Hemmings Auto Blog

If there’s a reason we in the United States think there’s not much of a vintage-car scene in Japan (or even don’t think about it at all), it’s probably because there aren’t many English-language sources of information about said scene. But vintage cars are quite popular in Japan and are Read more

We haven’t dug back into the annals of American automotive history for the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge lately, and I believe it’s high time we do again. Thus, I propose Stutz. Those of you playing along might recall we had Stutz as the subject of a Stutz-Corbitt Read more

Last I knew, this was owned by a lovely woman in New Jersey, but now the 1954 Plymouth Belmont concept car seems to be in the hands of a Lotus dealership on Long Island and for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This exercise incorporated many features unique to Read more

Now, John Deere did at one time build and sell snowmobiles. In fact, there’s a pretty active community of guys who collect JD snowmobiles. Wyatt Kram, from up in North Dakota, is one of those guys, and last year got the itch to combine a 1980 John Deere Liqufire snowmobile Read more

In response to yesterday’s post from Litwin featuring the classic ad with the #43 Plymouth, Gary Faules sent us this note: I thought you might enjoy these and possibly might want to post tem with the recent post. My good friend Curtis Farmer was the cousin of the legendary Curtis Read more

Hemmings Nation, put on your thinking caps! Geoff Hacker, who has forwarded all sorts of cool stuff to us in the past, needs your help. On one of his recent road trips, he picked up the bare shell of a Maverick, a rare fiberglass car built in California. We’ve actually Read more

I believe this is our old friend Per, he of the unique Swedish truck collection, selling this 1954 Volvo TP21 on Hemmings.com. Rare in Sweden, it’d be even rarer in the United States if you shipped it over here. From Per’s description: Original Volvo TP21 Sugga 4×4, radiocar. No radios. Read more

When was the last time you saw a 15-second blast from GM on television promoting the Chevy Impala and the fact that it has been a part of the last two NASCAR title wins (at least the COT version) with driver Jimmy Johnson? (I don’t watch non-sport network TV, so Read more

Though I went fairly in depth with the Bentel-built Mercer Coronado and Mercer Ascot Speedway, there’s still another Bentel-built vehicle I’d like to highlight: his 29-passenger Mercer-based sightseeing bus. Unlike the other two, there’s evidence that Bentel’s body works only built, rather than designed this one. As it was described Read more

I wonder if the seller of this 1973 AMC Matador cop car chose that photo location on purpose? Was he just looking for an appropriately gritty background in an attempt to emulate Los Angeles? Is he making commentary on AMC’s traditional underdog status and correlating that to an inability to Read more