Hemmings Auto Blog

As our retail stores have illustrated over the last couple decades, it’s never too early to bring out the holiday decorations, so in that vein, let’s take a look at a couple photos of a decorated Main Street in Taylor, Texas, courtesy the Portal to Texas History. What do you Read more

David Traver Adolphus pointed out today’s street scene over on the City of Boston Archives on Flickr. Taken somewhere on Boston’s North End, sometime in the 1970s, it shows what we presume were newly installed electric streetlamps along with glimpses of several parked cars. What do you see here?

As I’ve dug through countless photo archives for our street scene series, I’ve come across plenty of photos that have just one or two vehicles in them – nowhere near enough for a good carspotting shot, but still sometimes rather compelling, as is the case with this Charles W. Cushman Read more

There’s original, and then there’s this 1942 Hudson Super Six for sale on Hemmings.com, a time capsule car if there ever was one, complete with World War II gas rationing stamps. One can presume that the car was bought with the knowledge that new cars wouldn’t be available for the Read more

Every electric vehicle enthusiast knows the story of the Henney Kilowatt – the Renault Dauphine brought engineless to the United States for conversion into an EV around 1960. Apparently, there was a sequel, as we learned by following up on this ad for a GE EV-1 electric vehicle controller for Read more

The eagerly anticipated “Snake and Mongoose” movie, which began filming last fall, is set to be released sometime next year, according to IMDB. The trailer, which was released this week and shown for the first time at SEMA, looks good.

It’s said one can discern a culture’s true nature by sifting through its refuse. If that’s the case, then what do these 1973 Dick Swanson Documerica photos of cars stacked in a Philadelphia junkyard tell us about that area’s car culture in the early Seventies.

For this member of the Hemmings contingent that attended the 2012 AACA Eastern Regional Fall Meet at Hershey, Pennsylvania, the highlight of Saturday’s AACA show was seeing the spunky Superoo on display, sharing the field with some of the most beautifully restored and original-condition cars ever built. This little front Read more

A living legend has left us. John Fitch, the racer whose life would have been entirely unbelievable had he not lived it, has died at the age of 95. It’s difficult to sum up John Fitch’s life without leaving something important out, just as it’s difficult to find any one Read more

Not too many cars sport an orange and black paint and interior scheme, which makes this 1971 Plymouth Duster 340 for sale on Hemmings.com the perfect HFOD for today. The seller seems to indicate that it came from the factory that way too, which we don’t find that hard to Read more