Don Garlits in Swamp Rat XIII, March 1970. Photo courtesy NHRA. 1,300 pounds. 1,600 horsepower. 220 inches out to those front wheels. No more bodywork or paint than necessary. Like many a Don Garlits...
Mazda this past week celebrated the company’s centennial with a special website and lots of vintage photos. Japanese Nostalgic Car pulled together a couple stories on the celebration and centennial. ...
Last weekend’s Iso Lele 50th anniversary celebration in Bresso brought out a good number of Isos ( translation ) to the company’s former headquarters, only a handful of them Leles. Iso enthusiasts ho...
Last weekend’s Iso Rivolta 50th anniversary celebration in Bresso brought out a good number of Isos ( translation ) to the company’s former headquarters, only a handful of them Rivoltas. Iso enthusia...
For perhaps the best coverage of the recent Citroen centennial bash, we have to look no further than Citroenvie! a huge conglomeration of Citroëns of every model. The assembly of Traction Avants alon...
Why did Nissan recently celebrate the 50th anniversaries of the Z and the GT-R at a rest stop? As Ben Hsu at Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, the rest stop wasn’t on just any old highway. That’s because...
This past week marked the 25th anniversary of three-time F1 champ Ayrton Senna’s death at the San Marino Grand Prix, an event that left the motorsports world shattered, as this BBC documentary from a...
Carlo Abarth, posing with a selection of Abarth models. Images courtesy FCA. It’s fitting that a scorpion adorns the badge of European performance brand – and current FCA subsidiary – Abarth. Not onl...
Photos courtesy Cummins. As a 23-year-old test inspector for Marmon in 1911, Clessie Cummins jumped at the chance to crew for Ray Harroun’s Marmon Wasp at the inaugural Indianapolis 500, an experienc...
Tin Can Tourists in De Soto Park, December 1920. Photos via Florida Memory. Long before today’s #vanlife movement, another generation of travelers and wanderers who carried their houses around with t...
Photo by Bierlos. Over the last century, Citroën has introduced a number of of significant automotive innovations from front-wheel drive to the company’s signature hydropneumatic suspension. That leg...
This past week, as Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, marked the 50th anniversary of Nissan’s GT-R, the sedan with the heart of a race car, designed by Prince engineers working within the company. What re...
Photo by Jay Reed. Just before the end of World War II, vets started coming home en masse with visions of importing and driving the zippy little roadsters they saw overseas. A group of well-off men i...
Much like in entertainment, the show must go on in racing. That’s even after incidents that threaten to sideline the entire field of cars, such as the water-in-the-fuel episode at the 1976 24 Hours o...
Amid the big announcements from GM this past week came the news that the company was canceling a number of models, including the Impala, which this year turned 60. Eric Lawrence at the Detroit Free P...
1969 Chevrolet K5 Blazer. Photo courtesy GM Media. Sure, the Chevrolet Blazer heavily influenced sport utility vehicles by using a shortened version of GM’s standard pickup chassis, as many histories...
Photos courtesy Beaulieu National Motor Museum. Like many a children’s tale going back to the Brothers Grimm, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang might initially come across as airy, innocent, and fantastical — ...
Lamborghini Islero S (L) and Espada. Photos courtesy Lamborghini Polo Storico. For Italian automaker Lamborghini, 1968 was a significant year, marked by the introduction of its first true four-seater...
Established in 2000, the Piaggio Museum in Pontedera recently got treated to a full renovation. It’s now, according to Piaggio, the largest Italian museum dedicated to two-wheeled transportation. Tha...
Images courtesy Long Beach Autorama, Jim Lattin. Like many racers in pursuit of the land-speed record, Frank Lockhart had talent, nerves of steel, and boundless determination. Also like many racers i...
Jackie Harris’ “Fruitmobile.” Photo by Harrod Blank. All photos courtesy Houston Art Car Parade. This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the Houston Art Car Parade, the largest art car parade in t...
Did we just miss the 200th anniversary of the first motorcycle? Over at the Vintagent, Paul d’Orleans presents us with possible evidence for a steam-powered Vélocipédraisiavaporianna, reportedly buil...
Photos by Matthew Litwin. More than a mere shortened Javelin, the original two-seater AMX was a true sports car in its own right, and for its 50th anniversary next year, AMC enthusiasts are planning ...
The car many of us think of when we picture a Mercedes-Benz Stroke 8: a yellow, diesel-powered 240D (of the W115 range). This one is a 1974 with the five-cylinder 3-liter engine. Photos courtesy of D...
Photos courtesy FCA Media. Most histories depict Chrysler’s purchase of AMC as one done merely to gain the Jeep name and discard everything else, yet the former gained far more than a brand from the ...