Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
1966 Oldsmobile 98 convertible for sale. From the seller’s description: This is a fairly rare car to find these days and perfect for this year’s car show season…. The brakes have all just been replaced, heads and carburetor rebuilt. I bought it from an estate where it sat in an Read more
Photo by RodrigoCruzatti. Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s failed attempt to create an American factory town in the jungles of Brazil, still counts a handful of residents squatting in the village’s houses, as Simon Romero of the New York Times discovered when he recently traveled to the town’s ruins. * This is Read more
1967 Pontiac Tempest two-door post. Photos by author. I recently returned from the annual Scottsdale auto auctions, after spending nearly a week covering six of them with friends and co-workers Jeff Koch and Mark McCourt and witnessing some of the rarest and most sought-after vehicles on the planet crossing the Read more
Date: circa 1958 Location: M-10 near Warren Avenue overpass, Detroit, Michigan Source: gsgeorge on skyscraperpage.com What do you see here?
Extensively customized 1947 Mercury for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Starting out life with a rust free 2 owner Canadian Black Plate car, this build took over 5,000 man hours to complete. Awards: Sacramento Autorama 2011 received the Sam Barris Memorial Award-Legends Hall of Fame-Custom D’Elegance and Custom Read more
Image via Google Street View, circa 2011. Henry Ford might have built some of the largest automobile factories around the world – towering, sprawling examples of industrial might – but his last factory was perhaps one of his smallest and thanks in part to a new grant, its $3 million Read more
2016 Porsche Werks Reunion in Monterey, California. Still image from video below. Since 2014, the Porsche Club of America (PCA) has held a Porsche Werks Reunion as part of the annual Car Week happenings on California’s Monterey Peninsula in August. In 2017, the Porsche Werks Reunion expands to the Read more
1979 Chevy Camaro Z28 (top); 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us, in an idyllic world, to add a collectible vehicle into our dream garage on a weekly Read more
Date: circa 1978 Location: somewhere in Colorado Source: coconv on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool What do you see here?
1987 Buick Regal with Turbo-T (WE4) package for sale. from the seller’s description: Car originally sold in Tennessee and is a two-owner car. This WE4 has 10,050 original miles and is factory stock. Never modified or abused. Always garaged and never driven in rain. No accidents. Car retains original paint, Read more