Hemmings Auto Blog

Yeah, this 1960 De Soto Fireflite two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com is gonna need some elbow grease and a little bit of time to get into solid and presentable shape – unless there’s some new “utterly unrestored, beyond Driveable Dream” aesthetic we’re not yet aware of and that somebody’s Read more

* Car museums typically display everything in pristine condition – to the point where some people describe their restored cars as museum-worthy. Not the Beller Museum outside of Chicago, however. As Austin Coop wrote on Roadtrippers this past week, the Beller Museum is dedicated to displaying its cars and trucks Read more

The popularity of our $5,000 Challenge series has raised one glaring issue: Though the population of cars, trucks and motorcycles in our classified is impressive, the bulk of them are priced far above the $5,000 threshold for each Challenge piece. That got us thinking of ways to attract more affordable Read more

Don Antilla, who Hemmings Muscle Machines readers will recall as the owner of a 1966 Ford Fairlane 427 and a 1965 Griffith Series 200 that appeared in the magazine, has been supplying us with a steady stream of photos from his time overseas during the Seventies, including these two shots Read more

Perhaps it doesn’t come with diplomatic immunity, but this ex-West German Consulate 1982 Mercedes-Benz 500 SE for sale on Hemmings.com does have a couple of features that set it apart from its U.S.-market cousins. For one, it’s the “short” wheelbase version, built on the 115.5-inch platform, which we didn’t get here; the Read more

Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. Any resemblance to the Y-Job is purely intentional. Yet while the original Buick dream car will likely remain in GM’s possession as long as there’s a GM to possess it, the 2003 Buick Blackhawk show car that took general inspiration, if not specific Read more

Photo by John Chapman/Pyrope. Even in its heyday, the concrete surface of the Brooklands race circuit ran uneven and bumpy, causing cars to grab some air at more than 100 MPH on certain parts of the track. These days, more than 75 years after racing ended at the circuit, the Read more

As you can see when compared to the next photo, this one was color corrected and the contrast was increased for publication. Photos by author. Sometimes when photographing a car, night just creeps up on you – this was one of those instances. If you’ve read the feature story in Read more

The Chevrolet Camaro’s horsepower ratings over time. Chart courtesy of GM Media. Excluding its seven-year absence from 2003 through 2009, the Chevrolet Camaro has been a muscle car staple since its debut in 1967. It’s not uncommon to hear how today’s production cars can’t hold a candle to the muscle Read more

While both of our recent trips through Anthony Catalano’s archives yielded some neat carspotting photos from either right on his street or right around the corner, today’s batch shows Anthony branching out a little, both in terms of location and style. We’ll start with the above photo, showing a bustling Read more