Hemmings Auto Blog

Who knew that Shelbys were such hot commodities in the late 1970s? I recently went digging through another box of photos submitted for Hemmings Motor News, this time for the July 1978 issue, and found plenty of Shelbys for sale for prices that, well, will seem a little sadistic should Read more

Longtime readers of the blog might already know that I have a slight obsession over the vehicles from Total Recall, including the Johnnycab taxi. So it comes as no surprise that this six-wheeled Volkswagen-based taxi prop from the movie is my Hemmings Find of the Day. Note that this is Read more

Ready to put a little sweat equity into a car? From the pictures, it looks as though this 1957 Buick Special for sale on Hemmings.com is a solid car, ready for a quick and easy restoration. Despite being from the Northeast, the interior doesn’t appear rotted out, and the tinworm Read more

With Hemmings Motor News conducting the VCRA Hemmings Challenge Rally, our own Speedster and its support crew has to be one of the first crews to arrive, so we got an early start on the almost 1,000-mile drive from headquarters in Bennington by leaving early Tuesday morning. Publisher and Driver Jim Read more

A pair of 2002s recently cropped up on Hemmings.com, both out of the San Francisco Bay area, and while we appreciated the tasteful modifications to the ‘73, it was this 1974 2002 Turbo that really caught our eye. Note that this example lacks the reverse-lettering graphics on the chin spoiler; Read more

The other day, Jeff posted a couple ads, for 1967 and 1968 Mercury Cyclone GTs, and noted how Mercury itself couldn’t seem to decide whether the Cyclone GT was a manly man’s car or a manly woman’s car. One perhaps doesn’t even need to see those ads to figure out Read more

There’s been a movement afoot recently to legitimize Cord 810/812 replicas such as this 1968 Samco Cord by noting that they weren’t homebuilt hackjob kit cars and were instead assembled in factories as actual production cars. I look at it this way: What automobile built in the 1960s, replica or Read more

This huge teeter-totter is part of the obstacle course at this year's BMW RA rally in Pownal, Vermont. Photo courtesy BMWRA.org You’ve likely never heard of Pownal, Vermont, but if you’ve driven Route 7 from Massachusetts into our fair state, you’ve been through it. Years ago, the state ran a Read more

My man Fritz, now that he’s moved from Long Island to the Show-Me State, is working on a new bubbletop custom in the very best Ed Roth tradition, using a VW engine and Big Daddy’s spitwad technique. And ever since he sent me the above photo, I’ve been showing it Read more

For 1967, Mercury was the man’s car. Apparently for ‘68 they let any ol’ horse-ridin’, cat-ownin’ girl behind the wheel too! So the question is, did Mercury catch hell for their ad campaign in ‘67 and try to make up for it in ‘68? Or is this just a hilarious Read more