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...
In 2004, the ACEMCO Racing team debuted a new Saleen S7R in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Championship, placing second in the GTS class behind the all-conquering Corvette C5-R. Chassis 029R, the...
Retired designer Rodell Smith. Still from American Dreaming trailer. Aiming to eliminate the industrial stigma the art world has attached to automotive design and renderings, two collectors and chron...
Under new ownership and reeling from a decline in the snowmobile market, Rupp Manufacturing needed a home-run product to reverse its fortunes in 1974. Its roll-of-the-dice gamble was the Centaur, a t...
At first blush, it may look as though every view of Barre in yesterday’s and today’s carspotting posts, which all came from the Vermont Landscape Change photo archive, depicts a different town, but t...
What’s kept this six cylinder-powered 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com from already succumbing to somebody’s desire to plant a V-8 under the hood? The largely ...
Laguna Seca USRRC, 1965. Ken Miles (#98), Ed Leslie (#96), and Bob Johnson (#97) in their Shelby American Cobras lead at the start. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. In 1962, the SCCA launched its f...
1965 Plymouth Barracuda. Photo by author. Speaking of the 273-cu.in. Mopar small-block V-8 that I recently wrote about, here’s a noteworthy car that has one. More significantly, this 1965 Plymouth Ba...
1910 Royal Pioneer. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In addition to the 25th-annual Mecum MidAmerica Motorcycle Auction taking place in early January, collectors of vintage two-wheeled iron will be ...
John Surtees at Goodwood in 2011. Photos courtesy Daimler AG. In an era when versatility defined racing’s best drivers, perhaps none was a proficient at multitasking than John Surtees. From 1956 thro...
Ready for a little bit of carspotting overload? We stumbled on a set of photos from downtown Barre, all dated June 1974, all of the downtown park square area, all featuring plenty of traffic, in the ...
For 1963, the Ford Falcon Futura replaced the Falcon Deluxe atop the model’s range, and a new two-door hardtop model was introduced. While a six-cylinder was still the standard offering on Falcon Fut...
Cars from the 1979 event take a parade lap on the Long Beach Grand Prix course. Photo courtesy Gero Hoschek. It was an event as audacious as its founder, Brock Yates, the Car and Driver editor known ...
Cars from the 1979 event take a parade lap on the Long Beach Grand Prix course. Photo courtesy Gero Hoschek. It was an event as audacious as its founder, Brock Yates, the Car and Driver editor known ...
VX-6 cadmium battery additive; image by the author Although there may be two certainties in life, as the old joke goes, the number is far greater when it comes to the automobile. In fact, if you real...
Sure, I want all of them…but would that be sensible? Photo by author. When I was a teenager, I thought there was no such thing as owning too many vintage cars. They looked great, were easy to work on...
After decades of being passed over by collectors, Datsun 240Zs appear to be getting some of the respect they deserve. While current buyers favor Day One cars, the truth of the matter is this: by the ...
Last year was a successful one for several auction houses selling some pretty impressive bikes as well as a few head-scratching project bikes. In all, there were 15 new “highest sold motorcycles” add...
Last year was a successful one for several auction houses selling some pretty impressive bikes as well as a few head-scratching project bikes. In all, there were 15 new “highest-sold motorcycles” add...
While we’ve included a number of photos of this 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Custom two-door hardtop for sale on Hemmings.com for reference, we really only need one to convey the car’s story and its appe...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s Arsenal of Democracy speech, FCA this week put together a video highlighting Chrysler’s contribution to the war effort, which included buil...
First-generation Honda Accords are a rare sight on American roads these days, since most were used up by a string of ever more budget-constrained owners, or consumed by the tinworm until no longer ab...
Roy Lunn, the man behind Ford’s GT40 and, ultimately, its racing successes, recently was feted at an event put together in Florida that featured plenty GT40s, GTs, and Cobras. Car Guy Chronicles has ...
Photo by the author. Just a quick programming note: We’re going to take a break tomorrow so we can get our desks in order for the new year. This past year has been a great one, and we’ve got more pla...
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 ...