Scarbo SVF1 prototype. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. To many racing fans, including Joe Scarbo, the pre-wing-era Formula 1 cars of the late 1960s were among the most beautiful co...
Photo by Lav Ulv. Motorsports fans in Europe have lost another battle in their bid to save the sport from a revised Motor Insurance Directive after insurers there stated they will not cover any racin...
All images courtesy of and copyright Bryan McCarthy of Bearded Mug Media, except as noted. A few years back I wrote about the need to take your kid to a vintage rally. If you didn’t heed my advice th...
This year’s 25th Goodwood Festival of Speed just seemed all around the most spectacular such event, whether due to the anniversary, to steadily increasing participation and enthusiasm from car enthus...
(Not the actual dune buggy). Image courtesy Stomper4x4. Honestly, the worst thing about Matt McLaughlin’s comment on the recent Meyers Manx SR2 Hemmings Find of the Day, in which he details his first...
Phil Remington. Photo courtesy Greg Sharp, Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Located in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) is the only institution to recognize...
John McComb’s 1967 Ford Mustang restomod. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. John McComb likes to refer to himself as the “best race driver that no one’s ever heard of,” though fans of ...
Red Vogt, who suggested the NASCAR name. Photo courtesy NASCAR Hall of Fame. By no means did stock car racing start with NASCAR. Rather, a patchwork of stock car racing organizations blanketed the co...
For the Fourth of July, Summit’s OnAllCylinders took a look at perhaps the only vehicle to exclusively wear red, white, and blue throughout its entire production run: the AM General Dispatcher Jeep. ...
1966 Shelby G.T. 350H; all images by the author. It’s presale estimate was set at $150,000 – $200,000. Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine print cycles have dictated that we bid farewell to the 2018 Sc...
Driver Jim Menneto and navigator Stephanie Sigot pose with the Hemmings Speedster. Photo courtesy Stephanie Sigot. Aided by a sixth-place finish on stage nine, the leg from Dartmouth to Halifax, Nova...
Most times, automakers’ marketing efforts fall toward the ephemeral end of the scale. They are, after all, conceived for the short-term gains that lead to the next quarter’s sales figures, nothing mo...
Carl Schneider and Jack Juratovic heading to the Mt. Washington summit in their 1955 Buick. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd, unless otherwise noted. The Mount Washington Auto Road, which climbs to the summi...
Gene, in a ’32 Ford Roadster he helped build, now owned by Rob Ida. Photos by Kevin Carlson unless otherwise noted. Many of us have heard the story of the elderly gentleman reunited with a car from h...
Dave Roper aboard his 350cc 1970 Harley-Davidson ERTT. Photos courtesy Bagamor Media. In 1984, vintage motorcycle racer Dave Roper rode a 1959 Matchless G50 to victory in the Historic 500cc class at ...
1957 Chevrolet 150 “Black Widow.” All images courtesy of the National Corvette Museum. Chevrolet’s history of racing goes back to even before Chevrolet was formed in 1911. Louis Chevrolet, the compan...
The Henry Ford has a number of concept cars in its collections, but it also has a good amount of concept-car-related items, too, like this Chrysler Falcon scale model, as we see in this recent post r...
Race-ready 1969 TVR Tuscan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: In 1969, the TVR Tuscan had an all round tube chassis, which was not strong enough to endure the challenges of raci...
The newest road-legal Porsche 917. Photo courtesy Porsche AG. The story of how Porsche’s 917 came to dominate the highest levels of sports car racing in both North America and Europe has been well to...
Tom McEwen. Photo courtesy NHRA. Over a drag racing career that spanned nearly four decades, Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen won just five NHRA national events, yet still established himself as one of the ...
Photo courtesy Mint 400. The signature clouds of dust that once put a halt to Hunter Thompson’s coverage of the Mint 400 could spell doom for the race’s future just outside of Las Vegas if a plan to ...
Racing in Schenley Park during the 2017 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. Photos by Bill Stoler, courtesy PVGP, unless otherwise noted. From a one-day vintage racing event first held in 1983, the annual...
The Winner’s Circle display at the Simeone. Photo by Jim Donnelly. In June of 2008, the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum opened in its current location on Norwich Drive in Southwest Philadelphia....
Jochen Mass in a W25 at Goodwood. Photo by Bahnfrend. Pop open any book discussing Mercedes-Benz racing history and guaranteed that book will include the story about how, faced with overweight W25 ra...
Photo by Neil. Despite objections from racing advocates and from the insurance industry, the European Commission late last week announced a slate of auto insurance reform proposals that includes a me...