Hemmings Auto Blog

Walt Arfons, left, with the rocket-powered 1965 Wingfoot Express. Photos courtesy Goodyear. He was one-half of a pair of half-brothers that dared to challenge the reaches of the Bonneville Salt Flats with insanely powerful space-age thrust. Once partners, they became longtime bitter rivals, refusing to speak to one another. They Read more

Unlike most other commercially-produced assemblages of metal, plastic, rubber and electronics, vehicles have a way of generating lasting emotional attachments among owners. This inexplicable bond can make selling a car as painful as parting with a close friend, no matter how much money changes hands in the process. Still, no Read more

It doesn’t offer as much of an insider’s look as the late 1960s Ford design video we recently viewed, but this video that focuses on GM Styling – without specifically mentioning General Motors, but showcasing plenty of GM designs – is just as captivating. Besides, we’re only here for the Read more

In all this time we’ve looked at street scenes – many of them supposedly everyday scenes in typical places here in America – we can’t recall ever seeing a Divco milk truck. That leads us to wonder whether home milk delivery really was as prevalent as many people recall, or Read more

Original cars are all the craze nowadays, and while we get it, there’s also something to be said for almost original cars like this 1955 Chrysler Windsor four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com. With a recently rebuilt 300.5-cu.in. Spitfire V-8 and a repainted dashboard, it no longer falls into the Read more

The Governor’s Cup-winning 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Spyder. Photos courtesy The Elegance at Hershey. Conventional wisdom states that only the finest automobiles, restored well beyond showroom condition so that every single flawless component counts as a work of art, win top honors at major concours d’elegance events. Sometimes, Read more

Proposed NCM motorsport park layout. Image courtesy the National Corvette Museum. For those needing another reason to make a pilgrimage to the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, here it is: The museum complex will soon include a motorsport park, now that supporters have donated enough money to begin Read more

Henry Ford with a 1921 Model T. Images courtesy Ford Motor Company. Though Henry Ford’s name is often associated with the birth of both the automobile and the manufacturing assembly line, he actually invented neither. That said, it’s probably a fair statement to say that Henry Ford did invent the Read more

Well, no, it isn’t, but it’s a fun photochop of what might have been if Buick had ever built a cabover in the spirit of the GM L’Universelle concept van. Thing is, it’s been floating around the Internet for a while now, and we don’t know who is responsible for Read more

How far back does the tradition of hanging keepsakes from your rearview mirror go? We’d guess as far back as the first installation of a rearview mirror in a road-going car (Ray Harroun, inventor of the device, likely didn’t have anything dangling from the Marmon Wasp’s rearview in the 1911 Read more