Photo courtesy Indianapolis Star Newspaper Racing legend and safety innovator Bill Simpson passed away on Monday, a few days after suffering a stroke. He was 79 years old. As a driver, Simpson was in...
Art is hard. Sure, it looks easy to non-artists, but making art typically involves long lonely stretches head down on a project, often unsure whether the project will lead to something awesome (and m...
Art is hard. Sure, it looks easy to non-artists, but making art typically involves long lonely stretches head down on a project, often unsure whether the project will lead to something awesome (and m...
Date: May 1965 Location: Place Stanislas, Nancy, France Source: via Rallye de Lorraine 1965 on Facebook What do you see here?
The AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame has announced 5 new inductees into the hall for 2019, honored in a ceremony for the Pickering, Ohio, museum on December 7th. Possibly the most recognized of these indu...
For this weekend’s Radwood show in Los Angeles, Honda took one of its first Acura SUVs, a 1997 SLX, and not only updated its engine and transmission but also its entire all-wheel-drive system. For th...
To quote Bobby DeNiro’s Al Capone in “The Untouchables;” “What is that which gives me joy?” A fresh set of slicks, thank you very much. Nothing like the aroma of a new set of tires, amiright? But, as...
Images are courtesy of Elias Olsen and the Outer Docs Film Festival Striving for excellence is a most human trait, one that isn’t bound by limitations either inherent or imposed. Why should the loss ...
Terrier-chassis 1957 Falcon Mk II Competition Sports Racer for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1957 Falcon MKII Competition Sports Racer is a factory built race version with...
Nissan Fairlady Z432R. Photos via BH Auction. Not often does a Nissan Fairlady Z432 go overlooked at auction these days. The Z-car variant with the S20 four-valve, triple-carbureted, dual-overhead-ca...
If it appears Geoff Hacker’s been MIA lately, it’s because he was focused on putting together an archive of all of Dan Post’s publications on custom cars from postwar California. Dan Post was there a...
Photo by Kurt Williams. Though the California Coastal Commission has backed off of its plan to ban off-highway vehicles from the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area entirely, the county air ...
You can’t rush perfection, and it seems that perfection is exactly what model maker Ken Foran is after with his scratchbuilt 1/8-scale version of Tommy Ivo’s quad-engine dragster. We came across the ...
Images courtesy the Loyed Woodland collection at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing. Whoever knew that a post-war fascination with mechanical innovation in construction and drag racing would lead ...
Over in Italy, a lifelong Miata fan opened a hotel that gives guests access to an impressive collection of Mazda MX-5s, as Top Gear recently wrote. Guests are comprehensively outnumbered by cars. The...
Photo credit: Fox Entertainment Group Does America champion the underdog? The pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps tales of the little guy making it big, the evergreen story of heart and determination...
Photos via Manheim Even though Holden stopped building cars in Australia two years ago, it will nevertheless be possible to buy an Australian-built car from the Australian arm of General Motors when ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Mickey Thompson sped along at 100 miles an hour or so. He didn’t have another land-speed record or motorsports title in his sights. He didn’t even have his hands on the wheel...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. If we were to assemble a clickbait top-10 list of T.V. Tommy Ivo drag-racing moments, the creation of his quad-engine Showboat exhibition racer and...
Emerson Fittipaldi at Daytona, circa 1995. Photo by Bill Warner. He’s won a pair of Formula 1 world driving championships, the first, at age 25, marking him as the then-youngest champion in the histo...
The oldest surviving American automobile, as The Henry Ford pointed out this week, exists in the museum’s collection, and it well predates the internal combustion engine. Smoke-belching steam locomot...
Ford v Ferrari is a story that’s been a long time coming—in fact, it’s been over 53 years since Ford beat Ferrari at Le Mans. It took that long to take the bones of that story and bring it to the big...
Photos courtesy Tommy Lee Byrd and Great Race.com. The Vintage Car Rally Association (VCRA), The Great Race, Hemmings Motor News, and the Race for Autism lost a great friend and hero this week, with ...
Images courtesy Tom Kimmel. Bill Lear gestured confidently off toward the horizon outside of Reno while bulldozers pushed dirt behind him. Here, he told reporters, would rise an Indianapolis Motor Sp...
LCP veteran 1954 Volvo PV444 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This race car comes with an extensive list of modifications, beginning with custom made wide body includes front ...