Hemmings Auto Blog

One common complaint about collecting cars of the Seventies and Eighties is the lack of reproduction or replacement parts, but think back to the time before aftermarket companies offered parts to restore a car or to simply keep it going. What did our car-collector forefathers do back then? Sometimes they Read more

1963 Corvette Grand Sport. Photo courtesy GM Media. The history of racing Corvettes is a long and storied one, but few competition Corvettes stand out quite as much as the five Grand Sport models that were constructed for the sole purpose of victory at tracks like Sebring and at Le Read more

Aaron Weiss’s Best of Show-winning 1933 Packard Convertible Coupe. Photo courtesy of  Daniel Batalles. This year’s Dana Point Concours d’Elegance honored the 100th anniversary of Duesenberg, and numerous examples of Indianapolis’s finest automobile were on hand to mark the occasion. Among the Duesenbergs gathered for the occasion was the 1936 Read more

GM’s EV1 electric car. All images courtesy GM Media Archives. Modern electric cars seemingly fall into the same category as politics or religion, and it’s virtually impossible to discuss any of these topics today without getting into a heated conversation. Proponents of electric cars are quick to point out their Read more

We were so tickled by the NFZ W43 rendering by 600V that we ran yesterday that we thought we’d dig a little deeper into his series of 3D-rendered genre-busting and wholly imaginative vehicles to see what else plied the highways in his alternative universe. We came away impressed at his Read more

Little Ritzville’s growing up. We’ve seen A.M. Kendrick’s photos of its Main Street a few times already, with minor changes here and there. This photo of Main Street sometime in the mid- to late 1970s, courtesy of the Washington State Digital Archives, shows the most extensive changes so far, but Read more

It’s pretty difficult to sell a parts car. Even if a buyer is willing to take on a project, they’ll still want to know how much work is involved in the project, including how much scrounging for parts they need to do. Fortunately, the seller of this pair of 1964 Read more

1924 Bugatti Type 35 prototype, chassis number 4323. Photo courtesy Bonhams. The Bugatti Type 35, introduced to the world at the Grand Prix of Lyon in August of 1924, was the most successful racing car ever constructed by the storied French marque. Racking up more than 1,000 victories (reportedly at Read more

Photo by Daniel Strohl. A whole industry, a whole society, a whole way of life sprang into being because people liked to change the way their cars looked and performed. You could call it the remaking of a vehicle in your own image. Now, the Saratoga Automobile Museum in New Read more

A pair of Ladas go wheel to wheel. Still image from LiveLeak video. For those raised in the West during the Cold War, the Deutsche Demokratische Republic (“DDR,” the official name for East Germany) was often seen as an impoverished and even more oppressed extension of the Soviet Union. Visitors Read more