Hemmings Auto Blog

Several readers sent along the link to the above photo that Shorpy recently posted, taken in 1942 by Albert Freeman and depicting a full parking lot in Washington, D.C. The Shorpy headline, “Parked for the Duration,” makes it seem as if these cars were in long-term storage as part of Read more

Mercury offered but a single four-door for 1951, and with 157,648 examples built, the Sport Sedan proved to be the brand’s most popular model. Though not rare by anyone’s definition, examples as apparently clean as this 1951 Mercury Sport Sedan, for sale on Hemmings.com, don’t come along too often. If Read more

All photos courtesy Project Street Legal. Terminal Island in the Port of Los Angeles didn’t play by the typical dragstrip operations manual. Intermodal shipping containers surrounded the strip and served as the basis for some of its structures. It had no national drag racing organization affiliation, and everybody pretty much Read more

Volvo 1800ES, circa 1972. Photo courtesy Volvo Car Group. It’s an unusual strategy, to say the least: Volvo plans to directly market its cars to buyers, and as a result will limit itself to one auto show per region. In the United States, that will mean Volvo will exhibit at Read more

This horseless beauty graced the pages of Hemmings Motor News in the July 1974 issue. McIntyre was originally the Kiblinger Company Carriage Works, located in Auburn, Indiana, a hotbed of classic automobile history and home to over 10 automobile companies. The Kiblinger Company became McIntyre in 1909 and the production Read more

  Note the tweaked bumper, the nose and fender dings and the dented door. None of them slowed the GTO down.  Photos by Jeff Koch and the author. It’s the mid-1990s and I’m barreling down North Jersey’s Route 287 in my  1973 Hurst Olds, late for work. All of a Read more

Today’s carspotting post, which we came across over at The Oldie But Goodie, is a little different, in that, despite our best efforts, we couldn’t pin down a location or date or even a source, but it was too good to pass up. The license plates should be a giveaway, Read more

As anybody who’s familiar with the Carroll Shelby story knows, Shelby had plenty of plans for lightweight American V-8-powered sports cars that would go head to head with the best Europe had to offer long before he swapped a Ford V-8 into an AC and took it racing. One of Read more

Sir Stirling Moss drives a Shelby G.T. 350 Mustang through the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca. Photo by Bob Heathcote, courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. By the fall of 1964, the Mustang had proven to be a sales hit for Ford, yet the automaker struggled to fit the car into its Read more

Earlier this month, Alfa Romeo CEO Harald Wester confirmed rumors that there would be no Alfa Romeo Spider based on the new Mazda MX-5 Miata, despite a 2012 agreement between the two automakers; FCA evidently came to the conclusion that a made-in-Japan Alfa was not in keeping with the marque’s Read more