Hemmings Auto Blog

Whether shopping for a classic car, a sports car or a muscle car, sound advice you’ll often hear is “buy the best example you can afford.” If you’re in the market for a first-year Firebird with a few pro-touring touches, this 1967 Pontiac Firebird for sale on Hemmings.com quite possibly Read more

Wet Nellie in action. Image courtesy RM Auctions. Perhaps the world’s most renowned Lotus Esprit, the Series 1 “driven” by James Bond on land and under the sea in 1977′s The Spy Who Loved Me, sold at RM’s London auction over the weekend for 616,000 British pounds ($966,440), including buyer’s Read more

Photos courtesy Charlotte Motor Speedway. For quite a while, NASCAR, the organization, wasn’t quite sure how to address the links between its earliest heroes and the transportation of homemade, untaxed liquor. Remember some of the winks and snickers when Crown Royal became a team sponsor? But the tradition of home Read more

Niki Lauda in recent years. Photo courtesy Gregory Moine. On August 1, 1976, while driving for Scuderia Ferrari in the German Grand Prix, Niki Lauda’s Ferrari 312T2 exited the Nuerburgring circuit just before the Bergwerk corner, perhaps due to a rear suspension component failure. After striking an embankment, Lauda’s Ferrari, Read more

Stephan Sharf. Image courtesy of Oakland University. Stephan Sharf, an automotive industry veteran who rose through the ranks from tool and die maker at the Ford Motor Company to become the executive vice president of international business at Chrysler, died on Saturday, August 31, at the age of 92. His Read more

Stephan Sharf. Photo courtesy Oakland University. Stephan Sharf, an automotive industry veteran who rose through the ranks from tool and die maker to become the executive vice president of international business at Chrysler, died on Saturday, August 31, at the age of 92. His rags-to-riches story began in 1947, when Read more

The sign for the no-longer-extant Witte Hardware Company makes this late 1950s photo (which we spotted on Blog dos Carros Antigos) rather easy to place – St. Louis, Missouri, just south of the Eads Bridge, looking away from that city’s most famous landmark. Indeed, Missouri used yellow-on-black license plates – Read more

The initial proposed design, as seen from the northeast. Images courtesy California Automobile Museum. Located in Sacramento, California, the California Automobile Museum occupies a patch of largely vacant industrial land on the banks of the Sacramento River. Its current building, leased from the city, dates back several decades, lacks air Read more

A pair of DeTomaso Mangustas overlook the 2013 Concorso Italiano field. Photos by Kurt Ernst. For lovers of Italian automobiles, motorcycles, and boats, one of the highlights of Automobile Week in Monterey, California, is Concorso Italiano, a single-day event that celebrates the beauty and engineering of marques like Ferrari, Moto Read more

Ford’s 1984-1/2 Mustang SVO. Photo courtesy Ford Media Archives. For most Ford Mustang enthusiasts, performance variants of the iconic pony car had always been defined by V-8 engines following the credo that, “there’s no replacement for displacement.” While bigger V-8 engines can be better for drag racing, smaller and lighter Read more