Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Not too many vehicles in today’s carspotting scenes, a pair of Ron Hoffman photos of Aspen – Galena Street looking south, above; and at an unidentified location, below – which we came across in the archives of the EPA’s Documerica series, but the layer of snow on all the vehicles Read more
By 1972, Americans knew Honda as a motorcycle manufacturer, but few outside of California knew the Japanese brand built automobiles, too. Blame it on a limited dealer network and a product mix that included just diminutive commuter cars powered by air-cooled, two-cylinder 600-cc engines rated at a humble 36 horsepower. Read more
Rebel Without a Cause Mercury. Photo courtesy National Automotive Museum. Sam Barris, Gil and Al Ayala, and Frank Sonzogni might not come to mind as darlings of the concours crowd, but in their own way, they had the same intentions as the celebrated coachbuilders regularly feted on manicured lawns: to Read more
Ayrton Senna, racing the DAP kart at the 1981 Karting World Championships. Photos courtesy Bonhams. By 1981, future F1 World Champion Ayrton Senna had already proven his mastery of Formula Fords by capturing the RAC Formula Ford 1,600cc championship. His karting days should have been behind him, but the Brazilian Read more
Photo by Scott Swigart. Do you know someone who sold a treasured car years ago, perhaps to pay the bills, and is desperately seeking to find it again? Do you have a friend or neighbor who’s lost touch with an old college roommate, or army buddy, and would give anything Read more
Photo by Scott Swigart. Do you know someone who sold a treasured car years ago, perhaps to pay the bills, and is desperately seeking to find it again? Do you have a friend or neighbor who’s lost touch with an old college roommate, or army buddy, and would give anything Read more
Mel gets a ticket. All photos are frame grabs from video below. Mel and Thera are your prototypical teenage couple in Santa Ana, California, in the early 1950s. Mel’s certainly doing well enough, sporting about in what—best we can tell—is a 1948 Buick Super Convertible Sedan (56-C). Or is that Read more
We’ve seen this narrative before. Car goes racing back in the day, car gets replicated quite a bit for road and race use, original examples of car thus become more prestigious and more valuable. Only this isn’t a Shelby Cobra we’re talking about; instead, it’s the Cobra’s nemesis, a Bill Read more
The record-setting 1969 Dodge Daytona. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Once widely overlooked by buyers, Dodge Daytonas (and their Plymouth Superbird counterparts) have climbed in both popularity and value over the years, perhaps because of their relative rarity. Last Friday, a 1969 Dodge Daytona from Read more
Hondas from David Silver’s collection. All images still grabs from video below. David Silver’s love affair with two-wheeled Hondas began in 1977, when the then-16-year-old acquired a Honda SS50 moped. In the years since, his passion for the brand has turned into a full-time occupation, as David Silver Spares (with Read more