Hemmings Auto Blog

Photo courtesy Chrysler Media. After losing money for the last few years, the Walter P. Chrysler Museum will close its doors at the end of the year when Chrysler buys its vehicles and exhibits. The three-story, 55,000-square-foot museum opened in October 1999 in Auburn Hills, Michigan, on the same campus Read more

Over on the Forward Look Network, we came across this late 1960s postcard shot of College Avenue in Fort Collins, Colorado, looking north from somewhere south of Mountain Avenue. Based on the cars and trucks you see here, can you narrow down the year the shot was taken?

Shorpy pointed out the above photo from February 1940 on Main Street in Eufaula, Oklahoma, the other day, and while searching for the original, we came across the below shot of another car transporter – this one a COE rather than a conventional cab – also passing through Eufaula that Read more

How many transit strikes has Los Angeles gone through? We’ve already seen photos of one in 1955, and from the UCLA Library’s digital collections, we see that it had another one in September 1976. Shot was taken looking south on Spring Street, which still has a bus lane. What do Read more

From the City of Boston Archives on Flickr come these two shots of Worthington Street in September 1958 and the cars lining the one-way street. What do you see here?

Apparently, there’s a sizable following for the Mercedes-Benz 319-series minibus over in Europe, which would explain why this 1965 Mercedes-Benz O319 D for sale on Hemmings.com has been treated to a restoration as loving as that applied to many passenger cars. From the seller’s description: We are pleased to offer Read more

Maybe we just haven’t spent enough time among Amphicar enthusiasts, but it seems like every example we’ve come across has either been used for pleasure boating or power parking. This 1962 Amphicar 770 for sale on Hemmings.com, however, spent a few decades as a duck hunting vehicle, which explains its Read more

Whatever a “youth round-up parade” was, this one in 1954 in Port Arthur, Texas, didn’t seem to attract many youth or any spectators, but at least there were plenty of cars lining Procter Street that day. Carspotters, what do you see here?

While we’ve been able to put locations with all the other street scenes we’ve found in the Duke University Library’s photo archives, this one has to date stumped us. Doesn’t help that we don’t see any street signs, there’s nothing but generic businesses in the shot, and the Mercury Marquis Read more

Man, the University of Nebraska at Omaha was really concerned with its parking situation in the 1970s, as we’ve seen from its Flickr stream. Good for us. What do you see here? And which of the cars you see here would you pluck out of the picture and bring to Read more