Santa Pod Raceway over in England is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and released a snazzy little promo video, but we thought it’d be more appropriate to take a look at this home video fro...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. In part one, I looked at the reasons I decided to hunt down a rather mundane car from the Malaise Era, a ’74 Buick Apollo coupe that had features my first car, also a ’...
Rico Abreu. Photo courtesy Jim Fluharty, NASCAR Illustrated Perhaps you heard about the scuffle between an inebriated sheriff’s deputy and Tony Stewart at last weekend’s Lucas Oil Chili Bowl National...
Still image from video below. If you want some ’60s cool and sneak peek behind the curtain at some of the inner workings of Pontiac in 1969 then this video is for you. Found on the GM Heritage Center...
Vintage sports cars enter the Andretti Hairpin at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Photo by Thomas A. DeMauro. It’s no secret that the relationship between Monterey County and the Sports Car Racing Associa...
Three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, Mauri Rose stands alongside Firebird I prior to his test drive on a deserted road in Arizona. Could these be the wheels that inspired Pontiac’s eight-lug wh...
Here’s what you need to know about this 1966 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport, for sale on Hemmings.com: It’s got a built 427 V-8 that dyno-tested at 434 horsepower, it gets power to the ground via a 12-...
Text by Mike McNessor. Photos by Jeff Koch, restoration photos courtesy Evan Gavrilles. Some kids are drawn to sports. Others, fashion or music. For Evan Gavrilles and the rest of us, it was–is–muscl...
Two things about the late David Bowie. Yes, he designed a chrome Mini for BMW for the 40th anniversary of the marque in 1998-1999. Torch had a pretty good writeup on that over at Jalopnik this week. ...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. Hemmings writers really should be more careful with the $5,000 Challenge. In my case, that regular feature of the blog led me to buy a car I’d never imagined owning aga...
The Simeone’s 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Spyder at a 2015 Demo Day. Photos courtesy Simeone Automotive Museum. In most automotive museums, cars on static display are never started, run or exercise...
Art courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Though Oldsmobile didn’t field as many muscular models as its GM siblings Pontiac and Chevrolet, or competing automakers Ford and Chrysler...
It isn’t likely that this 1928 Chevrolet Sprint Car, for sale on Hemmings.com, has a rich competition history. Though the current owner isn’t specific about the car’s history, it appears to be a cont...
Steve Stanford. Photo courtesy Steve Stanford Designs. The Grand National Roadster Show is still a few weeks off, but the 2016 inductees into its Hall of Fame have already been named. Of the four inc...
Looking sharp thanks to a repaint and replicated graphics, this 1975 Pontiac Ventura SJ Sprint hatchback coupe for sale on Hemmings.com still sports its original white split-bench interior as well as...
1925 Bugatti Type 35 at Gooding’s 2013 Monterey sale. Photos by author. It’s said that winning a significant lottery jackpot is the surest way to financial, moral and spiritual ruin, but just for onc...
Photography by the author. More than a dozen years ago, when I was younger and more beautiful and working for another magazine, I spearheaded a couple of new-car comparisons that were real eye-opener...
It might not be a loaded-to-the-gills 4-4-2, but this 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com – which has benefited from some refurbishment, but apparently hasn’t re...
A battery topper, which does just what the name implies, looks cleaner and more correct than the aftermarket battery under it. Photos by the author. Even though we have recently enjoyed record high t...
Well yes, it certainly does move! Those hop ups and motorcycles get going pretty fast over that eighth-mile stretch of beach sand. But what we really mean is that the date of the race is changing, an...
In 2004, the ACEMCO Racing team debuted a new Saleen S7R in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Championship, placing second in the GTS class behind the all-conquering Corvette C5-R. Chassis 029R, the...
Retired designer Rodell Smith. Still from American Dreaming trailer. Aiming to eliminate the industrial stigma the art world has attached to automotive design and renderings, two collectors and chron...
Laguna Seca USRRC, 1965. Ken Miles (#98), Ed Leslie (#96), and Bob Johnson (#97) in their Shelby American Cobras lead at the start. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. In 1962, the SCCA launched its f...
1965 Plymouth Barracuda. Photo by author. Speaking of the 273-cu.in. Mopar small-block V-8 that I recently wrote about, here’s a noteworthy car that has one. More significantly, this 1965 Plymouth Ba...
For 1963, the Ford Falcon Futura replaced the Falcon Deluxe atop the model’s range, and a new two-door hardtop model was introduced. While a six-cylinder was still the standard offering on Falcon Fut...