Jay with Shotwell. Nothing against the other 2020 Automotive Hall of Fame inductees – Helene Rother certainly deserves a place there, as do Mong-Koo Chung and Thomas Gallagher – but none of them got ...
The first of 19 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato Continuations. Aston Martin’s Heritage Division headquarters in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, UK, has produced the first of 19 DB4 GT Zagato Continuatio...
A 1926 Duesenberg Model A chassis. Photo courtesy of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum of Auburn, Indiana, recently received a large and very ...
Janet Guthrie at Indianapolis in 1976. Photo courtesy IMS. Founded in 1939, the Automotive Hall of Fame — today located in Dearborn, Michigan — is dedicated to honoring those who have made a signific...
Photos courtesy public domain (left), and Bertel Schmitt (right). While his cousin and son got in before he did, Toyota Motor Company founder Kiichiro Toyoda will this year take his place alongside t...
Photos courtesy Automotive Hall of Fame archives. The man behind some of the most noteworthy successes in a wide variety of segments of the auto industry will, for the first time, get an exhibit dedi...
Image courtesy Fruehauf Trailer Historical Society. The man who lent his name to the General Motors of the trailer industry will also take a place among the automobile industry’s pioneers later this ...
Photo by the author. Though the collector car hobby – and Hemmings, by extension – focuses almost exclusively on older motor vehicles, that doesn’t mean it is or we are bereft of news to report. In f...
Photo by Shawn Wilson. Of all the cities in the world important to automotive history – Turin, Stuttgart, Indianapolis, Coventry, Yokohama – the Automotive Hall of Fame currently resides in Dearborn,...
Photo via Roy Lunn Archives, Car Guy Chronicles. To different groups of car enthusiasts, Roy Lunn represents vastly different accomplishments. There are Ford’s GT40 wins at Le Mans, for which he’s pe...
Harley Earl with Firebirds I, II, and III. Photo courtesy GM. With almost 270 men and women among its ranks, the Automotive Hall of Fame has already recognized some of the automotive industries most ...
Photo courtesy Nader.org. He may never have owned or driven a car, but Ralph Nader has had an undisputed influence on the development of the automobile over the last 50 years, and it’s for that influ...