Hemmings Auto Blog

Killed in a burglary attempt along with his sister Marguerite in November 1980, farmer Levi Vance of North Danville must have left behind quite the estate, given the 850 cars that showed up for the estate auction the following August. The University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program gives us a Read more

Sure, it takes dedication to hold on to a car that you bought new for 40 years, but dedicated doesn’t begin to describe the seller and original owner of this 1975 Buick LeSabre convertible listed on Hemmings.com. Serviced every year, it now wears a cosmetic restoration and sports a number Read more

1939 Panhard et Levassor X82 Dynamic 160 Berline. Photos by James Mann, courtesy RM Auctions, unless otherwise noted. RM’s Paris sale featured no shortage of seven-figure lots from manufacturers like Ferrari, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, but the least expensive lot of the day may well have been the most charming. Described Read more

Photos by the author. [Editor’s Note: Michael Taylor, who’s written about cars for the San Francisco Chronicle, recently got a chance to tour the Mullin Automotive Museum‘s Art of Bugatti exhibit before it wraps up at the end of next month and offered to share his photos and impressions of Read more

Photos courtesy McCormick’s Palm Springs Collector Car Auctions. It’s no Dual Ghia, but it’ll do. In 1995, at 80 years old, Frank Sinatra had finally retired. He played his last public concert the year before, released his last album the year before that, and Hollywood was falling all over itself Read more

Image courtesy of Speedway Motors So you want to compete in your street-legal muscle car, but would really rather go more than 1,320 and have to use the steering wheel and brakes once in a while? Well, the SCCA and Speedway Motors have something for you. Introduced as a one-off Read more

Thanks to the Gray Flannel Suit Tumblog, we have this circa 1961 look north on Grant Avenue in the midst of San Francisco’s Chinatown, where many of the same businesses still operate out of many of the same storefronts today, and where the streets remain just as narrow, even though Read more

While it looks from the paint scheme on the sides of this 1951 Nash-Healey for sale on Hemmings.com that some previous owner of the roadster had a case of Cunningham envy, that’s about as far as the mimicry went, as we can see from the Nash six-cylinder still under the Read more

The 1927 Duesenberg Model X Boat Roadster in its new home. Photos courtesy Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum. Duesenberg is most often associated with its later Model J automobiles, but it was the Model A, built from 1922-’26, that gave the company its start as an automaker. In between came the Read more

 The Heritage Exhibition paddock on a wet morning in Daytona Beach. Photos by Chris Brewer, unless otherwise noted. Editor’s note: Frequent Hemmings Daily contributor Chris Brewer was invited for a ride-along in the #51 1972 BMW 3.0 CSL as part of the Heritage Exhibition ahead of this year’s 24 Hours Read more