Motorcycle Cannonball 2018, day five update
Photograph courtesy Michael Lichter. Day five of Motorcycle Cannonball 2018 has been completed and the race has now officially covered 940 miles. Stage five spent the day in the Midwest, traveling fr...
Photograph courtesy Michael Lichter. Day five of Motorcycle Cannonball 2018 has been completed and the race has now officially covered 940 miles. Stage five spent the day in the Midwest, traveling fr...
Hemmings Musclepalooza XVIII, Lebanon Valley Dragway. Photography by the author. Hemmings Musclepaloozas are a great venue to see hundreds of beautifully restored muscle cars and our Best-in-Show awa...
Photo courtesy Reynolds-Alberta Museum Managing Editor Dan Beaudry keeps the above photo hung in his cubicle. It helped to inspire his Model A speedster build. It’s a 1926 or ’27 Ford Model T with al...
Dr. Don Panoz in October 2017. Photo by Osajus. Dr. Don Panoz, best known as the one-time owner of the International Motor Sports Association, the founder of the American Le Mans Series and the drivi...
Cannonball riders prove their road smarts by parking as close as possible to what are affectionately known as the “cleanest rest rooms in Vermont.” Photos by Kurt Ernst. Since 2010, the biennial Moto...
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...
Roger Penske. Photo by Jim Donnelly. Roger Penske has enjoyed success as a racing driver and a team owner in multiple series for over five decades. Currently, his Penske Racing organization has 498 v...
Believe it or not, the only thing we’re a little sad over, when we think about muscle cars and the Seventies is not the Mustang II, nor the ’78 Dodge Challenger Colt Mitsubishi, nor even the Berlinet...
Our days get busy, right? And sometimes, at the end of a long one, it’s nice to get a little… let’s say… zen. For some folks, it’s one of those little Japanese desktop sand trays with a wee rake and ...
Musclepalooza XXVIII, early morning. Photos by author. Sometimes it all comes together. Sunday’s near-perfect weather delivered a crowded show field and more than 200 race cars for Musclepalooza XXVI...
The 1964 Lang-Cooper II Super King Cobra. Photos courtesy Bonhams. When Carroll Shelby realized there was prize money for the taking in a USAC-sanctioned West Coast “Fall Series,” he contacted John C...
The 1965 Lang-Cooper II Super King Cobra. Photos courtesy Bonhams. When Carroll Shelby realized there was prize money for the taking in a USAC-sanctioned West Coast “Fall Series,” he contacted John C...
All images Terry Shea and Matt Litwin. Earlier this week Senior Editor Matt Litwin and I returned from a week-long adventure to the West Coast. While most of the rest of the country remained in a sup...
Photos courtesy Geoff Hacker. For nearly 50 years, the curious Cheetah Transporter has remained in a state of flux, unfinished amid a transition to a long-wheelbase disc-brake version designed to mak...
Lots of sweat, a little bit of blood, and buckets of tears went into the new look of Hemmings Muscle Machines. Click on the image for a video of the photo shoot. Hemmings Muscle Machines is starting ...
1948 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione Berlinetta. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Following its 1947 Mille Miglia victory, Alfa Romeo understood its aging 8C 2900 B Berlinetta would soon be outpaced...
TheDieselDartGuy showed up on the AACA forums recently to show off the Nissan six-cylinder diesel-powered 1974 Dart he bought new, one of a handful converted shortly after they left the factory to de...
Photos courtesy Lime Rock Park, unless otherwise noted. Opened in Lakeville, Connecticut, in 1957, Lime Rock Park has played host to driving greats, unforgettable races, and memorable moments too num...
Photos courtesy Lloyds Auctioneers. What a Ford can do, a Holden can do better? Now that the first Australian car has broken the seven-figure ceiling, a collection of racer Peter Brock’s Holdens has ...
Had muscle cars continued uninterrupted throughout the Seventies, we would have seen all sorts of interesting progressions of Sixties tech, including the ball-stud Hemi, which Mac’s Motor City Garage...
Shelby in ’66. Painting by Wallace A. Wyss. There have been Hollywood films about automakers, say Preston Tucker. And there have been Hollywood films about race-car builders. It is now confirmed that...
All images courtesy of the Shelby American Collection Located in Boulder, Colorado, perhaps America’s greatest college town, the Shelby American Collection will be holding its annual car show and par...
Photo courtesy Brock Racing Enterprises. Once the youngest designer in GM’s history, Peter Brock left Detroit at age 21, bound for California and, he envisioned, a career racing cars. There, he lande...
Photography by Troy Ziel, John H. Sheally, Bob Dunmore, and Patrick Brinton; courtesy of Tcherek Kamstra and Morgan Cars USA. Editor’s note: We’re pleased to be able to share the story of “Dolly,” th...
Photos courtesy John Peterson, National Automobile Museum. John W. Mackay, unlike many of his ultra-rich contemporaries, wasn’t enamored with the automobile. Then again, not a lot of people were in t...