Hemmings Auto Blog

So in the upcoming Captain America movie, Cap will be riding around on a modern disc-brake Harley poorly dolled up to look like a WWII Indian. More intriguing, however, is this car on the same set in England, which looks like it might have started out as one of Virgil Read more

You know, while it doesn’t take much to make a Colonnade car look like something Homer Simpson and the NHTSA dreamed up, it also doesn’t take much to make a Colonnade car look good. The right front end treatment, the right stance, and a graphics package that highlights rather than Read more

This past weekend’s F.A.S.T. races at Englishtown, while thoroughly entertaining, almost didn’t merit a headline. We saw plenty of 10-second runs from several of the racers, but despite near-perfect weather, the best they could muster throughout Saturday’s runs and most of Sunday’s runs were timeslips in the 10.30s, a good Read more

Happy Labor Day, everybody. After this weekend’s Musclepalooza XII, the Hemmings staff is taking a well-deserved day off today. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, but in the meantime, enjoy these wallpaper-able muscle car images from our archives.

We’ve had a few cars-turned-wrecker come across our desk recently, and at first glance, we thought this 1920 Rock Falls wrecker was yet another of them. After all, the Sterling, Illinois-based Rock Falls largely built hearses and other funeral vehicles, with a few limousines and sedans tossed into the mix. Read more

Of all the special edition Mustangs that Ford has been trotting out in the last several years and that recall earlier Mustang variants (California Special, Boss 302, all the Shelbys), I don’t think Ford’s ever going to come up with another SVO-type Mustang, even with all the talk nowadays of Read more

Jeff Koch would like to apologize to some of you for the Dalek-fest that was his latest entry in our occasional series of automotive-themed music videos. He offered this video with Robbie Williams spliced into a bunch of early 1970s Formula 1 racing footage as a conciliation. Neat concept, but Read more

On Sunday, September 26, the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, will host an all-Matchbox toy show. The show will be run by the Diecast Exchange, and will focus on the entire history of Matchbox model cars, from the early 1950s up through the present day products. Most of the top Read more

As far as street rods go, 2010 will be remembered as the year of the Magnatude sweep, now that Jerry Magnuson’s custom-built roadster took all three of the major street rod awards handed out by Goodguys this year, becoming the first street rod ever to accomplish that feat. Over the Read more

Koch wanted me to post this for our irregular series of music videos with cars in them. “Doctor Who, Gary Glitter and a ‘68 Ford police car. What more could you ask for?” he asks. Direct all your ire Koch’s way, please.