Images courtesy Indiana Racing Memorial Association. Like many motorsports pioneers, Floyd “Pop” Dreyer pursued speed however and wherever he could. Motorcycle racing, Indy racing, midget car racing,...
Each spring for 40 years, the Hornets Nest Region of the AACA has held AutoFair at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and it has grown into an event quite unlike any other in the U.S. The event is truly an...
A.J. Foyt poses with the Gilmore-Foyt Coyote at Indy in 1977. Photo courtesy IMS. In 2017, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum honored four-time Indy 500 winner A.J. Foyt with a special exhibit en...
Photo by AJ. A cheeky homage to Volvo’s sometimes staid reputation may soon become a thing of the past now that Volvo has sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of the prancing moose logo over...
2017 Acura NSX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD powertrain layout. Photos courtesy Acura, unless otherwise noted. In the not-so-distant-past, the convenience and safety features we take for granted on modern auto...
Complementary – and inexpensive – automobilia is everywhere, and oftentimes given to you without you realizing that it’s a potential collectible. The most meaningful pieces of automobilia in my colle...
Last weekend, the Los Angeles Times gathered nearly 20 years’ worth of data on street racing fatalities in the city. Notably absent from the article: Any mention of the access — or lack of access — t...
Images by Fredrik Nyblad Volvo lovers will soon have the opportunity to purchase a classic model that doesn’t exist, at least according to the Swedish automaker’s production records. Visit a Volvo sh...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. It’s difficult to overstate what a difference GM’s new-for-1982 F-body sports coupes were, as they represented...
Still image from video below. In this vintage television ad, two young boys wearing space helmets experience from the backseat of their parents’ new Ninety-Eight what the redesigned ’59 Oldsmobile ha...
Photos courtesy Porsche AG. Own old cars, trucks or motorcycles long enough, and sooner or later a common problem arises: A needed part is no longer available. Porsche Classic has recently announced ...
Images courtesy Amelia Motoring Film Exhibition. It’s tough to be the new kid on the block, but last year’s inaugural Amelia Motoring Film Exhibition (AMFE) proved to be such a success that Popcorn O...
Illustrations courtesy the owners’ collection. I recently had occasion to try and describe CB radio to my 11-year-old son. I told him that it started as a way for truckers to help each other out on t...
You can’t beat the old Sears catalogs as reference material. Photos by the author. One of the neatest references for everyday-material culture of the past is a Sears, Roebuck and Company Catalog. Sea...
The 1990 Acura NSX debuts at the 1989 Chicago Auto Show. Photo courtesy Honda Motor Company, Ltd.; ad photography courtesy the author’s collection. For decades, Japanese cars were about simple reliab...
Through the years, hundreds of coffee table books have honored the sporting marques of twentieth-century Great Britain. Until now, not one of those has brought together the roster of talent we find b...
This just sums up everything good about the Turlock Swap Meet: @clydeathan doing the boxer’s championship belt hoist with his 2nd-gen Firebird nose–a great score and evidence of a day well-spent. Pho...
Millers at Milwaukee. Photo by Jim Donnelly. The definition of a sports car typically centers on little European roadsters built in the middle few decades of the Twentieth Century. It typically leave...
As 1965 Corvettes go, the Le Mans Blue coupe that crossed Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale stage as lot 1413 isn’t particularly quick, and it certainly won’t post impressive handling numbers. In fact, it...
Photo by Thomas A. DeMauro Have you ever lost something, bought a replacement, and then found the thing you lost soon thereafter? I can’t count how many times I’ve done that with car parts and suppli...
I can remember commuting from Albany, New York, to Springfield, Massachusetts, every Thanksgiving as a child and traveling the NYS Thruway and the Massachusetts Turnpike to get there. Being part of a...
Brochure images are from the collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor “The shape of things to come.” Indeed, the styling of Triumph’s final sports car would remain timely more than ...
Jim Hackett (L) with Bill Ford on May 22, 2017. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. On January 9, Ford CEO Jim Hackett–who spent two decades in executive positions with office furniture giant Steelcas...
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 ...