Hemmings Auto Blog

Through our Facebook page Melanie Popp submitted this photo of the Sheaffer-Eaton Paper parking lot in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, which she believes dates to either 1963 or 1964. Or, at least, what would become the Sheaffer-Eaton parking lot. We did a little digging and saw that Textron purchased both companies in Read more

Yes, it’s going to need some work. Right now this 1966 Plymouth Sport Fury convertible for sale on Hemmings.com is what we’d generously call a 20-footer: Everything’s there, and it’s straight, with decent paint, but the closer one gets, the more one sees that needs to be addressed, from the Read more

The Ed Roth High Flyer trike shortly after the fire. Photo courtesy National Automobile Museum. At about 2:45 Friday morning, an arsonist threw a rock through the front door of the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada, and then followed it with a Molotov cocktail that caused a fire that Read more

1967 Solyto Break Camping. Photos courtesy Auctions America. Europeans have different requirements for delivery vehicles than Americans, and in cities where streets often date back to the Middle Ages, space is at a premium. Factor in the higher cost of fuel, and it’s no wonder that small is big when Read more

From the very first Swallow sidecar that raced in England back in the 1920s to the XJR-6s that competed at Le Mans in the mid-1980s, all the really important information about all the factory-backed Jaguars that raced is included in this exceptional two-volume book set. Penned by noted Jaguar historian, Read more

Photos by the author. [Editor’s Note: About 10 years ago, Jeff Koch wrote up a number of articles and driving impressions for then-new performance vehicles that, for some reason or another, never made it into the pages of Hemmings Muscle Machines, as intended. As those vehicles now march toward collectible Read more

Sportsman division entrants Mary and Ted Stahl pull into the Bennington, Vermont, lunch stop in their 1936 Auburn 851 Phantom. Photos by the author. Day two of the 2014 Great Race took teams from the overnight stop in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Poughkeepsie, New York, with a lunch stop in downtown Read more

The expression, “drive it like a rental” might have been coined in December of 1965, when the first of about 1,000 SCCA B/Production-ready street-legal G.T. 350s landed in the Hertz fleet. As Car and Driver observed, the H might have stood for “homologation” as the Hertz order was about enough Read more

A Jaguar Heritage Racing D-Type awaits its next event. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Own a vintage Mercedes-Benz, and repair or restoration can be booked through the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center. Similar classic vehicle services are provided by luxury brands Porsche, Ferrari, BMW and Aston Martin, and on August 1, Jaguar Read more

Studebaker US6 2.5 ton transport. Photo by Pibwl. To fans of the Studebaker brand, models like the Commander, President, Champion, Land Cruiser, Hawk and Lark are well known, but those enthusiasts without military service may not be as familiar with the M29 Weasel, the US6 2-1/2-ton truck or the Wright Read more