Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
It might not be the biggest carspotting scene we’ve featured, but there’s plenty to see in the parking lot of Richmond, Virginia’s Southside Plaza in this Library of Virginia photo from March 1958. Specifically, the date was a Thursday, so unless they were giving away free hams in one of Read more
Behold, the power of marketing. Would this 1964 Rambler Classic 770 Typhoon for sale on Hemmings.com have had as much of a chance of surviving the years in such decent shape if it were any other six-cylinder, column-shift car? Probably not, but given its status as what we’d today call Read more
Oliver Jordan collection. Photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions. While car collectors in Oklahoma might have heard about it, not many actually got to see the inside of Oliver Jordan’s Enid, Oklahoma-based salvage yard. That’s because, in a decades-long fight with local officials, he guarded it from sight, ringed it with barbed Read more
1977 Datsun 280Z, owned by Chris and Larry Wawrzyniak, featured in the May 2013 Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car. Photo by Jeff Koch Early Datsun Z coupes are no strangers to concours d’elegance competition, but these cars are generally lumped into broader categories of competition cars, Japanese cars, Asian cars, Read more
All photos courtesy Chad Hiltz. Chad Hiltz describes himself as “just some mojo” who lives up in Canning, Nova Scotia, a town of a few thousand people that seems to be no closer geographically or culturally than East Erewhon to the hot rod and custom Mecca of Southern California. But Read more
Larry Willis with the Yellowbird. All photos courtesy Bob Willis, Al Kitts, and John Casey. [Editor’s Note: Tyler Hart contacted us the other day to share the below story of Willis Ford, Inc., of Waterbury, Vermont, a brief-lived Ford dealer that racked up plenty of experience in drag racing in Read more
While plenty of photographs – including this September 1953 image of the Republic Building in downtown Denver, Colorado, which we came across in the Denver Public Library‘s photo archive – invite us to look upward at the grand architecture of a city, we’re more inclined to look at ground level, Read more
From the looks of it, this 1962 Ghia L6.4 for sale on Hemmings.com hasn’t been touched for probably as long as the current long-term (45-year) owners have had it, and maybe even since it had the European headlight conversion and sunroof installed back when it was essentially a new car. Read more
Shelby Cobra CSX2023. Photos courtesy Auctions America. When CSX2023, one of the first couple dozen Shelby Cobras, sold at auction for half a million dollars last year, many Cobra purists noted the slew of modifications it sported and wondered whether they hurt or helped the car’s value. Their questions may Read more
Ralph Nader in 2012. Photo by Nick Singh Randhawa. Among automotive enthusiasts, the name Ralph Nader is rarely discussed in a positive and upbeat manner. America’s best-known consumer advocate is hardly a car guy (and, in fact, claims not to own an automobile), but there’s no denying the fact that Read more