Jeff Gordon celebrates a win at Kansas Speedway in May 2014. Photo by HHP/Harold Hinson for Chevrolet. What do “Lil’ John” Buttera, Carl G. Fisher, Jeff Gordon, Howard Hughes, “Flyin’ Fred” Merkel, U...
Video and photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Advertisement images courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Ford’s new-for-1969 response to the budget-muscle Plymouth Road Runner w...
Jerry Sneva at Indy, 1977. Photos courtesy IMS. Born into a racing family, Jerry Sneva climbed the ladder from Spokane, Washington’s dirt tracks all the way to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In 197...
1905 Packard Model N Runabout (top; image by author); 1910 Elmore Model 36 Demi-tonneau (bottom; image by Terry Shea). Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but...
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Challenger II in 2016. Photo by Holly Martin, courtesy Thompson LSR. In 1968, Mickey Thompson debuted his Autolite Special streamliner, built to set a wheel-driven land speed record at Bonneville. It...
Photo by author. Within walking distance of my home is this sign, which, along with others at several exits along I-95 between the Delaware River and Route 1 approaching Princeton in New Jersey, conf...
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1951 Vincent Black Lightning. Photoraphs courtesy Bonhams. Although the Jack Ehret-raced 1951 Vincent is not the most expensive motorcycle ever sold, it is the most expensive motorcycle ever bought a...
My T coupe and all its influences. When I look at this collection of cars that I’ve loved for the entirety of my own consciousness, I pause and just marvel at what this purely American phenomenon has...
Photos courtesy Mossgreen. The Australian auction house that last year aimed to set a record for the most expensive car sold in Australia – and prior to that, claimed the record for the most expensiv...
Millers at Milwaukee. Photo by Jim Donnelly. The definition of a sports car typically centers on little European roadsters built in the middle few decades of the Twentieth Century. It typically leave...
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Photo by Tambako the Jaguar. For years, I had heard about Corvette owners’ efforts to “Save the Wave.” The particularly fervent, lifestyley Corvette owners who wrote the magazine to compliment or caj...
Teaser of the 1962 Corvette, pre-restoration. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. And then, there was one. Nearly four years after a sinkhole under the Skydome at the National Corvette Museum i...
1970 Chevrolet Camaro (top); 1971 Pontiac Firebird (bottom). Images by the author. This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us, in an idyllic wo...
Photo by Joe Clark for EPA’s Documerica, via Library of Congress. Springwells was aptly named. Situated along the Rogue River just southwest of Detroit’s city limits, the farming community operated a...
All images courtesy of McLaren Automotive Inc. North America. The McLaren F1 is the superlative of supercars, a much-admired design that no one has dared truly imitate. Extremely lightweight, constru...
Changing Gears: The Development of the Automotive Transmission by Philip G. Gott The automatic transmission is the most complex automobile component ever created. Although I understand the foundation...
As 1965 Corvettes go, the Le Mans Blue coupe that crossed Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale stage as lot 1413 isn’t particularly quick, and it certainly won’t post impressive handling numbers. In fact, it...
Image via IMCDB. Yeah, the scripts were repetitive, the violence cartoonish, and the continuity near-nonexistent. So what, we children of the Eighties tuned into The A-Team every week for one thing o...
The Iso Grifo A3/L prototype hammers at $1.6 million to set an auction record. Photos by Mike Maez unless otherwise noted; all photos copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. The Iso Grifo, like ...
Photo by Thomas A. DeMauro Have you ever lost something, bought a replacement, and then found the thing you lost soon thereafter? I can’t count how many times I’ve done that with car parts and suppli...
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1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Based upon the racing car of a similar name, the production Mercedes-Benz 300 SL debuted as a gullwing-door coupe in 1954. Three years lat...