Hemmings Auto Blog

Charles Beesley over at motor life.blog just posted this photo titled “circa 1972 hippie riot,” and rather than comment on individualism versus authoritarianism, we thought it’d make for a good carspotting scene. However, there’s only one VW Microbus in the shot, which leads us to doubt that these are hippies Read more

Whenever another barn find pops up, inevitably so does the question of whether to restore it. Rudi Koniczek‘s business is restoring gullwings, so it’s no surprise that when he came across the so-called “last unaccounted for” alloy-bodied Mercedes-Benz 300 SL in its resting place for the last 40 years, he’d Read more

One thing we’ve noticed while browsing through the Portal to Texas History online photo archive is that the people of Hereford, Texas, seemed to do an excellent job of documenting the town over the years (or simply plenty of Hereford photos have been uploaded to the PTH database). That means Read more

Going to any Southern California-specific photo archive and plugging “traffic” into the search field is like shooting fish in a barrel when it comes to looking for street scenes. Today’s two, courtesy the Los Angeles Public Library’s online photo archive, show bumper-to-bumper traffic on April 21, 1970, in the westbound Read more

Just when we had started to think that every mid-century woodie station wagon out there has been restored to six-figure status, along came this 1951 Mercury woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com, minus the wood. It certainly looks like a great foundation for a restoration, but that direction certainly Read more

When did American car collectors first realize there were old cars aplenty still plying the streets of Cuba, albeit oftentimes powered by tractor parts? When Tyrone Shaw wrote this article for SIA #124, August 1991, it seemed as though he were introducing the phenomenon to collectors in the States. One Read more

We don’t know if we would have put up with 20 years of all the setbacks that the seller of this 1954 Packard convertible for sale on Hemmings.com endured. Then again, according to our research, Packard built just 1263 convertibles that year, 400 of which were Caribbeans, so this non-Caribbean Read more

As we found today’s street scene on the Duke University Library’s online photo archive, it came without a location or date, but it does have a Falcon for Art Fink (still looking for Studes and Squarebirds – any other requests?). Blowing it up to full size, we think we can Read more

Whether this 1957 Jeep FC-150 for sale on Hemmings.com was customized into a Coke delivery truck originally by the soft drink company or later on by a Coca-Cola enthusiast, the seller doesn’t say, but the customization doesn’t detract from the FC’s original character and would make for a nice bonus Read more

Apparently the same parking lot at the University of Nebraska at Omaha that we took a look at a couple weeks ago, this shot, also from the University’s Flickr stream, comes from a few years later and displays a broad mix of cars if not the same mix of colors Read more