Hemmings Auto Blog

All images courtesy of Bruno Leunen. While collector car rallies annually take place in some of the world’s most remote and unexpected places, affording opportunities to see exotic lands through familiar windshields, decades of military rule have prevented such rallies from taking place in Myanmar – also known as Burma Read more

Why, yes, it is a full-size Ford Bronco in Southern California owned by a Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL player. But not that Bronco and not that NFL player. Rather, this 1981 Ford Bronco for sale on Hemmings.com is owned by John Cappelletti, who won the Heisman in 1973 Read more

* We don’t know why we didn’t come across this until now, seven months after the fact, but Dave’s report on the 2012 Wavecrest Woodie Meet is worth a read if you’re at all into termite townhouses. * Whatever happened to John Lennon’s Harold Radford-tweaked Mini? One would think that Read more

With spring upon us, we’re trying not to dip back into the wintertime street scenes, but this Vermont Landscape Change Program photo of Barre, Vermont, near the junction of routes 14 and 302, taken in December of 1969 – complete with holiday decorations, no less – is just too good Read more

In the Wild About Wheels department of the January 2013 issue of Hemmings Motor News, Mark McCourt discussed Oldsmobile’s first steel wheels: the Kelsey-Hayes “artillery”-style pressed-steel wheels introduced in 1933. For our latest episode of Hemmings TV, videographer Don Ashley caught up with Jeff Busch, the owner of the beautiful Read more

As Craig Fitzgerald’s 10 reasons to love the Malaise Era article and our recent street scene from late 1970s downtown Columbus, Ohio, showed, y’all are ready to take a deeper look at the cars from the Carter administration. So let’s examine this Portal to Texas History photo of West Houston Read more

Even though, as a tourist destination, Niagara Falls is almost overrepresented in photographs scattered around the Internet, we’ve yet to run any of those photographs for our carspotting series. So let’s turn again to ElectroSpark’s Flickr collection for today’s street scene. Fair warning if you’re interested in seeing this place Read more

Exactly why A.M. Kendrick kept returning to the intersection of Main and North Adams streets in Ritzville, Washington, over the years, we don’t know, but it made for an excellent study of how a small town changed over time and it provided plenty of carspotting opportunities for us decades later. Read more

On April 1, 1961, the Amphicar launched…whether from a dock or a garage is lost to history. It was the first amphibious automobile mass-produced for consumer sale, and while it never really caught on in the Sixties, with a total production of only 3,878 (3,046 of which were imported to Read more

Divcos have gained in popularity in recent years, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to find one to restore, as we see from this 1939 Divco for sale on Hemmings.com, reportedly one of 140 built for the Helms Bakery in California. While various exotic race cars are often called breadvans, Read more