Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
The beauty of Italian automotive styling and design will be honored at the Pine School car show in Hobe Sound, Florida, this coming Saturday, January 18. Some rare Ferraris, including several vintage competition models, will join all the great Italian marques such as Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Maserati, Lamborghini and Lancia Read more
Barney Oldfield driving a front-wheel-drive Christie racer, circa 1913. Photo courtesy of Jack Shea and Fred Hill. To many racing fans, the terms “motorsports” and “front-wheel drive” are mutually exclusive. With a few notable exceptions, racing at the highest levels has almost always favored rear- or all-wheel-drive cars, but at Read more
While the cab-forward photochops keep rolling in and keep showing some inventive ideas, we’re off in search of new photochop phrontiers, and Phil at PhilAreGo came through the other day with the above step-down 1949 Hudson taffied all out and endowed with another couple axles, which he dubbed the Human Read more
We’d recommend you all head out to Lulu Belle, the Gay Nineties-themed restaurant in this postcard photo we came across on Ryan Khatam’s Flickr stream, as you head out to Scottsdale for the auctions this week, but alas, it seems to no longer be by the corner of Main Street Read more
Sue Earl’s 1963 Corvette Sting Ray. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Pink was not a color offered by Chevrolet on 1963 Corvette models, but one particular Sting Ray, built for the wife of GM styling guru Harley Earl, did indeed leave the assembly line painted in a shade Read more
Michael Picone’s 1963 Ford Galaxie 427 R-Code XL, a member of the Ford team in 2014. Photos courtesy of Carlisle events. When the Philadelphia Auto Show rolls into town next month, it won’t be just new cars that visitors are gawking over. Following last year’s inaugural Philadelphia Auto Show Face-Off, Read more
Gooding & Company, Scottsdale, 2013. Photo by the author. This is my second trip to the January Scottsdale auctions, an orgy of buying and selling collector cars that, along with being one of the biggest money weeks in all of our hobby, has become something of a spectator sport as Read more
Haven’t made it out to the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center in Irvine, California? Well now, thanks to the magic (creepiness?) of Google Street View, you can take a virtual walking tour of the lobby/showroom and the shop. What’s even cooler is that you can click on some of the cars and Read more
Ever notice how most of the street scene photos in these old postcards from the late 1950s never show a cloud in the sky? In many locations across the United States, we’d call foul and look for artifacts of pre-Photoshop photo manipulation, but in this Phoenix street scene, taken on Read more
As we’ve pointed out in the past, the advantage of single-family ownership of a vehicle is that potential buyers should be able to get the full history of it – where it’s been, who’s driven it, and what’s been done to it. And plenty has been done to this 1966 Read more