How could we not want to look at something Holden-related this week, given the recent news that General Motors plans to phase out the brand in 2021. Many will argue that Holden really died when local...
Press On Regardless handout photo. Image via Randy Graves. Often described as “America’s Longest, Richest, Oldest, Meanest Car Rally,” the SCCA Detroit Region’s Press On Regardless rally, conducted e...
When we talk about the “glory days” of drag racing, we’re not talking about the cars, alone. Sure, the cars are at the center of our affections, but there was also the dragstrip exhibition scene. Y’k...
From left: Malcolm Durham, Leonard W. Miller, Wendell Scott, and Ronald Hines at a meeting of the Black American Racers Association. Image via Silent Thunder. With the release of the Adam Carolla-dir...
Cell phone service had gone from spotty to non-existent several miles back up the dirt road. Despite the Lemons Rally route book’s assurances that the check point wasn’t far off, the deeper into the ...
As pointed out in this Datsun-sponsored period documentary of the BRE Datsun 510 effort in SCCA Trans-Am’s 2.5-liter class in 1971, the team had a significant uphill challenge ahead of them, coming i...
In October of 2018 my wife, Lynn and I entered our 1948 Hudson Commodore 6 in the inaugural running of the Great American Mountain Rally Revival (GAMRR). The “revival” is a resurrection of the origin...
Documented 1963 Dodge 330 lightweight for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The first factory lightweight (yes car #1) produced and one of only 34 factory lightweight 330-trim coup...
Photo: MP Collection If you’ve been following along for awhile, it won’t come as a surprise that we never miss a chance to share an old snapshot from what we believe to be the greatest era of motorsp...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News. From this once-boutique automaker’s earliest days up to today, Porsche has happily accommodated appeals to personalize its new vehicles...
Colin Seeley with one of his signature bikes. Photo credit: Bonhams. We lost a significant figure in both British motorcycle racing and innovative motorcycle design with the passing of Colin Seeley o...
We recently came across some of G. Gordon Davis’ renderings on Facebook and not long after landed hip-deep in an amazing collection of Chrysler, Corvette, and various other concept renderings from th...
Maybe it’s from spending a week at the Scottsdale Auctions and seeing every shade of muscle car just sitting all too pretty, but we’ve got a hankering to see what it was like when these were the main...
With a successful box office run and four Oscar nominations, Ford v Ferrari proved that movie audiences do like car flicks, even if the events of the film don’t precisely match Ford’s quest to domina...
Image via OldCarBrochures. Just as my desk is littered with the crumbs of too many cookies eaten in a horrifyingly violent manner, my memory is littered with the crumbs of the stories I’ve researched...
Who doesn’t love it when the product of ill-gotten gains are taken away in a public court? It’s best to avoid schadenfreude as a general rule, as there’s no virtue in taking delight in the misfortune...
Does anyone else out there in Hemmings Nation miss the old days of NASCAR when it was interchangeably known as just “Winston Cup?” As of late, we’ve been talking about those halcyon days when drivers...
The Seventies. Big hair, bell bottoms, platform shoes, disco, and proto-malaise. Not all of it was bad, though, and this video is here to remind you that drag racing in the Nixon era ruled, in the da...
Somehow we missed this engine at the 2019 SEMA Show, probably mistaking it for two V-8 placed very close together. A V-16, after all, is not something you see very often, and a brand new one is even ...
One of 69 annual drag race specials, it’s a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro COPO for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 2014 Camaro COPO #008, 1 of 18 black cars, documented 1 of 1 as optione...
You’ve probably heard it whispered about at any gathering of drag racing fiends born before 1965, but you’ve probably never seen one: the legendary Turbonique drag axle. The interwebs are full of old...
Image from the Turbonique catalog via the Iowahawk blog. This week, we thought it’d be a good idea to kick off the new year with an old, favorite topic: the Turbonique Drag Axle. If you’ve snooped ar...
Moonshiner, NASCAR driver and former team owner Junior Johnson passed away on December 20th at age 88. His health had been on the decline recently and he died peacefully while under hospice care. He ...
This 1997 documentary on the Paris-Dakar Rally up to that time might be a little rote, focusing largely on the individual winners for each class and the year-to-year changes to the rally (rather than...
Much as we love talking about the “good ‘ol days” of drag racing and performance, we’d be missing out on a whole new, glorious world if we didn’t invite the kids to the benchracing session. For every...