Our entertainment options these days are, frankly, astounding, as we’ve collectively discovered over the last couple of weeks. Our forebears had a few keen diversionary doodads too, as we see from th...
Photo courtesy Circuit of the Americas. Even if you weren’t already planning to practice social distancing, that’s going to become the default over the next couple of months as more states and munici...
Maybe it’s from spending a week at the Scottsdale Auctions and seeing every shade of muscle car just sitting all too pretty, but we’ve got a hankering to see what it was like when these were the main...
If it appears Geoff Hacker’s been MIA lately, it’s because he was focused on putting together an archive of all of Dan Post’s publications on custom cars from postwar California. Dan Post was there a...
Images courtesy Tom Kimmel. Bill Lear gestured confidently off toward the horizon outside of Reno while bulldozers pushed dirt behind him. Here, he told reporters, would rise an Indianapolis Motor Sp...
Hemmings archive photos. These days, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway looks pristine, polished, and ready for the world stage pretty much any day of the year, and that condition certainly played no sm...
Bringing back the Milwaukee Mile As we wrote earlier this year, the push to bring professional racing back to the Milwaukee Mile has been building momentum, and Milwaukee Magazine recently checked in...
Back in 1989, ESPN sent Peter Graves out to cover the racing at Bonneville, almost on a play-by-play basis with color commentator Rick Vesco. Speeds were high, records were set, and the salt stretche...
Larry Bisceglia’s panel van. Photos courtesy IMS Museum. In May 1986, the Indianapolis media put out an all-points bulletin. Not for any elected official or public persona. Not for any bank robber or...
Courtesy of Road America Vintage racers around the country will take to the Road America track this weekend, as the Ariens Art on Wheels Weekend will feature the Vintage Sports Car Drivers Associatio...
Artist’s rendering of the second circuit at Bathurst, via Bathurst Regional Council. Much like the Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans, Bathurst’s Mount Panorama circuit relies on roads open to the publi...
The views from atop Corkscrew Hill are simply amazing. Here the Group 2A machines, 1955-’61 Sports Cars, make a warm-up lap behind the pace car. Photos by David Conwill. “Pebble Beach,” as Monterey C...
Images are courtesy of Volkswagen and Audi Volkswagen Type 1 designer and founder of the eponymous sports car company, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche would have been very proud of the accomplishments of his g...
The sign in 2006. Photo by the author. Other than the long dark lines that racers follow on their quests for speed and a few drainage ditches, the Bonneville Salt Flats differs from other federal lan...
The scene of the last point races for the A.A.A. championship changed from the East to the West Coast, to sunny California. The Vanderbilt Cup and the Grand Prize were run at Santa Monica. Both races...
Photo by Tony Harrison. Set up in a rural corner of England to celebrate American-style drag racing, Santa Pod Raceway has also been beset with American-style conflicts over noise with area housing d...
A 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SS Zagato. Photo courtesy of the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA. For the second time, the management of the 1000 Miglia is bringing the 1000 Miglia Warm Up USA to Virginia and Wash...
An aerial view of the Nardo Test Facility. Photos courtesy Porsche Engineering Group GmbH. Constructed by Fiat in 1975, the Nardo test track was originally built to allow vehicle endurance and high-s...
Automotive American this week covered the Vintage Hot Rod Association’s Pendine Sands races, one of the U.K.’s largest celebrations of hot rods and American car culture. Tech inspection began on Frid...
Dekon Chevrolet Monza, an IMSA GT veteran, leads a Porsche 935 through the Corkscrew (turn 8A here) at WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway during the 2018 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. All photos b...
The first of 19 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato Continuations. Aston Martin’s Heritage Division headquarters in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, UK, has produced the first of 19 DB4 GT Zagato Continuatio...
Roy Clark’s 1963 Pontiac Bonneville Safari Station Wagon. Photo courtesy of Leake Auctions. Known for his show Hee Haw and hits like Yesterday When I was Young , the late Roy Clark also collected car...
The 1984 Winston 500 at Talladega. Photo by Racing Photo Archives/Getty Images, courtesy NASCAR. According to the Associated Press, NASCAR announced a $2 billion merger agreement with International S...
Although it bore almost no relationship to the road-going car, the Corvette GTP of 1984-1988 certainly saw a lot of racing and bore the Corvette name with pride. The GTP Corvette was borne in an effo...