Hemmings Auto Blog

Chrysler’s 300 series cars of the 1950s and 1960s were intended to provide a mix of both performance and luxury for buyers lucky enough to acquire one. In 1956, the automaker built just 1,102 300B coupes, and it’s anyone’s guess how many survive today. If you’re looking to park a Read more

1947 Ford Super DeLuxe Sportsman. Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. Chrysler’s postwar Town & Country convertibles may be the best-known woodie drop-tops, but they weren’t the only such models produced. In 1945, the Ford Motor Company showed its Sportsman Model 71 woodie convertible to a public hungry for Read more

Photos courtesy Irv Gordon Yesterday afternoon, around 4 p.m. Alaska time, an East Patchogue, New York, resident and the world’s most highly traveled, privately-owned automobile reached a major milestone on the Seward Highway, along the Turnagain Arm, south of Anchorage, Alaska: Irv Gordon drove his 1966 Volvo 1800S through its Read more

Photo courtesy Toyota Motor Corporation. Eiji Toyoda, age 100 and five days, died Tuesday of heart failure. He was instrumental in Toyota Motor Corporation’s growth from a local car-building concern to arguably the largest car-building operation on the planet, and has influenced the production of countless millions of cars that Read more

We’ve received many interesting stories from readers recalling their experiences buying and selling through the pages of Hemmings Motor News and on Hemmings.com since our recent call for submissions for our upcoming 60th anniversary issue. One of the wildest came in from Darryl Tinnerstet of McCleary, Washington, and it was Read more

Ford engineer Glen Miller and Edsel Ford II drive the restored Sweepstakes racer. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford is best known as a pioneering automaker and industrialist, but prior to his later fame, Ford tried his hand at auto racing, too. Unlike most who get started in racing Read more

Regular Shorpy readers may have seen these two images recently. Both feature the Telstar Radome in Andover, Maine, one of the largest air-supported structures ever built – so, apparently, a super-size version of those blow-up golf and tennis centers you see across suburban America. According to the IEEE Global History Read more

Meant to take on the likes of Cadillac and Packard, Lincoln’s Capri was a full-size luxury car, available in coupe, sedan and convertible variants, sold between 1952 and 1959. As such, it came well-appointed and bedecked with acres of chrome, and for the 1955 model year proved to be the Read more

The record-setting 1935 Alfa Romeo 8C-35. Photos by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Notching a win against a Silver Arrow should be feather enough in any racing car’s cap; doing so with the great Tazio Nuvolari at the wheel and under the banner of Scuderia Ferrari simply explains the win. Read more

It’s hardly the first place that two cars squared off each other, but C.J. “Pappy” Hart achieved immortality by conducting the first organized drag races on the West Coast at an airport in Santa Ana, California, in Orange County. Hart set the standard for how a drag race should be Read more