Repair manual mogul John Haynes, 1938-2019
John Haynes, during his RAF days. Photo courtesy Haynes Publishing. When young John Haynes placed a classified ad to sell his home-built Austin 7 Special, he never could have imagined that this simpl...
John Haynes, during his RAF days. Photo courtesy Haynes Publishing. When young John Haynes placed a classified ad to sell his home-built Austin 7 Special, he never could have imagined that this simpl...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor, and from Volvo Cars Media The P1800 coupe has always been an icon for Volvo. An outlier in an otherwise sensib...
Replica photos by Michael Barera. Understand one thing: In the course of writing however many thousands of stories for the Hemmings Daily, while I’ve touched on flying cars multiple times, I have not...
Starting in the late Sixties, Seattle City Light began an electric vehicle program to try to get the city and the city’s residents to switch from their internal combustion vehicles. According to Seat...
Look, we know. We know how miserable it is outside this week. We also know that even if your garage is attached to the house, there’s a literal snowball’s chance that you’re gonna be in it, anytime s...
Images courtesy Boyle Racing Headquarters Foundation. At this point, nothing but four walls and a concrete floor remains of the Boyle Racing Team’s headquarters in a run-down neighborhood just northw...
Photo via Auburn Zoning Board. A year after announcing his retirement, Dean Kruse has sold the Kruse Museums property in Auburn, Indiana, to a trio of investors that includes his nephew, John Kruse. ...
Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Dale Jarrett in 2000. Photo credit MSI / Brian Czobat, courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Each year, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame sends a ballot to its nearly 150 ...
Photo by Mike Boening. Prior to the collapse of the production line bridge at the former Packard plant this week, the Detroit News ran a piece looking back on an unusual chapter in the plant’s histor...
Photos courtesy British Motor Industry Heritage Trust. You’re running Britain’s most prolific automaker, and some guy knocks on your door asking you to build a two-wheeled car stabilized by a gyrosco...
Glen Wood at his NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony on January 20, 2012. Photo by John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR. Before he became one of NASCAR’s most successful team owners, Glen Wood w...
Janet Guthrie at Indianapolis in 1976. Photo courtesy IMS. Founded in 1939, the Automotive Hall of Fame — today located in Dearborn, Michigan — is dedicated to honoring those who have made a signific...
Photos by Christian Martin, courtesy Artcurial. Long considered one of the last great secrets of Italian sports car culture, the trio of uncirculated Serenissima sports cars still in the collection o...
Mario Andretti at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in January 2019. Photo by James Black, courtesy of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Editor’s Note: This year marks the 50th anniversary of Mario Andr...
Mario Andretti waves from the cockpit at the 1969 Indianapolis 500. Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. When Mario Andretti arrived in Indianapolis in early May 1969, the two-time USAC Champ...
Photos courtesy Evro Publishing. Over the course of a three-plus-decade career as a racing driver, David Hobbs – “Hobbo” to his friends – piloted everything from sports cars to Can-Am cars, Formula O...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Going into business for yourself requires a sense of timing, a degree of skill in your chosen field, some (make that plenty) startup capital, and perhaps above all a bold vis...
Professor Gordon Murray, CBE, poses with a few of his automotive creations. Photos courtesy Gordon Murray Design. Automotive designer. Race car driver. Formula One team technical director. Honorary p...
Charles Kettering gets all the credit for inventing the self-starter for internal combustion engines and thus making gasoline-engine cars the dominant mode of transport today. But as John Heitmann at...
Dan Gurney prepares to climb aboard the winning Ford GT40 Mk IV at Le Mans in 1967. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Some were artists, who challenged our perspective or took us to worlds far bette...
Bob Marley in 1973. Photo by Arthur Gorson, courtesy BobMarley.com. Some would argue that what an artist or musician does or says off the stage should have no bearing whatsoever on their legacy and t...
Rendering courtesy Bloodhound SSC. Never say never, apparently. Just 10 days after the administrators in charge of the Bloodhound SSC world land-speed effort announced they were scrapping the project...
What exactly was the connection between Colin Chapman’s Lotus and John DeLorean’s DMC? How did Chapman keep Lotus going financially — and personally — in the years before his death? Through interview...
The IMS Museum announced this week that it has digitized a good number of recordings of Indy 500 races past and is now offering the digital recordings for sale. * The story that Alex Pappademas wrote...
Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. Imagine any top-level sports team not only going undefeated through an entire season and, as a result, winning a championship, but also setting a scor...