Hemmings Auto Blog

Yesterday, we included the 1950 Mercury custom from Cobra in our list of lost and sometimes found Hollywood cars; today, in a bizarre coincidence, it’s in the news. The street rod (with “Awsom 50″ plate, as you may recall) was the personal property of car guy Stallone (he once owned Read more…

I just had to grab this photo on Saturday at the annual Lost Speedways seminar series hosted by the Saratoga Automobile Museum in nearby New York. The gentleman with the microphone is Russ Truelove, now 89 years old, one of the last surviving people who actually raced on the old Read more…

Or, at least, one of ‘em. TA pointed out this 1969 Dodge Charger, alleged to be an actual, Warner Brothers-used General Lee, currently for sale on Hemmings.com for $110,000. From the seller’s description: This is documented as one of the original Dodge Chargers bought by Warner Bros. in 1978 for Read more…

Not much changed at Hershey this year. The countless volunteers of the Hershey Region of the AACA – and their tireless hours of effort – have the week long event running pretty much like a Swiss watch (at least on the surface). But for those who got use to popping Read more…

We’ve never run a business, so take this with a grain of salt, but it’s probably not a good idea to advertise your tune-up shop by sticking a decrepit, barely identifiable car out front. Only those of us with an eye for decrepit oddball cars will really be the only Read more…

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which turned up here last week, was on a vast list of cars that developed after we posted updates on finding the Better off Dead Camaro, Risky Business Porsche and other iconic movie cars. Since then, we’ve both found some more and had suggestions for literally Read more…

It’s one thing to browse the Hemmings.com Cars For Sale listings and sigh over the lack of space in your garage to accommodate all the cars you want. But if you really want to drive yourself nuts, browse for a moment through the Real Estate section of Hemmings.com for some Read more…

For years, I’ve been hauling around car parts for my 1952 Buick from one house to another. Not just your everyday trim items and a few boxes of miscellaneous stuff – I’m talking tonnage. Complete doors, body panels, an entire rear end and torque tube assembly, spare engine parts, a Read more…

Reader and frequent commenter marmer, inspired by the Dinky 1957 Packard Clipper Town Sedan that Matt Litwin recently found, shot some photos of another dealer promo car, this one an incredibly detailed 1965 Rambler Classic 770. He writes: This was given to my parents by the Rambler dealer when they Read more…

Frank Kurtis is a perennial favorite here on the Hemmings Blog – we’ve gone looking for his shops in and around L.A., we’ve seen the car he designed that Paul Omohundro built, and we’ve seen his Tangiers car, the topic of a very recent SIA Flashback. Now we see an Read more…