Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
The 1990 Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo donated by John J. Case. Photos courtesy Simeone Museum. By the late 1980s, the Nissan (formerly Datsun) Z had morphed from low-cost and light-weight sports car into a semi-luxurious grand-tourer. The 1990 Z32 version, a clean-sheet design, would change all that, becoming a car Read more
Editor’s note: Ryan Chirnomas is a patent attorney and classic car enthusiast in Washington, D.C. In this series, he examines the intersection of those fields by looking at design patents—which protect aesthetics rather than functionality—of the forgotten and forgettable in automotive history. Flying cars and jetpacks. That’s what the Read more
Photos by author. Though I’m partial to muscle cars, I like a lot of different vehicles for more than just their performance potential. Much of what draws me to them are specific visual cues—the way a certain area is styled or particular components or attributes that make me react like Read more
For a place where, presumably, the vast majority of visitors brought cameras and where they were itching to use them with all the excitement and anticipation of headed in (or else needing to use up frames on the roll of film while headed out), we haven’t seen as many photos Read more
If you haven’t gone shopping for a nice BMW 3.0CSi in a while, or any other E9 coupe, you might be surprised to see the asking prices of $40,000, $50,000, $60,000 and more attached to these cars. In contrast, consider this 1979 BMW 633CSi for sale on Hemmings.com. Part of the Read more
1983 Dodge Shelby Charger, the first Chrysler produced with Carroll Shelby’s input. Photos courtesy Auctions America. In 1982, Chrysler’s Lee Iacocca asked his old friend Carroll Shelby to help add performance (and hopefully appeal) to the automaker’s front-wheel-drive product line. The immediate result was the 1983 Dodge Shelby Charger, a Read more
Photo by Daniel Beaudry. Only three cars finished the much heralded 1908 New York-to-Paris Great Race, wheeling into the City of Light under their own power after months of slogging their way over muddy roads or territory with no roads at all. Today, more than a century later, paved roads Read more
The Rover SD1 wasn’t a big seller in the U.S., where it was offered for 1980 only, but it was a more common sight in its home market—particularly in the “jam sandwich” livery of the police, who appreciated its 3,532-cc all-aluminum V-8. Earlier this month, an SD1 once used by police to Read more
All photos are frame grabs from video below. “The search for beauty never ends.” That’s the appropriate last line of this Ford-centric tribute to the humble yet essential Automotive Stylist, a job title that garners the adoration of the masses (rarely) and scathing critiques of reviewers (regularly). We are encouraged Read more
Even the holidaytime photos of Johnson City that we’ve previously shown seem to indicate that the town never sees inclement weather, but we know that’s not possible, and we see evidence to the contrary from these two photos from the 1950s which we came across on Johnson’s Depot. Neither came Read more