Hemmings Auto Blog

What’s the first thing to come to mind when you think of James Cameron’s Titanic? (Other than that awful warbly theme song?) (BTW, just try getting that song out of your head for the rest of the day. You’re welcome.) That’s right, the steamy scene in the back of the Read more

If you’re already looking at the 2011 collector-car calendar, trying to decide which events to attend, organizers of the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance recently announced their 2011 class structure and special features. Topping the list will be a 125th anniversary celebration of the automobile, or more specifically, three classes Read more

1911 Nance. So help me, I like the early history of the automobile.  There was seemingly infinite optimism and ambition and more than that, just so much going on. I thought it would be fun, at least for me, to take a single day a century ago as a snapshot. Read more

We’ve had a couple complaints recently that our Hemmings Finds of the Day were not of the sub-$10k garden-variety-driver type, so let’s rectify that today with this 1965 Dodge Coronet, a sweet little four-door that probably just came out of Aunt Myrtle’s garage. If anybody buys this and sticks a Read more

Is it not the dream of toy car nerds everywhere to be able to shop in a new place – to travel, to see new things? In 1996, fresh out of New Jersey and never having seen a Wal-Mart, I thought I discovered the Promised Land as I made my Read more

It’s easy to assume that any stake-bed pickup nowadays uses a homebuilt or aftermarket bed, but look closer at this 1937 Ford 1/2-ton stakebed, and you’ll see that the platform is actually incorporated into the fenders. That’s because, starting that year, Ford did indeed offer stake and platform-bed pickups from Read more

We must first stress that playing with matches is a dangerous activity. Please take care not to burn the house down while deep frying turkeys or lighting up a chiminea full of gasoline-soaked scrap wood this holiday weekend. That being said, building and launching match rockets can be a fun Read more

I always fear treading into stories like this because they either bring out the tinfoil beanie troop or lead to some superfan screaming “Yoo no Nothing about the bestest Rock icon in the world, dood!” But here goes nothing. Following the release of the Doors’ self-titled LP in January 1967, Read more

Fans of the band Cake might be able to tell us why, but it always bothered me that the video for the song “Going the Distance,” which seemed tailor-made for some car-on-car action, didn’t feature even a snippet of automotive visuals. Fortunately, in this YouTube age, there are plenty of Read more

A GM-era Saab T-bones an innocent Peugeot out the side of a multistory parking structure and into the ground. Multiple VWs blow up–including a Eurovan (Caravelle) and an original Beetle–for no apparent reason. A Dodge van T-bones a gooseneck trailer holding a speedboat and, critically, many liters of gasoline; everything Read more