Excerpts taken from world famous ‘Hemmings Auto Blog’
Huh, whaddayaknow, the West Side Highway gets just as congested today. Like, every time I’ve ever been on it. Today’s street scene comes to us from Retro World and shows what we’re presuming to be Manhattan’s West Side Highway in 1956. Any New Yorkers care to pinpoint exactly where this Read more
Now that the Nuevo Fiat Cinquecento has made it to these shores, one might presume this would be the first time anyone has seen Fiats and Dodges sharing the same dealership lot, but as we see from today’s vintage dealership photo from Alden Jewell, it happened before, specifically on the Read more
Images courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Inset photo courtesy Greg Sharp, NHRA Museum. It’s great that people still remember Craig Breedlove and his daring accomplishments during a battle for the world Land Speed Record during the 1960s. The handsome ex-hot rodder rode his runaway Spirit of America jet car into Read more
Back to the street scenes today, and back to the Charles Cushman collection. This time, we travel with Cushman to San Francisco’s Chinatown, specifically Broadway looking west, on a sunny day in April 1957. Again, we see the results of Cushman’s long lens, flattening the scene and bringing distant objects Read more
Hang around long enough and everything will eventually come full circle. We used to spend quite a bit of time here on the Hemmings Blog obsessing about long-gone automotive dealerships, and we eventually got away from that pursuit in favor of other short features, including the street scenes series that Read more
Over the last several years, interest in Ford’s Econolines has been mounting, though directed mainly at the first-generation flat-front vans. There’s no reason why the later snub-nose Econolines should be overlooked, though, especially when they have all the right features – painted roof, windows all around, V-8 and manual transmission Read more
As exalted a place as the Corvette SS holds in Chevrolet lore nowadays, what with Zora Arkus-Duntov, Ed Cole, Clare MacKichan, and John Fitch involved in its conception and development, it’s interesting to read Rich Taylor’s account of the SS from SIA #107, October 1988, in which it seems the Read more
It may not have the suburban luxury of the Caprice from the other day, but this 1969 Ford Galaxie 500 Country Sedan for sale on Hemmings.com has an appeal all its own, what with its blackwalls, pie plates and acres of sheetmetal unadorned with fake woodgrain. Bonus, there’s only a Read more
It’s been a couple weeks since we’ve dipped into Alden Jewell’s street scenes collection on Flickr, so let’s take a look at three postcards he included, all showing parking lot scenes from Town and Country Village in Palo Alto, California, an outdoor shopping center located right by the Stanford campus. Read more
Photos courtesy Ernie Cline It’s a question as old as time: “What if Doctor Emmett Brown and Dr. Buckaroo Banzai collaborated with Knight Industries to create a unique inter-dimensional time vehicle for the Ghostbusters?” What, indeed: Ghostbusting with a wisecracking car sidekick though time and space? A potent notion, and Read more