Hemmings Auto Blog

We’ve seen this particular location in our street scene series before – it’s a favorite of one of our favorites, Charles Cushman – but the last time we saw it was in the spring. We figured this shot from a couple months prior would fit in well with the wintertime Read more

[Editor’s Note: Sean Brayton at Redstar Automotive in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, has an ambitious plan: He wants to make a Model T his daily driver and document the process of preparing it and using it on a daily basis. This week’s task: making sure it runs.] Today I finished Read more

We’re having sooo much fun with these winter street scenes, so let’s keep ‘em coming, shall we? Today’s pair show cars parked alongside Main Street in Ritzville, Washington, both shot in 1950 or thereabouts by A.M. Kendrick and found on the Washington State digital archives. What do you see here? Read more

In the comments to the recent story on the Ferguson four-wheel-drive Mustang, frequent commenter Leon Dixon made mention of an experimental four-wheel-drive Falcon Ranchero that Creative Industries of Detroit built in the early 1960s. As Leon wrote: This was taken in Detroit on East Outer Drive. You can see the Read more

Again with the snow photos. These two shots come from PhotOhio.org and show, above, Broad and Front Streets looking west toward the river and below, Broad and High Streets looking south. What do you see here?

Ski season again, and as is tradition, we’ll mark that time of year with some carspotting photos of skiiers hitting the slopes in Vermont. In this Vermont Landscape Change program photo, we see the parking lot of the Smuggler’s Notch Ski Resort sometime in the 1957-1958 season. What do you Read more

It’s an interesting concept that the owner of this 1968 Lotus Super Seven for sale on Hemmings.com had: Finish it out as a luxury Seven – however luxurious one could make a Seven, that is. From the photos, he appears to have done a good job, and anybody wanting to Read more

We always appreciate hearing updates from owners of the cars that have appeared in our publications, so it’s in that spirit that we take a look at this 1968 Ford Thunderbird for sale on Hemmings.com, a car that has seen a few updates since it appeared on the cover of Read more

Photo courtesy of NHRA/National Dragster. From several sources, the word emerged late Thursday that Firebird International Raceway in Chandler, Arizona, would shut down in April. From sources close to the situation, the real story appears to be more complicated and encouraging than that. The root issue is that longtime Firebird Read more

If it weren’t for the street signs, one could easily believe this Charles O’Rear shot of bottlenecked traffic on Hawaii’s H-1 highway outside Honolulu, taken in October 1973, could have been taken anywhere in the continental United States. There’s plenty more stacked traffic in the full-size shot below. Carspotters, what Read more