Read more

Date: 1958 Location: Katella Avenue, Anaheim, California Source: via Charles Phoenix What do you see here?

Still from “27 Hours to La Paz.” It started out as little more than a lark, an informal competition among off-road racers to see who could make it from one end of the Baja peninsula to the other the quickest. And while big sponsor dollars – and big-money race rigs Read more

1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe. Photos courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Sometimes, the joy of acquiring a collector car is not in the actual purchase, but in the hunt itself. While all the cars in the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have stories to tell, a few stand Read more

Photos by Terry Shea and Kurt Ernst. Alfa Romeo hasn’t offered a sedan in the U.S. market since 1995, the final year its 164 was sold on these shores. Though the brand has offered niche-market sports cars to American customers (on and off) since 2008, it’s been slow to market Read more

Date: circa 1950s Location: 17th Street and A1A, Miami Beach, Florida Source: via The Old Motor What do you see here?

One-off V-8-powered 1939 E.R.A. Raymond Mays sports car for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The works car that competed in the 1939 RAC rally driven by “Bentley Boy” S.C.H ( Sammy ) Davis before being driven around the outer circuit at Brooklands by A.F. Rivers Fletcher at 110 Read more