Hemmings Auto Blog

Some days I choose cars for Hemmings Find of the Day because they have an interesting story to tell or because they’re in particularly good (or not so good) condition. Other days, like today, I choose them simply because they’re stunning cars, and let’s face it, many of us just Read more

(Photo courtesy WBTW) Seeing a Plymouth GTX of any vintage is rare enough these days, some four decades after they were built; just 17,914 hardtops were built in its debut year of 1968. As of the morning of February 20, 2013, there was one less out there: a Myrtle Beach, Read more

Apologies for the vertical nature of today’s street scene, but how often do we get a chance to post art (Art!) in our carspotting series? Robert Doisneau, legendary photojournalist, took this photo, which he titled Le Meute, in 1969 on the streets of Paris. Parisians and Paris-lovers, can you identify Read more

In its aim to break the 1.5-liter land-speed record, MG went all out in 1957, hiring Stirling Moss and designing from scratch the EX181, a supercharged Twin Cam-powered pumpkin seed-shaped streamliner; the effort paid off with a 245.64 MPH record, which Phil Hill would break just a few years later Read more

While these two photos from the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections weren’t tagged with any identifying information, we were able to sleuth out a city and state – Baltimore, Maryland – based on the Belmont 5 telephone exchange and confirmed by the now-demolished Maryland Casualty clock tower in the background. Read more

After reviewing the lots at this past weekend’s Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum auction, one might think that the depths of obscurity in the microcar scene have been sufficiently plumbed. Not so! MrScharroo’s Flickr stream constantly comes up with one-off, Eastern European, and other relatively unheard-of microcars, such as the 1956 Read more

Like our old standby Charles Cushman, whoever’s behind the Cloud Cuckoo Land Flickr account seems to have traveled extensively over the years and made a vacation out of the western United States in 1965. Here we see they made sure to snap a photo of the Theme Building at LAX. Read more

It’s about time we returned to the University of Nebraska at Omaha to check in on its parking situation and, once again, we find that there appeared to be more cars than places to put them on the UNO campus, this time in 1971. No buffalo to roam these shots, Read more

Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions. Four hundred ninety-four cubic centimeters may not sound like much, but compared to most of the putt-putt two-strokes that powered the cars at this past weekend’s Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum auction, the 1958 FMR Tg500 Tiger’s 20.5 horsepower twin-cylinder engine was an absolute Read more

Among architects, this photo of the parking lot at Caesar’s Palace is fairly well known as one of the many pictures that Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown took during the Las Vegas trip that produced their book Learning from Las Vegas, and while the duo were less focused on Read more