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 ...
Moonshiner, NASCAR driver and former team owner Junior Johnson passed away on December 20th at age 88. His health had been on the decline recently and he died peacefully while under hospice care. He ...
Photo courtesy Indianapolis Star Newspaper Racing legend and safety innovator Bill Simpson passed away on Monday, a few days after suffering a stroke. He was 79 years old. As a driver, Simpson was in...
The AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame has announced 5 new inductees into the hall for 2019, honored in a ceremony for the Pickering, Ohio, museum on December 7th. Possibly the most recognized of these indu...
Images are courtesy of Mitsubishi Motors Media Services As an automaker, Mitsubishi has a relatively short history in the United States, but this diversified company has been active for nearly 150 ye...
Emerson Fittipaldi at Daytona, circa 1995. Photo by Bill Warner. He’s won a pair of Formula 1 world driving championships, the first, at age 25, marking him as the then-youngest champion in the histo...
Sir Alec Issigonis and his Mini at Longbridge, 1964; i mage courtesy of The British Sports Car Hall of Fame Established three years ago, the Petersburg, Virginia-based The British Sports Car Hall of ...
Courtesy of Bloomington Gold Bloomington Gold Charlotte is approaching next month and the two-day show is a must for Corvette enthusiasts. In addition to the over 500 Corvettes on display and the Blo...
Images are courtesy of Volkswagen and Audi Volkswagen Type 1 designer and founder of the eponymous sports car company, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche would have been very proud of the accomplishments of his g...
Steve Hingtgen, founder of Vintage Trailer Supply, has opened a new distribution center and showroom in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in response to a growing market. To celebrate the new center, Vintage Tra...
Photo via Stroppe Performance. The Edsel brand had just three short years on this earth, all of which were consumed by a fight to remain in existence, so understandably no Edsel Racing Team ever form...
Abigayle Morgan and Amanda Gutierrez pose with the McPherson College 1965 Porsche 356 C. Photo courtesy of the McPherson College Auto Restoration Facebook page. Amanda Gutierrez and Abigayle Morgan o...
Jacky Ickx drives the Lola T33 CS Can-Am at Watkins Glen in 1979. Photo by Bill Warner. The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) has an ambitious goal: To honor the greats from every form of r...
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 ...
Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, the NASCAR Hall of Fame honors the history and heritage of NASCAR, and each year a Voting Panel of the sport’s insiders selects five new inductees based upon the...
Photo via Bigfoot 4×4 on Facebook. Poster cars like the strake-laden Testarossa or the bewinged Countach might have defined the ambition of the 1980s, but the vehicle that epitomized that decade’s ex...
Photo via Team Vesco Racing. Typically, one enters a hall of fame after accomplishing their greatest feats, not before. Rick Vesco and his team, however, were more than happy to accept honors from th...
Dan Wheldon in 2011. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Each year, a panel of more than 140 journalists, racing historians, and participants in the sport vote to induct two new members into ...
Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Dale Jarrett in 2000. Photo credit MSI / Brian Czobat, courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Each year, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame sends a ballot to its nearly 150 ...
The Corvette Hall of Fame. All images courtesy the National Corvette Museum. The Corvette Hall of Fame, located at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, exists to recognize those w...
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 by the author; 1966 image of Mike Cook from Triumph Cars in America. We’ve just learned that our friend, current Jaguar Land Rover North America corporate archivist and former Hemmings Sports ...
1966 Toyota Corolla. Photo courtesy Toyota Motor Corporation. Three vehicles, and three men, have been celebrated for their contributions to the auto industry in Japan. They are the 2018 inductees to...
Roger Penske. Photo by Jim Donnelly. Roger Penske has enjoyed success as a racing driver and a team owner in multiple series for over five decades. Currently, his Penske Racing organization has 498 v...