Hemmings Auto Blog

Be it cruising down Main Street on a warm summer night, showing off for friends by doing burnouts, turning wrenches on the weekend, or blasting down the highway whenever we had gas money in our pockets and the urge overtook us, we all have powerful memories of cars we’ve loved Read more

2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette. Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. When a sinkhole opened up beneath the National Corvette Museum’s Skydome on February 12, the only certain thing was that eight historically significant Corvettes had been lost, potentially forever. Now, less than two months later, all eight have been recovered, Read more

All brochure images from the collection of Mark J. McCourt. The year 1974 was a crucial one in MGB history, as it was the year when the world’s most beloved British sports car underwent the most radical changes in its 18-year lifespan. The earliest 1974 models, built in the fall Read more

While the original Mini offered superb handling and impressive fuel efficiency, it may have fallen a bit short in the utility department. Enter this 1970 Austin Mini pickup for sale on Hemmings.com, which serves up two seats and a scaled-down cargo bed large enough for hauling bags of mulch (but Read more

Danbury Mint’s 1935 Ford coupe. Image courtesy Danbury Mint. Up against an industry-wide trend of rising costs and difficulties dealing with overseas factories, Danbury Mint – the company best known among gearheads for its high-quality, 1:24 scale, shelf-topping classic cars – has exited the die-cast car business. “Like Packard, Duesenberg Read more

The Simeone’s Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. Photos courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Most automobile museums rely on static displays to paint a picture of a particular car’s role in history. The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is no different, but it also uses “Driving Demonstration Days” to Read more

Photos courtesy Tom Guarr. In researching the stories we publish in our print magazines, we often uncover fascinating tales associated with the origins of a particular car’s history or the path that led its owner to become so enamored with it above all others. It happened again recently when we Read more

Here at Hemmings, we have quite a large collection of photos, postcards, advertising materials, and car-related memorabilia that has piled up over the years. We hope to share many of these items that have been relegated to the vault, whether they were sent in on a whim by a faithful Read more

We’ve since lost the link to where we came across these photos of the National Air and Space Museum’s outdoor rocketry exhibit, but we know that the museum moved into its current location in 1976, so these photos – probably from somebody’s eighth grade class trip to D.C. – have Read more

While not the only factor that sunk the company’s chances of competing against the Big Three, Kaiser’s lack of a V-8 certainly didn’t do the company any favors, nor did Oldsmobile’s refusal to allow Kaiser to use its V-8s. While the latter combination never occurred on an assembly line, a Read more