Hemmings Auto Blog

Reader jimfathome recently posted a photo of his father with an unidentified car on the Hemmings Forum and was hoping we could help him pin down the year, make and model of the car. Responses on the forum have included 1938 DeSoto and 1937 GM something. The former seems closer Read more…

While at the Import Carlisle show earlier this month, Dan Meade, who’s a graphic/web designer by day, took a bunch of photographs with cameras from his collection of plastic and toy cameras. He agreed to let us share some of them with you. Here’s what he told us about his Read more…

Yeah, the ‘70 RR from Rough Cut is just a wee bit less famous than, say The Bandit. In fact, while I remember that there were a bunch of cars involved, I don’t remember a Plymouth at all. It has been a while since I last saw it on the Read more…

Yeah, I’ve been busting on Congress hard lately for their various attempts to pass a cash for clunkers program, and I will continue to do so either until it’s defeated or I expire. But a few representatives and senators do seem to understand and appreciate what the owners of classic Read more…

Subscriber Tom Foster writes in asking for a little help with an old speedometer he had lying around. Tom writes: I was wondering if you could i.d. this instrument cluster. I’m an old hot rodder from the 50’s and never used it. It’s been setting around gathering dust for about Read more…

According to Time magazine, 50 years ago, 44-year-old Woody Bell drove a Rambler American Deluxe to a 25.2878 miles per gallon victory in the 1959 Mobilgas Economy Run. The marathon mileage competition was run over five days and 1,898 miles from Los Angeles California to Kansas City, Missouri. Sure, it Read more…

I think we finally figured out how to post YouTube videos here. I know, it only took us forever and a day, but hey, we get paid for producing high-quality magazines, not for tinkering under the hood of this here blog. Anyway, to celebrate, I dug up a pair of Read more…

For crying out loud, don’t ask me how I missed this. I have family roots in Pennsylvania, went to school there, lived there and love the snacks it produces, most of all the baked variety. So imagine my shock to get a mailing from Robert Johnson of Ocala, Florida, telling Read more…

In today’s Hemmings e-Weekly Newsletter, you’ll read about the recently started effort by Geoff Hacker to re-create Bill Burke’s very first bellytank dry lakes racer, a front-engined junkyard-sourced P-51-bodied vehicle worth 131.96 MPH in 1946 (sitting on a bicycle seat welded to the torque tube, no less!). Bill would go Read more…

If you caught my last post about real deals under 5K, some of you may easily recall the black 1979 Chevy Malibu parked right next to a white 1978 Pontiac Grand Le Mans. Both were coupes, and at the time, I promised more specific details of both. We’ll start alphabetically, Read more…