Hemmings Auto Blog

Speaking of imaginations gone wild as applied to cabover creations, as we were last week, we’re really digging the NFZ-series 3D renderings that deviantArt member 600V has been posting, in particular this, uh, thing, which looks like some Dr. Moreau-style effort to genetically blend the Futurliner, the Sir Vival Safety Read more

Reader Andy Crews pointed out today’s carspotting photos, all taken from the Flickr page of Andy’s alma mater, Baylor University in Waco, Texas. On that day, according to the photo captions, the Baylor Bears beat the SMU Mustangs, 27 to 21, but I can presume (for most of us, at Read more

The idea of building an aerodynamic and safe sports car with gullwing doors, assembled on foreign soil but specifically targeted to buyers in North America, did not originate with John DeLorean. In 1974, Malcolm Bricklin, founder of Subaru of America, began assembling his Herb Grasse-designed Bricklin SV-1 (for Safety Vehicle Read more

Photos courtesy SEMA. As gas stations across the country get ready to roll out gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol – and as the EPA has begun to recommend increasing the ethanol content in fuel to 30 percent – the Antique Automobile Club of America, one of the largest collector Read more

Images courtesy Thoroughbred International. Saving an early Mustang fastback might be a bit easier now that Thoroughbred International has released its new 1965-1966 unit-body “skeletons” intended to replace the foundations of heavily rusted or otherwise damaged originals. Though new Mustang restoration body shells have come to market in recent years, Read more

Juan Manuel Fangio. Photos courtesy Daimler Media Archive. In the world of Formula One, the benchmark driver to which all others continue to be compared is the Argentinian great, Juan Manuel Fangio. Though Fangio last turned an F1 steering wheel in anger in 1958, his record of five World Driver’s Read more

We’ve been enjoying the photos that Dave Lindsay of SoCalCarCulture has been uploading to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool lately, but this one that recently came through has us stumped. Taken in 2006 at a Labor Day cruise, it shows what appears to be a 1941 Ford Ranchero. Of course, Read more

While the Vintage Las Vegas blog labeled the above photo of the Thunderbird casino and hotel on the Las Vegas strip with a date of 1955 – based on what they know of when certain renovations were made to the building – the cars in the photo point to a Read more

Is there another 1950s styling cue one could add to this 1958 Edsel Pacer Bermuda for sale on Hemmings.com? It’s got the two-tone coral-and-white paint, the faux wood paneling, the fins, the chrome, the whitewalls, and even the pushbutton transmission. Hook a Serro Scotty trailer to the back and the Read more

Dr. Werner Lang. Image courtesy of Trabant Film.com. In 1957, a remarkable new car rolled off the assembly line at VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, East Germany. Produced to be as simple as possible, the Trabant (“satellite,” in German) featured an air-cooled, two-stroke engine and a body constructed from Read more