Hemmings Auto Blog

It’s been far too long since we checked in with our friends at The Old Motor, and we see that David Greenlees recently posted a pair of photos depicting a strike outside the Edison Institute at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, dated November 20, 1950. As David noted, not unexpectedly Read more

Back to Charles Cushman for today’s street scene, shot on a sunny September 28, 1958, looking east on West Huron Street. Cushman is using that long lens trick to flatten a very deep scene again here, which leads us to believe that, although he stated he was at the intersection Read more

Still rummaging through Roadsidepictures’s Flickr stream, we came across this postcard scan depicting downtown Long Beach, Washington, sometime in the 1960s. We’re going to peg it at 1964 unless somebody sees any later cars here. We’re also going to presume the shot was taken somewhere on Pacific Avenue, though we Read more

Junkyard shots make good alternatives for our street scene series, as we saw from Charles Cushman’s Evansville, Indiana, shot. The above scene, posted by Dog427435 on the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage shots from days gone by thread, didn’t come with any information on the date and place, but we can take a Read more

Kudos to the seller of this 1951 Hudson Pacemaker for sale on Hemmings.com for including shots of the underside of the car. You may not want to eat off of it, but for a car that’s spent its entire existence north of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi, Read more

Once was a day when these GM full-size pickups littered the road, to the point where it almost seemed like they would do so in perpetuity. After all, not many vehicles, trucks included, sell so well for 14 years without major changes in structure and appearance as these trucks did. Read more

* Christopher Benton emailed us this week to let us know about his new website, comprised of photos of older cars shot on the streets in and around New York City. He said he likes to hit up industrial areas and neighborhoods off the beaten path – Williamsburg, Red Hook, Read more

Since we came across Roadsidepictures‘s Flickr stream the other day, we’ve been spending way too much time going through all the vintage coolness there, and that includes a number of street scenes and parking lot scenes such as this one, taken in 1962 of the Lompoc Shopping Center on H Read more

So what if Stan Mott’s whimsical creation, birthed in the pages of Sports Car Illustrated, debuted in 1958? The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the centennial of Mott’s Pignatelli marque anyway at the 17th annual event next March. From the same mind that would later create the Cyclops came Read more

Traipsing up and down East Locust Street in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, on Google’s Street View shows that few, if any, of the buildings in the Charles Cushman shot above – taken at 2:27 p.m. (or possibly 12:27 p.m.) on August 31, 1958 – still stand. The signs all seem Read more