Hemmings Auto Blog

One last sub-$10k two-door for this week. How about a truck? Specifically a 1972 Chevrolet Blazer, offered for $8,500. It’s one of the lesser-seen two-wheel-drive versions, perfect for summer cruising sans top. In fact, if I were walking up to this fella with cash in hand, I’d probably tell him Read more

restored Scenicruiser #771 in front of the Greyhound bus depot in Blytheville, Arkansas Ever since we ran an article in the January Hemmings Motor News about the GM PD-4501 Scenicruisers, we’ve received a lot of mail from people who still own them or drove them for Greyhound in the Sixties. Read more

It’s not unusual for auction houses to pull cars from the docket prior to the actual auction, but two rather high-profile cars were pulled from Barrett-Jackson’s lineup this week, and the company has been none too shy about saying why. The first, lot 1258.2, a 1958 Chevrolet Impala that the Read more

Props go to John Robins for inspiring this week’s Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge. Last week, he suggested Peterbilt as one of the foxes in our Lancia challenge, so I thought I’d hop over to the truck world for the subject of this week’s challenge. Mack seems rather Read more

In continuing my goal of finding two-doors for less than $10k this week, I’ve done one better and found a convertible – a 1992 BMW for $4,650. Actually, let’s make that two convertibles with this 1950 Plymouth Deluxe for $6,950. From the BMW seller’s description: LOWEST MILES! LESS THAN 3,000 Read more

1911 Flanders Electric Electric sedans of 1912: Baker, Woods, Waverly, Detroit, Rauch and Lang, Firestone-Columbus, Ohio, Argo, Borland, Century, Ohio, Babcock, Broc, Flanders, Fritchle, Kimball Regular, Standard, Hupp-Yeates and Studebaker Electric sedans of 2010: I’ll get back to you.

Though Packard was based securely in the Midwest throughout its existence, the company apparently always maintained a presence in New York City.  We already took a brief look at the most well-known NYC Packard dealership, at 1861 Broadway, but thanks to a recent Shorpy photo of Longacre Square (later Times Read more

Two more Arizona auctions that we’ve yet to preview, Kruse and Silver, both offer something worth taking a look at, if the information about those somethings is lacking. At Kruse, for example, we see a 1985 Ford Boatorhome, being offered at no reserve. As the Boatorhome website describes it, “On Read more

The fate of Saab Automobile AB is still in limbo as of this writing, as GM hasn’t yet announced a sale/no sale to one of the qualified interested parties. This waiting period got me thinking about a button that I picked up at Hershey back in 2004. Roughly three inches across and Read more

I wondered if the flow of car photos from family albums would slow after the holidays, but I’m pleased to see that it hasn’t. This first trio of photos comes from Berk Jones of Roxboro, North Carolina, and all three show Berk’s father, Carl. Berk writes: Being in high school Read more