Hemmings Auto Blog

It’s not a Mercury, and it’s not a Ford. This tri-tone 1957 Meteor Rideau 500 Victoria four-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com instead hails from up north, where it’s apparently spent its entire 57 years being well taken care of. The seller makes no mention of a restoration, but we’re Read more

Does an old car need to be restored or overrestored to be enjoyed? For that matter, does an old car need to be anything more than intact and running to be enjoyed? As Jim Donnelly found out when putting together the Driveable Dream story on a 327-powered 1962 Rambler Ambassador Read more

Howdy Ledbetter, an upholsterer by trade, said he just had to have the remains of one of the Western Flyer vans that Brooks Stevens built for S.C. Johnson when he spotted them about four years ago. “I had a good front half and a good back half,” he said. “They Read more

* As Darryl Octane at Motorpunk related this week, it’s been 44 years since Wacky Races staged its last animated contest, and some fan of the show went and tallied all the results, applied a period F1-style scoring system, and calculated the ultimate Wacky Races winner. * Over on Curbside Read more

Vintage ad from the author’s collection. Back in the late 1950s and early ’60s, due to their relatively unknown status (in part because of their small, almost non-existent dealer network), manufacturers of British cars such as MG, Riley and others relied on assertive dealers to both sell and promote their Read more

Built as part of the grand celebration of the country’s centennial, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has an impressive view of the city from its location at the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, strewn with a number of other museums as well as monuments to prominent figures, including Joan Read more

Just when we thought every Ford Anglia that made its way to the United States got turned into a drag racing machine, we came across this 1948 Ford Anglia fire truck for sale on Hemmings.com. Unlike most of the Crosley fire trucks we so often see, this one apparently was Read more

1958 De Soto Firedome convertible. Photos courtesy Auctions America. In 1958, the De Soto Firedome was the company’s mid-line offering, above the entry-level Firesweep, but below the better-equipped Fireflite and Adventurer models. Despite the Firedome’s sub-luxury status, a 1958 Firedome convertible, one of just 519 built by the automaker that Read more

Racers roll up to the line as an afternoon sea mist rolls in at last year’s Race of Gentlemen. Courtesy of David Carlo Photography.  In the modern day of the muscle machine, we thumb a button on a key fob, a magic chariot opens and the reins of hundreds of Read more

Charles E. Wilson’s 1957 Cadillac limousine. Photos courtesy Pacific Northwest Concours d’Elegance. In the postwar years, aircraft design began to play an increasingly significant role in automotive styling. By the latter half of the 1950s, rocket-shaped dagmars were prevalent, as were taillamps inspired by jet exhausts. The most distinctive trait Read more