Hemmings Auto Blog

It’s always hard to swallow the stories that get told about coachbuilt Cadillacs; wagons and woodies seemed to be favorites of external coachbuilders during the 1940s and 1950s, and so many of the stories come with little documentation. Arch Brown, however, appears to have done his research on this 1949 Read more

We’ve been following the progress of the Project 510 over on Build Threads, and that got us wondering what a decent 510 project car goes for. As chance would have it, this 1971 Datsun 510 project car popped up for sale on Hemmings.com at just about the same time, and Read more

I’ll be here all week, folks, make sure to tip your waiter. Photo of Elvis’s Messerschmitt was taken in 1956 for Look magazine and posted earlier today on Shorpy. So was Elvis’s Messerschmitt painted pink? Will we see every other Messerschmitt advertised as Elvis’s now? And is any of the Read more

Were it not for the keying, this 1966 Mercury Park Lane Breezeway four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com would look like a solid driveable dream, something to be proud of driving down the road. But a keying is just about as bad as a cracked windshield – it’s one of Read more

At least, according to the Du Pont Refinisher News, which published the 1975 color results in its January-February 1977 issue. So we’re not really that late in breaking the news, you see. The results include cars as well as medium and light-duty trucks, so fleet sales probably skewed the results Read more

After yesterday’s ski slope parking lot shot, we thought we were done with winter, but we’ll make room for another, which Jim & Chester’s Garage recently posted. It looks like jesse at Just a Car Guy also posted this photo last summer, but we still have no idea where or Read more

Winter gave us one last hurrah this week (and will probably hit us with another two or three last hurrahs over the coming weeks – stupid groundhog), so let’s get all snowy with our carspotting exercise for today with a couple Donald Wiedenmayer photos from the Vermont Landscape Change program Read more

While the commenters at Vintage Seattle did an admirable job of pinpointing the location of this photo of Ivar’s Drive-In Restaurant taken by Marion Dean Ross (on the corner of Broadway and Thomas in Seattle), they weren’t able to give us a solid date for the photo, so let’s take Read more

Here at Hemmings, we love unrestored, original cars – especially when they’re driven regularly. So you know we had a good time putting together the May 2013 issue (#93) of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, with a bevy of fantastic survivors from an array of marques. There’s everything from a 1977 Read more

The Eighties and even the Nineties would have been so much more interesting if more manufacturers had taken their front-drive econoboxes and moved their engines to the back to create little rally monsters like this 1984 Renault R5 Turbo 2 for sale on Hemmings.com, a recently serviced example that appears Read more