Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
The Tojeiro-JAP carrying frame tag BHL 1. Photos courtesy H and H Classics. Brian Lister wasn’t the designer of the first racing car to carry a BHL (for Brian Horace Lister) chassis number, and he wasn’t the driver who achieved glory behind its steering wheel. Instead, the 1951 Tojeiro chassis Read more
All images courtesy of Gooding & Co. Let’s play a little bit of a game with other people’s money. Given a pair of cars at an auction, with similar estimated sale price ranges, which one would you choose? We consider it a slightly safer version of “Which would you rather….” Read more
Still images from video below. First, the entertainment: Dinah Shore sings an upbeat “It’s a Most Unusual Day” from the 1948 MGM musical romance comedy A Date for Judy. Born in 1916, in Winchester, Tennessee, Frances Rose Shore was the daughter of a prosperous dry goods merchant. A Sociology major Read more
We’ve seen this photo of Ken Keegan Imported Cars – a dealership that seemed to juggle franchises for just about every European make on the American market at the time – floating around the Internet quite a bit lately and, in search of more info about it, traced it back Read more
Typically, mass-market vehicles tend to live rather anonymous lives, and the only way their histories remain complete is either through extreme diligence in documenting their previous owners or by having just one owner. Service vehicles, such as this 1949 Chevrolet 3800 canopy express for sale on Hemmings.com, tend to go Read more
1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Sport Cabriolet A, the Best of Show at the 2015 Arizona Concours d’Elegance. Photo by Bob Golfen. Now in its second year, the Arizona Concours d’Elegance is quickly establishing itself as a desirable early stop on the annual concours d’elegance circuit, timed to coincide with the frenzy Read more
All images courtesy of Bonhams. Bonhams, the esteemed British auction house responsible for the sale of two of the most valuable cars ever put up to bid, never fails to offer up a fine selection of European and American selections at its auctions, most of them sparklingly preserved originals or Read more
Post-restoration photos courtesy of RM Auctions. You don’t often hear the words “obsessively correct restoration” and Morris Minor in the same sentence. But not every Morris Minor is quite like the lilac-hued Million, a commemorative edition sold in very limited quantities to mark Britain’s first car to clear the seven-figure Read more
While this photo of the used car lot at a place called Vickers, which we came across over on Jim and Chester’s Garage but has also appeared in a few forums, doesn’t come with any context on date or place or offer many clues as to those identifiers within, it’s Read more
Yes, it’s tall, narrow and boxy, but don’t let that fool you. The brilliant thing about Alfa Romeo’s Giulia sedans is that they were blessed with the very same twin-cam engines, five-speed gearboxes, four-wheel disc brakes and brilliantly tuned suspensions that made its coupes and spiders so much fun to drive. This 1967 Read more