Breedlove at the time he received the Spirit of Competition Award from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia in 2011. Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. “The Bonneville Salt Flats have...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
Archive photo. After a federal judge gave the go-ahead for Craig Breedlove to pursue his lawsuit against the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for allegedly damaging Breedlove’s Spirit of Americ...
The Henry Ford’s trove of Dave Friedman photos has revealed many gems in the past, so one would expect the most recent digitized batch of Friedman photos – from the 1960 U.S. Grand Prix at Riverside ...
Tatra T600 Tatraplan. Photo by Jean-Pol Grandmont. With plans already in the works for an expansion of the existing Tatra truck museum to include Tatra cars, the Czech truckmaker and onetime carbuild...
Restored 1967 Tatra T603 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The T603 is the last of the Tatra streamliners that started with the T77 in 1933. Tatra was very innovative in those ...
Photo by Eli Solomon, courtesy FIVA. In neither of its two entries in the 24 Hours of Le Mans did the severely aerodynamic CD SP66 No. 52 actually finish the race, but that hasn’t stopped the current...
Photos by Piotr Degler/Degler Studio, courtesy Gooding and Co. At first glance, the Abarth 1000 Bialbero record car known as “La Principessa” and the diamond-layout Pininfarina X appear to have nothi...
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...
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...
Photos courtesy Gary Keto and Geoff Hacker. A few months back, we got a call from Gary Keto, who had been going through his family’s things and found a bunch of photos of some old streamlined vehicle...
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...
While Dodge built plenty of three-axle trucks, it never came out with a six-wheel-drive Power Wagon, so Legacy Classic Trucks went ahead and built one using a WC63 chassis and turbodiesel Cummins. Ja...
Courtesy GM Media. While going through the images that Mark McCourt collected for his feature story on GM’s Art and Colour section in the February 2016 issue of Hemmings Classic Car , we came across ...
We’ve taken a look at the Hansen Cobra before – specifically the one that’s not in the Petersen Automotive Museum – but with the recent re-opening of the museum, Jive-Bomber at The Jalopy Journal sha...