Hemmings Auto Blog

Presumably, the Battery Street Tunnel in Seattle, pictured here in a July 1954 photo from the Seattle Municipal Archives, passed the carbon monoxide test that the caption tells us the city was then conducting, otherwise we’d be looking at a rather grisly photo, something like in those post-apocalyptic movies where Read more

Long a favorite of public works departments from coast to coast, the Dodge Power Wagon has earned a reputation for durability rivaled by few other four-wheel drive pickups. Finding reasonably clean survivors can be a challenge, since many were worked nearly to death, then sold to private owners who ran Read more

Photos by the author. A thousandth of an inch at a time, using a bit that spun at 33,000 RPM, Jim Graney etched his line cuts. Thousands of them, all of different designs, all in reverse, committed to zinc and copper plates no more than a few inches square and Read more

Rendering of the proposed second floor hot rod and custom gallery. Images courtesy Petersen Museum. Last August, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles detailed its plans for a complete interior renovation to go with the exterior redesign announced in 2013. On Sunday, October 19, the museum welcomed its last Read more

Raymond Beadle. Photos courtesy NHRA. One of professional drag racing’s honest-to-nitro immortals has left us. Raymond Beadle, famed for his exploits with the Blue Max series of Funny Cars, died Monday in his hometown of Dallas at the age of 70. Beadle achieved legend status in Funny Car competition in Read more

1930 Morgan Super Aero with custom van body. Photos by author unless otherwise indicated. Ron Garner has a taste for the unusual, as demonstrated by his four-plus decades of Morgan ownership. While his current collection includes both three- and four-wheelers, none stands out in a crowd quite like his restored Read more

About all we know of the Foodliner IGA in Caseville, Michigan, other than what we see in this August 1965 photo that we came across on GrayFlannelSuit, is that it’s no longer there, replaced by a parking lot. Of note: While we’ve become accustomed to four-doors and station wagons far Read more

The Chevrolet Corvair was, perhaps, the most misunderstood vehicle ever launched from a Big-Three automaker. Its styling was bold, its engine placement (and cooling) unconventional and its handling impressive for the day, as long as owners paid attention to the differing inflation pressures for front and rear tires. Given that Read more

Captain America chopper. Photos courtesy Profiles in History. Lot 1121 was wheeled onto the stage of the Profiles in History auction at around 10:00 p.m. Pacific time, and the bidding was opened at $1 million. Just over seven minutes later, the gavel dropped on the star-spangled Harley-Davidson panhead chopper, and Read more

Photo courtesy Omix-ADA. Sure, anybody can throw a set of decals and white steelies on a 1973 Jeep CJ-5 and call it a Super Jeep, but authentic examples of one of Jeep-dom’s least-known four-wheel-drive vehicles have become few and far between today, making the appearance of one at the upcoming Read more