Hemmings Auto Blog

You know how all the experts in this hobby tell you the most cost-effective means of getting into a car is to buy somebody else’s half-finished project? Well, for those of you longing for a mid-Fifties Studebaker since our post questioning where one of that car’s design elements came from, Read more

Orwellian overtones of a police state aside, this 1984 Ford LTD police car is not technically a Fairmont or Granada, even though their past and Futura are related. That was an unusual year for the Ford LTD, for the Fox and the Panther lived together on the same showroom floor. Read more

Okay, let’s get to some street scenes sans bridges, overpasses, tunnels, and other such infrastructure. While this shot from David Greenlees at The Old Motor does indeed include a couple arches, they’re not of the bridging kind. According to David, this McDonald’s was photographed in 1961 in St. Petersburg, Florida, Read more

I thought we’d get away from the bridges theme to our street scene series with this shot from Retro World showing traffic on the Long Island Expressway in 1969, but indeed, there’s a bridge in the distance. Carspotters, despite the graininess of the photo, there’s some distinctive shapes here for Read more

Rodney McDonald, he of the Positive Earth blog, sent us a few photos from The Old Mobilian representing a twist on our bridges theme for our street scene series. In Mobile, Alabama, rather than build a bridge to cross the Mobile River and possibly impede ship traffic from reaching the Read more

More bridges? How many of them are there? Ronnie Schreiber over at Cars in Depth forwarded a couple photographs of the huge celebration surrounding the opening of the Mackinac Bridge connecting the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan in 1958. We already knew about the 83 1958 Oldsmobiles that participated Read more

I guess we’re still on the topic of bridges for a little while, because I keep coming across vintage street scenes with bridges in them. On any street scene theme, it seems Charles Cushman had something to contribute, and while he took plenty of photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, Read more

Around here, at least, we see plenty of big pickups from the Big 2.5 sporting IH decals, license plates and other decorations, and we have to wonder why the owners of said pickups don’t just go out and buy an International pickup, something like this 1950 International L-110 for sale Read more

The late 1960s Ambassadors – particularly in four-door guise – are perhaps the definition of the American Everyday Car. You know, the types of cars that appear in random vintage street scenes, the types that anonymously populated city highways, suburban streets and commuter parking lots. Family sedans, often in sedate Read more

Two more photos to round out this week’s bridges theme for our street scene series. The first comes from the Documerica project, taken by David Falconer in May 1973 approaching the I-5 bridge over the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. No detailed description is given, so we have to guess Read more