Hemmings Auto Blog

A good historian never simply accepts everything he reads without doing a little legwork himself to verify it. So when Tim Howley questioned the claim that the Depression did in the Jordan, he went looking for the real reason and came across a tale of intrigue involving alcoholism, divorces, and Read more

* One of the news items we didn’t have room for this week was this life-size tree full of parts for a “kit” of a replica of the 1959 Aston Martin DBR1 that won that year’s Le Mans with Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori at the wheel. Bonhams will auction Read more

We’ll have full coverage of our Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car Show in an upcoming issue of Hemmings Sports and Exotic Cars, but what we won’t have is any video coverage of the show. Fortunately, David Rose of Hitting Redline made sure to capture some footage there and put together Read more

It seems one of the big trends in model cars – particularly in putting together model car kits – is adding rust and patina to them to make them look as though they’ve been abandoned or left to rot in a junkyard for a couple decades. In fact, model builder Read more

An oft-repeated truism to the collector car hobby is that we gearheads seek out the cars of our youth – those cars that stood out while we were impressionable teenagers yearning for wheels of our own. As related to videographer Don Ashley in the latest episode of Hemmings TV, Gene Read more

Fresh off a restoration, this 1940 Plymouth Deluxe woodie wagon for sale on Hemmings.com looks like a cherry example of a hard-to-find body style, and in an attractive and unusual color as well. All that’s left to do is to drive it as the restorer intended. From the seller’s description: Read more

Evidence of not one, but two dealerships in the Montclair, New Jersey, area exist in this street scene we found over at the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections. The first, Clairidge Lincoln Mercury, we came across in another Monclair street scene, but the second, Blauvelt Pontiac, helps pinpoint the location Read more

Good photography is key to selling a car. It helps in the basic necessity of communicating a car’s attributes, and as we see with this 1957 Cadillac Series 62 convertible for sale on Hemmings.com, shot against a magnificent California shoreline, the photography also helps to suffuse the car with desirability, Read more

We thought we had exhausted the supply of good photos from Rutland the last time we went through the Vermont Landscape Change Program‘s online photo archive, but obviously we missed a few. So today we’ll go back to the Grant’s parking lot for some more carspotting. What do you see Read more

To whom it may concern at the neighborhood watch: It has recently been brought to our attention that a neighborhood ruffian bought this 1990 AM General M35A2 on Hemmings.com and has proceeded to disrupt the peace and quiet to which we are accustomed. This nuisance offends our precious sensibilities, and Read more