Photo by PSParrot. Fifty years ago, to the day, Larry Rathgeb had brought a cadre of engineers, a hired shoe, and the hottest car on the planet to Talladega. His goal: get the driver, Buddy Baker, to...
It’s an old trope that stock cars used to be stock cars, but there’s still a lot of truth to that. In between those early NASCAR days when off-the-assembly-line Hudson Twin H-Power big sixes ruled th...
Does anyone else out there in Hemmings Nation miss the old days of NASCAR when it was interchangeably known as just “Winston Cup?” As of late, we’ve been talking about those halcyon days when drivers...
NASCAR tribute 1985 Ford Thunderbird for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This T-Bird has much more going on than a sharp wrap with custom made matching decals. Crisp sounding sma...
OK – full disclosure, here: we may have tested your patience last week with a truly terrible movie. But look, there’s some beauty in a bad movie. If you can suspend reality for an hour or so and let ...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Just how fast could a bewinged Dodge Charger Daytona go – without interference from NASCAR, that is? One championship-winning team se...
The 1984 Winston 500 at Talladega. Photo by Racing Photo Archives/Getty Images, courtesy NASCAR. According to the Associated Press, NASCAR announced a $2 billion merger agreement with International S...
Read enough about Wendell Scott and you’ll inevitably see somebody compare him to Jackie Robinson. Both men did indeed break the color barriers in their respective sports, but they did so through ent...
Luckily for us, the great days of stock car racing aren’t really all that far behind us. Most of us can actually remember them. Some say they ended with Earnhardt’s crash in 2001, but we’d rather tal...
Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. For most of us, a good day in the junkyard means the yellowjackets didn’t sting and the Sawzall blade didn’t pretzel up. For a pair of Ford enthusia...
Image courtesy Google Street View. Throughout the summer of 1950, residents of Florence, South Carolina, couldn’t help but notice a certain new Oldsmobile constantly driving around town, painted up t...
Red Vogt, who suggested the NASCAR name. Photo courtesy NASCAR Hall of Fame. By no means did stock car racing start with NASCAR. Rather, a patchwork of stock car racing organizations blanketed the co...
Bobby Labonte. Photos courtesy NASCAR.com. Bobby Labonte, the 2000 Monster Energy Series Champion, has revealed that he will pursue another series championship in 2018, only this one will take place ...
It’s a sunny weekend in June, whattaya gonna do – sit inside and read? Okay, if you’ve got nothing going on in the garage, check out the roadside finds Feral Cars came across in the Highland Park are...
Photo courtesy @RobertArd00 on Twitter. Two-time Busch Grand National champion, race team owner and short-track legend Sam Ard died earlier this month at the age of 78. A popular driver in the NASCAR...
Photo courtesy @RobertArd00 on Twitter. Two-time Busch Grand National champion, race team owner and short-track legend Sam Ard died earlier this month at the age of 78. A popular driver in the NASCAR...
Photos courtesy The Henry Ford. Our impulse to pull back the curtain, to see the humble and real genesis of our fantasies, where does that come from? Are we not impressed enough with the film that we...
While the vintage racing footage includes plenty of glimpses of all sorts of NASCAR notables from the aero war era, the focus on this two-part documentary is on the Chargers and on Dodge’s efforts to...
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has been on our bucket list for years, but somehow we never seem to make it to Colorado for the Race to the Clouds. Today, the road to the summit is completely...
Don White (L) with USAC’s Dick Jordan. Photo courtesy USAC. Beginning in the 1950s, the Mississippi River city of Keokuk, Iowa, arguably produced more top-level dirt-track racers than another town in...
In the 1971 documentary A Dash of the Irish , we not only get expert commentary from Paddy Hopkirk on the Circuit of Ireland rally (as he says, thanks to the lack of practice days, “there are more re...