Most outside Australia won’t have heard of Winton Raceway. It’s never hosted a grand prix, it isn’t the birthplace of any forms of motor racing, and it certainly isn’t a place to mingle with "high so...
1967 Gerhardt Ford Indy Car. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Car owner Walter “Wally” Weir wanted a shot at running competitively in the Indianapolis 500, so for 1967 he purch...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. As Charles R. Morris wrote in his book, Factory Lightweights: Detroit’s Drag Racing Specialties of the 1960s, “No auto manufacturer ever got more bang for their advert...
1932 Mercedes-Benz SSKL Avus recreation at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed. All photos courtesy Daimler AG. Crippled by an ailing global economy, Mercedes-Benz divested itself from racing after 1...
Photo courtesy of Iso Bizzarrini Owner’s Club. The Iso Bizzarrini Owner’s Club will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lele in Laguna Nigel, California. The stateside celebration will be part of t...
The Shelby Racing Company’s 1968 McLaren M6B, driven by Peter Revson during the ’68 Can-Am season. Images courtesy Bonhams. Shelby had its hands full in 1966-’67, helping to deliver back-to-back wins...
Scott Brayton’s 1995 (L) and 1996 (R) pole-setting Indy cars, both powered by a turbocharged Buick V-6. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. To change a long-stodgy image and promote its line of turbochar...
A 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SS Zagato. Photo courtesy of the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA. For the second time, the management of the 1000 Miglia is bringing the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA to Virginia and Wash...
We’re on a vintage Olds Power jag this week, folks. And we’re not even sorry. Nor should we be, right? When it comes to all things Muscle, we’d submit that we spend way too much time limiting ourselv...
David Hobbs at the Simeone in 2015. Images courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. From 2010 through 2017, David Hobbs and Will Buxton delivered the inside scoop on Formula 1 to U.S. viewers, ...
Here at Muscle Machines Weekly, we’re all about, well, muscle. And one of the things we love more than most – the stuff we look forward to…what gets us outta bed in the morning…is finding the oddball...
Jacky Ickx drives the Lola T33 CS Can-Am at Watkins Glen in 1979. Photo by Bill Warner. The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) has an ambitious goal: To honor the greats from every form of r...
1975 Ferrari 312T chassis 022. Photos by Mike Maez, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. By 1974, it was apparent to Scuderia Ferrari that the handling ills of its 312B3 Formula 1 chassis c...
The Revelator needs a new engine. This is how it’s being done economically. Photo by Dan Beaudry, others by David Conwill and as credited how-to (hou-tü) adj. giving practical instruction and advice ...
If you’re here, you’re probably into muscle cars. If you’re into vintage muscle cars, you’re probably a drag racing fan. And if you dig the Digs, you probably have a soft-spot for vintage dragsters, ...
Marcia Barker of Boonton, New Jersey, zooms toward a second-place finish in her T-bodied Ford Model A. Photos by David Conwill and Dan Beaudry. Think about the last old-car event you attended. Were t...
Austin/Morris Mini Minors at the British Motor Museum. Photo courtesy of the British Motor Museum. Owners of vehicles produced by British marques BMC, Leyland and Rover Group will descend on the Brit...
Dekon Chevrolet Monza, an IMSA GT veteran, leads a Porsche 935 through the Corkscrew (turn 8A here) at WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway during the 2018 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. All photos b...
The Ford Mustang Shelby GT500’s 5.2 Liter Supercharged V-8. Photo courtesy of Ford. With 760 horsepower and 625 lb. ft. of torque, the 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500 will be the most powerful street-legal...
When we stumbled across the survivor Starsky & Hutch Torino in the Hemmings online marketplace this week, we got to thinking more about the love/hate relationship we have with the nameplate. On one h...
This week, we’re bringing you a great video that’s probably best just listened to while you’re googling vintage drag racing photos. The one and only Dave Wallace, Jr. – the hardest-working man in dra...
1957 Ford cars, like this Fairlane Sunliner, were available with a supercharged engine topped with a Paxton VR-57. Image via lov2xlr8.no Not too long ago, Senior Editor Matt Litwin and I drove out to...
Richard Petty’s 1970 Plymouth Superbird (L) and 1971 Plymouth Road Runner. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Rule changes in NASCAR rendered Richard Petty’s 1970 Plymouth Superbird obsolete after a sin...
Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, the NASCAR Hall of Fame honors the history and heritage of NASCAR, and each year a Voting Panel of the sport’s insiders selects five new inductees based upon the...
A tubbed 10-second Camaro in mid-pass. Photos by author and by Jake McBride. If you live in the Northeast (or have relatives here), you know this to be true: Last winter was a never-ending grind of b...