Photo by the author. Describing it as an emissions scandal on par with or worse than those plaguing European diesel car manufacturers, the Union of Concerned Scientists this month decried the RPM Act...
Gas Ronda. Photo by Greg Sharp. Even as a child, long before the sport of drag racing entered his life, Gaspar Ronda went by the nickname “Gas.” One of Ford’s factory Thunderbolt racers and an early ...
Rolla Vollstedt, in yellow cap, with Jim Clark’s 1967 Rex Mays 300 car. Photo courtesy Michael McKinney. If a career spent designing and building racing cars and serving as a team owner is measured s...
Images courtesy Vanderbilt Cup Races. A “mecca of motordom” is how one pundit put it. Nearly 900 acres of now prime Long Island real estate dedicated to racing automobiles at a time before many peopl...
piloti, che gente. . . by Enzo Ferrari. Photos by author. Well before he became the world’s most famous carmaker, Enzo Ferrari’s main interest in life was to become a journalist. He was highly articu...
The John Tojeiro built AC Ace prototype. Photos courtesy JD Classics. By 1953, John Tojeiro’s reputation for building competitive sports racers was well-established. When friend Vin Davison approache...
1913 Peugeot L45 Grand Prix car, part of the Bothwell Collection. Photos courtesy Bonhams. For 60 years, Lindley Bothwell indulged his passion for buying and driving antique cars, amassing what was o...
Ford Mustang Mach 1 magazine ad courtesy Lov2XLR8.no. Introduced in August 1968 as a 1969 model, Ford’s Mustang Mach 1 was intended to be the Swiss Army Knife of pony cars. With a matte-black hood, h...
Bill Puterbaugh, after qualifying for the 1975 Indianapolis 500. Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 was a childhood dream of racer Bill Puterbaugh, whose...
Bill Puterbaugh, after qualifying for the 1975 Indianapolis 500. Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 was a childhood dream of racer Bill Puterbaugh, whose...
The Shelby-built Trans-Am Mustang of John McComb, which sold for $400,000 in January 2013. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. Chuck Cantwell is no stranger to fans of early Shelby Mustangs. As project en...
I picked up this third printing of JEG Harwood’s Speed and How to Obtain It at a bookstore while traveling with the Hemmings Great Race this past June. I paid very little for it, but it is full of te...
Volkswagen-powered Baja racers. Photos courtesy Volkswagen of America. In the late summer of 1967, the newly formed National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA) enlisted the help of Bruce Meyers, bui...
In a capitalist country, everything is for sale, right? Jason Sales travels the country with a film camera to document the things that aren’t for sale, the things that people for one reason or anothe...
Does the world really need another book on Carroll Shelby and his Cobra sports car? When the book comes from Shelby American’s official shooter, Dave Friedman, and it covers the exciting, early years...
Derek Bell at Sebring in 2008. Photo by Freewheeling Daredevil. Derek Bell has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans a total of five times, the 24 Hours of Daytona three times, and the World Sportscar Champion...
Images are courtesy of Jeroen Booij, and from the Hemmings library Fans of the original BMC Mini have been educated, enlightened, and entertained by the excellent trio of “Maximum Mini” books created...
Photo by Matthew Exley. “In traffic.” Two words that could have spared motorsports across Europe from what some have called an “existential threat” brought on by a European high court ruling three ye...
Proposed Jim Clark Museum. Image courtesy The Jim Clark Trust. Jim Clark, widely regarded as one of the best racing drivers ever to compete, is today honored by a single-room museum in the town of Du...
Floorplan for the Toyota Experience Center, opening in Plano, Texas. Photos courtesy Toyota Motor North America. When Toyota announced its U.S. headquarters would be moving from Torrance, California,...
Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy RM Sotheby’s, except where noted. The race took place over the distance of two telephone poles, or about 60 feet, and the winner never shifted out of first gear, but...
Photo by the author. Just about everybody in Wednesday’s Congressional subcommittee hearing addressing the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act seemed to agree that nobody wants to bring an ...
Hugus’ Austin-Healey was a “no show” for the 210-mile Nassau Trophy Race on December 9, 1956, but did arrive in time for him to use it as his Bahamas transportation during the Speed Weeks social acti...
The mutant vehicles of Burning Man are always good for stretching the definition — if not the concept — of automobiles. Alexandrailer shot a bunch this year. * Japanese Nostalgic Car has the full sto...
Early morning crowds were light, but it filled up by midday. From new to old, there was something for everyone. Photos by Hemmings editorial staff. Changing to a rain date for an event like Musclepal...