“It will be a sorry day when we no longer do something for the hell of it,” Donald Campbell said as he eyed another run at the world land-speed record in 1960. Then again, Campbell had the backing of...
2014 Ultima GTR for sale. From the seller’s description: The car is running well and is the fastest-accelerating street car I’ve ever encountered. Truly amazing performance, and I am not easily impre...
Dario Franchitti (L) and Bruce McLaren. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Bruce McLaren, best known for his dominance in the Can-Am series as both a driver and constructor, never drove in t...
Vintage racing-prepped 1959 Chevrolet Corvette for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Four time Monterey Historics winner. Rolex award, and Choppard winner too. Completely legal car...
We had expected to see a lot more automotive tributes to Chuck Berry following his death last weekend; after all, cars were an integral part to the mixture of influences he used to conjure up rock an...
Pete Hamilton with his Petty Enterprises Plymouth Superbird prior to the start of the 1970 Daytona 500. Photo by Skeensss. Pete Hamilton, winner of the 1970 Daytona 500, died earlier this week at the...
1969 Hurst/Olds 455 (top); 1970 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables ...
From the seller’s description: 1974 Plymouth Road Runner. This is one of only 280 cars built in 1974 with a big-block 400 Magnum engine. The 280 cars were equipped with either a 4-speed or automatic ...
Still from “ 27 Hours to La Paz.” It started out as little more than a lark, an informal competition among off-road racers to see who could make it from one end of the Baja peninsula to the other the...
Here’s a small sample from my modest Stewart Warner Green Line gauge collection. Photos by author. While there’s still plenty to do in the garage during winter, the really cold weekends are spent in ...
From the seller’s description: This is one of the nicest 1977 Grand Prix Model LJ’s you will find today. With only 42,000 Actual Miles, this is a super solid car that looks awesome and drives incredi...
Photo courtesy the Petty Family Foundation. Racing drivers are very seldom household names in the United States, but Richard Petty is surely an exception to this rule. Petty is known simply as “The K...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Such indignity. Dispatched to remote Canada, passed over, and left to sit on a dealership showroom for a year before it sold, the first hardtop Must...
In 1950, the novel Hot Rod, by Henry Gregor Felsen, showed young people that hopping up cars was cool, but racing them on public roads could be deadly. In the intervening years, beginning with Santa ...
From the seller’s description: Outstanding two-year restoration of an original 1967 Cougar GT 4 speed A/C car. Originally painted in Inverness Green Metallic with Light Ivy Gold Crinkle interior. Car...
1972 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am for sale. From the seller’s description: This Trans Am is extremely rare, a real #s matching 455 H.O. LS5 car. It has PHS documentation and the 72 TA was the lowest pro...
TV show-restored 360-powered 1973 AMC Gremlin X for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This example has been specially restored to show you that not all Gremlins live the sedate sub...
The 1982 Pontiac Recaro Trans Am Special Edition. Photos courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. When Pontiac introduced its third-generation Firebird Trans Am for the 1982 model year, it wanted to remi...
One-off 9C1-equipped 1978 Chevrolet Nova coupe for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This is the only Nova 9C1 Coupe with 100 percent documentation as to its authenticity. I am the...
1968 Ford LTD Brougham (top); 1968 Plymouth Fury III (bottom). Images by the author. Editor’s note: This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us,...
Ralph Garcia (in the car-themed shirt) and Kevin Marti pose with the Bullitt Mustang stunt car. Photos courtesy Kevin Marti. Steve McQueen may have received top billing for the 1968 crime thriller Bu...
Artist rendering courtesy Aussie Invader on Facebook. After more than four months, Australia’s Taxation Office has canceled its effort to reclaim a six-figure tax incentive from the Aussie Invader la...
Offenhauser-powered Indy-raced 1965 Gerhardt for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The 1965 Gerhardt Indy chassis was almost a direct copy of the highly successful Lotus 29 Formula...
Photo by Steven Harris. Land-speed racers frustrated with the federal Bureau of Land Management’s oversight of the shrinking and thinning Bonneville Salt Flats may no longer have to deal with the bur...