Hemmings Auto Blog

Most Model T-based speedsters tend to use aftermarket bodies from Ames or any of the dozens of companies that provided speed parts for the T in the 1920s or 1930s, but the builder of this 1923 Ford Model T-based speedster for sale on Hemmings.com chose a different path, building his Read more

Outside and underneath, this 1963 Dodge Town Wagon for sale on Hemmings.com looks about as one would expect a 50-year-old Southwestern vehicle to look, maybe even a little better. Inside, though, it appears to have been largely stripped bare. Restorers would likely view that as a setback, but customizers can Read more

Reader John Vukovich Jr., who works at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia, sent us this May 1939 shot from the shipbuilder’s parking lot at 39th and Washington. Gotta wonder which ships that later went on to WWII fame they were building at that time? And what do you Read more

Once built for drag duty with a prepped 360, this 1966 Plymouth Barracuda found a new lease on life with Bill Witt, a Barracuda enthusiast who put it back on the street as a cruiser. Videographer Don Ashley sat down with Bill for the story.

No bikinis at this car wash organized by the Alpha Gamma Sigma honor society on the Santa Monica City College campus in January 1952, but plenty of cars to identify. What do you see here?

Exactly where Warren K. Leffler shot this photo of gasoline lines on June 15, 1979, the Library of Congress doesn’t say. Zooming in, we see that the license plates are from Maryland. Finnegan’s appears to have been, might still be, a chain of car washes in the D.C. area, but Read more

A couple more incidental street scenes from C. William Brubaker’s Chicagoland building-spotting series. Above, a shot of 368 West Huron Street, a beautiful building that still stands today, with a good variety of cars out front. What do you suppose the green coupe in the foreground is? And below, a Read more

At first glance, it looks like one of those rebodied golf carts popular in retirement communities, but this 1968 Vignale Gamine for sale on Hemmings.com is a legitimate car with Fiat 500 underpinnings. That said, it would probably work well as a retirement community car or as a Mini Moke-type Read more

As it sits now, this 1956 Cadillac soda bar for sale on Hemmings.com uses the Cadillac cowl forward as simple decor, but we could envision making it more functional, adding a grille under the hood and replacing the dash with the sink. Presuming, of course, you don’t have a 1956 Read more

Aloha Motors in Honolulu, Hawaii, had a unique racking system to store its inventory on the space-challenged island, as we saw a few years back in one of our Lost Dealership posts. From the Documerica series on Flickr, we see the other side of that racking system in this 1973 Read more