Hemmings Auto Blog

Indian Motorcycle sponsored Baker from 1912 to 1924. Photos courtesy Don Emde, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. Say the name Erwin George Baker, and all but those truly passionate about racing history are likely to look on with a blank stare. Drop in the nickname of “Cannon Ball,” however, and Read more

All brochure images from the collection of Mark J. McCourt The Corvair was something special from the start, but by 1963, the car had really found its stride, as this 50-year-old dealer showroom brochure that covers the entire Corvair model range illustrates. This 12-page brochure was one of a number of Read more

The Historic New Orleans Collection has plenty of photographs of this type, semi-random views down streets all over the city, punctuated with cars parked along the curb. Here, we’ve picked two from September 1955: above, looking down South Rampart where it crosses Clio Street, and below, looking down Magazine Street Read more

So which is easier to maintain: an all-original car or a car sporting an older restoration? All depends on the quality of the restoration, we suppose. This Aztec Green 1948 Buick Roadmaster for sale on Hemmings.com went through a restoration about 15 years ago, and it appears that not only Read more

In the fall of 1962, a new Dodge dealership opened at the intersection of West Grand Avenue and North Spaulding Avenue in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, owned by a 28-year old entrepreneur named Norman Kraus, or “Mr. Norm” to his customers. His dealership, Mr. Norm’s Grand Spaulding Dodge, would grow Read more

1955 Jaguar D-type. Photo by Tim Scott, courtesy RM Auctions. Business mogul and former British House of Lords member Irvine Laidlaw doesn’t view himself as a car collector. Instead, Laidlaw considers himself a car enthusiast, saying, “I want to exercise my cars regularly, rather than gloat over them in the Read more

A 1981 Volkswagen Pickup Sportruck. Image by John Lloyd. Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, compact pickup trucks were a popular sight on the streets of American cities. Chevrolet’s LUV (which reportedly stood for Light Utility Vehicle), a rebadged Isuzu Faster, duked it out with the Ford Courier (itself Read more

When Dodge introduced the Li’l Red Express Truck in 1978, no one really understood the concept of a “muscle pickup truck.” What enthusiasts soon figured out, however, is that trucks weren’t saddled with the same emission control regulations as cars, which ultimately made Dodge’s Little-Red-Wagon for adults faster through the Read more

All the hoopla surrounding the 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette boils down to today; according to General Motors, the first Corvettes went into production on Tuesday, June 30, 1953, in the Flint, Michigan, assembly plant (using bodies produced by Ashtabula, Ohio-based Molded Fiberglass Companies), just a few months after Read more

Pontiacs have often had a reputation for going their own way and bucking GM corporate dictum, and few things illustrate this trend more than the overhead-camshaft six-cylinder engine that John Z. DeLorean and crew developed for the LeMans and Firebird. For SIA #150, November 1995, Kit Foster took a rather Read more