Hemmings Auto Blog

From Anthony Catalano’s Flickrstream, which includes many a scene from his formative years in Brooklyn, come these two photos of his Boro Park neighborhood from 1963: above, a look up 13th Avenue toward 56th Street; and below, a shot of young Anthony playing in the snow outside his home on Read more

Just another boxy 1980s Japanese sedan? Not quite. This right-hand-drive 1986 Mazda Luce Royal Classic for sale on Hemmings.com features a turbocharged rotary engine, rear-wheel-drive, and more luxury appointments than the regular Luce, which would later become the imported-to-the-United States 929. Even in Japan, it’s an uncommon car, and the Read more

Participants in the inaugural Shifting Gears program. Photo by Steven Noreyko, courtesy General Motors. As anyone who’s been in the job market during the past seven or eight years can attest to, finding work can be quite a challenge these days.  Among the groups hardest hit are veterans returning to Read more

Photo by Bud Juneau. On March 21, 1941, Joseph Graham told Graham company stockholders that the time had come for Graham-Paige Motors to “permanently retire from manufacturing complete automobiles.” As author and historian Jeffrey Godshall put it, his pronouncement amounted to an obituary for the Graham marque, but the company Read more

Tom Magliozzi. Photo courtesy Car Talk. One of the pair of brothers who made talking about automotive woes so entertaining, Tom Magliozzi, co-host of the longstanding National Public Radio favorite Car Talk, died yesterday due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Tom was 77. The brothers, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, were among Read more

Images courtesy Citroën Automobiles have been popular subjects for stamps for ages- we’ve seen the USPS and Britain’s Royal Mail Mint take on the subject in recent years. France’s postal operator, La Poste, has just unveiled a new set of first class, 20-gram collectible stamps that celebrate that country’s most innovative mass-market Read more

From the University of North Texas’s digital library comes this look at the university’s own administration building (when it was the North Texas State College), smack dab in the center of campus, for today’s carspotting scene. We’d have to assume at least some of the cars in the parking lots Read more

As long as the station wagon (and the minivan, and the SUV, and whatever people mover comes along next) never dies, there will always be kids raised in the back of them who grow up to become gearheads and to long for cars like this largely original, well-preserved and road Read more

Chrysler’s latest Pentastar logo, outside its Toledo assembly plant. Photos courtesy Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. For those who came of age after 1963, the symbol of Chrysler Corporation was a thin, white, five-pointed star within a blue pentagon.  It was seemingly everywhere on Chrysler products, from automobiles (across all Chrysler brands) Read more

Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale, Arizona showroom. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. In case you’ve missed any of our auction recaps over the past few years, it’s safe to say that the market for collector cars is booming, and most major automotive auction firms are enjoying record sales. Looking to capitalize on this success, Barrett-Jackson Read more