Hemmings Auto Blog

Date: July 1982 Location: Rogers Dry Lake near Edwards Air Force Base, California Source: NASA What do you see here?

From the seller’s description: Grand Central Citroen in Redlands, California USA is pleased to offer this 1967 Citroen DS21 Pallas with green fluid hydraulics (LHM), hydraulic gearchange and cold air conditioning for sale on behalf of the current owner. The car is currently registered on historical license plates in the Read more

Photos courtesy Leake Auction Companies. Once every 10 years or so following Chevrolet’s introduction of the El Camino, somebody connected to the Pontiac division decided that it too needed a business-in-the-front-party-in-the-back sedan pickup in its lineup. As history in our universe has proven, a production-line Pontiac-badged El Camino never happened, Read more

Photo by Bob Heathcote, courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. On Tuesday, January 31, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a deal with the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP) to continue managing the famed Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca facility for three years, retroactive to Read more

1963 Cadillac Fleetwood 75. Brochure images courtesy of Old Car Brochures. [Editor’s note: This “Reminiscing” story, edited by Richard Lentinello, comes to us from Hemmings Classic Car reader Rev. Frank Lattimore of Ionia, Michigan.] There was just something about those Cadillac ads in the National Geographic magazines in the early Read more

Date: July 1969 Location: outside Titusville, Florida Source: NASA

From the seller’s description: 1972 Chevy K5 Blazer 4X4 Black cherry merlot Blazer, Fresh paint, chrome, interior. Color looks black until in the sun, then can apprecate the cherry tone. Smooth running 350 engine topped with Edelbrock aluminum intake, chrome dress up kit. 3 speed auto transmission. Factory rear differential. Read more

Albert Guyot in the recently rediscovered Duesenberg 183 at the 1921 French Grand Prix. Public domain image. It was a most improbable victory, but in July 1921 Duesenberg became the first American automaker to win a European Grand Prix. Four Duesenberg 183s were fielded by the Indianapolis-based squad, and of Read more

In Vermont, we’re still in the grips of winter, but one sure sign of spring is the increasing hours of daylight. That alone is enough to make one optimistic that warmer days (and in Vermont, plenty of mud) are coming, so now is the time to be shopping for a Read more

1910 Autocarrier. Photos courtesy the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Best known on this side of the Atlantic for providing the chassis that underpins Carroll Shelby’s Cobra, the history of AC Cars dates to 1904, the year the firm was founded by John Portwine and John Weller. In the years since, Read more