Hemmings Auto Blog

The top seller in Las Vegas was this 1950 Vincent White Shadow, which went for $224,250. Photo courtesy Bonhams. As we mentioned in our earlier posting about the Bonhams Las Vegas motorcycle auction, the allure of Steve McQueen-owned bikes may be waning with bidders who can afford to pay six Read more

On Flickr, Dave S. mentions that this wintry street scene took place in 1957 in the Front Street neighborhood in downtown Hartford. He didn’t, however, note the cause for the traffic backup and the police presence, though we can assume the weather might have something to do with both. Also, Read more

I’ll get this out of the way before the jokers decide to weigh in: It’ll buff right out. No, seriously, it’s gonna take more than elbow grease to get this 1958 Continental Mark III convertible for sale on Hemmings.com looking presentable again—more like a complete to-the-ground tear-down and an every-single-nut-and-bolt Read more

1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing Coupe. Photos courtesy Bonhams. By anyone’s definition, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL, in either coupe or roadster form, is a desirable automobile. Bidders at Bonhams’ Scottsdale sale emphasized this point by largely overlooking a sea of lust-worthy Ferrari models, instead bidding a trio of Mercedes-Benz 300 Read more

Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Somebody’s gotta be the first. And in September 1955 on an old airstrip that once saw B-26 bombers come and go, that somebody was Carl Grimes, who said he just happened to be first in line for inspections at the first-ever NHRA Nationals in Great Bend, Kansas, Read more

A.J. Foyt waves to the crowd after his 1967 Le Mans win with Dan Gurney (standing behind him). Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. It’s a miracle on any number of levels, but the immortal A.J. Foyt turns 80 years young today. We say that because to get there, “Super Tex” Read more

A 1946 Talbot-Lago T26 cabriolet sits next to a 1960 Facel Excellence on the Baillon property. Photos courtesy Artcurial. In early December, word broke that Matthieu Lamoure and Pierre Novikoff of auction firm Artcurial had dug up a nearly unbelievable collection of vintage cars in France. Owned by the Baillon Read more

Like yesterday’s carspotting photo, this one’s also been floating around the Internet recently. We tracked it down to a Flickr account called Dealer Best Practices, which claimed that the dealership in the photo – Sports Economy Cars – was his father’s and operated at the intersection of Watson Road and Read more

Vista Cruiser or 4-4-2? Plenty of Oldsmobile enthusiasts have declared that the two shouldn’t be mutually exclusive, and combined elements of the two into one car, as has happened with this 1970 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser for sale on Hemmings.com, a loaded and 455-powered car from the factory that now wears Read more

Fords stacked up in a Florida warehouse, awaiting the Koepke collection sale. Photos courtesy Yvette VanDerBrink. When Bob Koepke died in November of 2014, no one, not even his son, David, knew the secrets hidden in the brush of his overgrown Florida property. For nearly 50 years, the elder Koepke Read more