Peter Fontana’s Deuce coupe at The Race of Gentlemen. Images by the author. There probably has not been a time, at least in living memory, when the 1932 Ford was anything less than an icon of motorin...
Photo by Mr. Muggles. Thankfully, we’ve survived another trip around the sun, which means it’s time once again for our annual gaze into the crystal ball, which smells suspiciously of carb cleaner (re...
Concept sketch by Clayton Paddison. Well, it happened. My inner contrarian lost out to practicality. If you can call it practicality to own a near-century-old car with the intention of driving it on ...
Whenever we see images of Mel Stultz and Bobby Green’s “Frozen Few” vintage-motorcycle ice racing, we are reminded of the Swedish Winter Grand Prix (and wonder why we don’t get invited to race old ho...
The flag drops and the hammer’s down at The Race of Gentlemen on Pismo Beach. Photo by Jeff Koch. It rained at Woodstock in 1969. More than 400,000 people showed up and made the best of it despite th...
A gathering of Rolling Bones creations at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2011. Photo by Peter Vincent. Hot rodding was born as a pure pursuit of speed, but as factory efforts caught up to and finally o...
We spotted this promotional car in the parking lot while waiting to go out on the wet beach during The Race of Gentleman West. This 201-cubic-inch flat-six 1938 Plymouth is the ambassador vehicle rep...
Shinya Kimura’s 1915 Indian twin, fresh from this year’s Motorcycle Cannonball. Photos by the author. As if 3,306 miles of grueling highway riding just a few weeks ago wasn’t enough, several riders f...
Flag girl Sara defying gravity on the West Coast. Photos by Daniel Beaudry. October, it seems, is a cruel mistress. After bad weather in 2014 and a one-week delay for Hurricane Joaquin in 2015, The R...
The Navarro roadster. Photo courtesy of The Race of Gentlemen. If the East Coast progenitor of The Race of Gentlemen is any indication, the opportunity to follow in the tire tracks of history by raci...
This 1927 Ford roadster came about because of a free, splash-oiled 216 Chevy. “Waste not, want not” sounds like it probably came from Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack, but it could very we...
Jeremiah Thomas’s 1929 Ford A/V8 is a veritable oldtimer in the East Coast traditional rodding scene. Photos by the author. You’ve probably seen this ’29 Ford roadster with the Ford V-8 logo stencile...
Blame it on The Race of Gentlemen, but every time we come back from the beach-racing showdown, we contemplate building a car of our own. Starting from scratch can be both complicated and expensive, m...
Matt Kutz’s Kammback phaeton speedster cuts a dashing figure in spectator parking at The Race of Gentlemen. Photos by the author. We spotted Miss Fire here as she wheeled into the impromptu Friday ni...
TROG East 2016, day one: Jeff Bloedorn’s ’32 coupe gets a jump on Scott Sheehan’s ’30 roadster Jeff Brock’s ’21 roadster. Photos by author. Kevin Carlson, Race of Gentlemen regular, owner of the Sass...
Building the Wall of Death – still image from video below. Mel Stultz, founder of The Race of Gentlemen, has recently completed construction on a new/old Wall of Death attraction, which will be on di...
For the first time in 55 years, Oiler Quint Meland is staged to race. Photography by the author. As the weather warms, the days lengthen and the annual Race of Gentlemen in Wildwood, New Jersey—now h...
All art and photography courtesy of HotRod Jen. We first met “HotRod” Jen Thomas (née Skidmore) back in November of 2013 when writing a piece for Speedobilia in Hemmings Muscle Machines (issue #125) ...
Well yes, it certainly does move! Those hop ups and motorcycles get going pretty fast over that eighth-mile stretch of beach sand. But what we really mean is that the date of the race is changing, an...
This is the raglan-sleeve jersey that Hometown Jersey made for my car club. A couple of us here are members of a group called the Barnstormers VSC (Vintage Speed Club), and when we decided to have je...