Hemmings Auto Blog

Photos by author. Parts car availability seems to be shuffling toward the realm of dinosaurs, VCR repairmen, desktop computers and hula-hoops thanks mostly to the fact that with collector car prices being what they are, every candidate is now viewed as restorable. Some parts cars may be good enough to Read more

Reader Harvey P. Berliner doesn’t think we’ve had enough snowy carspotting scenes in our series, which is why he sent along today’s photo of 221st Street near 94th Road in Queens Village, New York, dated 1971, showing a good layer of the white stuff on everything. That white stuff should Read more

For what purposes Aunt Edith used this 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Vista four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com, the seller doesn’t mention, but she sure kept a clean and well-maintained car, one that hasn’t needed much in her time with it or in her family’s time after her. It seems to Read more

Jeff Lane in the completed Dymaxion replica. Photos courtesy Lane Motor Museum. Though he had to put it on the backburner a few years ago, Jeff Lane never gave up on his Dymaxion replica project, and now that it’s finished, he plans to load a number of his friends in Read more

Photo by Tommy Lee Byrd. The Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty offers those with a passion for classic cars and time-speed-distance rallies a chance to test their skills against their peers, but nine days of competition isn’t for everyone. For 2015, the organizers of the Great Race Read more

Just like its title implies, if you like underdogs and British cars, then TVR is the marque for you. These hand-built fiberglass sports cars with their tube chassis are known for their exceptional handling, striking styling and very limited production. Although few books have been published on TVR, this particular Read more

Editor’s note: This contribution comes to us from Australian reader and Alfisti Steven Wade, who recently acquired a 1986 Alfa Romeo Sprint. We asked for his take on the car, as well as his opinion on the pseudo-infamous “Top Gear Theory” of Alfa Romeo ownership. Steven is also passionate about Read more

While this photo taken from one of the hotel rooms at the Riviera on the Las Vegas strip – dated December 1966 and courtesy Vintage Las Vegas – isn’t the highest resolution and depicts the cars in the parking lot below at a distance, there’s plenty of cars to take Read more

Enthusiasts will always find a way. One constant source of worry about newer old cars with more complex technology, plastics, and computers, is that the components will fail and thus turn the cars into effective paperweights. But ingenuity can make short work out of finding replacements or workarounds, as we Read more

Offered by Cord in sedan, brougham, convertible coupe and convertible sedan body styles, only a handful of L-29 chassis were sent to coachbuilder Murphy for the addition of a Town Car body. Of these, most were said to have been built upon a stretched wheelbase measuring 152 1/2 inches in Read more