Hemmings Auto Blog

The 1988 Camaro IROC-Z, the basis for the 1LE package. Photos courtesy GM Media Archives, unless otherwise noted. As the 1980s came to a close, racing in the Sports Car Club of America’s Showroom Stock series was gaining in popularity, just as sales of the third-generation Camaro, launched late in Read more

Buick Riviera coupes from the early 1980s aren’t a common sight on the road these days, but Riviera convertibles, built in limited quantities between 1982 and 1985, are truly rare. In 1983, Buick built a total of 50,234 Riviera coupes, but only 1,750 of these were of the open-air variety. Read more

As with most Arch Brown stories, it’s less the individual aspects of the car he’s writing about – in this case a 1935 Plymouth Deluxe rumbleseat coupe – than the context of the era that proves most intriguing. Reading between the lines, we can guess that Brown wasn’t much of Read more

If the owner of these 11 1963 Buick Specials and Skylarks for sale on Hemmings.com didn’t at some point corner the market on pre-1964 Buick compacts in either project car or parts car state, then he certainly came close to doing so. The good news for anybody interested in piecing Read more

* While we mentioned Elvis’s pink Cadillac(s) in passing earlier this week, we didn’t provide any details. Fortunately, Clasp Garage this week posted a quick rundown and a few photos of said car. * While an eight-wheeled Cadillac Eldorado might be unique, it’s not the first such car with more Read more

Of course the reason I posted that eight-wheeled 1977 Cadillac Eldorado the other day was because we’ve been having so much fun envisioning mutant versions of familiar collector cars, and the chief mutator, Andy, aka HarborIndiana, continues to stretch the boundaries of what we even dared consider possible with auto Read more

Like the last photo of Inglewood, California, that we came across on Calisphere, this one focuses on Market Street – specifically South Market looking north from about Hillcrest – but the circa 1960 date that Calisphere labeled it with isn’t specific enough for us. Based on the vehicles captured in Read more

For all the flaws of this 1964 Chrysler Newport for sale on Hemmings.com that the owner points out, it remains in rather decent shape for a 50-year-old car from the Northeast. After all, it’s running and driving, the rust appears to have been contained, and the odometer appears not to Read more

1955 Jaguar D-Type. D-Type photos by Simon Clay, courtesy RM Auctions. The allure of Jaguar’s D-Type racer shows no sign of diminishing with age. When a 1955 D-Type with a documented racing history and many of its original components crossed the auction block in Paris on Wednesday, bidders responded enthusiastically, Read more

Concorso Italiano photos by David LaChance. Concorso Italiano is one of the cornerstones of the world-famous Monterey Weekend every August. This gathering of Italian cars – heavy on the exotics, with a dash of production cars for balanced flavor – is a celebration of Italy’s speed, style and culture. The organizers Read more