Hemmings Auto Blog

Ethanol damage to a carburetor. Photo by Tom Shaw, courtesy SEMA. While E15 availability has slowly spread across the Midwest over the last couple of years, a handful of provisions included in the federal farm bill passed earlier this month will effectively make the continued roll-out of the ethanol-blended fuel Read more

1979 Vauxhall Chevette HS. Photos courtesy Silverstone Auctions. When it has at least a couple more letters after its name and a rally engine under its hood. While it never amounted to much more than an economy car here in the United States, the Chevette had a brief and glorious Read more

John Surtees aboard a Vincent at Dunsfold, England, in 2012. Photo by Supermac1961. To win a Formula One World Championship is an impressive feat, one that generally takes decades of practice behind the wheel of successively faster race cars. Similarly, winning an FIM motorcycle world championship takes an equal amount Read more

My grandfather’s Oakland Pontiac dealership, sometime in the 1930s. Photos courtesy Kurt Ernst. Fate or free will? Depending upon who one asks, a path in life is either predetermined long before birth, or the product of environment, upbringing and education. In my case, perhaps it was a bit of both: Read more

While this photo of a stack-’em-up car park has been making its rounds on the various car forums out there with no contextual information, it’s not hard to google the Modish Building and discover that (as Vintage Portland pointed out) the photo comes from the City of Portland Archives and Read more

With what looks to be a very nice restoration likely done by the seller’s father, this 1948 Buick Super convertible for sale on Hemmings.com indeed would not be out of place on a show field, as the seller asserts, but we could also see it serving as a nice cruiser Read more

Le Monstre, Briggs Cunningham’s Cadillac-based sports racer, is part of The Revs Institute collection. Photo provided by The Revs Institute. While the Collier Automotive Museum was among the finest automotive museums on American soil and perhaps one of the top 10 such museums in the world, it closed its doors Read more

All images by Syd Mead. If you’ve ever seen Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, Elysium, or any number of other science fiction movies, you’ve seen the work of futurist Syd Mead, but Mead never set out to lend his talents to film; rather, he began his career designing cars, and an Read more

1984 Volkswagen Rabbit GTI. Photos by Jeff Koch. In 1976, Volkswagen launched a new sporty hatchback in the European market. Named the Golf GTI, it would take a full seven years for the car to arrive on these shores, branded as the Rabbit GTI for North American consumers. For a Read more

While one expects to see well-maintained luxury cars from decades past – they were, after all, more likely to be garaged and less likely to be driven in harsh weather – this Bill Blass edition 1977 Lincoln Continental Mark V for sale on Hemmings.com remains particularly clean and well documented Read more