Hemmings Auto Blog

We’ve sure seen plenty of California in our street scene series, but we’re not complaining – the dry climate means there’s always a good diversity of vehicles in shots from that state. Today’s photo, of typical rush hour traffic at the intersection of 17th and Broadway in Santa Ana, comes Read more

Photo by Matt Litwin A car like the Shelby Cobra – iconic, popular, often duplicated – can almost be considered timeless, but the fact is that it turns the big five-o next year, and don’t you believe for a moment that Shelby enthusiasts will let the anniversary slide by without Read more

For today’s street scene, we’ll go back again to the Charles Cushman collection. Sure, we may hit it up quite a bit, but the photos that Cushman took just work so well with our street scene series. Take, for example, this July 1966 shot of San Francisco’s Market Street, shot Read more

1976 CitiCar spotted in the car corral at Hershey 2011 We’re late reporting this, but Robert G. Beaumont, maker of the wedge-shaped electric CitiCar, died last month at age 79. The cause of Beaumont’s death on October 24 was emphysema, his family said. Beaumont, formerly of Columbia, Maryland, grabbed headlines Read more

In a perfect automotive world, history reveals that most of the technology we think of as new is quite old. Electric cars? Ask Detroit Electric (1907-1939) how that worked out. Hybrid cars? Dr. Porsche (1875-1951) himself could have expounded at length. Steam powered the Aeolipile, or Hero engine, 2,000 or Read more

Thanks to David Greenlees over at The Old Motor for today’s street scene, though we’re sure the drivers of the cars in the photo would think of it as a parking lot scene. The cause for the backup on Boston’s Southeast Expressway, according to David, was a Boston Carmen’s Union Read more

Because we haven’t featured nearly enough newsreel footage or spin dizzy action around here comes this featurette titled Midget Motor Mania. According to the American Miniature Racing Car Association, these tiny six-pound versions of popular race cars were a hit with kids across the land. Give a boy or man Read more

Once you’ve mastered the arts of double clutching and of explaining over and over again what it is, Crosley Hot Shots can be a blast, and they’re guaranteed to attract more attention than most other cars at your neighborhood cruise night. This 1950 Crosley Hot Shot for sale on Hemmings.com Read more

Quick one this week, but one that elaborates on a vehicle we last mentioned almost two years ago, the Arrowhead Teardrop car, designed by W. Everett Miller and constructed by Los Angeles’s Advance Body Company (also referred to as Advance Auto Body Works). The interior looks rather well finished for Read more

The slogan emblazoned across the aluminum body of this 1976 GMC Coach says all and nothing at once: Easiest Travel on Earth. This, like many other advertising slogans, was carefully crafted to convey a sense of comfort, authority, and convenience without risk. Was this bus truly the easiest way to Read more