Long before the term “adaptive reuse” became widespread among developers and local governments looking to put tenants into empty buildings, automotive museums often filled spaces built for other purp...
How exactly did Watkins Glen make its way from the tiny upstate village to the massive racing complex outside of town? The International Motor Racing Research Center provided the whole story this wee...
Photos courtesy Firebird Raceway. Despite the relatively new grandstands and timing tower, not a whole lot has changed at Firebird Raceway in Idaho’s Treasure Valley since it was built in 1968. Sure,...
Image courtesy Google Street View. Though it has sat vacant for the last dozen or so years following a blockbuster $10 million sale, the former Ford factory on Pittsburgh’s Baum Boulevard, an anchor ...
Image courtesy Google Street View. For decades, the former Phoenix Motor Company building in downtown Phoenix presented a blank face to the world. Windows and doors boarded up and stuccoed-over, it s...
Photo by Russell Lee, courtesy Library of Congress. More than any other place in the country, Route 66 in its heyday posed a problem for black motorists. Sundown towns — towns that did not allow blac...
Photo courtesy National Park Service. Of the nearly 100,000 listings added to the National Register of Historic Places over the last 52 years, at least a few of them have to be motorsports tracks, ri...