Hemmings Auto Blog

To me, this is the great part of this job. Look around enough, and it’s astonishing what kind of historical connections can shake loose. Here’s a prime case of what I mean. Joe Macfarlan operates the New Jersey-based historical Web site 3 Wides Picture Vault, which I profiled as a Read more

Long before viral marketing, YouTube and ad people that spoke of “paradigms,” AMC went Trans-Am racing with its new Javelin, and to publicize that racing effort (and, not incidentally, to move more Javelins off the showroom floor), the company’s Literature Distribution Department whipped up this nifty little booklet to hand Read more

There’s a contingency of Saabisti here at Hemmings,  yours truly included, who wear their blue and yellow hearts on their sleeves. Like many of you, we’ve been watching the safety dance between General Motors and Saab’s intended suitors with bated breath. It pains us to think of one of our favorite Read more

Model A and Model T snowmobiles are a perennial favorite around these parts, so we naturally investigated this particular 1929 Model A Snowbird that recently appeared on Hemmings.com, being offered out of St. Louis for $69,500. From the seller’s description: This 1929 Ford Model A Tudor Sedan with its Arps Read more

We figured while the weather is keeping the Speedster in the garage, it would be a good time to do a little freshening up of the engine and drivetrain. Although April seems a long way off, we want to get an early start and makes sure it is all back Read more

I’m still digging through the stack of material that simply didn’t make print, and this week I bring you some more scenes from the 2009 All-Chrysler Nationals at Carlisle. Held back on July 10-12, Hemmings Muscle Machines editor Terry McGean and I worked our way through a mid-summer storm, photographed Read more

The month of July 1977 was a good one for Hemmings Motor News. Within the span of just a few pages, we had display ads for three different one-of-a-kind vehicles, two of which we know are still around today. The first, the Claymobile, was the subject of not only a Read more

Of all the years I’ve been scanning Hemmings Motor News, I can’t recall having ever seen a trolley advertised within. At least until I came across this trolley on a Ford chassis, offered for $80,000 out of Medford, Oregon. So what would you do with a street-going trolley with a Read more

We’ve got a whole mess of great family album car photos for you this week. Starting with our friend Hugo90, frequent commenter here and contributor to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, where he shared the above photo. My brother Jim, on the left, was a new engineer at GM Milford Read more

I shot a lot of stuff when the Saratoga Automobile Museum held its Lost Speedways seminars over Thanksgiving weekend, but here’s an idea that I especially wanted to pass on. The museum is home to the New York State Stock Car Association’s hall of fame, whose lead historian, Ron Hedger, Read more