Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Much like the pair of Edsels that we featured last week, two Chevrolets in the same color combination – Onyx Black over Crocus Yellow – from the same model year – 1956 – and in different body styles – Bel Air four-door hardtop and Nomad station wagon – came up Read more
Another great shot from the Smithsonian American Art Museum‘s online archives, this one by Frank Paulin of a parking lot in an unidentified city (sure looks like Manhattan to me), dated 1955. It makes us wonder: While this fits in perfectly with our series of parking lot and street scenes, Read more
I know what I would do with this Mercedes-Benz 300 SL-shaped mold for sale on Hemmings.com – create a life-size gullwing-shaped Jell-O fruit cake. What would you do with it? From the seller’s description: This beautiful replica Mold belongs to my father Architect and Fine Artist who is a die-hard Read more
Car dealers tend not to hold on to cars. It’s their livelihood to move them off the lots, after all. Yet J. Carroll Skinner, a Reo dealer in California, ended up holding on to a 1917 Reo Model M touring car long after it was new and even after Reo Read more
Much like the GAZ from a couple weeks back, it’s fun to look over this 1960 Morris Oxford Traveller for sale on Hemmings.com and point out the American design influences, from the thick chrome grille bars to the little fins out back. For the Anglophiles, however, it’s still all British Read more
We’ve traveled to Los Angeles for a number of carspotting exercises this week, and we’ll add two more street scenes to the mix today, both courtesy the UCLA Library’s online photo archives. First off, a shot of cars negotiating a rainstorm on November 23, 1965, while traveling south on Broadway, Read more
This listing for a 1969 Plymouth Barracuda on Hemmings.com really isn’t for the Barracuda. Sure, it’s a mostly rust-free project car that looks like it’d be worth restoring, but realistically, the car itself is a wrapper for the included Hemi that the seller’s apparently spent quite a bit of time Read more
We’ve lately been exploring the Smithsonian American Art Museum‘s online archives and discovered that there’s plenty of material there to keep us gearheads occupied. For instance, this 1980 photo by John Humble taken for the Los Angeles Documentary Project, shot from the 600 block of Bixel Street near downtown Los Read more
Fans of collector cars are almost certainly familiar with the Carlisle Fairgrounds and the automotive enthusiast shows that have been held there for the past few decades; most are also familiar with Bill Miller and Chip Miller (no relation), who founded the popular series of car-related gatherings. Chip Miller was Read more
Two more scenes from the EPA’s Documerica project. Above, an Arthur Tress shot of the parking lot at the ferry dock on Staten Island, dated May 1973. In the lower right of the photo, nosed in to the fence, is that a rare AMC Rebel Mariner station wagon? Next, a Read more