Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
An Amphicar underway in Lakeland, Florida. Photo by Jared. The problem with conventional automobiles is this: Hardcore 4x4s aside, they need roads to operate on. While trucks with enough ground clearance can ford streams, driving a lifted Bronco from downtown San Diego to Catalina Island, or driving a Land Rover Read more
If you want to keep your old Ford or Ford-powered machine running as good or better than it did from Ford, then legendary flathead guru Vern Tardel, as the title of this handy series of how-to booklets suggests, is here to help you do just that. We have, in fact, Read more
We’ve seen these photos floating around the Internet for a while and have traced them back to Blog dos Carros Antigos, which didn’t note the ultimate source of the photos or where they were taken, only that they were taken in 1980. We figure somewhere out West, given the ARCO Read more
Mad props to the current owner of this 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner for sale on Hemmings.com. Not only has he kept it looking good and kept it roadworthy, he’s done so in New York City, a little ol’ burgh that requires serious dedication to keep any car, let alone Read more
Norman Bel Geddes’s teardrop car model. Photo by A. Van Dyke. Norman Bel Geddes didn’t design a single vehicle that entered production. He didn’t hold down any job with an automaker for more than a few years, and in fact, he much preferred designing theater sets over designing anything else, Read more
1911 Mercedes 38/70HP Seven-Passenger Touring, Motor City’s top seller. All photos by Darin Schnabel, Courtesy RM Auctions. Like his uncle of the same name, Samuel P. Colt made a fortune in business, though his success came primarily from banking, not the manufacturing of firearms. As was the rage in his Read more
Photo from the Mohican Historical Society. By the early 1960s, we’d pretty much collectively abandoned the idea of autopilot for passenger cars. The fantastic vision of the future just a half-decade prior – along with giant tailfins and jet-inspired styling – the notion of handing control of our cars over Read more
Racing at Kyalami in 2008. Photo by André van Rooyen. On Thursday, July 24, an historic racetrack that has seen its fair share of change throughout the years underwent one more: the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit, located just outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, was purchased at auction by Porsche South Read more
From the signs we can see in this January 1962 photo of Carondelet Street in New Orleans, which we came across on the Historic New Orleans Collection, this would have been the section of town we’d have most likely hung out in, what with an auto parts store, an engine Read more
Studebaker enthusiast Doug Hodak dreamed up this P-38 Lightning-inspired 1950 Champion Starlight Coupe, for sale on Hemmings.com, during a discussion with some fellow Studebaker Drivers Club members at the 2007 Studebaker International Meet in South Bend, Indiana. He kicked off a search for the right candidate and discovered his rolling Read more