Hemmings Auto Blog

Coby Gewertz has been doing some awesome stuff with his ‘zine called Church, and the Econoline that he just finished in time for this weekend’s Grand National Roadster Show (dubbed the Van-GO) is no less awesome. As if we needed something else to make us regret not going to the Read more

We all know the Haynes manuals, right? The tech manuals that you get every time you buy a car you’re unfamiliar with? The books out in your garage that have black edges from flipping through them with your grubby hands? The dry, straightforward instructions on how to replace your starter? Read more

Gooding and Company is claiming it made the biggest sale of the Scottsdale auction week with a 2006 Ferrari FXX Evoluzione that rung the bell at $2,090,000. The 860hp supercar is one of just 30 built and retailed new for north of $2 million. Its 6.3-liter V-12 is based on Read more

Those wonderful wrap-around winshields! Hemmings Associate Editor David Traver Adolphus recently came across two impressive images of brand new Saab 99s taken in May 1973 at the shipping area called Fields Point in Providence, Rhode Island. These two-and four-door sedans were newly offloaded from the ships that brought them from Saab’s Swedish plants in Trollhättan, Read more

Every year, artists belonging to the Automotive Fine Arts Society send out these really cool, signed holiday cards showcasing their work and helping to keep the AFAS on the minds of journalists. It seemed a shame to just stick these mini masterpieces away in a drawer after displaying them around Read more

Put-in-Bay, Ohio, is about the only town of consequence on the North Bass, Middle Bass and South Bass islands north of Sandusky in Lake Erie. Big summer destination, normally reached by ferry, but it’s neat to see how the year-rounders up there adapt to winter and the icing over of Read more

After yesterday’s SIA Flashback on the Kaiser Traveler, how could we not choose this 1951 Kaiser Traveler for today’s Hemmings Find of the Day? The seller, the Ellingson Car Museum in Rogers, Minnesota, didn’t include much information that you don’t see in the photos, aside from the fact that it’s Read more

The Pavlovian response among most car guys upon hearing the name of the coachbuilder Henney is to think Packard professional car. But that’s not the case with this 1936 Oldsmobile ambulance bodied by Henney and now waiting in the Arizona desert for somebody to come along and give it a Read more

One of the niftier aspects of the new online classified search function that we introduced this week on Hemmings.com is that it allows you to search for a car based on all sorts of criteria. What decade is it from? Does it have a stick or an automatic transmission? What Read more

Our car-spotting exercises so far have been rather North America-oriented, so let’s go south for our next one, provided to us by Hugo90 on the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool. He describes the shot above as a used car lot in Footscray, Victoria, photographed in 1974. There’s eight cars in the Read more