Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
This Mercedes-Benz L408 G van, for sale on Hemmings.com, entered service with the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Heide-Stadt (Volunteer Fire Department of the city of Heide) in 1969, and for the next 45 years it served the town’s residents as an auxiliary fire truck. Heide is a small town, meaning that the Read more
Photos by Mathieu Heurtalt, courtesy Gooding and Company, except where noted. At some point, we all gotta go to work to pay for our hobbies. In the early 1950s, Colin Chapman paid his bills by putting in days at British Aluminum, but his passion for motorsports required another income, one Read more
Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. After years of working together in limited capacities, RM Auctions and Sotheby’s have made their partnership formal, with the latter buying a 25 percent stake in the former. Announced Wednesday, the partnership will give Sotheby’s an established presence in the global collector car Read more
The 1979 Oldsmobile diesel range. Photos courtesy ProductionCars.com. As the 1970s came to a close, automakers were faced with ever-stricter emission regulations on gasoline engines. Thinking outside the box, GM tasked its Oldsmobile division with creating a range of diesel engines that would be immune from gasoline emission standards, while Read more
Sunny (mostly southern) subliminal advertising. All photos are frame grabs from video below. Imagine if you will: It was 1935, and you’d spent your week’s pin money to see the Marx Brothers in A Night at the Opera, or maybe Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland in Captain Blood. Perhaps Read more
Going through old bookmarks, I came across this found photo from Shorpy that apparently shows the town of Kaunakakai on the island of Moloka’i in Hawaii – specifically Ala Malama Avenue looking north, as the commenters pointed out – sometime in 1962. Looks rather peaceful. Given the added logistics of Read more
Prices for muscle cars show no sign of dropping any time soon, which means that those of limited budget may be priced out of the market, even for project cars. That’s what makes this 1967 Mercury Cougar GT so attractive: The price is less than you’d spend for a reliable Read more
1915 Cyclone board track racer. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. From its debut in 1913 to its demise in 1915, the Cyclone board track racer was, perhaps, the most technologically advanced motorcycle of its day. It’s estimated that nearly 300 were built over three years of production, but just six are Read more
Borgward teaser rendering. Photos courtesy Borgward AG. No, this is not a Jon Stewart throwaway line from The Daily Show. Borgward, according to several reports, is coming back. If you don’t remember that make of automobile, you’re excused. The final Borgward rolled off the assembly line in Bremen, Germany, in Read more
As regards the appearance of his assailant, Mr. Bradshaw can give few particulars, save that he was clad in a large leather motoring coat, and his face completely hidden by a mask. The car can, on the contrary, be easily identified. It is boat-shaped, running to a sharp cutting edge Read more