The MG EX224 prototype roadster. Photos courtesy Bonhams. MG’s beloved MGB roadster remained in production from 1962 through 1980, but in 1964, an ambitious plan was launched to replace both the MGB ...
Offloading the Corvette SS at the National Corvette Museum. Photo courtesy the National Corvette Museum. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is roughly 230 miles from the National Corvette Museum in Bowl...
1962 Chevrolet “Bubble Top” Bel Air. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1962, full-size Chevrolet shoppers could order a 409-cu.in V-8 in a variety of Biscayne, Bel Air and Impala models, with a fact...
The McLaren M8D at speed. Photo courtesy McLaren Automotive Limited. McLaren might be a small company as compared to the giants of the auto industry, but when it comes to success on the track, few ca...
1923 Hupmobile Series R-11. Photos courtesy The Finest Automobile Auctions. With a name like The Finest Automobile Auctions, one would assume that the upstart company’s debut live sale, tied to The E...
Photos courtesy Akron Ohio Race Legends Fund. The Arfons brothers thought a plane had crashed. It was the only reason they could think of for such a crowd to gather at the Akron airport and close off...
The Riverside Museum. Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy RM Sothebys. Want to run in the Indianapolis 500? Assuming one has a suitable Dallara DW12 chassis, appropriate aero kit, driver, crew and spec...
Photos courtesy SEMA. If trade shows – beyond merely serving as a means of collecting business cards and branded swag – tend to serve as a barometer of an industry’s health, then the annual SEMA show...
Gary Gabelich. Still from Break the Record video. Hot rods, jet dragsters, go-karts, drag boats, stadium trucks, motorcycles – Gary Gabelich seemed never to have met a form of motorsport he didn’t li...
Photo courtesy National Automobile Museum. Until he saw it stripped to the chassis with his own eyes, George Schuster simply wouldn’t take anybody’s word that this old touring car was the one and the...
MG’s ad in the Earls Court catalogue. One of this country’s foremost historians on Classic cars, and regular contributor to Hemmings Classic Car magazine, Walt Gosden, gave me the catalogue for the 1...
A pair of early Jeeps from Omix-ADA’s collection. Photo courtesy Omix-ADA. In 1992 Al Azadi founded Omix-ADA as a Jeep specialty parts vendor in a small rented warehouse. Today, the Suwanee, Georgia ...
In an attempt to cut air pollution, the city of Paris has decided to restrict cars built before 1997 from entering the city limits on weekdays (weeknights and weekends they’re still permitted to ente...
Photos courtesy Motostalgia Auctions. Marty Robbins may be best known as the country singer who amassed 43 top-10 records over a career that spanned three decades, but in his heart, he was a race car...
Building the Wall of Death – still image from video below. Mel Stultz, founder of The Race of Gentlemen, has recently completed construction on a new/old Wall of Death attraction, which will be on di...
Early morning crowds check out some of the show cars on display. Photos by Hemmings staff. After a non-winter in the Northeast, followed by a wet and cold spring, summer descended on us full force ov...
Porsche 917-30 Can-Am Spyder. Image courtesy of Porsche. Add another event to your Monterey Car Week calendar. A Tribute to the Can-Am 50th Anniversary Gala will be held on Saturday, August 20, at th...
Seller John Crabtree with a few of his cars. When great car auctions are held, will they inexorably take place on the Great Plains? We’ve got to seriously wonder, because VanDerBrink Auctions has bee...
Return of the North Woodward Timing Association? Photo by the author. It’s no secret that in the 1960s and ’70s heyday of the muscle car, Woodward Avenue, which flows northwesterly from Detroit to Po...
One of the vehicles contesting next month’s Peking-to-Paris race will be a 1968 AMX looking sufficiently beefy and campaigned by rally veterans Jim Valentine and Jonathan Lodge. What’s more, they’ll ...
The 1940 Packard Royal roadster. Photos by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy Auctions America. It measures 31.5-feet from end-to-end, nearly 10-feet longer than a Ford Super Duty pickup. Despite the mostly al...
For the first time in 55 years, Oiler Quint Meland is staged to race. Photography by the author. As the weather warms, the days lengthen and the annual Race of Gentlemen in Wildwood, New Jersey—now h...
Photo by Phil Parrish, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Though it rolled down the assembly line at Norwood, Ohio without a name or nameplate and with a simple six-cylinder engine, the car then ...
One of the NASCAR Herbies from the 2005 film Herbie: Fully Loaded. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Even those with little interest in racing can recognize the white Volkswagen Beetle with red and blu...
Mario Andretti’s 1965 Brawner Hawk, recently restored by Ray Evernham, will be in the field. Photos courtesy IMS. Sure, the big news is the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, so much so that some...