Desert racing – the Baja 1000, particularly – has its own unique challenges and obstacles, but to Saab in the late Sixties, it stood to reason that if its cars and its drivers could hold up under the...
Automotive American this week covered the Vintage Hot Rod Association’s Pendine Sands races, one of the U.K.’s largest celebrations of hot rods and American car culture. Tech inspection began on Frid...
Dekon Chevrolet Monza, an IMSA GT veteran, leads a Porsche 935 through the Corkscrew (turn 8A here) at WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway during the 2018 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. All photos b...
The Ford Mustang Shelby GT500’s 5.2 Liter Supercharged V-8. Photo courtesy of Ford. With 760 horsepower and 625 lb. ft. of torque, the 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500 will be the most powerful street-legal...
Husband and wife team Pat (driving) and Pat (navigating) Brothers. Photo by author. As we mentioned in our last driving post, Great Race teams spend some time between races practicing and fine-tuning...
This week, we’re bringing you a great video that’s probably best just listened to while you’re googling vintage drag racing photos. The one and only Dave Wallace, Jr. – the hardest-working man in dra...
This Hudson Hornet is a fan favorite. Photos by author. For those not familiar with time, speed, and distance racing, the objective of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race is not to get to the finish l...
Roy Clark’s 1963 Pontiac Bonneville Safari Station Wagon. Photo courtesy of Leake Auctions. Known for his show Hee Haw and hits like Yesterday When I was Young , the late Roy Clark also collected car...
While the narration and production quality of this video detailing the development and racing victories of the Audi Quattro through WRC, SCCA Trans Am, and IMSA GTO are pure 1990, the interviews with...
Better late than never, as they say. One of our favorite motorsports photographers, Peter Aylward, has made good on his promise to treat us to the imagery of the Goodwood Festival of Speed. For those...
Photos courtesy Silverstone Auctions. In December of 1986, as the Olympus Rally wound its way through the Pacific Northwest and as the tightly wound Group B racers ran their last under World Rally Ch...
Richard Petty’s 1970 Plymouth Superbird (L) and 1971 Plymouth Road Runner. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Rule changes in NASCAR rendered Richard Petty’s 1970 Plymouth Superbird obsolete after a sin...
Date: 1967 Location: West Salem, Ohio Source: via Dave Wiechec What do you see here?
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 courtesy the owner. For the short period of time that the Fageol Supersonic existed as the Fageol Supersonic, it wowed the world. All ray gun spaceship cool and unlike anything else on the road...
Photo courtesy of the Early Ford V-8 Museum. Craig Floyd and Ron Stauffer of the Early Ford V-8 Museum in Auburn, Indiana, are entering the Sugar Valley Rally for the second year in a row. The duo wa...
Rapid Response, a new movie that tells the story of the deadliest era in racing, not only highlights the ruthlessness of the sport, but the people and technology who turned it into one of the safest ...
A tubbed 10-second Camaro in mid-pass. Photos by author and by Jake McBride. If you live in the Northeast (or have relatives here), you know this to be true: Last winter was a never-ending grind of b...
Rick Adams explains the Simeone’s 1907 Renault 35/45 Vanderbilt Cup race car to the summer camp students. Photos courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. This June through August, the Simeone F...
While the story of Andy Granatelli’s STP turbine car entry at the 1967 Indianapolis 500 should be familiar territory for readers of the Hemmings Daily, nothing beats actually hearing the whoosh of th...
Race-ready 1967 Bobsy SR4 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: constructed by Jerry Mong of Medina, Ohio in the 1960’s. He built two SR4’s, this is the only one still racing. The ...
To get the Cummins Indy cars ready for their exhibition laps around the Brickyard this weekend, the Cummins folks had to replace some unobtanium parts via 3-D printing. Over the years, some parts on ...
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...
The 1984 Winston 500 at Talladega. Photo by Racing Photo Archives/Getty Images, courtesy NASCAR. According to the Associated Press, NASCAR announced a $2 billion merger agreement with International S...
As-raced 1947 Ford coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1947 Ford Coupe was built and raced by a club called the Gu Hun’s of the San Fernando Valley and raced from 1957...