Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
This 1924 Locomobile Model 48 Sportif was authentically restored from the frame up and had an asking price of $35,000 in the July 1973 issue of Hemmings Motor News. Introduced in 1911, the Model 48 would undergo very little change stylistically over its 18-year existence, though the output of its Read more
Don’t let the stately looks of this 1951 Bentley Mk VI fool you – this was a revolutionary car for Bentley. Acknowledging that the days of the coachbuilder were firmly in the past, the gang at Crewe made the Mk VI of 1946 the first Bentley to be offered complete Read more
* Adam Martin’s 1968 Camaro isn’t numbers matching. It isn’t Pro Touring. It doesn’t have a five-figure paint job or provenance or some gossamer thread connecting it to some washed-up celebrity. Instead, it’s the car he bought as a pizza boy and that he has wrenched, hammered, and hot-footed ever Read more
Though it started out as a civilian truck before getting called up to the Army, this 1942 Ford 1-1/2-ton stakebed truck for sale on Hemmings.com looks just as Spartan as anything the military would have had built, thanks in part to the minimalist interior, and thanks largely to the olive-drab-n-stencils Read more
* Rear-engined Fiats were plentiful and simple. So no surprise that plenty of coachbuilders and low-volume manufacturers based their cars, trucks, and even jeeplets on the chassis. Ronan Glon at RanWhenParked runs down a few of the more interesting variants, including the Moretti Sportiva above. * Bruce Thomson is on Read more
Judging from the comments received following our Scottsdale auction coverage, the next $5,000 challenge is long overdue. This time around we offer up a car that could prove to be a wise investment for the Scottsdale auctions in, say, 2030, along with four other projects requiring varying degrees of skill Read more
The town square in Weatherford, Texas, looks rather straightforward in this 1950s photo from the Portal to Texas History, but the modern-day Street View makes it look a little more complicated. Neither the Palace Theater nor Citizens National Bank remain, so we had to circle the square a couple times Read more
The 1928 model year marked the transition from Ford’s groundbreaking Model T to its “modern” automobile, the Model A. Though similar (but not identical) in style, the Model A was a significantly more complicated automobile, using an average of 6,800 different parts compared the 5,000 found in the T. By Read more
Peter Brock. Photo by Curt Scott. Accomplished automotive designer, race team principal and motorsports journalist Peter Brock has been named Honorary Chairman and Keynote Speaker for this year’s ninth annual Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. The California native’s foray into the auto industry began at age 17 with an award-winning Read more
Photo courtesy Oregon Department of Agriculture. Citing the damage that corn-based ethanol does to automobile engines, among other reasons, two U.S. senators have introduced legislation aimed at reducing the amount of corn ethanol in modern gasoline blends and replacing it with other forms of ethanol. Last week, senators Dianne Feinstein Read more