Hemmings Auto Blog

1915 Duesenberg racer known as the Benedict Special. Photo courtesy Joseph Freeman Collection. What inspires a person to push beyond the limits of the human body in a never-ending quest to go faster than anyone else? How has this drive to be the fastest evolved over the years, and how Read more

Ford’s soybean processing plant at River Rouge. Photos courtesy Ford archives. We gotta hand it to Ford’s PR people for writing a catchy headline and getting plenty of media exposure for the company’s latest press release about teaming up with Heinz ketchup to develop plant-based plastics for use in new Read more

Photos by the author and Jeff Koch. Does this sound like you? When you recall high school, college or neighborhood friends you haven’t thought about for decades, the cars that they owned come to mind before their names. It happens to me all the time. It works that way in Read more

Whaddayaknow, the MBTA still operates out of the Everett Yard just off Route 99 in Everett, Massachusetts, where David Wilson took this June 1967 photo of (presumably) the yard’s employee parking lot next to several railcars and buses. Of course, the preferred mode of public transportation has changed just as Read more

Photo by Steve Berry. Traditionally, muscle car enthusiasts and electric vehicle enthusiasts rarely set up camp anywhere near one another. The Venn diagram between the two just doesn’t have that much overlap. One set tends to search for outright horsepower, while the other yearns for environmentally responsible transportation. But a Read more

The 1962 Chevrolet Impala, following its recovery from the June 2013 High River flood. Photos courtesy Calgary Police Service. In June 2013, Calgary, Alberta, and surrounding towns bore witness to flooding of historical proportions, which forced mandatory and long-term evacuations for many residents and destroyed billions of dollars in property. Read more

The year 1957 would be the final one for Hudson. American Motors decimated the Hudson lineup by removing the Rambler, Wasp and Hornet Special, which accounted for a total of 10 different body styles; plus the Hornet was no longer available in the Super Sedan, which was a part of Read more

The MG EX181 at speed. Still image from video. Sir Stirling Moss is most often associated with sports car and Formula One racing, but the English driver considered by many to be the best of his day also held a land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats, courtesy of Read more

As we’ve seen previously in our carspotting series, college students will find parking anywhere and everywhere, and in the early 1960s on the St. Louis University campus, that meant parking in what appears to be an overgrown lot along the east side of Grand Boulevard, where the Busch Student Center Read more

The Cougar XR7 is one of those cars (like the Olds 4-4-2) that I yawned at 20 years ago, but now, kicking and screaming past middle age, I find myself really drawn to. In particular, I love the groovy faux Jaguar touches that Mercury stylists incorporated, trying to add an Read more