Die «Aero Warrior» von 1969/70
Und da vor allem: Dodge Charger Daytona Heute mag man dies ja kaum mehr glauben, aber früher liess die NASCAR – die «National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing» – nur Serien-Fahrzeuge auf der Ren...
Und da vor allem: Dodge Charger Daytona Heute mag man dies ja kaum mehr glauben, aber früher liess die NASCAR – die «National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing» – nur Serien-Fahrzeuge auf der Ren...
Photo by PSParrot. Fifty years ago, to the day, Larry Rathgeb had brought a cadre of engineers, a hired shoe, and the hottest car on the planet to Talladega. His goal: get the driver, Buddy Baker, to...
Who doesn’t love a ’67 Ford Fairlane, amiright? But the thing about a Fairlane is that it’s always much cooler when it’s turned into a hater-crushing, brainpan-rattling monster of a restomod. It’s al...
Does anyone else out there in Hemmings Nation miss the old days of NASCAR when it was interchangeably known as just “Winston Cup?” As of late, we’ve been talking about those halcyon days when drivers...
Moonshiner, NASCAR driver and former team owner Junior Johnson passed away on December 20th at age 88. His health had been on the decline recently and he died peacefully while under hospice care. He ...
Chevy drops the first DOHC V-8 in a Corvette since the 1900-1995 ZR-1 into the C8.R racer, NASCAR says it could go hybrid starting as soon as 2022, and a closer look at automotive photographer James ...
NASCAR tribute 1985 Ford Thunderbird for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This T-Bird has much more going on than a sharp wrap with custom made matching decals. Crisp sounding sma...
OK – full disclosure, here: we may have tested your patience last week with a truly terrible movie. But look, there’s some beauty in a bad movie. If you can suspend reality for an hour or so and let ...
One of the largest collections of Soviet cars in the world lies in the former Soviet state of Georgia, according to Atlas Obscura: The auto museum is actually a private collection of cars and some mo...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Just how fast could a bewinged Dodge Charger Daytona go – without interference from NASCAR, that is? One championship-winning team se...
The 1984 Winston 500 at Talladega. Photo by Racing Photo Archives/Getty Images, courtesy NASCAR. According to the Associated Press, NASCAR announced a $2 billion merger agreement with International S...
A 440 Magnum-powered 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona. Photos by Terry Shea. It was, perhaps, the most singular-purpose production automobile ever created, designed to add a mere 5 mph in top speed to the ...
Read enough about Wendell Scott and you’ll inevitably see somebody compare him to Jackie Robinson. Both men did indeed break the color barriers in their respective sports, but they did so through ent...
Mario Andretti (standing) with his twin brother, Aldo. All photos courtesy World of Speed Collection. Even among those who don’t follow racing, and nearly two decades after his retirement from the sp...
Photos via Ten-X Commercial. Somehow, despite the constant churn of Florida real estate, the decades-long dilapidation, and the drug-use problem that plagued the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Fl...
This week, we’re donning the leather-elbowed cardigan, sitting down by the fireplace, lighting a pipe and getting all existential about…NASCAR. That’s right: we’re gonna go deep on the topic of “What...
Look, we know. We know how miserable it is outside this week. We also know that even if your garage is attached to the house, there’s a literal snowball’s chance that you’re gonna be in it, anytime s...
Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Dale Jarrett in 2000. Photo credit MSI / Brian Czobat, courtesy of Ford Motor Company. Each year, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame sends a ballot to its nearly 150 ...
The biggest news of the year happened away from the track. In October 1973, Saudi Arabia — controlled by OPEC — organized an oil embargo in retaliation for United States support of Israel during the ...
Glen Wood at his NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony on January 20, 2012. Photo by John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR. Before he became one of NASCAR’s most successful team owners, Glen Wood w...
Photos courtesy Evro Publishing. Over the course of a three-plus-decade career as a racing driver, David Hobbs – “Hobbo” to his friends – piloted everything from sports cars to Can-Am cars, Formula O...
Luckily for us, the great days of stock car racing aren’t really all that far behind us. Most of us can actually remember them. Some say they ended with Earnhardt’s crash in 2001, but we’d rather tal...
Benny Parsons’ Winston Cup Championship-winning 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. It was consistency, not race wins, that carried Benny Parsons to the...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. For most of us, a good day in the junkyard means the yellowjackets didn’t sting and the Sawzall blade didn’t pretzel up. For a pair of Ford enthusia...
Image courtesy Google Street View. Throughout the summer of 1950, residents of Florence, South Carolina, couldn’t help but notice a certain new Oldsmobile constantly driving around town, painted up t...