Hemmings Auto Blog

One more Futurliner story, for now (though if a previously unknown Futurliner crops up, you know we’ll be all over it). While researching the recent Futurliner registry story, we came across the below General Motors Parade of Progress video featuring the Futurliners in action in their original 1941 guise, along Read more

Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked recently sent us a few European postcard images that he thought would fit in well with our carspotting series, and we agreed, so we’ll start with this parking lot scene in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily, taken sometime in the late 1960s or early Read more

For some people, the main selling feature of this 1968 Ford Country Sedan for sale on Hemmings.com is its original unrestored and clean condition. For others, it’s the dual facing rear seats that squeezed one more (likely under-four-foot) person under its greenhouse. Still for others, it’s the fact that the Read more

Porsche 550 Spyder, chassis number 550-0077. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Since its introduction in 1953, the Porsche 550 Spyder has become one of the most iconic cars in all of motorsports. Forever linked to the tragic death of James Dean, the 550 also earned a reputation as a “giant killer,” Read more

Just wrapped up the 2014 Hemmings Model A Ford calendar; for the first time ever, a Hemmings calendar was photographed and written by one person – me. I’d love to say that it was because I had the full faith and trust of everyone back in Vermont, but the truth Read more

Earl Coryell’s Lincoln, Nebraska-based corn-ethanol gas station. Photo courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society. When the price of gas leaps into the stratosphere, we scramble to find alternatives and biofuels become big news. They’re hailed as miracles of modern technology that promise to solve our energy problems – or at least Read more

The comments on yesterday’s Packardbakers post included many from people who had some thought-provoking ideas on what they would have done if they’d have been in control of the Packard marque in its waning years. Obviously, their mission would have been to save Packard and, in some cases, prevent it Read more

Reader Dennis Murphy pointed out this Samuel H. Gottscho photo of the parking lot at General Electric’s turbine plant in Schenectady, New York, circa 1949, over at Shorpy, and we agree that it’ll make a great carspotting photo. The commenters at Shorpy have already put some names with the faces Read more

We’ve been seeing Seventies and Eighties cars in a new light in recent years, but what really helps change one’s perspective on those cars is seeing an example as clean and well kept as this 1979 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 for sale on Hemmings.com, not beat up and run down like Read more

Former Shelby American designer John Chun. Photo courtesy John King. John Chun, an industrial designer who began his automotive career with the “dream job” of sketching design proposals for Shelby American, has died. For years, Chun was known to friends and neighbors only as the friendly proprietor of the Chun Read more