Hemmings Auto Blog

* We heard this week from Bill Jones, who wanted to share something cool that he did – a 360-degree virtual tour of the private collection of Ken and Joan Austin of Newburg, Oregon. It’s like Google Street View, but inside a car museum. * Much as we wanted to Read more

No Studes, Bulletbirds, or Falcons (sorry guys!) but today’s street scene of the construction of the First State Bank at Oak and Fourth in Abilene, Texas (now apparently a county government office complex), courtesy of the Portal to Texas History, should still be easy pickin’s. What do you see here?

It’s got the fins, it’s got the supercharger, it’s got the manual transmission, it’s got the chrome and the whitewalls, and most important it’s sporting a fresh and thorough restoration, so what’s not to like about this 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk for sale on Hemmings.com? From the seller’s description: 1957 Read more

Ah, America. Station wagons, department stores, and mall parking lots with nary a free space. We came across today’s parking lot scene, showing the facade of the S. Klein Department Store in Roosevelt Mall in Philadelphia in January 1964, over on the Temple University online photo archives, following up a Read more

Despite what quantum physics tells us, we can’t drive two cars at the same time. Maybe we could if cloning technology were a little more advanced. Or if time travel were possible, but then we’d be racing against younger or older versions of ourselves. Transporter malfunctions could potentially provide same-age Read more

A little twist on our standard carspotting posts. We came across this video by YouTuber canonvela showing the various cars of last year’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run setting out from London’s Hyde Park. Without consulting the entry list, how many can you name? While we’re posting videos, Andrew Read more

From Cleveland Memory comes today’s two parking lot scenes, likely shot to illustrate how tight parking had become at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library’s Lee Road branch by the summer of 1975. As always, one decade’s tight parking makes for a later decade’s excellent carspotting. What do you see Read more

One would have thought that pinpointing the location of this photo found over at the Duke University Libraries’ online photo archive would have been a simple matter of discerning the location of Ace Oldsmobile, on the left-hand side of the street. Despite our best efforts, though, we could only find Read more

So what happens to all those barn finds that keep popping up? Do they stay that way – covered in dust and bird droppings – forever? In the case of this 1959 Edsel Ranger for sale on Hemmings.com, no. A good many of those barn finds head into restoration, and Read more

We don’t see too many Continental-based customs, and of the ones we do see, few are finished as well as this 1948 Lincoln Continental for sale on Hemmings.com. We just have to ask: Who is Chuck Barris? George and Sam’s long-lost guitar-slinging brother? From the seller’s description: This is a Read more