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This week, we’re all fixated on AMC muscle. They’re some of the most oft-overlooked cars of those glorious early muscle years, and we wholly dig it. And, so did land-speed racer Craig Breedlove, appa...
This week, we’re all fixated on AMC muscle. They’re some of the most oft-overlooked cars of those glorious early muscle years, and we wholly dig it. And, so did land-speed racer Craig Breedlove, appa...
Photos courtesy of Southwest Valuations and Classic Car Auction Group. No need to remind any of you that we’re well into 2019 – and that dragsters of the Golden Era of drag racing (let’s call it 1963...
1992 Williams-Renault FW14B/08. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1991, its debut season, the Williams-Renault FW14 won seven of 16 races on the Formula 1 calendar, but mishaps and mechanical issu...
Photos via Ten-X Commercial. Somehow, despite the constant churn of Florida real estate, the decades-long dilapidation, and the drug-use problem that plagued the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Fl...
To support women in automotive fields, McPherson College senior Abigayle Morgan has started a scholarship named in honor of Denise McCluggage. I have proposed to create and grow a scholarship campaig...
The 1998 Nissan R390 GT1 road car. Photo courtesy Nissan Motor Corporation. To race in the GT1 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Nissan had to build one road-going version of its R390 GT1 racing car....
By the time you read this, our own Quain Stott and his epic Southeast Gassers Association will have made their prime-time cable debut on Discovery’s “Moonshiners.” Full disclosure: since we write the...
This Winfield intake, Cyclone adapter (to install a Stromberg), and RayDay cylinder head were removed from a Model A in 1956. Images courtesy Evan Bailly and as noted. We are suckers for vintage spee...
Original-owner 1991 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I am the original owner of this rare 1LE Z28 Factory race car. 1 of 34 built in 1991 primarily for SC...
Bruce Meyer in his 1957 Ferrari 625/250 Testarossa. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Bruce Meyer, a founding father of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, is the car...
Louis Meyer (left), the front page of the World-Independent (center), and Will Overhead (right). Consult any compendium of race results and you’ll find that Louis Meyer, then 28, won the Indianapolis...
1968 Brabham BT26, chassis BT26A-3, in its 1969 Canadian Grand Prix colors. Photos by P. Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams.com. In 1966-’67, Repco-powered Brabhams won the F1 constructor’s championship and...
Photo by Jay Reed. Just before the end of World War II, vets started coming home en masse with visions of importing and driving the zippy little roadsters they saw overseas. A group of well-off men i...
This week, we’re donning the leather-elbowed cardigan, sitting down by the fireplace, lighting a pipe and getting all existential about…NASCAR. That’s right: we’re gonna go deep on the topic of “What...
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,...
Tom McEwen’s 1968-’69 Top Fuel slingshot dragster. Photos by Dan Duckworth, courtesy Mecum Auctions. By the mid-1960s, Tom McEwen had earned a reputation as a winning drag racer (and the nickname “Th...
After this week’s story on the Boyle Racing Team, we’re still in Indy mode, so let’s watch a race. While Terry Shea detailed the story of the turbine cars at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 last May, those...
After this week’s story on the Boyle Racing Team, we’re still in Indy mode, so let’s watch a race. While Terry Shea detailed the story of the turbine cars at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 last May, those...
Starting in the late Sixties, Seattle City Light began an electric vehicle program to try to get the city and the city’s residents to switch from their internal combustion vehicles. According to Seat...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To many, land-speed racing is an open-ended license to innovate and push the bounds in the pursuit of speed. Bill Burke took that freedom to heart over a multi-decade ...
This week, we bring you a snapshot crammed so full of juicy little blurry details that we can barely stand it. It’s obviously set in California, but we can’t place it, exactly. Year? Guessing by the ...
Images courtesy Boyle Racing Headquarters Foundation. At this point, nothing but four walls and a concrete floor remains of the Boyle Racing Team’s headquarters in a run-down neighborhood just northw...
Aerial view showing the existing property and new parcel purchased. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. Today, the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky, occupies...
Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Dale Jarrett in 2000. Photo credit MSI / Brian Czobat, courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Each year, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame sends a ballot to its nearly 150 ...
The Corvette Hall of Fame. All images courtesy the National Corvette Museum. The Corvette Hall of Fame, located at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, exists to recognize those w...