Hemmings Auto Blog

It’s Friday afternoon, and an early spring is beckoning you to skip out on work, but you’re stuck where you are for at least another couple hours. Kill a few of those minutes with this animated short by Alister Lockhart and Patrick Sarell that our friend MrAngry found this week.

For those of you dismayed that we’re not doing a March Military Campaign this year, this video, “Highballing to Victory,” which highlighted the importance of tires to the World War II military effort – particularly on the Red Ball Express in Europe and on the Lido Road in Asia – Read more

Reader Michael Gouge enjoys our daily carspotting activities so much, he sent us a link to the Western North Carolina Heritage online photo archive, where we came across this photo of a diligent meter maid working the beat on College Street in Asheville, North Carolina. What do you see here?

This right here is why we keep returning to Charles Cushman’s street scenes. He wasn’t a flashy or particularly well-trained photographer, he certainly didn’t take photos as anything more than a hobby, and he often took photos that other photographers would find too bland. But that all adds up to Read more

While we’ve seen several photographs of Los Angeles’s traffic density in 1961, what about its parking situation? For a glimpse of that, let’s return to the USC Digital Library’s photo archive for a couple shots from April 1961 of the Civic Center mall’s parking lot, situated at Second and Grand Read more

C. William Brubaker was a Chicago-based architect who spent the better part of 50 years photographing the evolving skyline of the windy city. Normally, he wouldn’t concern us old car nuts except for the fact that he happened to include street scenes and parking lot scenes in many of his Read more

Editor’s Note: We heard recently from Robert Pease, who alerted us that a few copies of Eric Zausner’s 1998 book, Spindizzies: Gas-Powered Model Racers, are still available, so we asked Pease and Zausner to share an excerpt from the book. Pease told us that while the book originally retailed for Read more

There are certainly some benefits to taking on a project that’s still running and driving and largely all there. You don’t necessarily need to load it onto a trailer to take it to the body shop or upholsterer’s, for example. On the other hand, if it’s in driveable dream condition, Read more

Even though this 1953 Kaiser Manhattan for sale on Hemmings.com may currently hold driveable dream status, we find it an exceptional car simply for the fact that it appears to be mostly all there. All too often, we see Kaisers either in fully restored condition or in last-legs condition, missing Read more

Greg Gjerdingen recently added the above photo of the parking lot and terminal of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, and we thought it’d make for a great carspotting exercise, especially for you station wagon fans in the audience. We’re sure Greg can tell us Read more