Photo by Tony Harrison. Three legends of drag racing in Great Britain, and the island nation’s most fabled quarter mile, have been announced as the newest class of inductees to the British Drag Racin...
Photo by the author. Though the collector car hobby – and Hemmings, by extension – focuses almost exclusively on older motor vehicles, that doesn’t mean it is or we are bereft of news to report. In f...
Peter Brock. Images courtesy of the National Corvette Museum. Along with celebrating America’s sports car, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, also celebrates the people who have...
Photos courtesy British Sports Car Hall of Fame. In 2016, replacement parts supplier Moss Motors established the British Sports Car Hall of Fame “to preserve and perpetuate the legacy and impact of t...
From left: Bud Feldkamp, Don Amador, Jim Ober, Larry Raglun, Tracy Valenta. Photo courtesy Off-Road Motorsport Hall of Fame. Established in 1978 by National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA) co-fou...
The 2016 Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame induction class, with founder John Scotti (foreground). Photos courtesy Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame. Last year was the first time that the newly estab...
Photo by Shawn Wilson. Of all the cities in the world important to automotive history – Turin, Stuttgart, Indianapolis, Coventry, Yokohama – the Automotive Hall of Fame currently resides in Dearborn,...
Photos courtesy Tim Cunningham. They flew. They lit up the darkness. They did not, however – could not, in fact – drive under their own power, yet they remain some of the world’s best-known Trabants ...
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...
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...
Harley Earl with Firebirds I, II, and III. Photo courtesy GM. With almost 270 men and women among its ranks, the Automotive Hall of Fame has already recognized some of the automotive industries most ...
Photo courtesy Nader.org. He may never have owned or driven a car, but Ralph Nader has had an undisputed influence on the development of the automobile over the last 50 years, and it’s for that influ...
Photos courtesy ChipFoose.com, Hooker Headers, SEMA. Chip Foose’s ubiquity in hot rodding and customizing is no mere fluke of reality television. Instead, the custom car designer’s more than 25 years...
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...
Steve Stanford. Photo courtesy Steve Stanford Designs. The Grand National Roadster Show is still a few weeks off, but the 2016 inductees into its Hall of Fame have already been named. Of the four inc...
Laguna Seca USRRC, 1965. Ken Miles (#98), Ed Leslie (#96), and Bob Johnson (#97) in their Shelby American Cobras lead at the start. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. In 1962, the SCCA launched its f...
John Surtees at Goodwood in 2011. Photos courtesy Daimler AG. In an era when versatility defined racing’s best drivers, perhaps none was a proficient at multitasking than John Surtees. From 1956 thro...
Bob Bondurant, photo by John Prumatico. All photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. The National Corvette Museum has maintained a Hall of Fame since 1998 to honor individuals who have been influent...