Hemmings Auto Blog

May on 13th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska, was the setting for one of our previous carspotting exercises, using a photo that John Vachon shot in 1942. Twenty-one years later, Charles Cushman stood on 13th – possibly not far from where Vachon stood, though the long lens that Cushman used, combined Read more

Photos courtesy Howard Kroplick We’d like to direct your attention to a blog (besides ours) that you ought to visit regularly. Long Island resident Howard Kroplick conducts the Vanderbilt Cup Races blog and also has a published history on the early Long Island Motor Parkway. It’s really well done and Read more

Shot just a day after and not far from where the photos of Los Angeles traffic that we highlighted last week were shot, these photos – also courtesy the USC Digital Library’s online photo archive – focus on the traffic passing through the intersection of First and Grand streets in Read more

Bill Tritt in foreground working front of buck for new Glasspar G2 being produced At the turn of 1951 there were two completed Glasspar G2 sports cars: the Brooks Boxer and the Alembic I, both identical in all respects except for the front grille opening. Bodies that were built using Read more

It’s been a while since we visited Wayne State University’s Virtual Motor City Project, but a fresh search through the archives there turned up these two shots taken in 1960 in downtown Detroit, showing cars leaving and entering the Detroit Auto Show at Cobo Hall, according to the captions. The Read more

All text and photos copyright Michael Lamm, 2012 You’ll recall my recent confession that I lost money on most of the 17 cars I owned in high school. “Owned” might be too strong a word; some cars passed through my hands in just weeks, so “rented” might be more accurate. Read more

As the gasser trend gained traction over the last decade or so, we saw more and more cars converted to straight front axles and nosebleed stances, including many that wouldn’t have made sense as gassers or were built long after the original gasser era had passed. Not so with this Read more

The postwar years were one of the most dynamic times for Studebaker, a company that was then coming up on its centennial (and which would have marked its sesquicentennial this year had it still been around): It debuted a brand-new lineup in 1947, right at the peak of customer anticipation Read more

Back in the 1990s at Bremerton Raceway, we saw a Hang Ten Dart in stock trim take king of the hill. The valuable lesson learned was that when it comes to bracket racing, consistency is the rule of the day. If memory serves, there was even a P in white Read more

From our friend Alden Jewell comes another vintage dealership shot, this one of Dahlgard Rambler in Lake Worth, Florida, sometime in the early to mid-1960s. Obviously, Dahlgard supplemented its revenue with used car sales, but reserved the showroom for Kenosha products. We don’t see Dahlgard mentioned on the 1983 AMC Read more