Hemmings Auto Blog

Given that the April 1973 photo that Rob Ketcherside found and posted to Flickr was originally taken for a real estate company, that the hospital that now surrounds the location of the photo – Marion Street and Boren Avenue in Seattle – appears to have been under construction at the Read more

It should be the most basic rule of cardom: If you want to claim anything, provide the documentation to back it up, otherwise your claim amounts to little more than just a good ol’ story. Fortunately, the owner of this 1976 Ford Gran Torino Starsky and Hutch edition for sale Read more

Photos courtesy Bonhams. Even the littlest of cars got in on the record-setting action this past weekend at the Monterey auctions, where a doorless Mini beach car, one of a dozen or so built for promotional purposes, sold for $181,500. As Jeroen Booij wrote in his recently released Maximum Mini Read more

A 1962 Chevrolet Impala, as rendered by Steve Stanford. Photos courtesy Steve Stanford Designs. More than 30 years after getting his start as an automotive illustrator specializing in street rods and customs, artist Steve Stanford will host an exhibit and retrospective of his work at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Read more

Pavel Kasik’s 1936 Tatra T77 was stunning in every regard, easily justifying its category win. Photos by author. Conventional wisdom states that in order to photograph cars in a relatively unobstructed manner, one must get to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance show field early, and that duty is affectionately known Read more

Henry Austin Clark, Jr.’s 1911 Mercer Type 35R Raceabout. Photo by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. [At about the same time that the 1911 Mercer Type 35R Raceabout that formerly belonged to Henry Austin Clark Jr. was getting prepped to cross the block at RM’s recent Monterey auction – where Read more

While the everyday cars – the grocery-getters, the four-doors, the daily drivers, the sorts of cars that aren’t necessarily celebrated at today’s car shows and cruise-ins – tend to dominate the photos in our carspotting series, we’ve found a few reliable exceptions, such as high school parking lots. We’ll add Read more

One should expect that a car will pick up its fair share of dings and dents over a few decades. That expectation makes totally blemish-free original cars remarkable, but it shouldn’t detract from cars like this 1965 Chrysler 300-L two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com, a gentleman’s hot rod, which Read more

Photo by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Co. For the third time this summer, the public auction record for the Lamborghini Countach has fallen, after a 1974 Countach LP400 Periscopica sold for $1.87 million over the weekend. While the first of the record-setting sales – in early June at the Read more

Photo by the author. (Continuing the conversation from the other day about the pending generational shift in car collecting, Hemmings Director of Marketing Dan Stoner, who participated in last week’s panel discussion, penned the following.) I found myself compelled to contribute to a discussion in an online automotive aftermarket forum Read more