Chevrolet’s eCOPO Camaro Concept. Photos courtesy Chevrolet. At this year’s SEMA Show, Chevrolet marked the 50th anniversary of the COPO Camaro with a limited run of racing-use-only 2019 COPO Camaros...
Images courtesy Evro Publishing. Books about famous racing drivers and titans of industry abound, but tomes on mechanical engineers are few and far between. Reid Railton was no ordinary engineer, and...
Parnelli Jones at Indy in 2015. Photo by Sarah Stierch. He was successful as a driver, on pavement and off, and later enjoyed wins and championships as a team owner. Mario Andretti called him “the gr...
A 1927 Bugatti Type 40 driven by Mark Gessler and his son, Kurt, on the 2018 1000 Miglia. Photos by Riccardo Palazzani, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Each May, the 1000 Miglia – the modern e...
Photos courtesy Lloyds. No country’s performance-car market collapsed nearly as fast and dramatically as Australia’s. Within a week of a blockbuster 1972 headline decrying supercars capable of 160 MP...
Image courtesy ArteAuto.com. The videos are shaky and grainy and in Spanish, but 65 years later they remain fascinating because they’re first-hand accounts of the fourth running of La Carrera Panamer...
A glorious evening at Famoso Dragstrip. Photo: Robert W. Morris, III This week, we’re celebrating the few days before the 27th annual California Hot Rod Reunion, while absolutely not celebrating the ...
Jeff Graham of Southern Shores, North Carolina, in his black ’58 Bugeye. Photos by Daniel Mainzer. In the early post-World War II years, sports car racing took place on the streets of America (and a ...
Benny Parsons’ Winston Cup Championship-winning 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. It was consistency, not race wins, that carried Benny Parsons to the...
Hurley Haywood at the 2015 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Photo by Nate Deremer/ Deremer Studios LLC. Hurley Haywood was born with the gift of speed, and the ability to master the razor-thin line...
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...
A brief moment when drag racing and beehives collided in full vintage glory. Ah, 1970. In Drag Racing, it was that magical period that was still everything good about the glorious Sixties, but nothin...
A brief moment when drag racing and beehives collided in full vintage glory. Ah, 1970. In Drag Racing, it was that magical period that was still everything good about the glorious Sixties, but nothin...
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...
Photos courtesy Steve Linne. Racer Jack Conely might have been best known for the “maxi-mouse” small-block Chevrolet engines punched out to big-block proportions, but squirreled away among his stash ...
When it comes to old photos, there are few types of subject matter we love more than the motel-parking-lot dragster thrash. You know the shot: An entire car pulled apart, motor “yardsaled” across a f...
1984 Buell RW750. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Erik Buell’s first foray into motorcycle manufacturing came as much by accident as by design. When Barton Engineering, a manufacturer of racing mot...
Enzo Ferrari, racing driver, sometime in the 1920s. Public domain photo. From the 1920s until his death in 1988, Enzo Ferrari played a significant role in shaping the evolution of motorsports, as wel...
Photos courtesy Lloyds, except where noted. Presale bids for four of the cars from the collection of vehicles owned or raced by Australian legend Peter Brock have already exceeded half-a-million doll...
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 — ...
Dean Bordigioni crosses the finish line on his 1914 Harley-Davidson. Photo courtesy Motorcycle Cannonball. A total of 107 intrepid riders set out from Portland, Maine on September 8 on a race across ...
Our recent story on the dubious legend of how Germany got its silver auto racing color got us looking for original source materials to see if we could establish timelines for not just Germany’s natio...
During the Cold War, East Germany’s counterpart to the Volkswagen Type 2 was the Barkas, and one Berlin blogger recently fell in love with the little two-stroke van enough to pen this short history o...
Danny Thompson and the crew of Challenger 2 at Bonneville in August 2018. Photo by Bubb Lannan, courtesy Thompson LSR. Eight years ago, Danny Thompson pulled his father’s Autolite Special streamliner...
Jerry Entin in his McLaren-Oldsmobile in pit lane at the 1965 Inaugural Stardust Grand Prix. Photo courtesy of the Jerry Entin Collection. [Editor’s note: Given its location, one would expect no less...