Hemmings Auto Blog

1911 EMF Model 30 race car climbs Mount Washington in 2004. Photo by Daniel Strohl. Coming up on its 20th anniversary in 2015, the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance is truly one of America’s premier concours d’elegance. Though high-end auction houses Gooding and Company and RM have had sales associated with Read more

Images and video courtesy Volkswagen AG It’s hard to believe, but March 29, 2014 marked the 40th anniversary of the first production Golf rolling off Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg production line and into the history books. That car -decidedly ordinary now, but virtually radical in its day- would turn the Volkswagen concept Read more

JohnBaumler’s 1963 Maserati Sebring. Photos by author. In 1969, while serving with the U.S. Army in Wiesbaden, West Germany, John Baumler was looking for “interesting transportation” when he purchased his 1963 Maserati Sebring. Forty-five years on, he still owns the car, which has racked up a mere 51,000 miles in Read more

Aha, a parking scenario we have yet to explore in our carspotting series: the flea market. As we see in this Spencer Grant photo from Woolwich, Maine, that we came across on the Boston Public Library’s Flickr page, a certain few types of cars seemed to appeal to flea marketers: Read more

Willys’ pickup trucks made their debut (in two- and four-wheel-drive configurations) in May of 1947, though the two-wheel-drive pickups were dropped after 1951. The blunt front end, accented with slats flanked by round headlamps and a set of flat front fenders, instantly identified the Willys pickup as a cousin of Read more

1946 Mercury Sportsman. Photo by Drew Shipley, courtesy Auctions America. Looking to produce a postwar halo car, and inspired by a one-off woodie convertible created for Henry Ford II, designer E.T. “Bob” Gregorie and illustrator Ross Cousins created the Sportsman convertibles that debuted for both Ford and Mercury in 1946. Read more

A pro touring Chevrolet Nova. Photo courtesy Speedway Motors. Wait a minute. Aren’t muscle cars supposed to go fast in a straight line? Sure they are, but a growing movement within muscledom is doing suspension and tire upgrades to turn their big-power brutes into apex choppers. As proof, we present Read more

This newspaper clipping was found in our files and illustrates the typical radio contest that would take place in the 1940s. The stakes were high for this contest though, as the grand-prize winner would receive the keys to a new 1949 Ford Custom Sedan and $1,000 which equates to a Read more

Jeffrey and Susan Mader with their 1972 Datsun 240Z. Photos by author. The Datsun Z, which debuted in the United States in 240Z form in 1970, was the first Japanese sports car that American buyers took seriously. Despite the car’s popularity, few early models have survived the ravages of time, Read more

FYI, guys, that’s an on-ramp, not a boat ramp. Actually, based on the signage and on the description of the above photo provided by Dave S. on Flickr, this photo was taken right on Interstate 95, not an on-ramp, but hey, let’s not allow facts to get in the way Read more