Hemmings Auto Blog

* Mac’s Motor City Garage dug up some of GM’s lesser-known uses of the Chevrolet bowtie, largely out of the United States, including the Brazilian Veraneio above. Heck, the whole article could have focused on Brazilian Chevrolets and wouldn’t have turned up a thing that most U.S. Chevrolet fans could Read more

Of all the 3D renderings of fictional vehicles we’ve come across over on deviantArt, few to none come with any context. They are what they are, which has led us to some wild interpretations. Seth Witte, who goes by the name pixel-pencil, however, takes a different approach: He gives his Read more

Sahr’s Fountain and Restaurant at the corner of SW Jefferson Street and SW 18th Avenue in Portland hadn’t been open a full year when Marion Dean Ross took this May 1959 photo of it – which we saw on Vintage Portland – but it looks like it established itself well Read more

We’ve seen several Pack-ups here and there over the years, but none built from a station sedan – Packard’s postwar woodie wagon – as is the case with this 1948 Packard Eight Station Sedan for sale on Hemmings.com. Whoever buys it will have to contend with some rust along with Read more

Black Beauty, the record-setting 1966 Jaguar E-type. Photos by Michael Furman, courtesy RM Auctions. While multi-million-dollar cars dominated yesterday’s RM and Sotheby’s Art of the Automobile auction in Manhattan, perhaps one of the most talked-about sales from the event went to a car that didn’t even break the top 10, Read more

McQueen’s 1956 Jaguar XKSS. Photo by Scott Williamson, courtesy Petersen Museum. If Steve McQueen is the “King of Cool,” then the Jaguar XKSS may very well qualify as the “King of Automotive Cool.” Essentially a Jaguar D-type racer with the modifications necessary to make the car street legal, only 16 Read more

Photo courtesy RoasterProject.com. When repairing or replacing any component on your car, the possibility exists that one or more of the original bolts, washers or nuts will be lost, stripped or broken during the process. It is probably one of Murphy’s Laws, but it is usually that last piece need Read more

While reading up on Virgil Exner in Peter Grist’s biography, Virgil Exner: Visioneer, for our recent story on his automotive designs hitting the show field at next year’s Concours of America, we came across quite a few interesting factoids about Exner beyond the usual biographical bits, including plenty of sketches Read more

If you like to see vintage highway construction pictures, TexasFreeway.com, on which we’ve found plenty of Houston-area freeway photos, is the place for you. Among those photos, however, are plenty of “before” shots that capture the highways and surface roads as they were prior to some massive construction projects. Take, Read more

The problem with owning a car that dates to the 1920s is this: vehicle safety and reliability have come a long way over the past eight-plus decades. While some hobbyists prefer cars that retain original components (despite their shortcomings), others prefer examples that retain an original appearance, but have been Read more