Mario Andretti at the 1969 Indianapolis 500. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Established in 2014 and named for the man who brought motor racing to Watkins Glen, the Cameron R. Argetsinger...
1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe. Photos courtesy Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Sometimes, the joy of acquiring a collector car is not in the actual purchase, but in the hunt itself. While all...
Photo courtesy the Petty Family Foundation. Racing drivers are very seldom household names in the United States, but Richard Petty is surely an exception to this rule. Petty is known simply as “The K...
Images courtesy of Volvo Cars Heritage; detail photos by the author. Volvo cars had a very different image in the mid-1970s than today’s models do. The 200 series cars were practical, sober, and safe...
Proposed Jim Clark Museum. Images courtesy The Jim Clark Trust, unless otherwise noted. Jim Clark was, by most period accounts, the best racing driver of his day, and quite possibly the best of all t...
Images courtesy Studebaker National Museum. The “what if” game doesn’t hold much appeal for Andy Beckman, so the archivist for the Studebaker National Museum didn’t care to speculate on an alternativ...
The rivalry between American motorcycle brands Indian and Harley-Davidson dates back over a century. Today, thanks to the 2011 revival of Indian and its 2016 return to racing under parent company Pol...
Images courtesy Wellborn Muscle Car Museum. In January 2015, and again in January 2017, Tim and Pam Wellborn offered cars from their Alexander City, Alabama, Muscle Car Museum for sale at Mecum’s Kis...
Divcos from the Hackenberger Collection. Photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions. Ron Hackenberger of Norwalk, Ohio, is our kind of guy. He started collecting cars when he bought a 1948 Studebaker at ag...
Images courtesy the Mullin Automotive Museum. Though largely unknown to contemporary consumers in the United States, French automaker Citroen is beloved in much of the world for its innovative design...
The Rosa Parks bus at The Henry Ford, part of a collection of newly digitized videos by The Henry Ford. A spate of museum programs scheduled for this month aim to explore the confluences of African-A...
Moving the ’62 Corvette off the Skydome floor on February 9. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. In the three years since the February 12, 2014, sinkhole collapse of the Skydome floor at the Na...
Derek E. Moore. Image courtesy National Corvette Museum. After a vacancy that’s lasted “about a decade,” according to National Corvette Museum Marketing and Communication Manager Katie Frassinelli, t...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
Photo courtesy NHRA Motorsports Museum. While it only took three weeks for Chet Herbert and his crew to build the Beast IV, Herbert’s last and most successful streamliner, Dan Webb’s restoration of t...
1910 Autocarrier. Photos courtesy the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Best known on this side of the Atlantic for providing the chassis that underpins Carroll Shelby’s Cobra, the history of AC ...
Photo by OZinOH. Ol’ Henry’s name remains in that of the museum he founded, but now he shares it with a few more words, as museum officials revealed last week. The decision to rename the Henry Ford M...
GM’s CERV I. Contemporary photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Developed in 1959 as a racing car disguised as an “engineering research vehicle,” GM’s CERV I remained part of the automaker’s collection un...
Archive photo. After a federal judge gave the go-ahead for Craig Breedlove to pursue his lawsuit against the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for allegedly damaging Breedlove’s Spirit of Americ...
1954 Lincoln Capri, on loan to The Revs from the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada. Photos by author. From the beginning of December through the end of April, I spend quite a lot of time thi...
1929 Ford Model A Tudor with wood gas system attached. Photos by author. The efforts to find a sustainable replacement for gasoline precede the term “e-mobility” that currently dominates press releas...
How does one amass a collection of more than 13,000 automotive brochures from around the world while living in Manhattan? Ask collector Steve Hayes, as the New York Times did this past week as he pre...
Bobby Unser’s 1968 Indy 500-winning Eagle-Offy. Photo by Zach Todd, courtesy Canepa. Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has a more than 50-year track record of taking on the world and winning. From bei...
1910 Hudson Touring Car. Images courtesy Seal Cove Auto Museum. Seal Cove Auto Museum, on the spectacular Maine coast, occupies a unique place at the juncture of automotive history and the research o...
Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. The widely recounted story goes like this: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., impressed by Renault’s win in the 1906 French Grand Prix, asked the automaker to build 10 scaled-...