Hemmings Auto Blog

Occasionally, somebody not familiar with the Hemmings brand will ask us if we’re just a regional magazine, and of course we inform them that we’re not just national, we’re global, as shown by today’s Hemmings Find of the Day, a 1935 Ford roadster all the way from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Read more

One thing worth keeping in mind about muscle car history is just how geared to the concept of youth these cars were when new. In fine consumerism tradition, Detroit took the freedom of cars, the freedom of youth, a little bit of sex, and blended it all together into a Read more

We’re not sure how this one eluded us, but vacation property rental company HomeAway has put Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo and Gary Schneider’s replica Family Truckster together for a Superbowl ad and associated short film. According to their press releases, HomeAway has developed a 15-minute short film with the Griswolds, Read more

So did y’all like that curveball I threw you last week? I’ll try it again sometime in the near future, but in the meantime, back to our regularly scheduled Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge. This week: Goggomobil! Though not a household name (unless you’re Charles Gould, that is), Goggomobil Read more

As rare as the Crosley-Fageol flat-8 engine is, at just a baker’s dozen rumored to have ever been built, even rarer is the Crosley-based V-8. When I bought my lot of Crosley engines a couple years ago, the seller told me about a Crosley-based V-8 that his father once owned Read more

I’m tired of seeing those “future collectible cars” articles that go no further than the GMC Syclone and the Buick GNX. Let’s see those authors start to think beyond the no-duh future collectibles and focus more on the high-performance cars that we’re less likely to see at the local cruise-in, Read more

Back when I had dreams of building the CrosRod, one of the engines I envisioned powering the wee beastie was a Fageol flat-8 engine. Built as a boat motor when Fageol owned the rights to the Crosley four-cylinder in the late 1950s, Fageol simply took one regular block and one Read more

We’ll start off this week’s FA&4S with a couple more shots from James Belohovek, who provided all the Total Recall photos for us recently. James said his father, Dick, raced jalopies in Southern California in the 1950s and early 1960s. “He would always be in the garage working on a Read more

Sports & Exotic Car readers and blog regulars will recognize Basil McLaren’s name, as I’ve profiled two of his Mazdas and his Opel over the years. The South Africa native started his career with Opel as a teenager, then moved over to Mazda, where he was the equivalent of a Read more

It’s about time we followed through with a theme week, so it’s all Fords for this week’s Hemmings Finds of the Day. Today’s HFOD, a 1961 Ford Econoline van, will cross the block at the Palm Springs auction in late February, but we have a preview of it up now Read more