Hemmings Auto Blog

At a glance, these two 1982 Ford Mustang notchbacks for sale on Hemmings.com don’t look too remarkable, aside from the 5.0 badges and a few other visibly non-stock details. However, as the seller illustrates, both are not only California Highway Patrol-issued Special Service Package Mustangs – some of the most Read more

* What do we have here, another blockbuster “barn find of the century?” No, despite what you may have heard on social media, this photo simply depicts the inventory at Jeep Village, a French specialist in all things slotted grille. eWillys had the story on the place a couple years Read more

The Yamaha exhibit at the 2014 New York Motorcycle Show. Photos by author. On Thursday, December 11, we trekked to Manhattan’s Jacob Javits Convention Center to attend the media day for the New York City stop on the 2014 Progressive Motorcycle Show tour. Just about any new motorcycle manufacturer you Read more

While we’ve seen the Pike Place Market in our carspotting series at least a couple times so far, the last was a couple years ago, so let’s revisit with this handful of 1970s views of the market, all from the Seattle Municipal Archives. Above, we see the Corner Market in Read more

So what happens to magazine builds after their time in the spotlight? They seem to scatter to the four winds, with fates as varied as possible, but it seems safe to say that few remain as unaltered (from their build state), unabused, and generally pampered as this 1994 Suzuki Samurai Read more

Car #4-1971, the last 1970 Mustang Boss 302 Trans-Am body-in-white delivered to Bud Moore Engineering. Photos by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy RM Auctions. Following its 1970 Trans-Am Manufacturer’s Championship, Ford made the corporate decision to withdraw from Trans-Am racing. A parting gift for racing partner Bud Moore Engineering was four Kar Read more

The Peter Max Corvettes, prior to their transfer to new owners. Photo by Richard Prince, courtesy of Richard Prince Photography. Last October, we brought you the story of the Peter Max Corvettes, a collection of 36 cars that has proven controversial ever since VH-1 launched a contest to win the Read more

The Hispano-Suiza stork. Photo by author. After WWI, all Hispano-Suizas famously carried a “flying stork” radiator cap. Whatever for? Recall Birkigt’s famed watercooled monobloc SOHC aluminum V8 engine with integral heads and screw-in cylinder liners. By the end of the war this engine had been manufactured in no fewer than Read more

A Trans Am assists in the selling of oil. Believe it or not, the Pontiac division of GM has been gone for over four years. Road sightings of the last late-models of the brand are becoming fewer and fewer, and like other makes that have gone before it, Pontiac has Read more

While only one of these two photos of Congress Street in Austin, looking toward the state capitol, comes from the Portal to Texas History with a date (above, stamped February 1967), both it and the one below come from the rare times when that part of Texas sees snow. And Read more