Hemmings Auto Blog

Today’s street scene, which we spotted over on Retro World, shows lines upon lines of vehicles waiting at the California-Mexico border in October 1969, which gives us ample carspotting opportunity. Any street scene from that region tends to provide a good variety of vehicles, but this shot in particular has Read more

Suzy Dietrich should be mentioned in the same breath with Donna Mae Mims and Janet Guthrie. Denise McLuggage called her an “enormously cute” librarian who was also hugely talented and drove a Porsche 550 to multiple records. And at 80 today, she’s ill and parting with a lifetime of racing Read more

Recall that Charles Cushman, who has already provided a number of street scenes for us to peruse, was quite the world traveler. The year before he made his trip to the British Isles, he toured Paris, where he took this shot looking north up the Rue du Pont Neuf. See Read more

It’s hard to argue with a shoebox Ford. Sure, they’re not all that flashy in normal trim – which is most likely why we see this 1951 Ford Deluxe club coupe for sale on Hemmings.com fitted with whitewalls and painted red – but that’s the subtle charm of the shoebox. Read more

* Over at Dean’s Garage this week, Dick Nesbitt posted a reflection on George Barbaz, a designer with Ford from 1945 through 1981. * NealinCA’s recent (and well deserved) Tech Week win over at the H.A.M.B. came for the jump seat he built from scratch for his bare-metal roadster pickup. Read more

As we’ve mentioned before, Ford of Britain is celebrating its centenary this year, and has combed through its archives to find a bunch of interesting photos that have seldom been seen. This week, they’ve found one taken on this side of the Atlantic – in Winnipeg, the capital of the Read more

Since Ewan McGregor took the Long Way Round in 2004, the literary genre of “Guy on dual-sport motorcycle rides a very long distance,” has really exploded. Not necessarily in a good way, either, sort of like when the idiot in your high school stole sodium from the science lab and Read more

For today’s street scene, let’s return to Alden Jewell’s street scene collection and to California – specifically, San Benito Street in Hollister, where it appears that all the buildings in this picture still stand. We’re also returning to the daytime shots, which should make it a little easier to identify Read more

Over on the My Hemmings pages, the folks from the Hanson Mechanical Collection shared a couple of ridealong videos for a couple of WWII military vehicles in the collection, one from each side of the conflict. The first, the 1944 KDF 82E, is perhaps the more uncommon of the two Read more

As we’ve come to realize over the last few weeks, street scenes are often never merely collections of cars on a public thoroughfare. There was always a reason for the photographer to choose that setting at that time, and occasionally that combination results in an iconic photograph. Jazz writer and Read more