Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
The author, in Japan, in 2004. My prior role as a freelance automotive journalist delivered some memorable experiences behind the wheel, but somehow cars and racing have always found their way to me, regardless of my career at the time. Though I’ve been fortunate enough to crew (for a single Read more
From HalifaxHistory.ca comes today’s carspotting scene, which could very well double as a shipspotting scene. The occasion: the international naval parade, which to the best of our research took place in Halifax during late June 1967 in the Halifax Harbour. More than a dozen countries participated, and it looked to Read more
Though it’s had an engine rebuild and a couple of body pieces repainted, this 1976 Toyota Corolla liftback sedan for sale on Hemmings.com remains in remarkable condition, especially for a 100,000-plus-mile car from Pennsylvania, not Southern California as one would expect, and especially inside, where it appears showroom fresh from Read more
Shelby American Cooper Monaco “King Cobra.” Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Looking to add to the road-racing successes achieved by his Cobras, in 1963 Carroll Shelby turned his attention to a relatively new series for purpose-built sports racers. Contacting Britain’s John Cooper to supply a chassis and body, Shelby American infused the Read more
Louise Smith. Image courtesy of South Carolina State Museum. Movies about historic figures from the world of racing have traditionally been a hard sell for major studios, but the success of Ron Howard’s epic tale of the rivalry between F1 drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt, Rush, seems to have Read more
The Mercedes-Benz ESF 05 experimental safety vehicle. Photos courtesy Daimler AG. As the 1960s came to a close, the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) was growing alarmed at the increasing number of fatalities on U.S. roadways. In response, the DOT began a program in 1968, urging automakers to develop Read more
If there’s a car made that HarborIndiana can’t photochop into a town car, he hasn’t seen it. Yet while he makes sure every car can be chauffeur driven, as we’ve seen in a couple previous looks at his work, he’s also been busy adding rather than subtracting visual heft to Read more
After seeing the below photo on Hooniverse a while back, we thought we’d go digging for the source. Turns out it’s one of many that Werner Bischof took in New York City in 1953, including the above photo of rooftop parking garages. We’re presuming these are just from a typical Read more
We had to double-check to see if the seller of this 1972 Ford LTD convertible for sale on Hemmings.com made any mention of a recent restoration, but no, it appears that it’s simply a clean top-of-the-line car that’s been well taken care of throughout the years and that is just Read more
This 1967 GTO convertible is one of the collection’s restored cars. Photos courtesy Jerry Harris Auctions. With the 50th anniversary of Pontiac’s trend-setting GTO coming up next year – and with the inevitable flurry of press and events dedicated to the occasion – we expect to see plenty of the Read more