Hemmings Auto Blog

Aston Martin DBR1/2. Photos courtesy Talacrest. As we saw earlier this year, cars selling for or near world-record prices tend to change hands in private – and we mean behind-six-layers-of-security private – transactions, the cars’ availability never broadcast, and the transaction details often never fully revealed. Yet in an intriguing Read more

Most early 1960s photos from the Seattle Municipal Archives have something to do with the World’s Fair or the Space Needle or the Monorail, but here we’ve found a typical street scene on SW Spokane Street, looking southeast toward Pigeon Point, if we’re to believe the commenters on Flickr. That Read more

Returning to the Portal to Texas History for today’s street scene, we see a number of four-doors parked outside the YMCA’s bowling lanes on Kickapoo Street in Palestine, Texas, a little town we saw once before in this series. What do you see here?

Fast Chevrolets were a stock in trade for the Meehan clan, as you may recall from the first episode of Hemmings TV, in which we were introduced to Tony Meehan and his father’s 1958 Corvette. In the latest episode, videographer Don Ashley returns to Tony’s garage to check out the Read more

It’s going to need some elbow grease for sure, but the beauty of this 1953 Cadillac Coupe deVille for sale on Hemmings.com shines even through the faded paint, mishmash of parts, and rust spots. While restoring this Cadillac as a numbers-matching, as-it-came-from-the-factory car is out of the question now, the Read more

While every Bizzarrini is a remarkable car, this 1971 Bizzarrini GT for sale on Hemmings.com features a whole boatload of remarkability, starting with its origins in the years after Bizzarrini quit building cars and continuing with its Lamborghini V-12 instead of a Chevrolet V-8. From the seller’s description: built on Read more

For somebody with a little entrepreneurial spirit and some investin’ money, this lot of AC Delco speedometer cables for sale on Hemmings.com could form the foundation for a solid niche business providing hard-to-find speedo cables to restorers. From the seller’s description: Many hundreds of genuine GM AC-Delco speedometer cables for Read more

“You just never think it’d happen to you,” Jamie Alexander of Fort Worth, Texas, said. But Jamie found himself the victim of another collector car theft this past week, and he’d like to ask Hemmings Nation to keep its collective eyes peeled for his 1937 Buick Century four-door sedan. Jamie Read more

The modern-day street view of the intersection of Venice and La Cienega boulevards in Los Angeles is nigh unrecognizable compared to this scene, snapped in 1953 from a street car trestle no longer there, as found on the UCLA Libraries Digital Collections. What do you see here?

As we’ve come to expect, David Rose of Hitting Redline did a fine job gathering footage at the last Hemmings cruise night for the season last week and has compiled it into a short but sweet video. He also recently took in the VSCCA Mt. Equinox hillclimb just north of Read more