From the seller’s description: 1953 Lincoln Capri 2 Door Coupe, This Capri was orignially owned by race car driver Duane Carter and used as his chase car for the 1953 Mexico Panamara Race. It was own...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The midget motorsports craze of the 1930s and 1940s not only served as a launchpad for many drivers who’d go on to successful racing careers, it also ended up keeping ...
The Hellephant-powered Dodge Challenger Hemi Under Glass concept. Image courtesy Mike Mantel. Mike Mantel has been the driver of the Hemi Under Glass wheelstander since Bob Riggle’s highly publicized...
If you’re here, we don’t have to convince you that the first-gen Funny Car era was one of the coolest, if not craziest, in drag racing history. Social media is chock-full of great old photos and some...
Carlo Abarth, posing with a selection of Abarth models. Images courtesy FCA. It’s fitting that a scorpion adorns the badge of European performance brand – and current FCA subsidiary – Abarth. Not onl...
The rebodied 1979 BMW M1 driven by Harald Ertl to an LPG-powered speed record. Images courtesy Coys. On October 17, 1981, racing driver and motoring journalist Harald Ertl piloted a specially prepare...
Mercedes-Benz C 111-II experimental vehicle on the test track at the Mercedes-Benz Untertürkheim plant. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz Classic. Officially, Mercedes-Benz remained retired from racing; ...
Read enough about Wendell Scott and you’ll inevitably see somebody compare him to Jackie Robinson. Both men did indeed break the color barriers in their respective sports, but they did so through ent...
On Ventura Boulevard there stands a commercial building shaped like a Cadillac Fleetwood. Back in the Eighties, the Los Angeles Times dug into the building’s history and its architect’s intentions. A...
Image courtesy Google Maps. It predates the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway and has seen nearly as many famed drivers kick dirt from under their tires. It has hosted both championship and exhibitio...
The 2019 Corvette Grand Sport, the Official Pace Car for the 2019 Indianapolis 500. Photo courtesy General Motors. Introduced in 1953, the Chevrolet Corvette was into its third-generation before bein...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In many ways, the story of the Jones-Benisek 1970 Buick GS is the story of the car(s) that it is not. It is not the Stage 1 car that its flanks and badging indicate. I...
While “Joseph J. Ossichak Jr.” is what heads his obituary, I’m not sure how many people actually knew him by that name. To much of the world, the now-iconic boss of the staging lanes at The Race of G...
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...
Photo courtesy Onondaga Dragway. A bittersweet farewell message greeted visitors to Onondaga Dragway’s website earlier this month, noting that “we don’t know where to go from here” after a six-year-r...
Unknown origin 1930s sprint car for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Pre-war race car. Unknown build. It is a real race car, that can be easily proven. Really done well if homemad...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Vauxhall had no racing infrastructure when it reentered racing in 1971. It didn’t intend its 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine to hold up under competition use. But these things...
Yes, Phil Hill became the first American to win the Formula One world championship driving for Ferrari in 1961. Yes, he had a spectacular racing career and became a world-class auto restorer followin...
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 ...
All photographs courtesy of Porsche AG. What some might call a loophole, others might call taking maximum advantage of the rulebook. For 1969, Group 4 sports car racing required cars with engines dis...
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...
Photos courtesy Cummins. As a 23-year-old test inspector for Marmon in 1911, Clessie Cummins jumped at the chance to crew for Ray Harroun’s Marmon Wasp at the inaugural Indianapolis 500, an experienc...
Shelby Cobras from the Steven Juliano Estate Collection. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Muscle car collector Steven Juliano, who died of cancer in September 2018, earned a reputat...
How did Australia come to give the world the ute? As Unique Cars pointed out this week, there’s two conflicting reports on the origins of the coupe utility, and naturally, both Ford and Holden vie fo...
An early Chattanooga Cruise-In, circa 2015. Photo by Tommy Lee Byrd. The Chattanooga Cruise-In began as an open house at Coker Tire’s downtown headquarters, but in recent years — thanks in part to th...