Hemmings Auto Blog

Date: 1974 Location: Ontario Motor Speedway, Ontario, California Source: MPHewitt on Tumblr What do you see here?

1972 Volkswagen Beetle Baja Champion Special Edition for sale. From the seller’s description: For sale is a very low mileage (33K original miles) Special Edition Beetle. Just Google “VW 1972 BAHA Champion SE,” for much more detail. This particular VW has had a very nice paint job in the exact Read more

Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The challenge has haunted designers and engineers since the dawn of time: Take an existing product, and expand its functionality to broaden the market. In 1938, farm tractor manufacturer Minneapolis-Moline applied this Swiss Army Knife approach to its Model U series, resulting in the U Deluxe Read more

All photos are frame grabs from video below. Brought to you by the folks at Ford Motor Company: A brief history of the automobile’s impact on American life. Part III leads with an overview of Henry Ford, family man, at home on Fair Lane, hanging with Clara, Edsel and grandsons. Read more

1928 Armstrong Siddeley Long Ascot Tourer. Photos courtesy H&H Classics. Here in the United States, ownership of one Armstrong Siddeley is probably enough to qualify you as a major collector of the marque. Even in its native Great Britain, the name of this once esteemed company has fallen into obscurity, Read more

Date: circa 1967 Location: Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida Source: Jim and Chester’s Garage What do you see here?

1972 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am for sale. From the seller’s description: This Trans Am is extremely rare, a real #s matching 455 H.O. LS5 car. It has PHS documentation and the 72 TA was the lowest production year for all the second generation cars built . Prior to its restoration, Read more

Photos by Erik Fuller courtesy of Auctions America. Looking for the perfect vehicle to turn heads at your community’s Earth Day Festival next month? We found it: a bright red, 6,800-pound, V-12-powered, four-wheel-drive that will get you to the tree plantings, and litter cleanup sites on less than a gallon Read more

Awaiting awards. Photos by author. Consider the numbers: not including Cars & Coffee, roughly 300 cars took to the greens at Amelia Island on Saturday, March 11. Counting the shots taken during setup on March 10 (but excluding auction coverage), your humble author shot around 1,900 images of vehicles at Read more

Date: circa 1960 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Source: Benjamin Ames, via The Old Motor What do you see here?