Hemmings Auto Blog

Dipping again into the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s online photo archive, we find these two shots of New York City traffic by Bernie Stadiem, taken in 1957, judging from the cars we see here. The location’s also easy to determine thanks to the street signs. One thing we noted is Read more

With this 1956 Chevrolet 210 for sale on Hemmings.com, we have another one of those “blank canvas” cars. With no drivetrain and left in primer, it could be anything you want it to be: restored beauty, bracket racer, street machine, garage queen. What would you do with it? From the Read more

Man. If the interior in this 1956 Continental Mark II for sale on Hemmings.com were intact, we could see it as an excellent driveable dream. Just leave the body and paint as they are and cruise the desert, some R.L. Burnside rambling out the stereo speakers. Alas, it’ll need some Read more

Courtesy Alden Jewell comes today’s shot that could just as easily make this a carspotting post as well as a Lost Dealerships post. According to Alden, Foreign Cars of Westport was located in Westport, Connecticut, the same town that a similar dealership – Imported Cars of Westport – was located Read more

While you’re in Scottsdale this weekend, perhaps you’ll want to stop by to check out this 1951 Fiat 500 Giardiniera woodie station wagon for sale on Hemmings.com. It looks to be mostly complete, with its drivetrain in boxes and the major unique aspect – the woodie body – in weathered, Read more

Returning once again to the EPA’s Documerica series, we find two parking lot scenes taken outside major airports in 1973. The first, by Michael Philip Manheim, shows the parking lot for an airline food services building under construction outside Logan Airport in Boston. My quick observation: Many of you have Read more

As original as this 1956 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer for sale on Hemmings.com may be, we’ve never seen a tri-power setup on one of these Dodge poly engines from the factory, and a quick check against the reference books shows that in 1956 those engines were only available with a Read more

Associate Editor Mark McCourt and I are on our way to Scottsdale, Arizona, where we’ll meet up with our Southwestern Quadrant Editor, Jeff Koch (a year-round, tax-paying resident of Phoenix). Over the next several days, we’ll be hitting all the auctions with our cameras and notebooks. We’ll post updates here as we can; watch for full Read more

If you came of age during the 1960s at any one of America’s drag strips, you may well have fond memories of Jim Lytle Jr., even though he may have scared the living whee out of you. Lytle was a very influential guy in 1960s drag racing, even though he’s Read more

All the context to this 1966 video of Fuji Speedway (pointed out last week by IEDEI) got stripped out when somebody overdubbed it with some ambient music, so we can only guess that the drivers taking laps and the gathered crowds were filmed for posterity at the grand opening of Read more