Hemmings Auto Blog

All photos courtesy George Pope. Fifty years ago, if you wanted to take a hulking Model AA school bus to the Model A Ford Club of America’s annual convention halfway across the country, there was really only one way to do so – drive it there. That’s just the adventure Read more

Photography by the author. Once I got my first car in the mid-1980s, I soon realized any vehicle that was 20 years old needed parts regularly, so my car show activities over the ensuing years would have to also include attending swap meets to feed my projects and even my Read more

At first glance, the above photo, which we came across on the H.A.M.B., looks like it could have been taken in California, epicenter of the rod and custom scene in the 1960s, and jampacked with strip malls like we see in the background. But all of the chains that populated Read more

It’s sad, but Lincoln is lost today. Especially compared to Cadillac with its lineup of chiseled sports sedans and coupes that have had the Germans taking notice for over a decade, beginning with the introduction of the 2003-model-year CTS. But Lincoln need only look through its old brochures to find Read more

Photo courtesy of HotRod Jen. In the lead-up to The Race of Gentlemen – which this year is being sponsored by Hemmings Motor News, along with the likes of Harley-Davidson, Craftsman Tools, Stromberg and Edelbrock – we’ll be dedicating some airtime here on the blog to pre-event coverage. For those Read more

“Thunderbolt,” the custom-bodied, Meteor-engined 1928 Rolls-Royce. Photo courtesy of Russo and Steele. In a week of auctions filled with high-dollar sales of European sports cars, a most unconventional street rod narrowly missed breaking into the top-10 at Russo and Steele’s Monterey sale. Dubbed Thunderbolt, the torpedo-bodied, dual-cowl, dual-windshield 1928 Rolls-Royce roadster Read more

Photo by Gary Bihari, courtesy the Sports Car Vintage Racing Association. Vintage racing barely existed in the United States until Steve Earle founded General Racing Limited. He soon followed that up by launching the Monterey Historic Races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on the central California coast. Vintage racing, up Read more

While fixing a link to a video in an old post, we came across a trove of British Pathe videos highlighting the East African Safari Rally throughout the 1960s. While they probably don’t tell us more about the rally than we already know – the roads were harsh and very Read more

Why do we keep coming back to photos of Los Angeles International Airport? Not so much for the space-agey Theme Building – though it is cool – but because of the abundant open-air parking that once surrounded it and the variety of cars that filled those lots. This mid-1960s photo Read more

History doesn’t stick much to early track roadsters like the clay and the dirt they ran on. The whole point to them was to go racing with as little outlay of cash as possible, so they weren’t all that special to begin with – many times plucked from junkyards to Read more