Hemmings Auto Blog

Recently spotted a couple of interesting Pontiacs that, besides their uncommon body styles, happen to precisely bracket the war years. First off is this 1946 Pontiac Streamliner Eight (B-body) woody station wagon. From the seller’s description: 9-passenger, 8-cylinder, rare find. Runs and drives excellent, loaded with period factory accessories, spotlight, Read more

It’s too bad the seller of this 1973 Volkswagen Thing put a brand-new top on it. While it looks great raised (and we’re guessing it looks a bazillion times better than the old top), a Thing deserves to cruise around with the top down. After all, who’s gonna drive it Read more

Most Ford 406-cu.in. V-8s used two bolts to secure the main caps, but a limited number of 406s built in 1963 used two cross-bolts through the skirt of the block for three of the five main caps. This 1963 Ford 406 for sale on Hemmings.com appears to be one of Read more

A few weeks ago on the H.A.M.B., LowKat uploaded these two images to the Vintage shots from days gone by thread, and we’ve since found out that they both come from LIFE’s online photo archives. Both were taken by photographer Michael Rougier in 1970 on opposite sides of East Speedway Read more

While we’ve seen this image once before, four years ago, we never treated it like a street scene. It’s one of many shots Jack Delano took in Chicago for the U.S. Office of War Information from December 1942 to April 1943, mostly focused on the railroads in Chicago. Here, however, Read more

Over at the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, member coconv has been supplying us with scans of interesting and unusual automotive ads such as this one for the 1969 Dodge Super Bee, focusing on the Bee’s Ramcharger Air Induction System. What’s more (quickloading somewhat supersize version below), he even uploaded it Read more

Today’s street scene comes to us from David Greenlees over at The Old Motor, and after this shot and the Rochester Crosleys photo that David shared with us last month, one might assume it was a common occurrence to see new cars lined up on the sidewalk in urban settings Read more

After we took a look at the futuristic concepts Raymond Loewy came up with for the 1939 New York World’s Fair last week, ehdubya pointed us to the Hagley Museum and Library‘s digital archives, which included many later Loewy designs and renderings. While browsing through it, however, we also came Read more

Along with the Ford Eifel we spotted at one of the stops during the Great Race, we also spent some time looking over this fiberglass Model T roadster with a rather interesting drivetrain: a Boeing 502-6 turboshaft engine that was re-purposed from a US Navy minesweeper. First used by the Read more

If you’re the kind of person who’s into big-block engines and pony cars, then this delectable combination offered by this 1969 Boss 429 Mustang should surely get your RPM up in mere seconds. Russo and Steele will offer it at their 11th annual downtown Monterey sale at the Marriott Hotel, Read more