Hemmings Auto Blog

Congratulations to Joe Conlon, whose gorgeous 1953 Nash-Healey Le Mans Coupe captured Best in Show at the sixth annual Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car Show this past weekend at the Saratoga Auto Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York. Joe’s coupe also captured first place in its class, the cars of Read more

Continuing with the street scenes that Greg Steinmayer’s grandfather, Edward Satory, shot in the mid-1960s, here we’re taking a look at a downtown that Satory neglected to identify. Based on some googling of the business names we see in the shot, we believe this to be Winona, Minnesota. What do Read more

For the second time in just a few days, we’ve found a four-door from the Eisenhower Era with 70-something thousand miles on it, this time a 1960 Dodge Phoenix four-door. As econobiker noted the other day, that was about the typical life expectancy for a car in those days, but Read more

So did Mother Earth News publish a “how to turn your Volvo station wagon into a pickup” article a couple decades ago? Because it seems like the car blog community comes across such Volvocheros once a month or so. We’ll do our part by highlighting another one today, this 1984 Read more

Courtesy David Greenlees over at The Old Motor, a picture of a very nice Jaguar XK120 sporting an aftermarket bumper at the 1954 Buffalo Bill Mountain hill climb in Colorado.

Noticing all the color street scenes we’ve been posting lately, Greg Steinmayer passed on several color transparencies that his grandfather, Edward Satory, shot in the mid-Sixties. They’re worth savoring, so we’ll dole ‘em out just one or two at a time. First up is this shot of Eight Mile Road Read more

One more from the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection that brought us yesterday’s two street scenes. This one, shot August 30, 1958, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, will be a carspotter’s (and signspotter’s) delight. Interestingly, we only see one brand-new car in the shot. As for the location, Cushman noted Read more

We’re going to circle back around to the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection for today’s street scenes. First, we selected the one from Marlborough for frequent commenter John from Staffs, a Brit who’s frequently at a disadvantage when it comes to carspotting U.S.-based street scenes. While John’s working out the Read more

2009 Hershey Meet HPOF entrant 1914 Haynes owned by Virginia's George Duke Bristol, Tennessee’s, Bristol Motor Speedway, the fastest half-mile on the NASCAR circuit, will usher in an automotive event that has no intentions of setting a track record. On August 11-13, the famed high-banked facility will serve as a Read more

Note: I write up driving impressions of virtually every car I photograph, within a couple of days of the drive, so everything is fresh in my memory. Occasionally, because of the constraints of format (ie, buyer’s guide) the prepared text doesn’t run. Now, thanks to the joys of the blogosphere, Read more