Hemmings Auto Blog

Somebody must’ve been hitting up the Vermont estate auctions with camera in tow in 1962. First, we see the auction in Dorset a couple weeks ago, now we come across photos of a much larger estate auction in Thetford on the Vermont Landscape Change online photo archive. This one, however, Read more

No matter who’s making (or re-re-re-re-making) Great Gatsby, they can’t get around the fact that cars are a central theme of this Great American Novel (in your face, lit snobs!). This time, the remaker (I believe it’s been filmed previously in 1926, 1949, 1974, and 2000) is Australian director Baz Read more

Born and raised in Colorado, Harleigh Holmes knew intimately the challenges of mud and snow during the early years of motoring. It’s no surprise, then, that in the mid- and late 1910s he began to experiment with steerable driving axles for the purpose of creating front- and four-wheel-drive vehicles. With Read more

The Portal to Texas History has quite a few photos of the city of Hereford, Texas, particularly of the fire equipment used there, including these shots, taken in 1958 (above), when Hereford’s Fire Department was housed within city hall, and again in 1971 (below 1, 2), a couple years after Read more

Los Angeles and its freeways are almost inextricably linked, so we can see why it was such a big deal when the city officially opened the Hollywood Freeway’s new half-mile link to the civic center in December 1951. As we see in these photos of the event (taken from the Read more

Photo courtesy International Brotherhood of Street Racers We’d known for a while that Big Willie Robinson was sick. It really started when his bride, Tomiko, died in 2010, you could say. Willie had had a pacemaker installed, but vascular disease had cost him both his legs. Physicians still couldn’t save Read more

The yellow-and-white combo on this 1964 Triumph Spitfire for sale on Hemmings.com certainly makes for a cheery little roadster, but more important, the Spitfire has been treated to a full restoration and a recent refresh, so it appears to be road-trip ready as it sits. From the seller’s description: One Read more

For those of you unpersuaded away from the Honda S600 by Michael Lamm’s experiences with the one he owned, may we present this 1966 Honda S600 for sale on Hemmings.com, dormant for nearly 30 years and thus in need of some TLC. From the seller’s description: This Honda S600 roadster Read more

Photo courtesy Quarter Mile Foundation One of the eternal, joyous presences in all sorts of American racing for a very long time has been Linda Vaughn, the former Miss Hurst Golden Shifter and all-around ambassador racing. While writing this news item about her forthcoming roast by the Quarter-Mile Foundation, the Read more

Mac Mackay dug through his personal archives to come up with another shot he took of a Halifax, Nova Scotia, parking lot in 1969, this time from 16 stories up, giving us a top-down view of cars we don’t normally see. “A few giveaways and a few tricky ones,” Mac Read more