Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
We pegged a circa 1950 date on this photo of an entrepreneur and his parking lot at 316 Chartres Street in New Orleans, which we found over at The Historic New Orleans Collection, after a cursory examination of the cars in the parking lot, but a deeper examination of said Read more
Restoring a car, like restoring a house, is often filled with surprises, and one rarely understands the full cost involved until the project gets well beyond the point of no return. That’s why this 1967 Plymouth Belvedere I convertible GTX clone for sale on Hemmings.com caught our eye: Though the Read more
The reunited Jaguar D-Type, chassis XKD-530. D-Type photos by Teddy Pieper for RM Auctions. Some of the most contentious incidents in car collecting take place when two (or more) different cars – usually limited-production high-end examples – lay claim to the same chassis number through some prior scattering of the Read more
Photo courtesy Great Race. Hot on the heels of the conclusion of this year’s race down the Mississippi, which Barry and Irene Jason of Keller, Texas, won, the Great Race has released the route for next year’s running of the event. Just as last year, the Great Race will be Read more
1987 Toyota FJ62 Land Cruiser. Photos courtesy Toyota USA. By the close of the 1970s, the Toyota Land Cruiser had already established itself as a capable and dependable off-roader. With the 1967 introduction of the FJ55 Land Cruiser, Toyota even had a true five-passenger SUV, although its creature comforts (like Read more
By 1926, Ford was starting to see sales of its Model T fall off, as consumers embraced faster and more stylish offerings from competing brands. Though noticeably below 1923′s peak of more than two million units sold, 1926 would still see more than 1.5 million Model Ts leave Ford dealerships Read more
It’s easy to focus on the history of the automobile here in the United States and over in Europe to the detriment of the automobile’s evolution elsewhere in the world, particularly in Japan, despite the prominence of Japanese automobiles in the American and world market. Peter Laurence made a brief Read more
Though Fiat 124 Spiders are not exactly uncommon in the Hemmings classifieds, many are high-mileage cars painted red that need a bit of TLC to return to road-worthiness. If you’ve got a taste for an affordable open-air Italian automobile, tastefully sprayed in a medium metallic blue, this 1972 Fiat 124 Read more
* If your last name is Griswold and you have a family and you want to take them on a summer vacation, what do you do? Commission a replica of the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, of course. * Smokey Yunick is known for applying his innovation to many a car, Read more
After Kurt’s Cars of Futures Past story on the Tucker 48, we thought we’d take a look at another Tucker prototype that also ended up rather prescient in a few ways: the Tucker Tiger Tank, also known as the Tucker combat car. Long before the Tucker 48, Preston Tucker had Read more