Hemmings Auto Blog

As we found out a few years ago in the Lost and Found column in Hemmings Classic Car, things get a bit tricky when declaring one car or another to be the last Corvair. In fact, as Corvair historian Dave Newell put it, “The mystery of [the last Corvair’s] fate Read more

Herb Miska noted all the recent mentions of the Miller 91 here on the Hemmings Blog and thought we’d like to see one more: the scratchbuilt 1/18th-scale Miller 91 he recently finished. It’s in a scale model of the ex-Pete DePaolo 1927 Miller front-wheel-drive Indianapolis 500 entry. We’ll let Herb Read more

We still have a couple of Greg Steinmayer’s found photos to go through (previous ones include the Ford GPA splashing down in the Detroit River, the people and monster of Ford’s factories, and the Maico 500 Sport), including this one that doesn’t immediately appear to have much to do with Read more

A few months back, Donnelly reviewed Louk Markham’s book on Crown Coach Corporation, and we thought at least one of the images presented there was worth another look. While Crown was best known for its buses, it also pursued some prototype work through the years. One of those prototypes, the Read more

The schism regarding turbocharged motorcycles is clear. One side maintains that adding the weight and complexity of a turbocharger to a motorcycle is the worst idea ever. Others believe the combination of Eighties motorcycle technology, TURBO spelled out in sci-fi typefaces, and an unpredictable power curve is the greatest idea Read more

Perusing the classifieds here at Hemmings.com is great fun, but what happens when you actually buy one or more of the vehicles you see here and your significant other makes good on the threat to make you sleep in your next Hemmings.com purchase? You turn to this 1966 Shasta travel Read more

Thought the only Hurst/Olds built in 1974 was a two-door Colonnade coupe, did you? Not the case at all, as we see from this pair of 1974 Hurst-built Oldsmobiles for sale on Hemmings.com, one a Delta 88 convertible and the other a very unique four-door Cutlass, both tied into the Read more

With the 89th Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb this weekend (as well as Mount Washington’s revived Climb to the Clouds), we thought we’d go looking for some vintage photography from Pike’s Peak, and we thought the most natural place to find such photography would be in the Denver Public Library’s Read more

When considering all the cars of a particular model year that should be short-listed to become collectible, you simply can’t disregard the exotics. After all, any exotic car should be a shoo-in for collectible status, right? In that case, let’s turn to what is perhaps the most exotic of the Read more

We’re finding vintage images all over the place nowadays. Today’s comes from the i am so retro tumblog and depicts a parking lot scene in Portland, Oregon, in 1958. We’re looking for a larger version as we speak, but at this size, you should be able to pick out the Read more