Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
* When cleaning out his wife’s grandfather’s possessions, John Oliver came across an old Leica and plenty of vintage photographs he’d never before seen, including a batch from Watkins Glen taken in September 1956. (via) * Datsun 240Z designer Yoshihiko Matsuo also penned a sport wagon that never got built. Read more
All brochure images from the collection of Mark J. McCourt Earlier this week, I received a surprise package from min vän in Sweden, Claes Rydholm. Claes explained that he has decided to sell off his collection of car brochures, only keeping a few of his favorites. This retired manager of Read more
Roger Wollstadt appears to have lived or visited just about everywhere in the United States, as we can see from his Flickrstream, and lucky for us he took quite a few photos that are perfect for our carspotting series in the process. One of those places was Prairie du Chien, Read more
Photo courtesy Bonhams. Now that you’ve read about a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta selling for $38.115 million here and in every other news outlet from the New York Times down to Better Homes and Gardens, you’re probably wondering exactly what the sale means for the collector car hobby in Read more
For an unrestored car closing in on 65 years old, this 1950 Oldsmobile 98 DeLuxe four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com. remains in awfully nice condition. Of course, it doesn’t appear to be running right now – at least not without a carburetor, as we can see in one of Read more
The enthusiastic participation of motorcyclists and independent movie fans made last year’s inaugural Motorcycle Film Festival a rousing success, so much so that organizers Corinna Mantlo and Jack Drury have announced a second annual Motorcycle Film Festival, scheduled for September 24-27 at the Saint Vitus Bar in the Bronx. Independent Read more
1979 Electrek, as seen in the pages of the May 1989 edition of Hemmings Motor News. Interest in electric cars was rekindled in the 1970s as energy prices began to soar to new heights. One of the new battery-powered cars that hit the market in the late 1970s was the Read more
Photos courtesy Bonhams. It has been decades since a Ferrari 250 GTO even came up for sale at a public auction, and while rarer and faster cars have come and gone since, toppling record prices paid, none was as hotly anticipated as the 250 GTO that sold Thursday night for Read more
Photo by Jill Burks. What cars will younger enthusiasts want to collect? What cars won’t they collect? What cars are they collecting right now? We can almost guarantee that the answers won’t match up with the cars that dominate the collector scene right now, but how far off will they Read more
Reader John Hiltz of Arlington, Virginia, has a number of photos that his father, Robert, took that would work well with our carspotting series, starting with this one, which he tells us his father took in August 1963 at the corner of Market Street and North Front Street in Philadelphia, Read more