NASCAR Hall of Fame names its 2019 class
NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo courtesy NASCARHall.com. Each year, a voting panel of NASCAR representatives, NASCAR Hall of Famers, track owners, media, manufacturer’s repres...
NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo courtesy NASCARHall.com. Each year, a voting panel of NASCAR representatives, NASCAR Hall of Famers, track owners, media, manufacturer’s repres...
Ted Sutton (L) and Jim Marietta pose with the OVC Shelby G.T. 350 C/M. Photos courtesy OVC Mustangs unless otherwise noted. Introduced years apart and competing in different classes, it isn’t likely ...
The “Best Return Road Burnout” award goes to David Bouvier and his 1968 Chevelle SS 396, our favorite Chevrolet. Photos by Hemmings staff. Since it stopped snowing in the Northeast, rain has dampened...
Many people will point to the Eighties as the glory years for rallying with the advent of four-wheel drive and Group B homologation specials. However, as we saw last weekend, Seventies rallying was n...
Photo by Greg Gjerdingen. The townspeople hear them coming and know they only have so much time to prepare for another horde of two-wheeled travelers clogging the streets with their bikes heavily dec...
Joe Leonard leads Johnny Rutherford in the 1968 Indianapolis 500. All images courtesy of and copyright IMS. Some parent one day once said, “If at first you don’t succeed, then try, try again.” Andy G...
The Simeone’s 1913 Mercer Raceabout. Photos by Andrew Taylor, courtesy Simeone Museum, unless otherwise noted. In 1911, the two-year-old Indianapolis Motor Speedway held its first “International Swee...
The Classic Car Club of America Museum reported earlier this month that the restoration of Margaret Dunning ‘s 1930 Packard 740 Custom roadster is now complete. * Kaiser’s Henry J, as Mac’s Motor Cit...
Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. The National Corvette Museum (NCM) and the associated NCM Motorsports Park, both in Bowling Green, Kentucky, have seen their share of adversity in recent yea...
Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. The National Corvette Museum (NCM) and the associated NCM Motorsports Park, both in Bowling Green, Kentucky, have seen their share of adversity in recent yea...
We’re only linking to this Detroit Free Press article about a Pinto at the bottom of Lake Michigan for the “mussel car” pun. * Anybody interested about the general history of bookmobiles after readin...
Raced in-period 1958 Lotus Seven , powered by a Coventry Climax 1.2-liter engine, for sale. From the seller’s description: This Lotus Seven was Factory Assembled and one of the first 4 Imported to th...
Jim France. Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center. In 1948, William H.G. “Big Bill” France founded the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), both to grow the sp...
John Morton on track in a 1970 Datsun 240Z built to include surviving parts from the original BRE race car. Photos by Dr. Chris Brewer. The sun was setting, providing a soft warm glow over the Road A...
1984 Toleman-Hart TG184. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1984, Ayrton Senna was an F1 rookie, driving for the under-funded Toleman team. In the season’s first five races, Senna had completed jus...
1952 Kurtis Kraft 4000 Indy Car, chassis 345. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In five starts at the Indianapolis 500, racer Ed Elisian never finished higher than 18th. It was his second Indy 500, in ...
Photo courtesy Indiana Racing Memorial Association. While Indy 500 and local historians have a good idea in which grave Arthur Chevrolet likely now lies — and know for sure in which grave he doesn’t ...
Bobby Labonte. Photos courtesy NASCAR.com. Bobby Labonte, the 2000 Monster Energy Series Champion, has revealed that he will pursue another series championship in 2018, only this one will take place ...
Photo by The359. The Jim Clark color scheme might not be accurate, but the Lotus 29 in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum’s collection does carry significant history, which is why museum official...
If, when thinking about V-8s, your mind turns to rumbly American machines, John Simister over on Goodwood’s blog would like you to consider the many V-8s built by British, French, German, Italian, an...
Photos via Alan Mann Racing. “Leisurely was not a word in Bosse’s vocabulary,” George Merwin once said of Swedish rally driver Bosse “Bo” Ljungfeldt. Driving an Alan Mann-prepared Ford Mustang in the...
A track-driven 2004 Chevrolet Corvette Indy Pace Car, one of three 2004 models in the collection. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The Chevrolet Corvette has paced the Indianapolis 500 a total of 14 t...
Reutter seat production for Porsche, 1961. All images courtesy Recaro. The history of Recaro seats starts in 1963 in the German automotive “capital” Stuttgart in very close range to the iconic brands...
Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. What went behind the decision to downsize pretty much every American automobile in the late 1970s and early 1980s? A May 1980 New Yorker article that Curbside Classic ...
Triumph TR4 at the 2015 Manx Classic Rally. Photo by Jack_IOM. For decades, hosting a motorsport event on public roads in mainland Great Britain required — quite literally — an act of Parliament. Cha...