Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Now that minivans, crossovers and SUVs have displaced the station wagon as the family hauler of choice, it’s natural to be a bit nostalgic for the days when station wagons roamed the highways and side streets of the United States. Capable of almost any task, from shuttling kids to school, Read more
Whether you have an imported sports or exotic car to show, or simply enjoy strolling among some of the world’s most beautiful and interesting cars, you’ll want to join us for our eighth annual Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car Show, which takes place tomorrow, August 3, on the grounds of Read more
Brock Yates poses with Frank Livingstone’s Eliminator. Photo courtesy Brock Yates Jr. According to the latest statistics from the Alzheimer’s Association, the disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and the fifth-leading cause of death for those over age 65. Currently, some 5.2 million Americans Read more
This early 1960s Volkswagen Type 1 convertible shows what a clean interior should look like. Photo by Mark McCourt. For most car owners, cleaning the interior of their daily driver consists of little more than the occasional 75-cent vacuum rental at the drive-through car wash. Worse yet, others feel the Read more
This is what $924,000 worth of Nomex driver’s suit looks like. Last weekend, a 1960 Chevrolet pickup Baja racer once owned by Steve McQueen sold for $60,000 at an auction in Santa Monica, California. Given that the truck also had a semi-significant racing history, complete with participation in the first Read more
I tell ya, there’s nothing I like more on my summer vacations than loading up the car with kids and sunscreen and beach chairs and whatnot, then sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic for a few hours at a stretch. Gets the kids all worked up, y’know? Especially if we’re juuuuust in Read more
To those of you who may still question the viability of restoring Seventies and Eighties cars, feast your eyes upon this (glorious, magnificent, superlative) 1979 AMC Spirit AMX for sale on Hemmings.com, restomodded with a built AMC 360 in place of the original two-barrel 304. Finished in the (highly desirable) Read more
Mercury photos by Peter McLaughlin, courtesy RM Auctions. It apparently didn’t take much for the previous owner of the 1952 Mercury Custom eight-passenger woodie station wagon that sold at this past weekend’s RM Auction at St. John’s to make a significant profit off it: Sit on it for a year, Read more
The 2013 Concours of America best in show Duesenberg and Alfa Romeo. Images courtesy of Concours d’Elegance of America. ‘Twas the year of the straight-eight at this past weekend’s Concours d’Elegance of America as the judges selected two vastly different cars from opposite sides of the Atlantic sharing only a Read more
Tucker Model 48, number 1034. Photos courtesy RM Auctions. Fortune, the saying goes, favors the bold. Were that truly the case, the Tucker Model 48 would have been an uncontested success for Tucker Corporation and Preston Thomas Tucker, the visionary jack-of-all-trades inventor behind its creation. Instead, just as production of Read more