Hemmings Auto Blog

* You’re all no doubt familiar with Geoff Hacker, who’s fed me many cool pictures to use in HCC Lost and Found and here on the blog, and now Geoff has started his own website, ForgottenFiberglass.com, to share his love of all the weird and wonderful homebuilt and limited-built cars Read more…

Going through the notebooks and jpeg files of a busy 2009, we happened on this well-cooked leftover from the springtime Tom Mack Classics auction at Lowe’s Motor Speedway (which, by the way, is moving to a new indoor location at the Metrolina Expo for 2010). This was a 1980 Lincoln Read more…

If we needed any proof that old cars are in our blood, we sure have it now. When we put out the call for your family album photos with old cars in ‘em the other day, we got plenty of responses and some great stories. The first one to come Read more…

Of all the things to do to a Crosley, this might be one of the coolest. Or craziest, we’re not sure. From the December 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated comes this article about Wyomingite Melvin Gould and the Crosley/Ford eight-wheeler he built to go hunting with. By the way, Happy Read more…

The barn finds continue to come in on Hemmings.com, this time it’s a 1940 Ford convertible – once hot rodded with a dual-carb intake and aftermarket heads (Fenton? I can’t tell). Offered out of Newaygo, Michigan, for $5,000. From the seller’s description: 1940 Ford convertible; recently found where it had Read more…

Kenny Wayne Shepherd is a pretty good Blues musician and songwriter, in fact, Guitar World placed him number three on the list of their top blues guitarists, behind BB King and Eric Clapton. Not bad for a thirty-something kid who picked up his first guitar at eight, taught himself to play and released Read more…

Tell ya what: Instead of football football football tomorrow, why not pop in a copy of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the whole clan to watch while digesting all that turkey? It’s not only a great family film, but one of the stars is a car, one that’s likely to Read more…

Inspired by both McCourt’s baby photo in a Squareback (above) and BigLorryBlog’s recent request of photos of their reader’s first trucks, along with the impending holidays, we’re going to ask you loyal Hemmings Blog readers to share with us your best old car-related photos from the family album. We figure, Read more…

What’d I tell ya about the barn finds yesterday? Here’s another, a 1960 Austin-Healey BT7 being offered for $7,950 out of Osseo, Minnesota. From the seller’s description: 1960 Austin-Healey BT7 3000, barn find, stored for 35 years, good restoration project or use it for parts, solid car minimal rust, missing Read more…

Air-cooled Volkswagens are some of my first and fondest automotive associations, dating back to the 1971 Squareback in which I rode home from the hospital in 1974, and the stories I heard of the 1962 Sedan that was my mother’s first car. Vroom, vroom… The baby blue ‘62 So it was with gleeful Read more…