Hemmings Auto Blog

Much has been made about the sudden infatuation with sports and muscle cars at AMC in the late 1960s, and that’s evident here in this commercial for the 1969 AMX. Unlike the ads for the Rebel and Ambassador that we recently highlighted, this one scraps the pitchman approach and places Read more

On this, the one random day of the year we’ve chosen to pander to NASCAR enthusiasts with the Richard Petty Mechanix Illustrated profile we ran this morning, let’s take a look at a video Eric Shanks sent us, recreating the Henley Sequence from the film “The Social Network,” using NASCAR Read more

Apparently, at one point in time, Richard Petty’s mother told an interviewer that she didn’t name her son “Dick,” she named him “Richard.” Perhaps she stated that in response to articles like Jim McMichael’s profile on King Richard in the March 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, in which he chummily Read more

There’s never a bad time to jump on board with British motoring, even if the first step may be substantial. In a world where ’70s Plymouths sell for just south of two million dollars, and auctioneers politely inquire what harm could come of another ten thousand dollars, this 1959 Triumph Read more

Back in the Eighties and Nineties, Choo-Choo Customs ads were all over the enthusiast magazines, so somebody must have been buying their customized F-bodies, G-body El Caminos and pickups, but they’re just not that common nowadays, either on the road or in the Hemmings classifieds, which is why we took Read more

Many, if not all, automakers at one point dabbled in production of other consumer goods. Nash bought up Kelvinator, Studebaker bought STP (among many others in a diversification spree), and rather uniquely, Pierce-Arrow built travel trailers. This 1937 Pierce-Arrow Travel Lodge Model C for sale on Hemmings.com may have been Read more

Anybody up for a jigsaw puzzle? Though the ad for this 1919 Ford Model T touring for sale on Hemmings.com at first looks like a swap meet spot at Hershey, it appears to include all the major components to piece together an entire car. From the seller’s description: 1919 Ford Read more

From the Miraculous Revelations and Surplus Materials Department here at Hemmings Publishing comes today’s handy recycling and reuse tip. Thanks to the valley of ingenuity that is Spring Carlisle, we have found a solution to the conundrum of what to do with all those leftover half  gallons of durable yet Read more

The Kaiser Frazer Owners Club International chiseled out these 10 car-guy commandments for their May 2011 newsletter, and we subsequently spotted them on the justacarguy blog. Good advice here, though we recommend finding an employer who’s down with letting you read Hemmings on company time. Got any commandments you wanna Read more

Over at The Old Motor, David Greenlees posted this photo showing a GM modelmaker in November 1954 with a pair of concepts, neither of which look much like the full-size Motorama concepts of the mid-1950s. Note the driver figure in the one on the left that looks like the Phantom Read more