Photography by the author. If you can imagine spending a warm summer day perusing a show field awash in pristine examples of coveted collectible cars, trucks, and motorcycles, then you know just what...
This year’s 25th Goodwood Festival of Speed just seemed all around the most spectacular such event, whether due to the anniversary, to steadily increasing participation and enthusiasm from car enthus...
The Bullitt Charger leads the Bullitt Mustang up the hill at Goodwood. Still images from Goodwood live stream video. In the five decades since its release, the seven-minute car chase featured in the ...
1935 Duesenberg SSJ roadster. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding and Company. Duesenberg’s SJ models were noted for the performance of their 320-horsepower supercharged st...
Phil Remington. Photo courtesy Greg Sharp, Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Located in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) is the only institution to recognize...
John McComb’s 1967 Ford Mustang restomod. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. John McComb likes to refer to himself as the “best race driver that no one’s ever heard of,” though fans of ...
The 1914 Wanderer owned by Hans-Dieter Springer (wearing bib number 12). Photo by Matthias Mausolf, courtesy AMC Ibbenbueren. From its start as a bicycle manufacturer near Chemnitz, Germany in 1885, ...
Gene, in a ’32 Ford Roadster he helped build, now owned by Rob Ida. Photos by Kevin Carlson unless otherwise noted. Many of us have heard the story of the elderly gentleman reunited with a car from h...
1957 Chevrolet 150 “Black Widow.” All images courtesy of the National Corvette Museum. Chevrolet’s history of racing goes back to even before Chevrolet was formed in 1911. Louis Chevrolet, the compan...
Photos courtesy Scott Grundfor. The press release that Ford issued in late 1982 touting the advanced features of the Ghia Brezza concept car included all sorts of dimensional data but failed to menti...
The 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” was really a 1985 Modena Spyder California. Photos courtesy HVA. It may be the most recognized Ferrari 250 GT California in t...
Photo courtesy Mint 400. The signature clouds of dust that once put a halt to Hunter Thompson’s coverage of the Mint 400 could spell doom for the race’s future just outside of Las Vegas if a plan to ...
1946 Paterson Vehicle Company Silk City Diner. Photos courtesy RM Sothebys. On the list of destination spots for a show-and-shine, the local diner has to be in the top-10 (on the East Coast, anyway)....
Racing in Schenley Park during the 2017 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. Photos by Bill Stoler, courtesy PVGP, unless otherwise noted. From a one-day vintage racing event first held in 1983, the annual...
Images courtesy of Bilweb Auctions We were alerted to a most impressive collection coming up to auction by our friends at Klassiker magazine. Bilweb Auctions -the company that hosted the record-setti...
The Winner’s Circle display at the Simeone. Photo by Jim Donnelly. In June of 2008, the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum opened in its current location on Norwich Drive in Southwest Philadelphia....
Jochen Mass in a W25 at Goodwood. Photo by Bahnfrend. Pop open any book discussing Mercedes-Benz racing history and guaranteed that book will include the story about how, faced with overweight W25 ra...
1967 Shelby G.T. 350; image by the author. When covering auctions for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb–that we do our best to adhere to–is to review a few extra vehicular lots. It’s goo...
Tony Lucas poses with his Best in Show-winning AMX. Photos by author. “All-conquering” is the apt description here, though we didn’t know it at the time. Not only is this 1970 AMC AMX the first Ameri...
The “Best Return Road Burnout” award goes to David Bouvier and his 1968 Chevelle SS 396, our favorite Chevrolet. Photos by Hemmings staff. Since it stopped snowing in the Northeast, rain has dampened...
1968 Ford Fairlane Torino GT fastback. Photo by Jeff Koch. In 1968, Ford revised its Fairlane lineup, replacing 500XL models with a new nameplate, Torino. Named for Turin, Italy, the Torino offered b...
Photo by Greg Gjerdingen. The townspeople hear them coming and know they only have so much time to prepare for another horde of two-wheeled travelers clogging the streets with their bikes heavily dec...
1963 Chevrolet Impala SS lowrider, owned by Jimmy Gonzalez. Photos courtesy The Original Farmers Market. The Gilmore family, of gasoline (and later, petroliana) fame, has owned the property at the co...
Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars. “I designed the Volvo P1800, Roger Moore made it famous.” Pelle Petterson, son of Volvo executive Helmer Petterson, had only recently finished his educati...
The Simeone’s 1913 Mercer Raceabout. Photos by Andrew Taylor, courtesy Simeone Museum, unless otherwise noted. In 1911, the two-year-old Indianapolis Motor Speedway held its first “International Swee...