Hemmings Auto Blog

Note: I write up driving impressions of virtually every car I photograph within a couple of days of the drive, so everything is fresh in my memory. Occasionally, because of the constraints of format (i.e., Buyer’s Guide) the prepared text doesn’t run. Now, thanks to the joys of the blogosphere, Read more

At times, it seems that every big-block muscle car has been restored over the last couple decades, which might be a downer for people who want the satisfaction of doing the job themselves, but might also be perfectly fine for people who don’t have the time or inclination to blow Read more

1979 Buick Century Turbo Coupe. Photos courtesy GM Media Archives. By the mid-1980s, automaker Buick had carved out a niche for itself by building performance cars equipped with a turbocharged V-6 engine. While models like the Buick Regal Grand National (produced from 1984-1987 in turbocharged form) and the GNX (built Read more

Badge engineering is rather common today, but it was pretty much Kaiser-Frazer’s modus operandi, what with the Kaiser being essentially a de-contented Frazer, so it should have come to no surprise to anybody that K-F would badge-engineer the Henry J into another model. The company that would market that new Read more

The original Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1, produced from 1990 to 1995, stunned the automotive world with its performance. Thanks in part to a Lotus-designed aluminum-block V-8 engine (with dual overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder), the car was capable of sprinting from 0-60 MPH in just 4.4 seconds, on the Read more

* While we knew that Alex Tremulis had set a land-speed record for motorhomes at 97 MPH, we didn’t know until reading this week that the record had been pushed up to 137 MPH since then. A team of guys running a GMC Motorhome is out to break that record, Read more

Images by Bill Robinson, courtesy Dave Langstone. In the recent article on the 1954 Plymouth Belmont concept car, many people expressed doubt that Virgil Exner actually penned the Belmont’s lines, despite the fact that Exner had taken credit for the car for many years. Indeed, it would be a stretch Read more

So is it Montgomery Ward or Montgomery Wards? That little quirk of midwestern English gets so many English fundamentalists worked up, but as we can see from this photo of the parking lot of the newly opened Montgomery Ward(s) in Gary, Indiana, sometime in 1958, as found on Pleasant Family Read more

The late 1950s were a time of seemingly endless promise in the United States. In America, car designs were changed (and not just “freshened”) every few years, and bigger was most definitely better. Few cars sum up this “innovate and enlarge” philosophy better than Cadillacs, and this 1958 Cadillac Series Read more

Photos courtesy Walter Kirtland. Giotto Bizzarrini turned to the AMC executives watching the high-speed tests for the AMX/3 at Monza in 1970. The Americans had hoped their mid-engine proto-supercar car would be capable of 160 MPH, and the chin spoiler Bizzarrini just added allowed it to easily surpass that goal. Read more