Hemmings Auto Blog

Back when I was a single guy, I had just two cars: a 1992 Nissan Stanza (which replaced my ‘83 straight-six diesel, five-speed stick Datsun – by Nissan – Maxima) and my ‘52 Buick Roadmaster. Pretty easy to figure out which one resided in the garage. A little over 10 Read more

I’m assuming somebody had a plan here. They didn’t just have a four-door ‘87 Lincoln Continental and decided to have at it with a Sawzall. No, they wanted to build a two-door version from the start and christen it a contemporary Zephyr. Trouble is, the ad copy for this Zephyr, Read more

If, after breathing in the mold accumulated on the pages of these musty magazines, there’s something to take away from collecting old issues of Mechanix Illustrated, it’s the insight into half-formed and unformed ideas that we take for granted today. For example, when we use the word “custom,” it usually Read more

So there wasn’t much activity on my last stumper – obviously, it was far too easy. So get your brain hats on for the new year, people, ’cause this’ll take some trying. Now, this is not an unknownmobile – obviously, it’s an early car, but the company made cars well Read more

The subhead to Ken Gross’s story about the Hudson Jet in SIA #60, December 1980, succinctly sums up his well-argued position: “There was nothing wrong with this early compact… except that it killed the company.” Gross laid blame squarely on meddlesome Hudson president Ed Barit, but also noted that the Read more

* As we’ve mentioned before, Geoff Hacker could keep us in clover for a long time with all the weird and wonderful oddball cars he researches, and he’s doing just that with his website, ForgottenFiberglass.com, where he recently presented the Masano, a fiberglass three-tailfinned sports car based on a Henry Read more

As an AMC fan, I could look at Renault as the company that brought on the death of American Motors. Or I could look at Renault as the comrades-in-arms that had the right amount of insanity to build the LeCar-based R5 (seriously, wouldn’t the AMC guys have done something similar Read more

The request of one of our readers prompted me to go back through my shots of the 2009 Chrysler event at Carlisle one last time. Said request was basically a question regarding the appearance of Duster 340 models: From the car corral: a 1970; original interior and top; one repaint; Read more

So Saab’s still in limbo, kinda, even though reports say the assembly lines are up and running again. But with all the talk of Saab being sold to this company or that, we can’t help but think about what new connections might be possible for the Hemmings Six Degrees of Read more

Courtesy Motor Age, January 3, 1918 WELL, we’ve motored past another milestone. A new road opens up before us, unexplored, untraveled, a clear way ahead. The bells of Time have rung out the old, rung in the new! Let us set forth with stout hearts and sunny souls, sobered by Read more