Hemmings Auto Blog

Prices for first-generation Volkswagen Type 2s have been going through the roof the last several years, but that’s not to say you can’t enjoy a vintage Volkswagen microbus on a budget, as we see from this 1975 Volkswagen Type 2 for sale on Hemmings.com, set up as a daycamper and Read more

If there’s anything we have learned from the muscle car phenomenon, it’s that car collectors generally look for the cars they wanted when they were kids, even though the cars they had when they were kids tended to suffer from the abuse of teenagers with more enthusiasm than experience. So Read more

From yesterday’s street scene on the other side of the world, we come back to Bennington, Vermont, for today’s scene, courtesy the University of Vermont’s Landscape Change Program. We can easily identify the location – on Route 7 looking north toward the Four Corners – and given the cars in Read more

We need more people like the seller of this 1962 Buick Skylark on Hemmings.com, people who are willing to hop in their cars and drive them across the country, for whatever reason, including to deliver the car to its new owner. Like most cars in the hobby, the Skylark may Read more

Let’s get well out of the country for today’s street scene, which we tripped across recently knowing absolutely nothing about. Some sleuthing took us to Lin Chun Seng’s blog, where he notes not only that the photos were found on Taiwan’s National Repository of Cultural Heritage, but also that the Read more

Modified Jeep CJs tend to be the rule rather than the exception nowadays, and that’s simply because Jeep owners rarely let their rigs sit in their garages gathering dust. But not every one of them is some trail buggy with a swapped-in V-8 and ultra-tall lift, as we see from Read more

As is the case with most old dealership images we’ve run across lately, this mid-1960s postcard of Lesher-Muirhead Oldsmobile in San Francisco comes to us from Alden Jewell. And like many other dealerships we’ve researched for the Lost Dealership Project, Lesher-Muirhead’s history isn’t as straightforward as one photo would lead Read more

For our street scenes series, we haven’t yet ventured this deep into the Eighties, but why not? It’s now more than a quarter-century past, plus if we find some wrecking yard photos, there’s bound to be some much older vehicles hanging around, as is the case with this 1986 shot Read more

Most street scenes are taken for a reason that makes the cars in the scene secondary. There’s some noteworthy building in the background, or there’s some even taking place in the street, or there’s just a ton of traffic. There aren’t too many street scenes that just show everyday traffic, Read more

While we didn’t run a March Military Campaign this year, it wasn’t for lack of good material, such as this 1945 White M16 halftrack for sale on Hemmings.com. It looks like it has just about everything and just needs some TLC – that is, if it’s not totally incongruous to Read more