Hemmings Auto Blog

A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away? No, wrong movie), reader Greg Allen caught our post on the Boonie Bug and sent in some screengrabs from the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall guessing that the Johnnycab was based on a Boonie Bug. It wasn’t, but that Read more

Back in December, the Feds announced that the $6 million, 207-car collection of Jeffrey Lane Mowen – indicted fraudster, and alleged accomplice/conspirator to attempted murder – would be put up for auction on January 6 in an effort to recoup some of the $18 million he bilked from investors in Read more

Heading out to Scottsdale a couple of weeks ago, the farthest thing from my mind at the time was snapping a few shots of vintage dealership emblems; our main focus was covering the five auctions quickly, yet efficiently. Somewhere along the way, I managed to snap off a few shots Read more

A couple weeks back, I happened to notice a cover inset photo of an early ‘90s Chevy pickup on a custom truck magazine. Normally, I don’t even flip through those books—slammed trucks on mammoth wheels just aren’t my thing. But in this case, I recognized the Chevy pickup as an Read more

We encountered a little confusion last week when trying to determine the exact basis of the Renault-built six-wheeled Sahara-crossing rigs, and  to our rescue comes John Robins, who discovered an entry on the cars in the book “Modern Motor Cars, Volume 3,” published by Caxton Publishing in London in about Read more

The seller of this 1954 Ford Comete Monte Carlo on Hemmings.com didn’t provide much information about the car itself, so we’re left to investigate the Monte Carlo on our own. Built for just one year for Ford France by the same company that would later build the Facel Vegas, the Read more

We have reader salguod (Doug Schaefer) to thank for pointing us in the direction of these World War I-era panoramic photographs, which we’d almost forgotten about until researching our recent post on the Japanese Mercer racers from that time period. Like any collection of historic photographs, we’re of course interested Read more

Or, the very limited history of the first Japanese race car drivers in the United States. As many of these stories start, I was poking around in old motoring journals and caught sight of a brief mention of two Japanese drivers, H. Sakamoto and W.T. Watanabe, who were allegedly the Read more

Currently, concept cars of the ’50s and ’60s = teh hotness. Then how about concept cars of the 1980s? Say, for example, the 1989 Ford Ghia Saguaro, a precursor to today’s crossovers? It debuted at the 1988 Turin Auto Show, then made its way to the states for the 1989 Read more

Thanks to Kevin Gibbs, I recently got to pen one of the most interesting stories I’ve written lately. Certainly the strangest. See, Kevin wrote in asking us whether we’d heard of a fiberglass three-wheeled car from 1974-1975 called the Dale – he keeps a scrapbook of such oddities, but had Read more