Cliff Vaughs. Photo courtesy the Motorcycle Film Festival. We learned of Cliff Vaughs’s passing over the July 4th holiday but knew of his exploits from researching previous articles about Easy Rider ...
Carl Haas (L), with Michael Andretti, Mario Andretti and Paul Newman in 1992. Image courtesy IMS. Carl Haas, a Chicago businessman who formed one of the most fearsome Indy car combinations in history...
Chet Krause at Iola in 2013. Photo courtesy John Gunnell. Chet Krause spent his entire life in Iola, Wisconsin, where he got his start tearing down Ford Model Ts for salable parts. He bootstrapped th...
Jere Stahl. Photo by Ed Almquist. If you’ve never heard his name, you almost certainly grew up outside the northeastern United States, but we still bet you were familiar with his products. Jere Stahl...
Photo by Sondre Kvipt, courtesy Kustomrama. Bill Hines had been around in the auto customizing scene for so long and remained so active it seemed as though he was immortal. While his legend will live...
Don White (L) with USAC’s Dick Jordan. Photo courtesy USAC. Beginning in the 1950s, the Mississippi River city of Keokuk, Iowa, arguably produced more top-level dirt-track racers than another town in...
Ralph Eckler. Photo courtesy Eckler Industries. When Ralph Eckler fabricated a one-piece hood for the crash-damaged 1960 Chevrolet Corvette in his father’s Moline, Illinois, gas station, he had no wa...
Photo courtesy Restoration Specialties. David Mihalko Sr., bought his first car, a 1929 Ford Model A, in 1955 at the age of 14. His $35 investment would ignite a lifelong passion for classic cars, an...
Photo courtesy Oldsmobile, via Steve Moskowitz. Driving a Curved Dash Oldsmobile across the country when it was new took skill, mechanical aptitude, and courage. Driving a Curved Dash Oldsmobile acro...
Chase Morsey photo via Bob Fria. His knees shook as he sat waiting outside Henry Ford II’s office. Chase Morsey, then 29 years old and less than a year into his time at Ford Motor Company, knew he wa...
Jim Travers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2008. Photo by Jim Haines, courtesy IMS. He was one half of the most legendary mechanical combo in the postwar history of the Indianapolis 500. Jim T...
Robert Carini. Photo courtesy Klingberg Vintage Motorcar Festival. Robert Carini may not have achieved the level of fame realized by his son Wayne, star of Velocity television’s Chasing Classic Cars,...
Ron Bouchard at Dover in 1985. Photo by Ted Van Pelt. Outside of New England racing circles, the name Ron Bouchard may not be known to those without a passion for NASCAR trivia. Over the course of a ...
We wouldn’t note somebody’s passing in these pages if they didn’t somehow influence the old car hobby as we know it today, but this year in particular saw the deaths of many people who didn’t merely ...
Photos courtesy Goodguys. While pretty much anybody else would start small, the first car show Gary Meadors put together attracted several hundred street rods, and in the decades since, Meadors – who...