Hemmings Auto Blog

Olds got an awful lot of crap for its “not your father’s Oldsmobile” campaign of the late ’80s. Few realized at the time that Buick had dome something similar twenty years earlier.

Our pal Steve Donohoe of Port Clinton, Ohio, recently sent these shots of a Futurliner that he took in 1993 or 1994 outside the National Automotive and Truck Museum in Auburn, Indiana. A quick check against Bruce Berghoff and George Ferris’s book on the Futurliners, and we can confirm that Read more

Today’s been a good day for 1967 Camaro ephemera. First, Koch emailed this scan from his vintage magazine collection exhorting folks to get down to their Chevrolet dealers to check out the all-new Chevrolet pony car. Next, our friend Mr. Angry over at RideLust uncovered a two-minute spot – presumably Read more

David Greenlees just posted a bucolic street scene this morning over at The Old Motor and we thought it worth a repost for the carspotters in our audience. The place: Fort Street in Southgate, Michigan (presumably the southbound lanes). The date: November 29, 1956. Any Southgate residents care to pinpoint Read more

We often come across images of stately 1930s sedans turned into pickups or tow trucks here at the Hemmings Blog, and while we’ve appreciated them, we’ve also presumed they were cobbed-together conversions built by dealerships from old cars still hanging around. Perhaps we shouldn’t be so fast to make that Read more

Normally on the Fourth of July we go chasing after one of the many RWB-scheme American Motors products to feature, but we couldn’t pass up taking a look at a John Greenwood stars-n-stripes Corvette this Independence Day. One of three built by Greenwood in 1969, No. 49 came across our Read more

Ahh, America. Where else in the world would we be free to be so politically incorrect as to build something like this dually-bed 1988 GMC TopKick for sale on Hemmings.com? From the seller’s description: Cat 3208T Turbodiesel 636 cubic inches, MT643 Allison Transmission, Eaton 21K Rearend. New 5″ stacks, new Read more

On the list of San Francisco’s most important and historic cars, the 1931 Lincoln Series K phaeton described by Josiah Work for SIA #99, June 1987, certainly must be near the top, considering all the dignitaries it carried and the possibility that it was the first car to cross the Read more

Park a car outside for 30 years here on this side of the United States, and there won’t be nothing left but a memory. Do the same in Southern California, and you have something that could just as easily be a project car as a parts car, as we see Read more

David Greenlees over at The Old Motor recently posted this photo from the Peter Helck collection showing an unidentified car on the sands of Daytona Beach in possibly the winter of 1905. Helck, one of the earliest collector car aficionados, was well versed in automotive history, so we find it Read more