Hemmings Auto Blog

If you’re a subscriber to Hemmings Classic Car, you should by now have received the February issue of the magazine, which we’ve devoted entirely to Packard. In honor of this special issue (or, if you don’t subscribe to HCC, in honor of our Lost Packard Dealership post from earlier this Read more

Well, that didn’t take long. A couple months after our favorite Barris-touched 1972 Lincoln crossed the auction block at RM Hershey, the Bugazzi is now on Hemmings.com, offered for sale by Daniel Schmitt & Co. in St. Louis for about five times the amount it sold for at auction. You Read more

Around this time, the new issue of Sports & Exotic Car is hitting mailboxes, with a short item in the News section on Bill Coffey’s Garage Party.  It’s an invitation-only affair in Gainsville, Florida, and Donnelly’s pal Louis Galano was there on October 24 this year. Lou writes: Bill Coffey Read more

Hot rods make occasional appearances in the world of diecast, such as the Highway 61 Origins of Speed series from a few years ago and GMP’s excellent Deuces, but it seems the large majority of diecast collectors like to see factory-built vehicles. For the guys who create diecast cars, then, Read more

‘Tis the season! No, not the season for decking the halls and eggnog and ugly sweaters. We’re talking about the season for scoping out the cars coming up for auction in Arizona next month. And Hemmings.com can help you with that. See, the auction houses all do their own parts Read more

We recently made the acquaintance of one Per Thyrén, of Linköping, Sweden, who stopped by the Hemmings Forum to see if he could find out a little more about his 1937 Dodge. “Okay,” says we, “send us a picture.” But it’s not like any other Dodge we’ve seen. Per has Read more

As stated by others, this is the time of year when we can take a few extra minutes of the day and sift through the pictorial rubble that has clogged up our servers here in the office, and uncover nearly forgotten tidbits that you might find tasty. My contribution to Read more

Did the 1948 Diamond T we show you last week not tickle your fancy the way it did ours? Then how about this 1933 Diamond T currently on Hemmings.com that the seller left partially finished so you can apply your imagination to it? Though I would’ve liked to see him Read more

Friend and frequent blog contributor Mike Eldred had actually started a little family album excavating of his own before my recent request for car-related family album photos, and actually in part inspired the request, so his findings so far are worth a post of their own. We’ll start with the Read more

Reader DougD told me recently he’s just about ready for more Crosley content on the blog. He’s lucky, then, that I’m still going through my photos from Hershey, where I grabbed some shots of this delightful little Bandini in the D&D Classic booth in the Chocolate Field. Roger James at Read more