Hemmings Auto Blog

Just try not to cringe at the near-misses at least once throughout these films of various intersections in Portland, Oregon, uploaded by Dan Haneckow of Cafe Unknown and pointed out to us by Gene Herman. We’ve embedded one below, marked Sandy at 28th. What do you see here?

As a mid-level car with a basic V-8 and with little glam or glitz to it, this 1962 Dodge Dart 330 two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com is the kind of car that can easily get overlooked – not powerful enough for the muscle car crowd, not barebones enough for Read more

We’ve conversed a few times with Kent Mathieu of the Taipei Air Station blog since the last carspotting shot he sent us, and now he’s sent along another 1960s Taipei street scene, this one courtesy S. Swallom of DawgFlight.com. Kent writes: Cars parked on Minzu East Road, in front of Read more

It seems that every American truck that makes its way to northern Europe goes through some sort of transmogrification in the process, and this 1955 Ford for sale on Hemmings.com is no exception, having started out as a Belgian army ambulance and then later re-transmogrified into this ice cream vendor’s Read more

The six-cylinder under the hood of this 1962 Mercury Comet station wagon-teardrop trailer combination for sale on Hemmings.com might be seen by some as a negative. But considering the intended purpose of such a combination – to travel the country and see all that it has to offer – we Read more

One has to hand it to the staff of SIA, particularly for their ability to find complementary cars for their comparison reports. A great example: the comparo by Arch Brown in SIA #138, November 1993, which featured a pair of big black ultra-luxury phaetons from the waning years of the Read more

One would expect anybody capable of filling in the rear doors and swapping over a section of pickup cab sheetmetal to convert this 1954 Oldsmobile 88 for sale on Hemmings.com into an El Camino-style sedan pickup would have some decent body and paint skills, and indeed, Ollie Prather owned and Read more

* While researching the story on the Cadillac concept cars this week, we came across David Temple’s site pointing out the lost GM dream cars from the 1950s, including the 1955 Oldsmobile 88 Delta above. Seen any of ‘em lately? * With the North American International Auto Show coming up, Read more

Capping off our week of winter street scenes, we’ll go north of the border to Montreal, where Flickr member colros shot a series of photos of snow-choked streets in February 1972. According to colros, a strike by city workers led to the unplowed streets, which brought the city to a Read more

Pay attention, grunts! Last week, thanks to the U.S. Army’s instructional video series that’s made its way to YouTube, we took a look at how fluid couplings work. We’ll return to that series today for a brief overview of planetary gears, the natural followup in understanding the basic operation principles Read more