Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars. “I designed the Volvo P1800, Roger Moore made it famous.” Pelle Petterson, son of Volvo executive Helmer Petterson, had only recently finished his educati...
John Miles at the Nuerburgring in 1970. Photo by Raimund Kommer. By the time John Miles began driving Formula 1 cars for Gold Leaf Team Lotus, the engineer-turned-racer had already proven his talent ...
This week, The Women of Trucking blog took a look back at the pioneers who fought their way into the male-dominated industry, going as far back as Luella Bates (pictured above) and Lillie Elizabeth M...
Roy Fjastad. Image via Facebook. From the drag strip, to the salt flats, to the street, there was very little in hot rodding that Roy Fjastad didn’t touch in the course of his career. Fjastad, who di...
Joe and his 1960 Triumph TR3A were a regular sight at Hemmings Cruise-In events. A close friend of the staff here at Hemmings Motor News died last weekend at age 79. Joe Bena was a regular attendee o...
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...
More than a few years ago, we visited with some fine car folks in Istanbul during one of the Hemmings cruises. Now we learn that some of those same folks have organized the first Istanbul internation...
Dan Gurney (R) with A.J. Foyt at Le Mans in 1967. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. If Dan Gurney wasn’t the greatest American racing driver of all time, he was certainly in the running for the hono...
Of the ways to build an all-wheel-drive mid-engine street machine, the folks behind this GTO took a rather unusual approach with a custom transmission and transfer case ahead of the engine. Engine Sw...
Bob Glidden. Photo by Autostock, courtesy Ford Motor Company. As poet, singer, and lizard king Jim Morrison once observed, “no one here gets out alive,” a statement addressing the end we all must fac...
Bob Glidden is inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in April, 2005. Photo by Autostock, courtesy Ford Motor Company. When Bob Glidden was inducted as number four on the NHRA’s Top...
Bruce Brown. Photo courtesy AMA Hall of Fame. For many motorcycle enthusiasts, the 1971 film On Any Sunday was a seminal movie that began for some, invigorated for many others, their favorite pastime...
Bud Moore at the Motor Trend 500, 1967. Images courtesy Ford Motorsports. Legendary crew chief, team owner, and 2011 inductee into the NASCAR Hall of Fame Walter Maynard “Bud” Moore Jr. has died. Moo...
The Gentleman Racer this week pulled together a bunch of photos telling the story of an American road trip circa 1954 from the collection of road tripper Jack Canary. * An Indonesian sculptor, Ichwan...
Photos by the author. In 1999, no American Motors products had entered judging at the Mopar Nationals, let alone completed for top honors. DeWayne Ashmead, however, didn’t let a thing like precedent ...
Joe Oldham in 2013. Photo by Jeff Koch. Editor’s note: Author, Hemmings Muscle Machines columnist, and muscle-car authority Joe Oldham died at his Palm Springs home last Thursday. This tribute comes ...
Gas Ronda. Photo by Greg Sharp. Even as a child, long before the sport of drag racing entered his life, Gaspar Ronda went by the nickname “Gas.” One of Ford’s factory Thunderbolt racers and an early ...
Rolla Vollstedt, in yellow cap, with Jim Clark’s 1967 Rex Mays 300 car. Photo courtesy Michael McKinney. If a career spent designing and building racing cars and serving as a team owner is measured s...
Steve McDonald speaks at a SEMA Town Hall meeting. Photo courtesy SEMA. Steve McDonald’s name may not be familiar to everyone in the old car hobby, but his battles against overbearing governmental re...
Robert Yates in 2010. Photo by Ted Van Pelt. Legendary engine builder and successful NASCAR team owner Robert Yates passed away on Monday, October 2, succumbing to liver cancer first diagnosed in 201...
Photo from the Hemmings archives. Lay down a coat of gold first, then red atop that, then follow that with a clear coat with some red mixed into it and you get deep, delicious glowing paint known the...
Photo by Jeff Koch. “Nobody but nobody will ever put a cartoon bird on one of my cars.” The threat from Dick Macadam was real enough that he poked an executive vice president of Chrysler in the chest...
Lonnie James Isam, Jr. Photo courtesy Felicia Morgan. Lonnie James Isam, Jr., best known for being the motivating force behind, and the organizer of, the Motorcycle Cannonball semi-annual cross-count...
Roy Lunn, at a December 2015 Sarasota Cafe Racers lunch. Photo by Gary Jean. Roy Lunn, the “Godfather of the Ford GT40,” passed away on August 5th, 2017 after suffering a catastrophic stroke at the a...
Kuhni’s artwork for the original Hot Wheels line. Photo from author’s collection. You may not know Otto Kuhni’s name … but if you were a kid in the late ’60s, you knew his work. He started working fo...