Norman Dewis (center) with Sir Stirling Moss at the 2014 launch of the Jaguar XE. Photo courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. The Prince of Brown’s Lane Norman Dewis well recalls his first meeting with William...
Niki Lauda at the British Grand Prix in 2017. Photo courtesy Daimler media. Three-time F1 champion and global motorsport icon Niki Lauda died on Monday, May 20, at University Hospital in Zurich, Swit...
Photos courtesy FCA Media, except where noted. Richard Sias should, by many of his contemporaries’ accounts, be as widely hailed an automotive designer today as any of those contemporaries themselves...
Heidi Hetzer fills up Hudo , her 1930 Hudson Great Eight, at Hemmings world headquarters during her 2014-’17 drive around the world. Photo by Crystal Conwill. When we met Heidi Hetzer a couple years ...
While “Joseph J. Ossichak Jr.” is what heads his obituary, I’m not sure how many people actually knew him by that name. To much of the world, the now-iconic boss of the staging lanes at The Race of G...
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 ...
As the monochrome-and-billet excesses of street rodding began to give way to the stripped down, back-to-basics aesthetic of traditional hot rodding in the late Eighties and into the Nineties, one voi...
Bob Nixon (left) with Dick Teague. Photos courtesy the Pat Foster Collection, except where noted. Dick Teague may have whipped up an early sketch for the AMC Gremlin on an airline barf bag, but the t...
John Haynes, during his RAF days. Photo courtesy Haynes Publishing. When young John Haynes placed a classified ad to sell his home-built Austin 7 Special, he never could have imagined that this simpl...
Glen Wood at his NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony on January 20, 2012. Photo by John Harrelson/Getty Images for NASCAR. Before he became one of NASCAR’s most successful team owners, Glen Wood w...
Dan Gurney prepares to climb aboard the winning Ford GT40 Mk IV at Le Mans in 1967. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Some were artists, who challenged our perspective or took us to worlds far bette...
Sam Foose (L) with Goodguys founder Gary Meadors in 2014. Photo courtesy Fuel Curve. His son Chip may be better known, but it isn’t likely one will find someone better-respected in the Southern Calif...
Photos by the author; 1966 image of Mike Cook from Triumph Cars in America. We’ve just learned that our friend, current Jaguar Land Rover North America corporate archivist and former Hemmings Sports ...
Photo courtesy Michael Paul Smith. Most modelers go about their work in private, fussy about the minutiae of their work but hardly cognizant of where the work fits into broader questions of purpose a...
David Pearson at the 1969 Motor Trend 500. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Over his 27-year NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup career, David Pearson only ran 574 races, yet racked up an astound...
Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. For nearly 20 years, Mari Hulman George was the voice that started the Indianapolis 500 with the command, “Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines,” but h...
Bill Hirsch in 2007. Photo by David Traver Adolphus. William S. “Bill” Hirsch, founder of Bill Hirsch Automotive Products in Newark, New Jersey, died on October 23 at age 90. Bill was a lifelong car ...
Steve McKelvie let us know this week that Scott Henderson, a Great Race rally driver who notably helped save a Buick that lost its brakes from tumbling off the Mount Washington auto road this past su...
The good news? The Wild Cherry van has been restored. The bad news? Allegations that the restorer stole the van have now roiled the vanning community. * Exactly how many Twister Special Rancheros wer...
Ed Shadle and Jessi Combs at a test session in 2015 in the Alvord Desert. Photo courtesy North American Eagle team. For 20 years, Ed Shadle spent nearly every waking hour in pursuit of his goal of br...
Dr. Don Panoz in October 2017. Photo by Osajus. Dr. Don Panoz, best known as the one-time owner of the International Motor Sports Association, the founder of the American Le Mans Series and the drivi...
Burt Reynolds in 2016. Photo courtesy Christoper R. Phillip. Had Burt Reynolds’ life adhered to his plan, he would never have starred in popular car movies like White Lightning, Smokey and the Bandit...
Sergio Marchionne in December 2010. Photo courtesy FCA. Sergio Marchionne was a difficult individual to know. The son of an Italian Carabinieri, he spent his formative years in Canada, and later earn...
Photos via Dignity Memorial (left) and Kustomrama (right). Land-speed racers defend their sport as the last bastion of pure amateur racing, in which the participants compete for personal achievement ...
Tom McEwen. Photo courtesy NHRA. Over a drag racing career that spanned nearly four decades, Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen won just five NHRA national events, yet still established himself as one of the ...