Hemmings Auto Blog

1956 Buick Special ‘Highway Patrol’ tribute car. Photos courtesy 10-4 Day. Police dramas have long been a staple of Hollywood, produced for big screens and small screens alike. Many who have pursued a career in law enforcement attribute their interest to the early influence of television shows like Highway Patrol, Read more

Photos courtesy RKM Collector Car Auctions. Ray Evernham started out racing short-track cars in New Jersey, became a crew chief with the IROC series, headed south with a fuzz-faced Jeff Gordon and became a wrench-turning NASCAR legend. Along with bringing Dodge back into NASCAR with his own team, stepping back Read more

1985 Ford EXP coupe. Brochure images courtesy OldCarBrochures.org. With the dawn of the 1980s came a renewed emphasis on fuel economy in the United States, prompting many automakers to embrace a “smaller is better” mantra. The demographic of the average buyer was changing, too, and for the first time in Read more

Despite the rising demand for them in recent years, pickups still represent one of the most affordable segments of the hobby (for now, anyway). This 1949 Ford F-1 Pickup for sale on Hemmings.com has reportedly seen just four owners and 80,000 miles since leaving the assembly line, and once had Read more

Though it looked fairly modern thanks to Raymond Loewy styling, the 1940 Studebaker Commander still used a flathead six-cylinder drivetrain that dated back to the company’s short-lived Rockne companion car, though one updated over the years – as much as one could update a flathead six, that is. Arch Brown Read more

When Mazda set out to design its MX-5 Miata in the late 1980s, superior handling was one of the two-seat roadster’s design goals. While the car was benchmarked against numerous sports cars during its development, one of the cars used to establish a handling benchmark was Lotus’ decades-old two-seat roadster, Read more

* Friend of Hemmings Geoff Hacker, who is putting together the Fifties Fiberglass display at this year’s Hemmings Concours d’Elegance, recently obtained another cool car, the Leo Lyons Mercury. There’s more in Kustomrama and on Custom Car Chronicle. * There are easier ways to get suicide doors, but Les Schwenk Read more

Postal employees have had a number of motorized vehicles at their disposal over the decades, but perhaps none so cartoonish as the mid-1950s Fageols. Unlike today’s stark and angular Grummans, the Fageols looked like overinflated balloons on four wheels, and reader Joan Schoenly appears to have run with that idea Read more

Heyyyy, boo boo. I see a pic-a-nic-a basket a-ripe for pickin’. What say you and me check it out? While we see plenty of 1960s photos of people feeding bears from their cars in Yellowstone National Park, like the couple below, not too many of the photos have the sort Read more

Somehow this triple-brown 1972 Mercury Marquis Brougham pillared hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com made it through the last few decades without being parted out for its 429 drivetrain. We’d have to guess that’s because it has less than 29,000 miles on it and looks as though previous owners have babied Read more