Hemmings Auto Blog

This year marks the 20th running of the celebration of drag racing history at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, known as the NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion. Even though thoughts of an infinite nostalgia loop come to mind, it has in fact been that many years since the first California Read more

The economy’s in the toilet, we’re fighting two or three wars, and apparently this constitutes a slow news day in Atlanta. How else can you explain a dozen-year-old Matchbox car making the “news” for having a phone sex line on its fender? Of course, back in 2000 when the GMC Read more

When we all were kids, we grew up reading about the exploits of Stirling Moss, the champion equestrian, Englishman’s Englishman and, I’ll argue, one of the top five greatest racing drivers of all time. I’d seen him at Pebble Beach before, but never had the temerity to approach him. This Read more

We can’t believe it’s already time to talk about our season-ending event, but as August winds down, the fall running of Hemmings Musclepalooza approaches. The big news this year is the return to Lebanon Valley Dragway in West Lebanon, New York, after holding the past two Labor Day events in Read more

Ah, we’ve all been there. The spouse just doesn’t understand the love we also have for unusual and uncommon vehicles, such as this eight-door 1969 Dodge A108 for sale on Hemmings.com. (Yes, the seller states that it’s an A100, but we’re pretty sure the long wheelbase makes it a 108.) Read more

As a public service reminder that we’re not just tea and crumpets around here is this fully operational 1977 Ford F700 four yard truck for sale on Hemmings.com. The seller says that the truck is ready for work, and even has a new stereo. This classic workhorse would also be Read more

Returning to the Charles W. Cushman Collection, and more specifically, to Cushman’s fondness for travel, we see that he spent a little time south of the border – specifically Nogales, Sonora – where he snapped this picture on February 24, 1959. According to Cushman, he shot the image looking north Read more

Getting back to the Edward Satory street scenes from the mid-1960s, supplied by Satory’s grandson, Greg Steinmayer, it looks like we’ve returned to the area of Greenfield and Eight Mile for these first two shots, specifically east of the big interchange with M-10. One could almost stitch these first two Read more

The vintage street scene shots continue to stream in. Rodney McDonald, who posts over at the Positive Earth blog, recently sent us this photo of the grand Gulf Mobile and Ohio railroad terminal in downtown Mobile, Alabama, and noted all the carspotting opportunities within – including an early Falcon, just Read more

In our neverending quest to mix it up for the carspotters out there, we’ve taken a page (literally) from Modern Mechanix, which recently posted this two-page spread from the March 1970 issue of LIFE advertising the Audi 100LS. We suppose this could be a street or parking lot scene – Read more