Hemmings Auto Blog

We’re going to take a break from our series of color street scenes for something special today. A number of blogs and forums have posted this Internet Archive video of some rear- and side-projection footage shot in downtown Los Angeles and Bunker Hill in the late 1940s, the kind of Read more

Word reaches us that Betty Skelton Erde, once dubbed “The World’s Fastest Woman” and a groundbreaking presence in both cars and aviation, has passed away. The Orlando Sentinel reported that she died August 31, aged 85, having lived in a central Florida retirement community where she known for driving a Read more

Back to the Charles Cushman collection for today’s street scene, taken April 25, 1941, overlooking the ore docks of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation in South Chicago. According to the info with the photograph, he took the shot from East 90th Street, so presuming he was at the far end of Read more

Alden Jewell spotted our ongoing street scenes series and thought he’d contribute with a number of scenes, including this one of Salida, Colorado. From a little googling, we see that it was taken at the intersection of F Street and Second Street, looking northeast, and the picture above is actually Read more

Returning once again to the Charles Cushman collection for today’s street scene, we travel with Cushman to Mostyn Street in Llandudno, Wales, where Cushman snapped this picture in May of 1961. From looking at the Google Street View of the location, it appears that little has changed, architecturally speaking, over Read more

It’s never easy to select the absolute winner of our Musclepalooza events – there are always a good number of excellent restorations on hand, and very often, this includes cars that are also quite rare. This Labor Day’s event brought more of the same, but after much consideration, Brian Potter’s Read more

Those intrepid fliers looking for the perfect automobile to drive out to the airport and park before firing up the twin-engine Beechcraft are in luck with this double burgundy 1970 Continental Mark III featuring 460 V-8 power and a Cartier timepiece. The seller reports this fine example of the best of Seventies Read more

You could go vintage racing with any old MG, Austin-Healey or Triumph; the benefit there lies in the easy replacement and high-performance parts availability. Or you could go vintage racing with some sort of low-production sports special, something that would set you apart from the flocks of bellybutton cars on Read more

In all our time travels through these vintage street scenes, we haven’t spent much time out West. Thankfully, Alex from Hooniverse tipped us off recently to VintageSeattle.org, which earlier this year posted this 1974 Marion Dean Ross photo of the Pike Place Market (incidentally a favorite over at The Old Read more

For the final two photos from the Edward Satory street scenes collection, graciously provided by Satory’s grandson, Greg Steinmayer, we’ve got two views of the same street in the same town looking the same direction, except we have no clue as to the town’s identity. Were we to guess, we’d Read more