Hemmings Auto Blog

Stéphane Dumas pointed out this video in the comments to yesterday’s Chicago street scene post, and we thought it too cool. The concept: In 1974, a resident of Vancouver, British Columbia, strapped a camera to his bicycle, set the camera’s intervalometer to snap a frame at regular intervals, and then Read more

Following C. William Brubaker on his 1976 photographic trek around Chicago, we come to a couple photos taken of a parking lot on the corner of North Michigan Avenue and E. Superior Street, focused on the sign for Gino’s East Pizzeria. The parking lot has since been replaced with a Read more

Courtesy of the Duke University Library’s digital collections comes today’s street scene, pinpointed to June 22, 1949, at the intersection of U.S. routes 1 and 9 and Lawrence Street in Rahway, New Jersey. Nowadays, not a single element of this scene seems to remain, with routes 1 and 9 elevated Read more

What manufacturer nowadays would even bother to offer a compact car with a convertible top? None, surely, all of them fearing the wrath of the NHTSA, but in the Sixties it wasn’t that unheard of, and this cheeky 1961 Rambler American convertible for sale on Hemmings.com pulls off the combination Read more

Last weekend we linked to Steven Katkowsky’s VintageTrailerMuseum.com and now we see he has this 1950 Vagabond 19-foot travel trailer for sale on Hemmings.com. Where does he find all these rare and well preserved mid-century marvels? From the seller’s description: This trailer was in covered storage for over 50 years. Read more

Public transportation makes sense in many ways, but it also isn’t for everybody, a fact that this photo from the UCLA Library’s digital collections makes obvious. Taken during the inauguration of the El Monte-Los Angeles bus line on the San Bernardino Freeway (specifically looking east on the 10 between the Read more

Photo courtesy LeMay – America’s Car Museum One of the highlights of the LeMay – America’s Car Museum’s recent grand opening weekend was the presentation of the inaugural Nicola Bulgari Award to Ed Welburn, the vice president of Global Design at General Motors and a member of the America’s Car Read more

Why Charles Cushman made two trips to Nevada City, California, in subsequent years, we’re not sure, but he came away with great street scenes both times. From the August 1955 visit, we actually have two street scenes to examine, both of which were taken on Broad Street looking west. Carspotters, Read more

We originally came across this parking lot scene that swi66 posted to the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread and tracked down more information on it at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Flickr page, where it notes that it’s a shot of the campus’s west parking lot Read more

At our cruise night last week, we noticed David Rose of HittingRedline.com filming while we wandered the parking lot. We’ve seen his work before, so we were interested in what he’d come up with after spending some time with some of the best cruise night crowd around. Check it out Read more