Hemmings Auto Blog

Why exactly traffic is so backed up on Woodward Avenue in this shot from the Virtual Motor City online photo archive, we don’t know. Nor are we given an exact location on Woodward or a date. Regardless, it makes for a great street scene. What do you see here? Also, Read more

Looking to add more parking to its downtown location, Cleveland State University in 1972 went on a sort of buying spree, snapping up apartment buildings along East 20th Street to tear them down and build a new parking garage. Before the university did so, however, it documented many of the Read more

Let’s get out of the country for today’s street scene, and to accomplish that, let’s turn to that world traveler Charles Cushman, who took in London in 1961 and brought back this shot of the old Constitutional Club on Northumberland Avenue. It’s the cars that Cushman happened to capture in Read more

It shouldn’t be news that owners of pre-war cars will often modify their cars’ drivetrains for better performance while on tour. We’re not talking about extensive engine swaps, more like enhancements to allow the cars to keep up with traffic. The drivetrain modifications on this 1928 Stutz Black Hawk Speedster Read more

Perhaps the key to ultimate victory in the battle against rust may not be to fight, but rather accept, welcome, and therefore conquer the oxidization process altogether. The seller of this 1956 Chevrolet 3800 panel truck for sale on Hemmings.com fairly and honestly describes that the truck does in fact have some Read more

Ferrucio Lamborghini and Henry Ford weren’t the only industrial luminaries who can count both automobile and tractor production among their many accomplishments: So can Ferdinand Porsche, who, true to form, took a route less traveled when designing his air-cooled diesel-powered tractor. This particular 1960 Porsche-Diesel Standard tractor for sale on Read more

That swi66 keeps finding great street scenes and posting them to the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread. We can fairly easily pinpoint the location of this one as Manhattan Avenue and Manhattan Beach Boulevard in Manhattan Beach, California, but the exact date is unknown. What’s the latest Read more

Named after the Circuito di Balocco test track that Alfa Romeo built in the early 1960s, the Balocco edition of the Alfa Romeo GTV-6 added mostly trim and graphics (red carpet, black leather upholstery, special alloy wheels) to the front-engine, rear-drive coupe. This particular Balocco-edition 1982 Alfa Romeo GTV-6 for Read more

If you’re not paying attention to our Facebook page, you’re missing out on some of the neat stuff Kate Sullivan has been finding, such as this 1963 Chrysler promotional video all about that company’s gas turbine engine program, its various prototype gas turbine-powered cars and how Chrysler’s gas turbine engines Read more

As we all know, no car is truly finished. A car may be ready to hit the road and look like a million bucks, but the owner will always have some little detail nagging at him every time he takes the car out. The seller of this 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Read more