Hemmings Auto Blog

Replica Steve McQueen 1971 Husqvarna 400 Cross. Photos courtesy of Bonhams How many replica cars can attract six figure bidders? A few handfuls at most possibly; and you would think that there are even fewer motorcycle collectors who would fall into that category. However, that’s just who showed up or Read more

At first listen, the music Josh Clason chose to go with his video depicting Viva Las Vegas 2011 doesn’t seem to fit – where’s the raucousness, where’s the hipsterbillyness, where’s the obligatory reference to Elvis? Then again, rat rods have become just about as much a self-parody as Las Vegas Read more

Shorpy recently posted this interesting photo from about 1910 showing a dual-wheeled auto on a turntable built into the top of Inspiration Point at Pike’s Peak. Ah, but what of the auto? For a closer look, let’s enhance: Good, we see more of the car itself, but what’s that in Read more

It seems an entire junkyard out in Maxwell, Nebraska, is shutting down and liquidating its inventory. Fortunately, they’re sending their 50-year collection of 1940s to 1970s cars to auction July 17, 2011. Unfortunately, these are the kinds of auctions at which the recyclers clean up unless classic car enthusiasts outbid Read more

Restored Model As can go one of two ways: overaccessorized or just plain stock. It seems few Model A owners bother to take the time to select just a few period accessories that complement the vehicle, as the seller of this 1929 Ford Model A roadster pickup for sale on Read more

Not everybody is out to make a mint on collector cars, as we see from this pair of 1952 Triumph Mayflowers for sale on Hemmings.com. Sure, they’re both in barn-found condition and would take a serious investment of time and money to restore individually, but for a Mayflower enthusiast with Read more

We’re trying something new this year by posting photos from our cruise nights to Twitter and Facebook rather than here on the blog. That way, if you have photos of your own from our cruise nights that you’d like to share, you can either post them to Twitter with the Read more

Image courtesy IROC-Z.com Apologies for returning to the bowtie brand so soon after the Cavalier Z24, but we can’t highlight that Chevrolet model in the Class of 1986 without making mention of its big brothers, the Camaro Z28 and Camaro IROC-Z. Though still derided by some in the collector car Read more

As Aaron Severson pointed out yesterday, it was Wells, Rich and Greene that gave AMC a cheekier image in the late 1960s, especially with commercials like the one for the 1969 AMX and the one here for the 1969 Javelin. So who can tell us more about the two cars Read more

The gloried performance car modifier of the holy muscle era, Yenko, is obviously most associated with the monster Chevrolets it created through big-block transplants. That changed in 1975 when a customer decided he wanted to hammer everything in sight, including a local Pontiac dealer’s son, who drove a Trans Am Read more