Hemmings Auto Blog

Long ago, we established that Charles Cushman, provider of so many of our street scenes, owned a red 1938 Ford and a gold 1940 Lincoln Zephyr, two cars that appeared quite often in his photographs. In later years, there’s hardly any mention at all of Cushamn’s own cars, but these Read more

The Germany-based seller of this 1939 Fiat 508C pickup on Hemmings.com believes it was converted into a pickup when it was new, though we could certainly believe that it was converted during the war as well. In either case, it’s a handsome little truck, and there can’t be too many Read more

Photo courtesy Jenkins Competition One of drag racing’s legends, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins, who was known just as much for his innovations and mechanical ability as for his infamous demeanor, died today at the age of 81. Anybody who’s ever spoken with Jenkins knows exactly how he got his nickname. On Read more

Ran across these four photos of the parking lots surrounding Los Angeles International Airport on the USC Digital Library photo archive (1, 2, 3, 4), and while the descriptions note different dates for the four photos, we believe they were all taken by photographer James Caldwell in February 1971. Looks Read more

John Lloyd, a.k.a. Hugo 90, shares many a wondrous thing with us through the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, but none so mysterious as this engine he spotted at the Pioneer Auto Show in Murdo, South Dakota. John knows nothing about it, nor apparently do the folks at the Pioneer Auto Read more

Silver Auctions and Reno’s Hot August Nights fell out publicly and protractedly in 2010 and 2011 (see Hemmings Classic Car issues #81, 82 and 83), with Silver moving out of town to Carson City for a couple of years while they faced an injunction against holding a competing event. At Read more

Another great pair of images posted recently to the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread by swi66 are these two of traffic flowing past Chicago’s McCormick Place while construction was going on. Given the ages of the cars sitting in traffic, we’d guess that it’s not the initial Read more

Maybe it’s just the fact that we’re Rust Belt natives and have grown up around cars rotting out before quitting their first decade, but the mere fact that a car can remain as well preserved after half a century as this 1955 Imperial for sale on Hemmings.com continues to astound Read more

That is perhaps the longest headline for any SIA article we’ve yet seen, but it all fits into John Matras’s plan for writing up what could perhaps be the ultimate fin-era Dodge, a 1959 Custom Royal powered by the dual-quad 345hp Super D-500 383-cu.in. V-8 and sporting a droptop body Read more

The Renault 4CV made its production debut in 1947, a result of clandestine design and prototyping efforts during the war predicting post-war demand for an affordable yet modern automobile. The cars earned their original nickname la motte de beurre, or the lump of butter, in part because the first productions runs Read more