Hemmings Auto Blog

Last year’s Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car Show. Photo by Terry McGean Don’t look now, but it’s almost August, which means it’s almost time for our ninth annual Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car Show. We’ll be returning to the beautiful grounds of the Saratoga Auto Museum in Saratoga Springs, New Read more

Photos by the author. While the doghouse covers come off and show a few tarted-up small-block V-8s among the sea of six-cylinders between the front bucket seats, nobody really seems to care much about engines at a custom van show. After all, vans typically don’t go fast or hug corners Read more

On first glance, these few photos of the intersection of routes 2A and 15 in the middle of Essex, Vermont, which the Vermont Landscape Change program has dated 1965, just have a handful of vehicles apiece in them, but if you start zooming in, really taking a look in the Read more

Built on the Type Four platform shared by the Fiat Croma, the Lancia Thema and the Saab 9000, the 164 was the last model developed by Alfa Romeo before its takeover by Fiat. Intended to compete with the premium German sedans, the 164 was the most upscale of the modern Read more

1953 Muntz Jet, to be sold in Burbank next month. Photo by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Auctions America. Earl “Madman” Muntz’s career as an automaker was all too brief, but over the course of five years, he managed to produce nearly 400 examples of his unique sport-luxury convertible. Today, an estimated Read more

Photos by Craig Fitzgerald. Passing my late-1980s teenage years in Connecticut, grabbing some parts (self-service style) in the junkyards I visited apparently made me a scofflaw. In 1984, the Nutmeg State reportedly banned pick-and-pull junkyards. Legend has it that the death of a customer in a Connecticut salvage yard in Read more

The Chrysler Series CI sedan was the most popular body style used in 1932 for Chrysler cars. Of the 19,000 CI series that were produced, 13,772 were sedans. This nice example from Tennessee was available in the May 1974 issue of Hemmings Motor News, and came with original title and Read more

Photo by the author. In the latest issue of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, you can read the story of Mike and Patricia Snay’s Series IA Sunbeam Tiger, a car they’ve owned for 40 years on the Central California coast. Not told in the piece is how it all very Read more

The Online Archive of California has a number of photos of the Ann Darling Shopping Center on McKee Road in San Jose, all marked 1956, but we can see even from a quick glimpse of the photos that – if they were all taken at the same time, which we’re Read more

We’ve yet to find out much more on the Damen Corporation’s RoadStar, for which this 1979 Cadillac Eldorado, for sale on Hemmings.com, served as a prototype. The vintage literature shown in the ad gives the story some credence, but Damen doesn’t show up in any reference material of ours, not Read more