Hemmings Auto Blog

Besides the entertainment value, one purpose behind our street and parking lot scene series is to show the collector cars we love and adore in their natural setting, being used as everyday transportation. That means occasionally seeing them in inclement weather, as is the case with this rainy March 1975 Read more

First published in January 1970, then reprinted one year later, for a long time this has been considered the definitive book on the Ford GT40. In the ensuing years several more books on the GT40 have been published but few, regardless of their page length, pack the same amount of Read more

The Portal to Texas History didn’t have a date attached to this photo of the West Hickory Street businesses across from the Denton Square in Denton, Texas, but I think that, given the vehicles parked along the street, we can make an educated guess as to the year. What do Read more

While it’s possible this 1963 Studebaker Avanti for sale on Hemmings.com has an R3 engine in it (the engine numbers, not provided in the ad, would tell us for sure), making it possible that this is one of nine R3 Avantis, we’ve also seen many an R1 and R2 Avanti Read more

Photo by David Traver Adolphus. It pays to be able to take good pictures of your car, whether you’re planning to sell it or you’re purchasing insurance for it or you simply want to show off your pride and joy on an online forum. Yet we hear car owners time Read more

Curiously, while Dodge has extensively used vintage Chargers and Challengers to boost the image of its more recent LX-based cars of the same names, we’ve not seen the company trot out any vintage Darts to help sell the new front-drive compact of the same name. Then again, it might actually Read more

While we’ve been posting Charles Cushman street scenes for a few years now, we didn’t know much about the man until Hugo90 recently pointed out an NPR piece that gives us a little more insight into the man and his incredible story. That’s more than enough reason to find another Read more

For those of you following our street scene series, you’re likely familiar with Art Fink’s postulation that the Ford Falcon was at one time so ubiquitous that it will appear – Where’s Waldo-like – in just about every American street scene from the Sixties. That said, today’s shot of Seattle’s Read more

Even though more “decal GT” cars from the 1970s and early 1980s have popped up in recent years as alternatives to stratospherically priced traditional muscle cars, we still don’t see much of them, and when we do, they’re most often in need of some TLC, as is the case with Read more

While many a collector treats Laliques as standalone works of art, to be displayed in special cases and effectively downplaying their original use, this 1926 Lalique archer hood mascot for sale on Hemmings.com comes with something we rarely see with Laliques – history of who owned it and the car Read more