Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Photos by Myles Kornblatt. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Myles Kornblatt, curator, Miami Auto Museum at the Dezer Collection. Myles contributes to multiple publications as well as AutoMinded.com. Having a Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am must feel like owning a goldmine after the recent sale of Burt Read more
Photos by author. I just finished writing a Specialist Profile for the March issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car magazine and thought our readers would be interested in seeing the photos of this amazing Porsche graveyard that we couldn’t fit in the article. Be prepared; it’s not a pretty Read more
One of our Facebook readers recently requested some carspotting photos from Buffalo, and thanks to the Buffalo History Gazette on Facebook, we’ve got a few to share today, all of them apparently dating to the mid-1960s, including the above photo of Delaware Avenue looking south, and the below photos of Read more
Diamond T is most closely associated with larger trucks, but from the 1930s into the 1950s, the brand also constructed pickup trucks for those with lesser hauling needs. Considered “the Cadillac of trucks,” Diamond T pickups offered buyers (arguably) more style than other trucks of the day, but high prices, Read more
Toyota 2000GT photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy of Gooding. With mounds of attention heaped on the trifecta of Japanese sports cars—Nissan Skyline, Mazda Cosmo, and Toyota 2000GT—that sold at the Pebble Beach auctions this past summer, it should come as no surprise that three major auction houses have decided to Read more
Photos by Tom Kimmell, courtesy El Pomar Foundation. When hard times hit the organizers of the Pikes Peak Hillclimb about a decade and a half ago, they sacrificed the museum that once chronicled the history of the event, and no facility replaced it. Not, at least, until earlier this year, Read more
The 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO that sold for $38.116 million in August. Photo by author. When we recapped the top-10 cars sold at auction in 2013, Ferrari was well-represented on the list, but was far from the sole marque. Call 2014 “the year of the Ferrari,” then, because this year’s Read more
Photo by author. This time of year, many of us are preoccupied with the holidays and all the joys and stresses they can generate. Responsibilities regarding immediate family, extended family, friends, religion, shopping and finances, just to name a few, can all have an overwhelming effect. Some people enjoy every Read more
Let’s get multicultural for today’s carspotting scene. While the Willem van de Poll photo comes from the Dutch Nationaal Archief, it depicts Waygand Street in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1950 – a street packed full of mostly American cars, though we see a couple European cars sprinkled throughout the shot. What Read more
Introduced in 1984, Toyota’s Land Cruiser 70 Series was intended to replace the beloved 40 Series, which cemented the Japanese brand’s reputation for building rugged and reliable utility vehicles. Deciding that Americans wanted a dose of civility in our SUVs, Toyota skipped the U.S. with the 70 Series and instead Read more