The Race of Gentlemen is all about old cars and motorcycles in motion. Images by the Hemmings staff except as noted. The Race of Gentlemen is a dynamic event. Not only is it all about hopped-up cars ...
A pair of cruddy Vans and a vintage “Traction By Hurst” T-shirt graphic, along with a mocked-up rolled pan-slash-air scoop: a modern-day hot rod still life. All photos by the author, unless otherwise...
From the seller’s description: This is a real untouched, unmolested 1965 Dodge Coronet Station Wagon, 440 with 37k original miles on it. Original white on red interior. Yes we have the original wheel...
Patrick Rollet with his 1932 Lagonda 16/80 Semi Sports. Photo provided. Our recent articles on the Charter of Turin Handbook and on what categories of vehicle the Fédération Internationale des Véhicu...
From the seller’s description: 1956 Ford Victoria, Altered wheel base, Gasser built in the 60’s. Alum. headed FE, tri power, Muther Humper hyd cam, Shelby T/10 4sd with gear venders elect overdrive, ...
This just sums up everything good about the Turlock Swap Meet: @clydeathan doing the boxer’s championship belt hoist with his 2nd-gen Firebird nose–a great score and evidence of a day well-spent. Pho...
Jeff Gordon celebrates a win at Kansas Speedway in May 2014. Photo by HHP/Harold Hinson for Chevrolet. What do “Lil’ John” Buttera, Carl G. Fisher, Jeff Gordon, Howard Hughes, “Flyin’ Fred” Merkel, U...
Video and photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Advertisement images courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. Ford’s new-for-1969 response to the budget-muscle Plymouth Road Runner w...
Jerry Sneva at Indy, 1977. Photos courtesy IMS. Born into a racing family, Jerry Sneva climbed the ladder from Spokane, Washington’s dirt tracks all the way to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In 197...
Challenger II in 2016. Photo by Holly Martin, courtesy Thompson LSR. In 1968, Mickey Thompson debuted his Autolite Special streamliner, built to set a wheel-driven land speed record at Bonneville. It...
My T coupe and all its influences. When I look at this collection of cars that I’ve loved for the entirety of my own consciousness, I pause and just marvel at what this purely American phenomenon has...
Photos courtesy Mossgreen. The Australian auction house that last year aimed to set a record for the most expensive car sold in Australia – and prior to that, claimed the record for the most expensiv...
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Teaser of the 1962 Corvette, pre-restoration. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. And then, there was one. Nearly four years after a sinkhole under the Skydome at the National Corvette Museum i...
1970 Chevrolet Camaro (top); 1971 Pontiac Firebird (bottom). Images by the author. This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us, in an idyllic wo...
Editor’s note: The purpose of the “Find of the Day” is to promote interesting cars from our classifieds. These are not the actual ads, so to view more images or contact the seller with questions, cli...
As 1965 Corvettes go, the Le Mans Blue coupe that crossed Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale stage as lot 1413 isn’t particularly quick, and it certainly won’t post impressive handling numbers. In fact, it...
2017 Nitro Revival at Barona Drag Strip. Photo by Pam Conrad, courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In 2017, a new event honoring vintage dragsters and the racers who piloted them came to the Barona Dr...
Editor’s note: The purpose of the “Find of the Day” is to promote interesting cars from our classifieds. These are not the actual ads, so to view more images or contact the seller with questions, cli...
Older restoration 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass Hurst/Olds for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Restored in 1987, the stock 455 was bored out to 462 cu. in. and was rebuilt with mostly ...
I wanted to meet “Big Daddy” Don Garlits when he raced Swamp Rat-I at Atco Dragway in 1962. But it wasn’t to be, and I had to wait 41 years for it to happen. Photo courtesy Garlits Museum of Drag Rac...
When we realized we only had one headlight, Conder took it all in stride. This is the sketch on a piece of chipboard that he keeps piles of, deep inside Conder Custom, that finally solved the problem...
Raceway Park photos by Hemmings staff. In July 1965, the Napp family opened Raceway Park as a drag strip on the site of a former cattle ranch in central New Jersey. In the five-plus decades since, th...
The Bullitt hero car alongside the 2019 Bullitt Mustang at the 2018 North American International Auto Show. Photos by Ronan Glon, unless otherwise noted. The Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT fastback t...
Dan Gurney (R) with A.J. Foyt at Le Mans in 1967. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. If Dan Gurney wasn’t the greatest American racing driver of all time, he was certainly in the running for the hono...