Hemmings Auto Blog

Every now and then we need a reminder that we’re in the collector car hobby as much for our appreciation of older cars as well as for the old-car experiences we share with others. My Hemmings member vince311 provided that reminder recently with the story he related about the 351-powered Read more

The photographers for the Documerica project seemed to really love these photos of stacked cars at the junkyard. We’ve already seen David Falconer’s pictures from a Portland, Oregon, junkyard, as well as Dick Swanson’s take on a Philadelphia stack, and just recently we came across this photo that Gene Daniels Read more

Volvo built its much-beloved PV544 model from 1958 through 1965, though the car’s origin dates back to the 1943 launch of the Volvo PV444. When sales of the PV544 ended after the 1966 model year, Volvo ran ads that were only slightly tongue-in-cheek, asking PV owners not to be angry Read more

Photo courtesy St. Joseph County Parks. At 75 years old, any Studebaker will show a little wear and tear and probably require some restoration work, and the world’s largest (and greenest) remnant of the automaker – a half-mile-long sign made up of pine trees outside New Carlisle, Indiana – is Read more

1941 Plymouth PT pickup. Photo by Jeff Koch. Two hundred seventy-three. That’s where the current Guinness world record for the largest parade of pickup trucks currently stands, but the folks at Rural Radio, a new channel on Sirius XM satellite radio, hope to gather even more pickups this weekend to Read more

I think the time has come to introduce you to Charlie Beesley. I’ve known him for about a decade now, and he never fails to astonish me every time he sends me another batch of car pictures. Charlie wrote me initially around 2003 and, in his letter mentioned that he’d Read more

Beyond the pending release of both Snake and Mongoose and Ron Howard’s Rush, automotive film aficionados still have plenty of screen time to look forward to. Those out West have the upcoming inaugural Monterey automotive film festival to look forward to, and at the same time, two new documentaries will Read more

That annoying woman and her equally annoying son. She drives him here at least once a week to tie up one of my service techs as he looks under the hood of every new car we get in inventory. Don’t they know that we’ve got cars to sell, more cars Read more

Some days we wonder where all these nice unrestored cars from the 1950s and 1960s come from. Does somebody out there have a time machine they’re using to bring these cars forward in time? And if so, do they take requests? Then on other days we just have to sit Read more

1969 Chevrolet Baja race truck, once owned by Steve McQueen. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. A Vic Hickey-prepared 1969 Chevrolet pickup Baja racer, once owned by Steve McQueen and said to be the first truck specifically constructed by GM for use in the Mexican 1000 Rally (the predecessor of the Baja Read more