Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
1963 Aston Martin DB5, bearing the registration plate seen in Goldfinger. Photos courtesy Miami Auto Museum. As a globe-trotting superspy, James Bond not only had a girl in every port, but a car and maybe a boat or aircraft in every exotic locale too. That makes for quite the collection, Read more
2013 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Photo by Daniel Strohl. Hemmings Motor News has expanded its award structure for the eighth annual Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance, which will take place September 28, 2014, on the grounds of the Saratoga Spa State Park adjacent to the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Read more
Porsche 959 in the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart. Photos courtesy Porsche AG. To call Porsche’s legendary supercar, the Type 959, a milestone achievement in sports car history fails to do the car justice. Originally envisioned as a way for Porsche to dominate in WRC Group B competition, the 959 evolved into Read more
Rather than sit through the two-hour-long Lego commercial that hit theaters recently, let’s take a couple minutes to watch this re-creation of the Blues Brothers mall scene that Lego enthusiast Bricktease did entirely in interconnecting plastic bricks. After all, isn’t this sort of creativity and wanton destruction what Legos are Read more
Let’s get another snow scene in here while winter continues to hang around and torment us. These two Woody Grimes photos, dated January 22, 1970, from the Vermont Landscape Change program, depict the parking lot at Burlington International Airport, complete with Hertz rental car lot. Easy enough to spot the Read more
This 1950 Lincoln Club Coupe for sale on Hemmings.com is just begging to be restored to its original condition. The drivetrain is intact, as are the glass and most of the front seat, and the body appears to be in decent overall condition. The back seat has been lost to Read more
Photos courtesy the BF Meyers Collection. While one wouldn’t normally associate Bruce Meyers and Carroll Shelby with one another, both have plenty in common: They introduced fun, lightweight, trendsetting vehicles; they were later forced to defend those designs against opportunistic copycats; and later this year, Meyers’s Old Red, the prototype Read more
Like Jackie Gleason, there’s absolutely nothing subtle or understated about the 1974 Excalibur SS that he once drove. Custom-ordered in Lemon Twist Yellow with black fenders, the car is as over-the-top as “The Great One” himself once was, and next month this piece of show business history will head to Read more
Last year, I wrote about my 1964 Cutlass and how its factory tach was a major contributing factor in its purchase. The photo accompanying the blog was simply of the tach because the few Polaroids I had taken around 1988 were lost. Fortunately, I just found them, so here they Read more
Note: I write up driving impressions of virtually every car I photograph, within a couple of days of the drive, so everything is fresh in my memory. Occasionally, because of the constraints of the story’s format, the prepared text doesn’t run. Now, thanks to the joys of the blogosphere, it Read more