Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Calisphere doesn’t offer any context for this photo of Inglewood, California’s Market Street, snapped sometime in April 1972, but we’re guessing that at least a few of the cars in the photo belong to people camping out to get tickets to the Ray Milland/Sam Elliott horror flick “Frogs.” Okay, maybe Read more
Though the decals indicating as much have yet to be installed, the dealer offering this 1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT convertible for sale on Hemmings.com notes that it was one of the on-track cars at that year’s Indianapolis 500, the year this particular make and model served as pace car. Read more
1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. Photos of the unrestored car by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company. The likelihood of encountering two black-with-red-leather-interior 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL coupes at a single auction isn’t great, given that Mercedes-Benz produced only 108 black gullwings out of the 1,400 total. The planets will align Read more
Photos courtesy MidAmerica Auctions. Of note at this coming weekend’s MidAmerica Motorcycle Auction and Races is the George Pardo collection of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, including a 1911 Model 7D, sporting Harley’s first production V-twin engine and a military 1942 Model XA complete with rifle holster mounted to the sprung front forks. Read more
The 1989 Chrysler Voyager III concept. Photos courtesy Chrysler. As the 1980s gave way to the 1990s, automakers once again saw their futures shaped by concerns over pollution, traffic density, fuel prices and (to a lesser degree than today) climate change. In the days before the rebirth of the electric Read more
Long before Volvo made much ado about its dedication to building safe cars, it made much ado about building tough cars, as we can see from this 12-minute supercut of Volvo 140 Series television advertisements. The two messages aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive, but at least Volvo found a way to Read more
Since yesterday’s carspotting scene on Anchorage’s Fourth Street, we’ve seen other photos showing almost the exact same view with the exact same sign, even lit up at night, but as we see here, in this postcard-quality Fourth Street scene we came across on Ryan Khatam’s Flickr stream, the sign apparently Read more
This 1973 BMW 2002 Tii for sale on Hemmings.com exists in the space between the extremes of impeccably restored and low-cost fixer-upper. The car seems to have received lavish attention from its previous three owners, and the seller has recently addressed a string of minor but necessary repairs. It’s not Read more
Photos by Daniel Strohl. When it came time to put the Hemmings Motor News 60th anniversary issue together, the cover image was a no-brainer: Roll out the trucks. To longtime Hemmings readers, the lineup will look very familiar. Beginning with the February 1979 issue (Hemmings’s 25th anniversary year), an illustration, Read more
Proposed locations for Kona Motorsport Park. Images courtesy Hawai’i Racing Association. Those of us living in the continental United States may not associate Hawaii with motorsports, but opportunities to turn a wheel in anger exist on several of the islands that make up the state of Hawaii. Maui and Hawaii, Read more