Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
The 2009 Corvette Blue Devil prototype, as discovered in the sinkhole. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. The day after a sinkhole swallowed eight cars at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, General Motors held a press conference on-site to declare it would oversee the restoration of the Corvettes Read more
1956 Jaguar XKSS from the Ralph Lauren collection. Photos courtesy D.A.D. Garage / Lime Rock Park. In most circles, Ralph Lauren is best known for his fashion design and perpetually successful brand of clothing and accessories. Among car collectors, however, Lauren is known for his impeccable taste in classic and Read more
Photography courtesy of the restorers, Julia Suggett/Premiere Event Painting and Mark J. McCourt. Faithful Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car readers have by now received their September issue (#109), which includes a Restoration Profile feature on a special 1937 Aston Martin 15/98 Long Chassis Tourer. This car underwent an intense restoration Read more
James Garner in 1987. Photo by Alan Light. To some, he was the leading man in television’s Maverick or The Rockford Files, while to others he was the star of films like 1966′s Grand Prix. It was during the filming of the Formula One epic that Garner realized his talents Read more
In the early 1980s, few of us would have looked twice at a base trim Pontiac LeMans from the mid-1970s, but time has not been kind to Pontiac’s once-prevalent personal luxury coupe. Today, clean survivors are a rare find, which makes this 1976 Pontiac LeMans, for sale on Hemmings.com, stand Read more
Another in the series of key-exchange comparison tests that Lentinello organized, this time he and Robert Gross gathered five different Citroëns – a 1966 DS-21, a 1967 ID-21 station wagon, a 1973 SM coupe, a 1981 2CV Charleston, and a 1985 CX-25 – and their owners to drive them about Read more
At the time this was written there were 420 Corvettes listed for sale by private owners on Hemmings.com. But let’s say you only have between $5,000 – $10,000 to spend. Your prospects would’ve narrowed to 13 ’Vettes and, not surprisingly, seven of those were 1984-1996 C4s. (The other six for Read more
* In the 1960s, Belgium used a couple Tucker Sno-Cats – emblazoned with logos designed by Tin Tin artist Hergé – to explore Antarctica. The Sno-Cats were relegated to a quiet abandonment up until recently, when some thief cut out just the logos from the sides of the Sno-Cat bodies, Read more
Photo courtesy GrayFlannelSuit. One thing we can say about Don Haynes: He had a knack for drawing publicity to himself. That, however, seems the only thing we can say with definitiveness about the man who in 1949 claimed he could drive around the country in a year in a Kaiser Read more
Embedded in a photo essay about Amtrak that Charles O’Rear shot for the EPA’s Documerica project, we see one shot from Albuquerque that works well for our carspotting series. Presumably we’re looking east on Central Avenue – there’s still a Baptist church in the location we see it here, and Read more