Photo courtesy Restoration Specialties. David Mihalko Sr., bought his first car, a 1929 Ford Model A, in 1955 at the age of 14. His $35 investment would ignite a lifelong passion for classic cars, an...
Ed Welburn. Photos courtesy General Motors. Inspired by cars seen at the Philadelphia Auto Show, like the Cadillac Cyclone concept and the 1959 Corvette, 11-year-old Ed Welburn sent a letter to Gener...
Photos via TommyIvo.com. As a lifelong showman, even birthdays become an excuse to entertain, which is why “TV” Tommy Ivo will be celebrating his 80th birthday with a public birthday bash at the NHRA...
Emerson Fittipaldi with his Patrick Racing 1989 Indy 500-winning car. Photos courtesy IMS. At one time, Emerson Fittipaldi was the highest-paid athlete in the world, surpassing even Muhammad Ali and ...
Photos courtesy BMW Group Classic. Editor’s Note: Ronan Glon of Ran When Parked recently worked with BMW Classic to get us the story of perhaps the largest engine to make its way under the hood of a ...
According to the Showvans blog, the recent Cleveland Autorama’s show-within-a-show dedicated to custom vans was the largest indoor van show in more than 30 years. Also shows how far custom vanning ha...
Images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Brooks Stevens never met an idea he couldn’t recycle. If it didn’t work on one concept drawing, he’d lift it for another. If it didn’t get picked up by one manuf...
Photo courtesy Ronald Reagan Library, Historic Vehicle Association. It’s got dings and dents. It’s been rolled. It’s neither the first nor the last of its breed, has no particularly special equipment...
Photos courtesy Albert Kahn Associates, Library of Congress. He designed theaters and houses for senators and industry titans. He designed apartments and university buildings. But most people outside...
It’s been 50 years since Team Penske, as it’s known today, first came into existence. That’s one number you need to know. The others are 16, for the number of Indianapolis 500 wins it can claim; 170,...
Photos and images courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. By 1963, Studebaker as a carmaker had run out of options. Bleeding cash, facing stiff competition, and with no new products in the pipeline, the only ...
There’s no mystery to cars, even modern hybrids: They’re just metal, glass, plastic, and electronics, and they can be taken apart and put together in all sorts of ways, as we see from one man’s effor...
By William Hall. Photos by the author and Tom Heinrich. Lyn St. James climbs into the cramped cockpit of the 1964 Alfa Romeo TZ 1 and takes a few moments to familiarize herself with the instruments a...
Stills from Project 1320 crowdfunding video. Zero to 265 in seven years might not sound that impressive on the dragstrip, but that figure takes on a whole new dimension when applied to nabbing interv...
Jim Travers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2008. Photo by Jim Haines, courtesy IMS. He was one half of the most legendary mechanical combo in the postwar history of the Indianapolis 500. Jim T...
A National Editorial Association press release photo, dated October 31, 1935, announces, “Helen Dryden, industrial designer for the Studebaker President, is the only woman to to invade man’s domain, ...
Photo via HMN archives. “That was a game changer; now what should we do?” Susan Edwards, the director of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, asked Ken Gross. The art deco automobiles e...
Hurley Haywood and Peter Gregg. Still image from Kickstarter video preview. Peter Gregg was one of the most successful road racers of the 1970s, and with racing partner Hurley Haywood, put the Brumos...
Photo via The Henry Ford. As mentioned in our recent post on Edsel Ford’s first V-8 speedster, a number of other significant cars came after it, including the 1934 Model 40 Speedster – the one that s...
Image courtesy Google Street View. Despite the loss of a major financial backer for his renovation of the once-abandoned Packard plant in Detroit, owner Fernando Palazuelo said he intends to continue...
All art and photography courtesy of HotRod Jen. We first met “HotRod” Jen Thomas (née Skidmore) back in November of 2013 when writing a piece for Speedobilia in Hemmings Muscle Machines (issue #125) ...
Billy Durant (l) and Dallas Dort. Photos courtesy Lawrence L. Gustin. If you’re a longtime reader of the Hemmings titles, Lawrence L. Gustin should be a familiar name. A career reporter and editor of...
Photos courtesy Leon Dixon. As many of you who’ve hung around these parts for some time may know, frequent commenter and occasional contributor Leon Dixon is perhaps one of the most knowledgeable guy...
What an interesting life this 1957 Meskowski-Foyt-McKee Champ Car for sale on Hemmings.com has led so far: Raced by A.J. Foyt, once owned by Tony Lapine, rebuilt by Porsche, and later breathed on by ...
Seinfeld Collection Porsches. Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a thing for automobiles, most notably those from Porsche. His c...