Challenger II in 2016. Photo by Holly Martin, courtesy Thompson LSR. In 1968, Mickey Thompson debuted his Autolite Special streamliner, built to set a wheel-driven land speed record at Bonneville. It...
1951 Vincent Black Lightning. Photoraphs courtesy Bonhams. Although the Jack Ehret-raced 1951 Vincent is not the most expensive motorcycle ever sold, it is the most expensive motorcycle ever bought a...
Photos courtesy Mossgreen. The Australian auction house that last year aimed to set a record for the most expensive car sold in Australia – and prior to that, claimed the record for the most expensiv...
1970 Chevrolet Camaro (top); 1971 Pontiac Firebird (bottom). Images by the author. This or That is not a comparison report between two vehicles, but rather a feature that enables us, in an idyllic wo...
Editor’s note: The purpose of the “Find of the Day” is to promote interesting cars from our classifieds. These are not the actual ads, so to view more images or contact the seller with questions, cli...
Editor’s note: The purpose of the “Find of the Day” is to promote interesting cars from our classifieds. These are not the actual ads, so to view more images or contact the seller with questions, cli...
2017 Nitro Revival at Barona Drag Strip. Photo by Pam Conrad, courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In 2017, a new event honoring vintage dragsters and the racers who piloted them came to the Barona Dr...
Sir Stirling Moss at the 2015 Mille Miglia. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz. Consider this: In his active years as a driver, Sir Stirling Moss won 57-percent of the races he entered, across a variety o...
I wanted to meet “Big Daddy” Don Garlits when he raced Swamp Rat-I at Atco Dragway in 1962. But it wasn’t to be, and I had to wait 41 years for it to happen. Photo courtesy Garlits Museum of Drag Rac...
When we realized we only had one headlight, Conder took it all in stride. This is the sketch on a piece of chipboard that he keeps piles of, deep inside Conder Custom, that finally solved the problem...
Raceway Park photos by Hemmings staff. In July 1965, the Napp family opened Raceway Park as a drag strip on the site of a former cattle ranch in central New Jersey. In the five-plus decades since, th...
A turbocharged 1962 Corvair Monza Spyder heads a line of performance Corvairs. Photos courtesy Corvair Museum. Beloved by its fans, but criticized–perhaps unreasonably–by its detractors, the Chevrole...
Visitors at the 2017 induction ceremony. Photos courtesy British Sports Car Hall of Fame. Established in 2016, the British Sports Car Hall of Fame’s mission is to “preserve and perpetuate the legacy ...
Dan Gurney (R) with A.J. Foyt at Le Mans in 1967. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. If Dan Gurney wasn’t the greatest American racing driver of all time, he was certainly in the running for the hono...
The Simeone Museum’s Ford GT40 Mk IV, constructed by Kar-Kraft. Photos courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Kar-Kraft was the independent Michigan contractor behind such legendary Ford perf...
Getting there. They say that it takes 90 percent of the time to do 10 percent of the work and vice-versa. “They” say a lot, don’t they? All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Warhol claime...
During the awards banquet immediately following the conclusion of the 2017 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty, Great Race and Coker Tire Company owner Corky Coker announced that the ...
All images courtesy of Mecum Auctions. Fans of a specific make of muscle cars can be a parochial bunch. Mopar guys have their 426 Hemis and Six Packs. Blue Oval types have their Boss 429s and Cobra J...
Photo by Alexandre Guillaumot, courtesy Renault Sport. In two recent court rulings, the European Court of Justice provided some clarification to a prior ruling that appeared to imperil all forms of m...
One of the four mysterious photos Joe Gotelli – grandson of Ted “The Goat” Gotelli – dug out of a filing cabinet for me. While I had to find out what cosmic forces brought these elements together in ...
Images are courtesy Groupe Renault. This is a car that, in 25 years’ time, American enthusiasts will be lining up to import. It’s the 2018 Alpine A110, and while it shares its name and lines with the...
Bob Glidden. Photo by Autostock, courtesy Ford Motor Company. As poet, singer, and lizard king Jim Morrison once observed, “no one here gets out alive,” a statement addressing the end we all must fac...
The car with the motor in it, as we size-up what it might’ve looked like with a 6-71 roots-type supercharger and an Enderle “bugcatcher” mechanical fuel injection setup. All photos by the author unle...
1955 Porsche Continental. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum, unless otherwise noted. Porsche has built up its long-admired reputation as one of the world’s premier builders of thrilling spor...
1955 Porsche Continental. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum, unless otherwise noted. Porsche has built up its long-admired reputation as one of the world’s premier builders of thrilling spor...