Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Michael Lamm recently came across this Disney animated short, “Magic Highway USA,” which presents visions for the future of highway transportation, circa 1958. Sure, some of the concepts seem rather naïve and idealistic, even self-contradicting, others just downright goofy, but plenty of the ideas in the short have already become Read more
Yes, we’re back at LAX again for today’s street scene, taken in the summer of 1972 as vacationers mobbed the airport, both coming and going. The photo, courtesy the Los Angeles Public Library‘s online photo archive, shows the wide variety of cars that we’ve come to expect from Southern California Read more
We noted some American vehicles on the streets of Taipei in a previous street scene, and today’s photo, courtesy Kent Mathieu of the Taipei Air Station blog, offers at least a partial explanation, with enough American cars in the parking lot of the U.S. Navy Commissary Store to make it Read more
We’re not sure which is more valuable: this 1982 Lamborghini Countach 5000S for sale on Hemmings.com or the various documentation that goes along with it that the seller says proves its place in Lamborghini history as not only the prototype for Lamborghini’s implementation of the Bosch K-Jetronic fuel-injection system, but Read more
The Cadillac V-16s from the recent Milhous auction (and from the cover of HCC #93) weren’t the only such one-of-nones built from engineering drawings for cars that were meant to be produced. Franklin collector Tom Hubbard built this 1932 Franklin Deluxe Pursuit just to see what one would look like Read more
I don’t care that this 1965 Pontiac GTO for sale on Hemmings.com didn’t start out as a black car. I don’t care if black with a red pinstripe, red stripe tires, dogdishes, and white gut is even correct for a 1965 GTO, because this is one sharp car, and well Read more
Something a little different for today’s parking lot scene. Over on the Nationaal Archief on Flickr, we came across this undated photo of a parking lot full of motorcycles, presumably somewhere in the Netherlands, a country long associated with two-wheeled transportation. At least a couple tank logos are partially visible, Read more
Some light googling didn’t turn up anything on Miss Martha Jordans of Paris, but she must have been a remarkable woman, given that she ordered new this 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K sport cabriolet for sale on Hemmings.com. It’s since traversed the Atlantic and benefited from plenty of exposure and a restoration Read more
The last time we checked out a Charles Cushman shot of Nogales, Sonora, we had a tough time pinning down the exact location. Cushman doesn’t give us much direction on this shot either, stating simply that he was looking east toward the hill when he shot this street scene in Read more
Studio photos by Peter Harholdt, courtesy Gooding and Company Sale prices of top-end collector cars have risen dramatically over the last year or so as investors continue to look for hard assets in which to sink their money, so all eyes will naturally turn to the Monterey auctions in August Read more