Hemmings Auto Blog

Our skilled friend and featured Hemmings Classic Car Auto Artist Frank Schaeffer has been busy with a special project that was directly influenced by HMN blogmeister Dan Strohl’s article on a storied 1914 Mercer Raceabout in HCC, as well as Dan’s 17-part series of Mercer Maximus postings. We’ll let Frank tell the story. Back In 1967 or ‘68 [I Read more…

We recently happened upon some publicity photos issued by the Ford Motor Company that illustrate some of their design studies, as they’re termed commonly today, for the 1966 show car season. As you’ll see, they were lifted almost directly from 1966 production models, and in at least one case, if Read more…

Shut off the alarm clock, jump out of bed, clean up, inhale some breakfast, scramble to the car, and drive to the show field. Check. You’re still late…ish – nine in the morning – and there’s only four cars on the field. The overnight rain cleared out, it’s still overcast, Read more…

Over the weekend, I took in the Rumblers sixth annual Rumble in the Country down in Terryville, Connecticut, both because I needed to restock on hot rod profiles for Hemmings Motor News and because I’d always heard good things about the show, but never been. I did find a couple Read more…

Ralph Hamlin was a rather active fellow. He claimed to have owned the first motorcycle west of the Rockies, apparently started a bicycle shop, participated in many automobile races and even participated in the committee that organized the early Los Angeles Motor Shows. He also, starting in about 1905, became Read more…

Laconia Bike Week kicked off Sunday for its 86th year. Festivities began with the Vintage Motorcycle Races at New Hampshire Speedway on Sunday with hundreds of events scheduled for the entire week through Father’s Day, June 21st. Laconia Bike Week is one of the largest and oldest gatherings of motorcycle Read more…

From left: Vern Sion, Mel Keys, Volmer Jensen (owner of the Production Models Shop) You’d have to be a real Trekker to know that the original Enterprise (”No bloody A, B, C, or D!”) model, the 11-footer used for shots in the original series, emerged from the Production Models Shop Read more…

Add this to the many ways we already witnessed connections between Renault and Rambler/American Motors. Of course, the former bought the latter in the 1980s, and Rambler provided the bodies for the IKA venture between Kaiser and Renault in Argentina, and now, via the October 1964 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, Read more…

So the news came down last night that the House of Representatives passed Betty Sutton’s H.R.2640, the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act, which we know better as one of the several cash for clunkers bills making their way through Congress. Despite all the news about c4c getting attached Read more…

Good news, everybody! You’ve known for a while now that you can upload a video along with your online classified with Hemmings to help sell your car, but now you can also upload your videos of your cars just to show off in the Reader Videos section of My Hemmings. Read more…