Hemmings Auto Blog

While Charles Cushman‘s shot of East 25th Street in Ogden, Utah, taken in August 1958, may be a little fuzzy, making identification of the various cars in the shot a little more difficult, it’s full of color and vibrancy, something most modern day street scenes lack. What do you see Read more

While Jeep didn’t have an extensive late 1970s street truck program as Mopar did with its Adult Toys series, the off-road brand certainly had the elements to put together something similar, as we see from this 1978 Jeep J10 for sale on Hemmings.com, with its Levi’s interior, check-every-box options list, Read more

Not to knock the 2CV, but did any of the tin snails ever come from the factory looking as good as this 1961 Citroen 2CV for sale on Hemmings.com? These were inexpensive economy cars, but this example has been treated to what appears to be a world class restoration. From Read more

Not a lot of cars in these two pictures we came across over on the Duke University Libraries online photo archive (above, below) – and not a lot of details regarding the when/where both were shot – but they include a number of vehicles we don’t typically see in our Read more

Art Fink’s a-Falcon-in-every-shot hypothesis seems to work well for Sixties street scenes, but doesn’t seem to hold up well for the Seventies. We need a new Ubiquitous Car for the Disco Decade, and I think this street scene portraying Germantown Avenue in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood in January 1977, courtesy Read more

Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car readers are by now familiar with David Clark at Sports Car Service in Westminster, Vermont, a shop that specializes in LBCs of all sorts. For the latest episode of Hemmings TV, we sent videographer Don Ashley up to visit David and find out how such Read more

Tires. Every car needs ‘em, but they’re far from glamorous, which is why we’ve seen way more dealership photos here than tire store photos. We’ll try to correct that with this circa 1956 shot of a B.F. Goodrich store on Congress Street in Austin, Texas, courtesy the Portal to Texas Read more

Earlier this year, we started to hand out Under 30 awards at our cruise nights to recognize and encourage youth in the hobby who bring their cars out to Hemmings events. Almost immediately we discovered that the young enthusiasts who own and drive vintage vehicles tend to go for less Read more

Two images from Seattle in the 1950s today. The first comes from the Seattle Municipal Archives and shows Broad Street looking northesat toward Ninth sometime in 1959. Below, a shot from David Greenlees at The Old Motor showing a line of traffic on Fremont Avenue, not too far north of Read more

During a Sin City visit a few years ago, we came across a 1956 Ford Thunderbird in the airport that had been done up to replicate the T-bird that George and Peg Crockett used as a crash wagon at Alamo Airport, McCarran Airport’s predecessor. It was cool, but we wondered Read more