Hemmings Auto Blog

While Wooster, Ohio-based Gerstenslager is still in business today, stamping sheetmetal for the auto industry, the collector car community knows the company mostly for its moving truck bodies and bookmobiles. Unsurprisingly, then, the Wooster Public Library had their own Gerstenslager-built bookmobile, based on a 1949 GMC 350-series two-ton COE, as Read more

If you’ve spent enough time looking at cars on the Internet as we have, you’ve by now certainly come across a photo of several cars stacked in a row in front of a liquor store (below, courtesy Stiffspeed) and wondered how such a thing ever happened. The true story has Read more

If that Toyota pickup were a four-wheel-drive version, then it could very well have been the one I went to look at when I was 16 and scouting around for my first ride. I didn’t buy it because the frame was about rotted all the way through, and this photo Read more

Over at Road and Track’s blog, Noonz posted this photo of a guy named Rench posing with a Chevrolet-based eight-door airport limousine sometime in the 1970s in New Mexico. Apparently the Chevrolet was then in use, or retired from use, as the band vehicle for the Last Mile Ramblers. My Read more

Rooting through the old SIA files, I came across this photo submitted by reader Russ Turner of San Francisco. Russ wrote that he spotted the junkyard while driving through Avenal, California, but was unable to speak with anybody at the yard to get details. Does anybody know whether it still Read more

When the Barris-built Batmobile sold for $4.62 million last month, it became the most valuable TV or movie car in the world, taking that title (by a mere $11,500) from a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 that was used onscreen in Goldfinger and Thunderball. Now another James Bond DB5 has come Read more

While we did once previously run this Charles Cushman photo of Der Watzmann as seen from Berchtesgaden, taken in May of 1964, that was about five years ago and we didn’t run it as part of our carspotting series, so let’s take another look at it today. What do you Read more

What happens to old cars that wind up in junkyards? Some of them get scavenged for parts to restore other cars; some that are too far gone get sent to the crusher. Those in between, at least in Spain, may now get a new lease on life with two wheels Read more

Now that we’ve shaken loose all those monorail-related street scenes, let’s go back to some historic street scenes from the rest of the Emerald City, such as this photo of Aurora Avenue headed into the Battery Street Tunnel, taken in June 1959 and found over on the Seattle Municipal Archives Read more

We’ve always wondered why most people who hot rod a Nash (or Hudson) Metropolitan choose the V-8/Pro Street approach when there are plenty of ways to boost the performance of the stock Austin four-cylinder setup. Which is why we applaud the builder of this 1956 Nash Metropolitan restomod for sale Read more