Hemmings Auto Blog

What this intersection needs is a traffic light. Photo from Cleveland Public Library digital collections, doctored by Ed Heys. One hundred years ago today, at about 5 p.m., the American Traffic Signal Company installed what it claimed to be the first-ever electric traffic signal on the corner of 105th and Read more

Photos by Hemmings staff. As David LaChance, editor of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car magazine, put it this past Saturday, the best thing about the annual Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car Show isn’t necessarily the cars themselves, but the variety of the cars and the fact that everybody in attendance Read more

Photo by the author. As David LaChance, editor of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car magazine, put it this past Saturday, the best thing about the annual Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car Show isn’t necessarily the cars themselves, but the variety of the cars and the fact that everybody in attendance Read more

From a circa 1949 brochure on the Los Angeles Farmer’s Market that Flickr member gsjansen uploaded, we can not only get a better idea of what the market was all about in decades past, but we also see far more cars than in our previous visit to the market. Could Read more

Towing a trailer with an old station wagon can either stress it past its breaking point or prove it as capable of just about anything typical highway driving can throw at a car. Given that this outfitted-for-towing 1965 Rambler Ambassador 990 Cross Country for sale on Hemmings.com not only appears Read more

Photos by the author. With Maserati’s centennial one of the primary reasons for choosing the Italian carmaker as a featured marque at this year’s Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car Show, it was only natural that we select the car that represented Maserati’s first production road car as this year’s Best Read more

Photo courtesy Don Garlits. If Don Garlits keeps going, he’s going to run out of space to store all of his trophies and awards. The man who has seemingly done it all can add one more recognition to his long list of accolades: Don “Big Daddy” Garlits is now officially Read more

Steve Kinser celebrates another win. Photos courtesy of Tony Stewart Racing. How tough is Steve Kinser? When the 20-time World of Outlaws champion arrived for a recent Sunday stop at Lebanon Valley Speedway in New York, Kinser had raced the previous three days, back-to-back, at tracks in Pennsylvania, including a Read more

Even without the lettering, there’s a few ways to tell a 1965 Plymouth Sport Fury Indy 500 pace car replica from a regular ol’ Sport Fury, and Richard Aguayo would have thought his pace car replica just another white 330hp 383-cu.in. V-8 Sport Fury convertible (the previous owner repainted it Read more

* Longtime Hemmings Daily reader Myron Vernis has plenty of concours cars in his collection – those being Concours d’LeMons cars, that is. So it’s little surprise that he and his daughter Zoe took Worst of Show at last weekend’s inaugural Detroit Concours d’LeMons with the Chevette-in-disguise Leata Cabalero. * Read more