McQueen pulls down his Nomex face guard to get a breath of fresh air. Photos by Don Nunley, courtesy Dalton Watson. There was just one scene in the can; the rest of the time the crew only shot racing...
With auctions, seminars, tours, test drives and car shows leading up to the main event, there is no shortage of activities on Amelia Island in the days before Sunday’s concours d’elegance, this year ...
Photos by Matt Howell, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. In 1988, Mazda introduced its latest Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) endurance racer, the 767, designed to take advantage of rule cha...
McLaren F1. Images courtesy McLaren, unless otherwise noted. It began as a conversation between McLaren’s Gordon Murray and Ron Dennis, awaiting a flight home after the 1988 Italian Grand Prix. Four ...
Photo by Todd Lappin. Keith Haring’s artwork and design language remained fairly consistent throughout his brief career: simple, representative and bold line drawings rendered with limited palettes. ...
Ford GT40s finish 1-2-3 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1967. Photo courtesy Ford Motorsports History. A half-century after the Ford Motor Company shocked the world by sweeping the podium at the 24 Hou...
Adam Carolla’s documentary on the Ford-Ferrari rivalry of the Sixties, “The 24-Hour War,” will be out soon. Here’s the trailer. * Robert Merz takes us for a Sunday drive in the 1925 Ford Model T that...
Photos courtesy GM Heritage Center. We always get amped when collections display historic race cars, even if they’re necessarily re-creations. That’s frequently the case because too many early race c...
The Hawaiian Tropic 1979 Porsche 935 hammers at $4.4 million at Pebble Beach. Photo by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. It’s delivered class wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, plus overall wins i...
Mazda 767B. Photo courtesy of Mazda North American Operations. For Mazda, the path to a rotary-powered prototype-class victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans was a long one, stretching from 1983 (and the...
Chris Amon (R) with Jim Clark at Indianapolis in 1967. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Best remembered for his win in the Ford GT40 Mk IIA with co-driver Bruce McLaren in the 1966 24 Hour...
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...
Photo via Roy Lunn Archives, Car Guy Chronicles. To different groups of car enthusiasts, Roy Lunn represents vastly different accomplishments. There are Ford’s GT40 wins at Le Mans, for which he’s pe...
Leo Beebe at Le Mans in 1966. All photos courtesy of Ford Motorsport. Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Hemmings reader and contributor Frank Comstock, a friend of the late Leo Beebe. “Comin...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As fans of American performance cars will tell you, the late 1960s might just represent the apogee of Ford’s Total Performance era, as v...
The Bruce McLaren/Chris Amon Shelby American continuation GT40 Mk II. Photos courtesy Superformance. Ford wasn’t taking any chances in its quest to beat Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966. Thirteen GT40s wer...
Cover: Patrick Depailler’s Tyrell P34 at the 1976 Dutch Grand Prix. Photos courtesy of McKlein Publishing. Do you have a passion for racing in the 1950s through the 1970s? An interest in Formula One,...