Hemmings Auto Blog

While we won’t publish the entire series of famous automotive designer profiles that Michael Lamm wrote for SIA (for the entire series and more, check out A Century of Automotive Style), but the one that Lamm kicked off the series with, a profile on Amos Northup for SIA #153, May Read more

One almost presumes that if you’re the descendant of somebody who founded an automobile company, you’d have at least one of those cars around, and that was the case with the great-granddaughter of Louis Kissel – founder of the Kissel Motor Car Company with his four sons – who had Read more

* Of the two factory-built Corvette ZL-1s, the Monaco Orange one has been kept largely out of the public’s eye over the years, but as Steve Burns at CorvetteBlogger reported this week, it recently showed up at Bloomington Gold sporting a fresh restoration. * The famous Casa de Cadillac showroom Read more

Continuing our too-late-for-Shark-Week theme. Spotted at our recent Hemmings Sports & Exotic Show. That is all.

Not too many cars in today’s carspotting exercise, but the change in perspective should make up for it in terms of effort. Also, no clue as to where the photo was taken: We can’t rely on license plates to tell us the state, that building could be just about anywhere Read more

Dodge Monaco cop cars perhaps most famously featured prominently in Blues Brothers, but they also showed up on screen elsewhere, including on the TV show CHiPs, which is apparently where the owner of this 1978 Dodge Monaco for sale on Hemmings.com got the idea to turn his four-door into a Read more

1955 LaSalle II four-door sedan. Photo courtesy Joe Bortz. Normally when a junkyard changes hands, it doesn’t warrant much attention in the national media. Junkyards tend to serve a more local role in the automotive lifecycle, and few rise beyond regional prominence. Not so with Warhoops, the Detroit-area junkyard made Read more

Art Fitzpatrick’s illustration of the 1968 Pontiac Catalina, “Shopping the Tropics.” Image courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. Founded in 1982, the Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) has a mission of exhibiting, promoting and publicizing the automotive, naval and aviation artwork of its members. Exhibiting at the Pebble Beach Concours Read more

An auspicious day for your intrepid West Coast editor: Today, August 16, 2013, marks the 20th anniversary of my entry into the weird business of car-magazine writing. (And photography, too, but that really didn’t come until a little later.) It is not lost on me that I was not chosen Read more

Are we too late for Shark Week? As Mike McNessor pointed out recently, visitors to Pebble Beach this weekend will get a chance to see a trio of historic Corvette concept cars – the Mako Shark, the Sting Ray, and the Manta Ray – but one they won’t be able Read more