Hemmings Auto Blog

It’ll take some time and effort to finish off this 1940 American Bantam for sale on Hemmings.com. Besides paint, it seems to need an engine rebuild, a new interior and top, and likely some parts hunting to get back into presentable shape. Sure, it could be stripped even further and Read more

* What car guys most know Buckminster Fuller for is the Dymaxion three-wheeled streamliner, but perhaps more car guys would be familiar with him if his plan to build a four-wheeled streamliner with engineering genius Harry Miller had come to fruition. AutoWeek’s Graham Kozak had more on those plans this Read more

Fifth-wheel travel trailers can offer up many advantages compared to their more conventionally towed counterparts, but chief among them is resistance to the phenomena known as sway. As we explained in our Skills 101 article on towing a trailer, sway can be caused by excessive speed, improper trailer loading or Read more

Man, I thought New York City was bad for sheetmetal, but from the dings and dents in the cars in this C. William Brubaker photo of Chicago’s South Michigan Avenue, circa December 1972, the Windy City might be just as bad. Then again, we only see the dings and dents Read more

Unlike muscle cars and sports cars, most preserved wagons were maintained in original (or near original) condition, meaning that buyers need not correct any overzealous “customization” performed by previous owners. This pristine 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Station Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com seems to be a prime example of that Read more

1966 Le Mans-winning Ford GT40. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. With the 24 Hours of Le Mans celebrating its 90th anniversary this weekend, the sanctioning body Automobile Clue de l’Ouest (ACO) earlier this year set out to name the top cars of each of the race’s 10 decades, and while Read more

Robert Ingram’s 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder. All photos courtesy Dennis Cohen. As Porsche’s very first attempt to build a sports racing car, the 550 Spyder would likely be desirable even if it hadn’t earned its reputation as a “giant killer” in international competition. Original, surviving examples are now reaching stratospheric Read more

Hemmings’s own tow rig, used to transport cars to events. Photos by the author. According to statistics compiled by the DangerousTrailers.org website, an average of 68,358 American motorists are involved in towing-related accidents each year, each resulting in average damages exceeding $43,000. While towing a trailer seems simple enough, proper Read more

Speaking of Harley Earl, we recently came across this video – apparently put together by GM in the 1980s – extolling the virtues of the great designer, uploaded to YouTube by mrpitv, the same user who uploaded the Ford design studio video we recently posted. Plenty of footage of the Read more

By now, the kids should all be out of school and the snow on all but the tallest mountain passes should be melted, which means it’s prime time for summer vacations. We’re obviously partial to the hop-in-the-car-and-drive type of summer vacation, so we rounded up a few Seventies-era street scenes Read more