Hemmings Auto Blog

As Rollan Jerry wrote in the recent SIA Flashback article on coachbuilt trucks, many such vehicles were built in Canada for beer brewers because Canadian laws at the time banned them from advertising their products in print. Apparently that ban extended to spirits distillers as well, as evidenced by this Read more…

For the past two-and-a-half years, I’ve been working on a story on the Staver automobile. Little is known of either the company or the car, but I think I’ve succeeded in tracking down just about everything that can be tracked down at this point, and have started writing a story. Read more…

It seems like the tide of public opinion on cash for clunkers has turned heartily to the negative in recent days. That is, outside of vapid local TV news programs, which all seem to be running boilerplate stories that barely address the real effects of cash for clunkers. * First, Read more…

I know it seems unlikely to those who grew up in places where cars rust, or if you’re old enough to have looked askance at Japanese cars when they started rolling out on American soil in larger numbers, but there was a ToyotaFest this past Saturday. More than 350 Toyotas Read more…

In 1950, the automotive and racing monthly “Speed Age” presented achievement awards to people from motorsport who’d done notable things during the just-concluded season, in keeping with annual custom. The watches that the honorees were presented were made by Univeral Geneve, one of the first Swiss watchmakers to popularize the Read more…

There isn’t much information on the IRS auction site: “Under the authority in Internal Revenue Code section 6331, the property described below has been seized for nonpayment of internal revenue taxes due from Taxpayer. The property will be sold at public auction as provided by Internal Revenue Code section 6335 Read more…

Remember Miss Belvedere, the ‘57 Plymouth that the fine folks of Tulsa buried when it was new, then unearthed two years ago? Yes, it emerged rusty and crusty, but the effort to preserve the car is ongoing, and for our latest episode of Hemmings Classic Car Radio, David LaChance spoke Read more…

So through the Making of Modern Michigan photo archive, which we highlighted recently, we’ve since found another couple of photo archives: the Portage District Library’s and the much larger Wayne State University Walther Reuter Library’s Virtual Motor City Project, which contains the Detroit News’s photo archives from before the turn Read more…

News comes today that the Obama administration and the House have reached some sort of agreement or compromise on cash for clunkers, and the vague news reports make it seem like this compromise has somehow paved the way for this bill. If the compromise simply means removing the clauses that Read more…

See the giant hot-spot around the back of the car, where the sun is reflecting? Yowza! We’ve seen it a million times: car show photos shot at noon. Tired of your car-show shots looking lousy? It may not be your equipment. Here are 10 easy tips to making your car Read more…