Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Ferrari 375-Plus, chassis 0384 AM. Photos courtesy Bonhams. For the last quarter century, it seemed that only a King Solomon-level judgement would decide the rightful owner of a one-of-five racing Ferrari stolen and subjected to a long-standing ownership dispute between the Ferrari’s previous owner and current possessor. Now it appears Read more
Photos by the author. On a recent family day trip to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, the first large display we saw when entering the hallowed hall took me a bit by surprise. It wasn’t some reenactment of one of the greatest plays ever or uniforms Read more
Images from the Hemmings archives and as credited The decade of the 1930s was home to some of the most beautiful automotive styling ever created. The products of that decade – automobiles, household items, clothing, architecture and more – can be traced back to their period of origin because of Read more
From atop the Famous-Barr department store in Clayton, Missouri, one could get a pretty good view of, well, the Famous-Barr department store’s parking lot, as we see in these photos we came across on the Vintage St. Louis Photos Facebook page, which indicates that they were taken as part of Read more
You might recall seeing Scott and Linda White’s immaculate Terraplane pickup featured in Hemmings Classic Car back in November 2012, as well as in the July 2014 issue of Hemmings Motor News. Now this rare and elegant 1936 Terraplane Cab Pickup is currently up for grabs on Hemmings.com. The Whites Read more
Bruce McLaren at the wheel of the 1966 Le Mans-winning GT40 Mk II. Photos courtesy From Motor Company Archives. Wrecked, designated for transmission testing, and modified for street use, the 1966 Ford GT40 with chassis number P/1046 might not have initially had the retirement befitting a car that famously won Read more
1953 De Soto Firedome sedan. Image courtesy America on Wheels Museum. The American automotive landscape is littered with the bones of failed automakers, including those that once enjoyed great success before following the dodo into extinction. Brands like Pontiac, Hudson, Kaiser and DeSoto are familiar names, but others, such as Read more
We often overlook how much the French have done for the motoring world. It was a French manufacturer, Panhard et Levassor, that invented the eponymous suspension device and that first employed the now-common sliding gear transmission and the front-engine-rear drive architecture. Bugatti built indisputable giant killers for the track, and Read more
Photos by the author. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: You never know just what you’ll find at Import Carlisle. This popular annual event in central Pennsylvania attracts a surprising number of Swedish cars and their enthusiast owners, and some Volvo drivers are not afraid of taking Read more
It seems that every time we select a Find of the Day like this 1961 Chrysler Newport Town and Country for sale on Hemmings.com, we get plenty of commenters reminiscing not about driving big land cruisers like this, but about rolling around in the back of massive station wagons on Read more