Hemmings Auto Blog

Photos courtesy Dorotheum While Bill Gates is more famously associated with another Porsche, the 959 that helped shape U.S. doctrine on the import of cars, it wasn’t his first Porsche. A few years after he founded Microsoft with Paul Allen, Gates bought new a 1979 Porsche 911 Turbo, which has Read more

What Am I 1806 It’s been far too long since we checked in with Jeff Lakaszcyck, who runs the What Am I section over on the ATHS forum. Jeff somehow finds something new to post every day, so that means we had quite a bit of catching up to do, Read more

While taking a look at the world as it was 50 years ago, mostly through AP photos, The Atlantic posted this 1962 shot of the Seattle monorail (and space needle in the full shot, below), taken from just east of the intersection of Fifth and Virginia. Because we all ride Read more

We love old cars. Other folks out there love old shopping centers. Both groups can find some common ground, literally, in the parking lots of shopping centers, as we see from this photo taken outside a Kmart in Burwood, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, sometime in 1969. Originally from Museum Read more

Or, more appropriately, Chavez Ravine, the site of Dodger Stadium, which opened April 10, 1962, less than two months before this photo – found on the USC Digital Library’s online photo archive – was snapped on June 1, 1962. According to the Dodgers schedule for 1962, the team played a Read more

As the lone Hemmings employee in Texas I’ve learned to love the region’s distinctive local car culture since I moved here in 2007. In recent years Texas has attracted major auctions, important new national shows, and in November we’ll host the US Grand Prix F1 race at the Circuit of Read more

True, this 1967 Lincoln Continental for sale on Hemmings.com may have some rust bubbles, corrosion issues and a basket-case interior. On the other hand, the rust could be much much worse, the seller has already replaced the springs, most of (if not all of) the car’s history is known, and Read more

The GMC motorhome has long been a cult item, favored among hardcore RVers and product marketers alike. Yet they demand a different set of resources than your typical collector car – more storage space, bigger floor jacks, and an interior designer’s touch – which is likely why we see these Read more

Photo courtesy Ford Less than a month after he took to Facebook to dispel rumors about his impending death, performance legend Carroll Shelby has died. He was 89. According to a press release sent out Friday afternoon, Shelby died yesterday at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. The cause of death was Read more

Encouraged by the recent Charles Cushman shot of Beirut, Lebanon, we went through the rest of Cushman’s photographs from that trip and came across the above photograph, taken somewhere in Beirut’s city center – as with the seaside shot, Cushman wasn’t too specific about the location. Also as with the Read more