Words and photographs by Peter Doherty. I have a little paperback book on my bookshelf that somehow has survived nearly 50 years of life changes and house moves. The publication date inside says 1966...
Rally-prepped 1965 Mercury Comet Caliente for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This vehicle is a recreation of one of the original Ford Motor Company Mercury Comet rally cars. Com...
Photo courtesy New England Auto Museum. Pinning down a birth date for Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team isn’t exactly straightforward. Could have taken place in 1948, 1958, or any number of...
1950 Allard J2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1950 J2, chassis #99J1851, is the sister car to the famous Pollard #14 Allard. Tom Carsten, of Pacific NW Racing fame, own...
The Hemmings Motor News 1932 Ford Speedster. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd, courtesy The Great Race. It is time once again for Great Racers and vintage car rallying fans to make their annual pilgrimage to...
Bill Rodencal astride his 1915 Harley-Davidson, getting back into the action. Photos courtesy Motorcycle Cannonball and The Vintagent. But why should we be surprised? Previous semi-annual Motorcycle ...
Open-wheel Formula Continental cars run at the 2016 SVRA Brickyard Invitational. Photo by Mike Young, courtesy of Indianapolis Motor Speedway. You’ve heard it and so have we: Real race cars don’t hav...
When it comes to cars and driving, each of us dream differently. For some, bliss is a winding mountain road and an agile sports car, while for others it’s a plush, family-sized station wagon and a st...
One has to wonder how so many carmakers get away with appropriating reusing existing names in the automotive pantheon. By dint of their size and access to lawyers, probably. As we ponder that, the Hi...
“Jungle Jim” Chevrolet Monza funny car. Photo courtesy NHRA. While the Automobile Driving Museum has historically focused on American cars and the on-road driving experience essential to those cars, ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The more unusual the vehicle, the more likely it will be put to unusual purposes, a maxim perfectly applicable to one of the last remaining 5-ton BMC transporters, a vehicle ...
Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme seated on the McLaren M8B that dominated the 1969 Can-Am series with the “Bruce and Denny Show” winning every race. Image courtesy of McLaren. September 6 marks the 50th...
Photos by author. Labor Day weekend may signal the unofficial end of summer, but around the Hemmings headquarters in Bennington, Vermont, the holiday also marks the second Musclepalooza event of the ...
After living and traveling in a VW Bus, an International Travelall must seem like a mansion in comparison. We’ll find out how it works as the Schulte family takes their vintage Travelall with a roof-...
The Frank Sanders 1963 Chevrolet Impala Z11 and the Jerry Alderman 1962 Ford Galaxie Lightweight, both part of Nick Smith’s collection. Story and photos by Mark Elias. Jerry Alderman Ford’s 1962 Ford...
Michiel Huisman, as William Davidson, astride a Harley-Davidson replica built by Alex Wheeler and crew. Photos courtesy of the Discovery Channel. Following up on our phone interview with Bug Hall fro...
Photo by the author. Nowhere in this month’s issuance of new greenhouse gas standards for heavy-duty trucks by the Environmental Protection Agency does the agency ban the conversion of street cars in...
By William Hall. Photos by the author. A new summer-long exhibit at Milwaukee’s Harley-Davidson Museum showcases vintage drag cars and motorcycles and celebrates drag racing pop culture from the 1950...
Steve Kinser. Photo by Jack Kromer. If you’re one of the people who skipped the All Star Circuit of Champions sprint car race at Lebanon Valley Speedway in New York on Monday, August 22, you can star...
Photos courtesy The Henry Ford. Our impulse to pull back the curtain, to see the humble and real genesis of our fantasies, where does that come from? Are we not impressed enough with the film that we...
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...
By the late 1930s, those wanting to win sprint car races at Midwest tracks often turned to Indianapolis race car constructor Floyd “Pop” Dreyer, who seemed to have a way with all things mechanical. D...
1964 Abarth 850 TC replica for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: replica ex-Coppa Mille racer with Autobianchi A112 70HP engine, dual wishbone front suspension, fiberglass doors an...
Found footage of old race events is pretty awesome, but some of the videos put together with that footage rather lacks. Not so with the one The Chicane recently spotlighted, which shows the action at...
Dodge announced a new Charger Daytona this past week, so Allpar decided to compare and contrast all the previous iterations of the Daytona to see which one the most recent version most resembles. Ans...