Hemmings Auto Blog

1967 Hemi Under Glass Barracuda. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Matching sets might make sense for fine china, baseball cards, and Pokemon, but apparently it’s not necessary to have every wheelstanding Plymouth Barracuda under one roof. While the bundle of four Hemi Under Glass Barracudas that headed to auction last October Read more

Hurley Haywood with Bobby Rahal. Photo courtesy Road Racing Drivers Club. Every year since 1993, in conjunction with the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the Road Racing Drivers Club has recognized the very best of the left-right discipline with an award named in honor of the late, great Phil Hill, the Read more

Mouton at the Geneva Motor Show, 2011. Photo credit Fabien Rochet. With a passion for skiing and dance and a natural athletic ability that was clear from an early age, Michele Mouton likely could have been a ballerina, a gymnast or a competitive downhill racer. Had she kept up with Read more

Phil Rader in the 1930 Aston Martin International he shares with his brother Rick. Photo by the author. [Sometimes when trying to cram as much information as possible into an article for one of our magazines, we are forced to leave out some parts of the story that are worth Read more

While a number of things have changed in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, since this group of photos (found on Vermont Landscape Change) was taken in 1975, it’s hard not to recognize the thicket of roads and highways that come together at the base of Main Street not far from the train Read more

If a car has flaws, many owners are reluctant to discuss them in fear of lowering the selling price. Worse, unscrupulous sellers may focus on addressing a car’s cosmetics, hoping that shiny paint will distract a potential buyer enough to ignore signs that would tell more savvy shoppers to run, Read more

Packard Panther at Pebble Beach 2011. Photo by Mike McNessor. Not often does one car collector get an entire concours class all to himself, but the organizers of this year’s Amelia Island Concours made an exception for Packard collector Ralph Marano – not because he paid them off, but because Read more

NCM Motorsport Park proposed layout. Image courtesy of the National Corvette Museum. Last June we reported that a proposed motorsport park at the National Corvette Museum (NCM) in Bowling Green, Kentucky, had exceeded its preliminary funding goal (for a portion of the project, anyway), with time to spare. Since then, Read more

1987 Dodge Shelby Charger. Photos by Greg Gjerdingen, unless otherwise noted. Carroll Shelby is most often associated with high-horsepower, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive sports cars, but in the early 1980s the performance guru re-entered the production automotive arena with a series of front-wheel-drive cars built for sale through Dodge dealerships. The first Read more

Though many Americans (especially those who’ve spent time in Europe) are familiar with the legendary Citroen 2CV, the Citroen Dyane remains a bit of a mystery on these shores. Never officially imported here, the Dyane failed to achieved the same cult status as its 2CV sibling in Europe, despite its Read more