From the seller’s description: GR Auto Gallery is pleased to present this 2005 Meyers Manx SR-2 for your consideration. Styling for the SR-2 was conceived by Bruce Meyers and Stewart Reed. He did not...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The midget motorsports craze of the 1930s and 1940s not only served as a launchpad for many drivers who’d go on to successful racing careers, it also ended up keeping ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. Consider the state of the American performance car at the turn of the century. Dodge’s V-10-powered Viper was ...
Circa 1916 Owen Magnetic. Photos courtesy Bonhams. In the early years of the 20th century, battery-electric cars competed head-to-head with internal combustion (and steam-powered) vehicles for market...
Photo courtesy Sonoma Speed Festival. For the better part of three decades, the Duke of Richmond over in England has seemingly set the template for high-end vintage race festivals with the Goodwood R...
Can a $70-million Ferrari be approximately 22,000 times more fun than Lamm’s $3,200 Porsche Boxster? Illustration by Steven Cavalieri. Michael: Hello again, and is it still all right if I call you Mi...
Mercedes-Benz C 111-II experimental vehicle on the test track at the Mercedes-Benz Untertürkheim plant. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz Classic. Officially, Mercedes-Benz remained retired from racing; ...
Above: 1916 Simplex, Crane Model 5. Photography by the author. One of New England’s most respected and beloved museums, the Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, Massachusetts, is celebrating its g...
Hornet’s nest. Photo by Nan Palmero. For over 60 years, a pillar of our business at Hemmings Motor News has been classified advertising, and revenue from this helps to fund the production of the Hemm...
Image courtesy Google Maps. It predates the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway and has seen nearly as many famed drivers kick dirt from under their tires. It has hosted both championship and exhibitio...
1978 Plymouth Fury Police Pursuit (top); 1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (bottom). Images by the author. During the summer of 1978, Foreigner’s Hot Blooded hit the airwaves, mixing it up with tunes from th...
Photos courtesy Silverstone Auctions. Sydney Allard cared about many things when building his sports cars. Aesthetics were not among those priorities. Yet with the Palm Beach Mark II, the prototype o...
From the seller’s description: 1980 Toyota Cressida – White exterior with maroon velour interior. The car has one owner with low original mileage of 73,417. The vehicle has always been garage kept an...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In many ways, the story of the Jones-Benisek 1970 Buick GS is the story of the car(s) that it is not. It is not the Stage 1 car that its flanks and badging indicate. I...
Photography by author. Souvenirs come in all forms, but none are more useable than the little shot glass. For a small glass container that holds only 1.5 ounces of your favorite liquid, shot glasses ...
Image courtesy Brubaker Box Fans on Facebook. Even the people behind the Brubaker Box didn’t quite know how to position the people mover. Was it a minivan before the term took hold? A surf wagon? A c...
Left to right: A 1976 Traveler, a 1976 Scout II, and a 1968 Scout 800 at the International Harvester proving grounds. Photos courtesy Ryan DuVall. By the late 1990s, it had seemed to Ryan DuVall that...
All photos by the author. Early April in North Carolina means one thing for the collector-car hobby: Charlotte AutoFair. This year’s Spring Charlotte AutoFair will take place from Thursday, April 4, ...
From the seller’s description: Beautiful 1964 Pontiac Bonneville Safari Wagon . Fabulous Driver quality and fun for a cruise. Original engine 389 and tranx. Pwr windows, A/C (not currently working), ...
Photo courtesy Onondaga Dragway. A bittersweet farewell message greeted visitors to Onondaga Dragway’s website earlier this month, noting that “we don’t know where to go from here” after a six-year-r...
Image by Frerk Meyer, via Creative Commons. If you were taken aback by the story a few weeks ago that Volvo was going to limit the speed of all of its cars worldwide to a 112-mph maximum in the name ...
Arlen, Cory, and Zach Ness. Photo courtesy Kahn Media. We have learned from the Arlen Ness Motorcycle Facebook page that Arlen Ness passed away quietly on Friday, March 22, 2019. He was 79 years old ...
Photograph by the author. Ever have a grand idea to do something to your car and, after a number of torturous, laborious, and expensive steps, it turns out to be not what you hoped it would be? I had...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Vauxhall had no racing infrastructure when it reentered racing in 1971. It didn’t intend its 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine to hold up under competition use. But these things...
Photo courtesy Italy to Paris World Rally of Texas. The road from Italy to Paris stretches 150 miles, runs through Athens, and is fraught with the potential of getting egged. Or, at least, it does on...