Hemmings Auto Blog

1937 Cord 812 Supercharged Beverly sedan. Photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions. The value of a well-restored 1937 Cord 812 Supercharged Beverly sedan can easily climb into the six figures while a comparable condition 1936 Cord 810 Westchester sedan is worth slightly (but not considerably) less. At last Saturday’s Jordan collection sale Read more

Photo courtesy Getty Images/ISC Archives. One of the most singularly influential figures in the history of professional-level American road racing has died. John Bishop, who went from the Sports Car Club of America to bossing Big Bill France’s entry into road-course racing as co-founder of the International Motor Sport Association, Read more

Eugene A. Cernan poses with the LRV during the Apollo 17 mission. Photo courtesy NASA. Research into contemporary electric vehicles is a hardly a new effort; in 1969, GM and Boeing developed an electric vehicle with four-wheel drive, four-wheel steering, a rudimentary navigation system, airless tires and a theoretical range Read more

Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. [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 Read more

While the above postcard photo, which we came across on Ryan Khatam’s Flickr stream, doesn’t scream out New Orleans, for some reason the modern-day street view of Canal Street looking north does. Maybe it’s the lack of change for change’s sake apparent in the distance of decades. Maybe it’s the Read more

While it probably won’t turn a wheel in anger again, at least this alloy-bodied 1949 Jaguar XK120 for sale on Hemmings.com gets driven, even with a concours-worthy restoration that would likely relegate others to trailer-queen status. What’s more, much of the car’s history is known, it features an assortment of Read more

The Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum, soon to be home to the National Hudson Motor Car Museum. Photos by Jim Donnelly. Ypsilanti, Michigan’s Miller Motors continued to represent the Hudson brand long after the company closed its doors, earning it the title of “the world’s last Hudson dealership.” Now, 58 years Read more

Photo courtesy Tampa Bay Auto Museum. Though it has no seatbelts, headlamps, windshield or taillamps, can only muster about 3.5 miles per hour, and relies on a wooden block for a brake, the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum‘s replica of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot’s fardier a vapeur – the oldest self-propelled vehicle ever Read more

You can see a lot from the top of the timing tower at Lebanon Valley Dragway, especially if you were up there for Musclepalooza XIX this past Memorial Day weekend. Look one way, and you would have seen a sea of more than 600 show vehicles, muscle cars of every Read more

Perhaps the most entertaining part about Robert Gross’s story on people who still had collector cars that they bought new for SIA #186, November 2001, is reading all the reasons why they chose to get the cars in the first place (or, in the case of the Pontiac owner above, Read more