Hemmings Auto Blog

Another fine Alden Jewell used car dealership photo, this one depicts Gold Brand Motors in Levittown, Pennsylvania, sometime in the 1960s – based on the cars on the lot, we’d say mid-1960s. Alden gave an address of 3621 New Rodgers Road, which appears to be a pool place now. What Read more

Even if Ohio Memory hadn’t explicitly given the location of this photo as Athens, Ohio, the road signs would have led us to the corner of Court and Union streets in Athens, outside the gateway to Ohio University. What Ohio Memory isn’t so sure of is the date, but we’re Read more

For our carspotting exercise today, let’s get away from the street scenes and parking lot scenes and instead travel with British Pathe to Bavaria in 1955 for a short film on motor skiing. The tow vehicles were rather interesting choices; can you name them all?

Another great image from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s online archive is this shot that Al Lieberman shot in 1971 in a parking lot in Ukiah, California. We’re guessing little Johnny here accompanied his buddies to the grocery store for some after-school snacks and got assigned lookout duty while everybody Read more

From the photos of this 1937 BMW 327 for sale on Hemmings.com, it looks like somebody had a decent driver-quality car that needed some work, then for some unknown reason called a stop to the restoration before it could really begin in earnest. What’s left is a car that could Read more

Even if this 1971 Ford F-250 for sale on Hemmings.com weren’t an absolute peach of a pickup with 5,400 miles on the odometer and an unusual combination of four-wheel-drive, stepside bed, and three-quarter-ton running gear, it would still be worth highlighting as a find of the day for its numerous Read more

While the typical parking lot shot we’ve seen provides a glimpse of everyday life and everyday commuter cars, there tend not to be too many of the more exciting cars we see at car shows nowadays. Unless, that is, you were to be taking shots of a parking lot at Read more

Taking a break from the static street scene series today, let’s instead take a look at this collection of stock footage scenes at an Esso gas station sometime in the late 1950s. That must be what they mean by full service, eh? What do you see here?

Continuing to browse through Alden Jewell’s Flickr account, we see this postcard photo of Price Cadillac-Pontiac-GMC, circa 1965, with a number of new and used cars lined up out front of the building. A little digging and we came across an address – 911 South Cumberland Street – which, when Read more

In the end, it only took $4.14 million (28 million kroner) to save the Saab museum from being broken up. According to a story in Sveriges Radio AB, as reported by Saabs United, more than 500 bids were placed for the museum liquidation. I personally spoke to bidders in North America Read more