Photos courtesy Terry Ernest. Long time Wills Sainte Claire Museum member Bill Mason’s son, Rick, emailed me earlier this year and asked if I could attend and represent the Wills Museum at his father...
Erik Andersen over on the H.A.M.B. has a plan. He’s bought an Olds 88, intends to prep it as a rally racer, and then wants to drive it around the world by entering it into as many rallies as he can. ...
Chet Krause at Iola in 2013. Photo courtesy John Gunnell. Chet Krause spent his entire life in Iola, Wisconsin, where he got his start tearing down Ford Model Ts for salable parts. He bootstrapped th...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The choice of the van was intentional. The pseudononymous street artist Banksy has claimed many a run-in with the police and made authoritarianism a common motif in his artwo...
Photo by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Dick Saunders likely didn’t care a lick about labels like Full Classic or particulars like which class he’d park with on the show field. Rather, he p...
Jere Stahl. Photo by Ed Almquist. If you’ve never heard his name, you almost certainly grew up outside the northeastern United States, but we still bet you were familiar with his products. Jere Stahl...
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...
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...
As part of the celebrations of Santa Pod’s 50th anniversary, the British racetrack’s Facebook page posted a big ol’ set of historic photos from the first days of racing on the abandoned airfield up t...
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...
Photo courtesy Shirley Muldowney. Our friend, colleague and Hemmings Muscle Machines columnist Shirley Muldowney has more than a nodding acquaintance with tribulation. First, she had to come up as pr...
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...
Photo courtesy The Henry Ford. Automotive safety didn’t start with Ralph Nader, of course. Plenty of people, startled by annual highway death figures in the tens of thousands and growing, concerned t...
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 Sondre Kvipt, courtesy Kustomrama. Bill Hines had been around in the auto customizing scene for so long and remained so active it seemed as though he was immortal. While his legend will live...
A.J. Foyt, the 1961, ’64, ’67 and ’77 winner, at the 1977 Indy 500. Photos courtesy IMS. One of the absolutely best things about the Indianapolis 500 is the palpable sense of history that permeates t...
Don White (L) with USAC’s Dick Jordan. Photo courtesy USAC. Beginning in the 1950s, the Mississippi River city of Keokuk, Iowa, arguably produced more top-level dirt-track racers than another town in...
Hot rods and street rods tend to evolve over time – tastes change, better components are released all the time, and builder/owners are almost never satisfied with them as-is – but this aluminum-bodie...
Ferruccio Lamborghini. Photos courtesy Lamborghini. On April 28, 1916, Ferruccio Lamborghini was born into a grape farming family in Renazzo di Cento, in Italy’s Emilia Romagna Region. From these hum...
Ralph Eckler. Photo courtesy Eckler Industries. When Ralph Eckler fabricated a one-piece hood for the crash-damaged 1960 Chevrolet Corvette in his father’s Moline, Illinois, gas station, he had no wa...
There’s something we love about one of the more recent photos on Michael Paul Smith’s Flickrstream. It only has a handful of old cars in it, and it doesn’t include any crazy flying saucers, robots, o...
All artwork from Stefan Marjoram’s 2015 Auto Art Advent series. Courtesy of Stefan Marjoram. Artist, photographer, animator and filmmaker Stefan Marjoram has been sprinkling a little extra magic into...
Paul Goldsmith at the 1958 Indianapolis 500. Photos courtesy IMS. They came from different eras but still amassed impressive records in the sport of auto racing. That’s why Paul Goldsmith and U.E. “P...
Roger Penske with the 50th Anniversary 2017 Camaro SS Pace Car. Photo courtesy Chevrolet. For a guy who all but holds the deed to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, given that his teams have won its si...
Duesenberg design by Darwin Hawthorne. Anybody with two crayons to rub together can draw a sleek long car and call it a modern-day Duesenberg, but ask a retired car designer – somebody who spent deca...