Hemmings Auto Blog

Somehow in my online wanderings recently, I came across the Emmitsburg (Maryland) Area Historical Society’s website, with plenty of older photos of the town. It is my belief that every town and city should have such an online photo archive, and the folks behind this one did a great job. Read more

It’s mid-January, so it must be time again for the Scottsdale auction machine to shift into high gear. It’s always a little bit of a wild guess trying to figure out what’ll be the big-dollar theme each year. Mid-50s GM dream cars? Nah, done that. Shelby roadsters and Mustangs? So Read more

A few months ago, we shared a few photos from the long-gone book on cars in Hollywood, “Fit for the Chase,” authored in 1969 by cinema historian and silent-era child star Raymond Lee. Here’s a few more for your perusal, which, like practically all the book’s images, were studio publicity Read more

The Gaylord, when mentioned nowadays, draws a lot of criticism for its, um, quirky looks. (It’s a Brooks Stevens design – what’d you expect?) Most people trot out the big-headlamp prototype, yuk it up, and move on. But after reading Richard Langworth’s history and description of the Gaylord in SIA Read more

*This is the kind of imagination I like to see in customizing: H.A.M.B. member ARNIE, of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, has been merging Amphicars with various sheetmetal from 1950s American cars, including a bullet-nose Studebaker, above. Very interested in seeing how that turns out. *BigLorryblog had a hot treat for us Read more

While it would’ve been nice to find a car from one of Elvis’s movies to celebrate his birthday today (such as this one), I’ll take the next best thing: the 1923 Dodge roadster pickup from “The Lively Set,” currently for sale on Hemmings.com for $150,000. From the seller’s description: Driven Read more

While researching Karl and Veda Orr for the Hot Rod Hero profile in the latest issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines, I noticed something unusual: This power couple had personality enough to jump off the page and played such a critical role in keeping American enthusiasm high for performance cars during Read more

Otherwise known as “Mudflap Girl Visits France.” We definitely don’t want to start a trend here.  Nope. But we had to share this photo sent in by our pal David Clark at Sports Car Services, up the road a piece in Westminster, Vermont. David took the photo of this Citroen Read more

Ah, a marque I’ve yet to use for the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge, and it’s not a totally obscure one either: Lancia. So many possibilities with this one, in fact, that we’re running a no-holds-barred, fox-and-hound version of the challenge this week. Whoever chimes in first gets Read more

Love for the Colonnade? Koch’s 1974 Buick Regal driving impressions last month brought it out; let’s see if today’s HFOD, a four-speed 1974 Pontiac Grand Am, offered for $15,000 out of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, does the same. From the seller’s description: Very rare Factory 4SPD one of only 146 made, Rebuilt Read more