Hemmings Auto Blog

Okay, back to street scenes. Or, more specifically, parking lot scenes. Today’s shot of Reno, Nevada, comes from Flickr user Roadsidepictures (via How to Build a Time Machine), who found it in a box of Kodachrome transparencies at a yard sale. Unfortunately, no date or location was appended to the Read more

As we’re still recovering from walking the rows of the Hershey swap meet last week (and still going through our photos and Inboxes), we thought we’d skip on our usual street scene for today and instead take a look at this photo that South_paw posted recently to the H.A.M.B.’s Vintage Read more

How many times have you gone out in a howling blizzard to start your T, only to find the crank handle frozen? I know! Then, while you’re trying to find purchase on it while cranking, you slip on the ice and the compression whacks the handle backwards down into your Read more

For those who may scoff at the potential to this 1967 GMC Handi-Van for sale on Hemmings.com, I have only to point you to the restoration profile of the 1965 Chevrolet Sportvan I wrote up for HCC a few months ago. This one, while it may not be a window Read more

For a late 1970s car with more than 100,000 miles on its odometer, this 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass 4-4-2 for sale on Hemmings.com appears to remain in excellent shape. Sure, it’s no 455-powered W-optioned beast, but it’s still one of the better-looking Colonnades, it’s been optioned up, and it doesn’t need Read more

* Charles Gould, a good friend of Hemmings and organizer of the annual Microcar and Minicar Classic Event in Boston, was recently profiled in the New York Times, leading us to learn that he’s not just into pocket-sized cars. * How best to demonstrate the strength of your fiberglass car Read more

Another excellent street scene from the Charles Cushman collection, this one back in the States, specifically El Paso Street in El Paso, Texas, shot on January 21, 1959, which looks to be a perfectly typical day in the life of these Texans. What do you see here?

Here’s the million-dollar (okay, few-thousand-dollar) question: Is this 1980 Pontiac Firebird Turbo Trans Am for sale on Hemmings.com a diamond in the rough – that is, an actual car used to pace some race somewhere in 1980 – or is it simply one of the many Indy/Daytona pace car replicas Read more

Were you only going by the images we’ve so far selected from Alden Jewell’s street scenes collection, you’d think he had nothing from the East Coast. Au contraire, as we see from today’s street scene, snapped on North Washington Street in North Attleboro (sometimes spelled North Attleborough), Massachusetts. Your task, Read more

Texas state Rep. Joe C. Pickett (D-El Paso) is not your usual Texas legislator. He’s a Democrat in a House that’s two-thirds Republican; and he’s also been a car nut all his life, with a penchant for the oddball: Cadillac hearse, Bristol double-decker bus. Twenty-two years ago he went for Read more