Photos courtesy of Southwest Valuations and Classic Car Auction Group. No need to remind any of you that we’re well into 2019 – and that dragsters of the Golden Era of drag racing (let’s call it 1963...
By the time you read this, our own Quain Stott and his epic Southeast Gassers Association will have made their prime-time cable debut on Discovery’s “Moonshiners.” Full disclosure: since we write the...
WE’RE BACK! I know it’s been a way-too-long hiatus between chapters of the Stoner T, but that’s just par for the course with this car. Since the day I started collecting the pile of parts that ultima...
This week, we bring you a snapshot crammed so full of juicy little blurry details that we can barely stand it. It’s obviously set in California, but we can’t place it, exactly. Year? Guessing by the ...
In 1968, the NHRA U.S. Nationals at Indy were recorded for a documentary produced by Hollywood’s Documentary Productions Inc. Not only is the hour-plus film an amazing capture of what drag racing was...
Photos courtesy Southeast Gassers Association, Caleb Sewell, Hoosier Racing Tire Quain Stott. Probably the best name in motorsports right now – not just because it’s the one behind the Southeast Gass...
Every once in awhile, a vintage photograph comes across our screens that just stops us in our proverbial tracks. And this is one such shot that stopped us long enough to ask, “Wouldn’t Hemmings Muscl...
We might argue that one of the main reasons for the redesign of the Muscle Machines weekly newsletter was to not just celebrate the new look of the magazine, but to be a regular source of…well, alter...
Photos courtesy Bob Plumer collection, Lee Smith collection, Tim Costello/Mopar Collector’s Guide, Fred Engelhart, Ron Thums, Don Moats. It’s no secret that one of our favorite periods of Cardom is t...
There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when drag racing was really, really cool. Drivers were gladiators, teams were small bands of nomads, motel parking lots were all-night parties, and the ...
Aaron Kahan’s 1927 Ford Model T coupe is anything but bad news. Footage: @benkahan Since we’re celebrating one of the greatest annual drag racing events this week – the California Hot Rod Reunion – w...
An early catalog cover for San Francisco, California-based American Racing Equipment. One of the many benefits of the Hemmings West desk here in San Francisco, is the city’s somewhat obscure role in ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
We’ve been told for some years now that the so-called blue chips – those cars on the higher end of the market – have driven the overall growth of the collector car market. Bloomberg this week, howeve...
Filmed by Dirk Behlau on a DJI Osmo in 4K, www.thepixeleye.com 1955 Chevy Bel Air, 2400 PS, 632 cui, Chevy Big Block Twin, www.race-antz.de
Photo courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Legendary drag racer, hot rodder, and land-speed racer Art Chrisman – whose dragster set the pattern for many other quarter-mile conquerors and who racked u...
Ninety-nine percent of the cars and trucks that appear as Hemmings Finds of the Day are probably ninety-nine percent more practical than the Rain for Rent Top Fuel dragster from the mid- to late Seve...
heho folks, enclosed some impressions from the rrrrroaming nitrolympx at hockenheimring. can`t wait for the next drag racing season. for more informations, please check out nitrolympx.
Short trailer for a bigger movie that will come out soon in HD, and you can be sure that it will be full of pure POWER. Motointegrator and VTG visited Germany for this years KOG. Film was done on the...
taken from the DVD production "Drag Racing Turtmann" filmed in Switzerland, released in 2007. http://pixeleye.biz/#202641/Drag-Racing-DVD Showrun of european champion Urs Erbacher + interview from Sw...