Hemmings Auto Blog

Those road signs should look familiar: Today’s carspotting photo depicts the same junction of routes 14 and 302 that we saw in an earlier Vermont Landscape Change street scene of Barre, Vermont, though from four years later. It looks like the town went largely unchanged during that time, but the Read more

Anybody looking for a “car of the people” from across the Atlantic will certainly have choices. British car fans will gravitate to the classic Mini, German car fans will be drawn to the Volkswagen Beetle and French motoring aficionados will swear by (and often, at) their beloved Citroen 2CV. Fans Read more

Photo courtesy Mark Palmer. With their 1963 Corvair Monza coupe tuned and ready to take on the exciting adventure of crossing this great country of ours, brothers-in-law Mark Palmer and Steve Schlott are currently driving to California from Michigan via Route 66 as a fundraiser for the non-profit group Brain Read more

A couple of years ago, Dan wondered what was the fate of General Motors’ late 1960s XP-511 and XP-512 concept cars, including the XP-512E battery electric and XP-512H hybrid cars. Dan had pointed out that it’s a common misconception to think that not much research was done into using alternative Read more

Photos courtesy Tom Cotter. The man who painted the first Cobra and built the Monkeemobile, customizing legend Dean Jeffries, has died at the age of 80. As confirmed by Tom Cotter, who wrote Dean Jeffries: 50 Fabulous Years in Hot Rods, Racing & Film, Jeffries died in his sleep Sunday Read more

My mother was rearranging the bookshelves in the den at home when she pulled out this 1916 Crane-Simplex Model 5 owner’s handbook, which my father picked up at an auction many years ago. Being the family’s car nutcase, the book came to me. I thought that it might be something fun to share. Read more

Yes, we’ve had quite a few Stardust parking lot scenes lately, but they always include plenty of cool cars to go along with that crazy neon. Today’s photo comes from the University of Nevada Las Vegas online photo collection and is dated 1958, but we’re thinking that’s the absolute earliest Read more

It’s not hard to see why sedan deliveries have become popular among collectors in recent years: They benefit from almost all the parts availability of their passenger car cousins, yet offer more room for luggage for those road trips you want to take. We’ve even seen plenty of mom-n-pop businesses Read more

1938 Steyr 220 Sport Roadster. Photos by Dave Droschak. Of the six Glaeser-bodied Steyr 220 Sport Roadsters built before World War II, three were destroyed in the war, one resides in an Austrian museum, and one has been lost to history. That leaves the 1938 Steyr 220 Sport Roadster that Read more

Back in 2009, Bob Walton and Sal Santoro embarked on the trip of a lifetime, crossing the U.S. in Walton’s 1968 Cadillac de Ville convertible. When they returned, Walton wrote a story for the March 2010 Hemmings Motor News “Reminiscing” column, recalling the 7,292-mile journey from New Jersey to Santa Read more