Simeone Museum Tazio Nuvolari tribute Courtesy of the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum The board at the Simeone Museum has announced a demo day event this weekend that will be a tribute to “The F...
1967 Gerhardt Ford Indy Car. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Car owner Walter “Wally” Weir wanted a shot at running competitively in the Indianapolis 500, so for 1967 he purch...
Mario Andretti (standing) with his twin brother, Aldo. All photos courtesy World of Speed Collection. Even among those who don’t follow racing, and nearly two decades after his retirement from the sp...
1957 Kurtis Kraft 500G Indy roadster. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers unless otherwise noted. By the mid-1950s, Smokey Yunick’s skill as a mechanic and crew chief was well-established in NASCAR...
1935 Miller Ford V-8 Indy Car. Photos by Maggie Pinke, courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1935, genius race car constructor Harry Miller entered into a deal with Preston Tucker and the Ford Motor Company to...
By William Hall. Photos by the author. More than 20 years ago, car collector David V. Uihlein Sr. and a couple of friends rented the Milwaukee Mile at the Wisconsin State Fair Park to exercise their ...
Offloading the Corvette SS at the National Corvette Museum. Photo courtesy the National Corvette Museum. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is roughly 230 miles from the National Corvette Museum in Bowl...
The Riverside Museum. Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy RM Sothebys. Want to run in the Indianapolis 500? Assuming one has a suitable Dallara DW12 chassis, appropriate aero kit, driver, crew and spec...
Mario Andretti’s 1965 Brawner Hawk, recently restored by Ray Evernham, will be in the field. Photos courtesy IMS. Sure, the big news is the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, so much so that some...
The VW Type 2 in the photo above is apparently a one-family, low-mileage example that also happens to be one of the oldest right-hand drive Volkswagens ever. And as bad as it looks in the photo, it t...