James Sandoro poses with the four recently donated Corvettes. Photo by Mark Mulville, courtesy The Buffalo News. The Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum is best known for its collection of veh...
Joe Leonard, in his final appearance at Indy in 1973. Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Joe Leonard was equally fast on two wheels and four, capturing American Motorcyclist Association (AM...
Ayrton Senna was one of Formula 1’s shining stars in the modern era, and his ten-year career atop the highest rung of the motorsport ladder was filled with both triumph and tragedy. A new book, Ayrto...
A circa-1959 Stanguellini Formula Junior runs at Lime Rock. Photo by Mike Bumbeck/Hemmings. As is often the case with the various events that crowd the calendar for automotive enthusiasts on the Mont...
Alfa Romeo GTZ Tubolare which raced at Le Mans in 1964. Photos by author. Back in the 1980s resin-based model kits in 1/43 rd scale started coming on strong with car enthusiasts who enjoyed the hands...
The Sherman M4 tank was powered by a variety of engines, but by far the oddest was the 30-cylinder A57 invented by Chrysler. Essentially five L-head inline sixes joined together, the unusual powerpla...
Photos by the Hemmings Staff. Detroit may be The Motor City, but since 1900 it is New York, New York, where the world has come to look at the latest and greatest offerings from automakers both foreig...
McQueen pulls down his Nomex face guard to get a breath of fresh air. Photos by Don Nunley, courtesy Dalton Watson. There was just one scene in the can; the rest of the time the crew only shot racing...
Safety equipment was minimal, the pits were dirt, and the grills were constantly aflame. A recent photo essay on Native Customs looks at the drag racing scene in one small town in Brazil, which remin...
Photos courtesy FCA. Imagine a world where “because you can, and no one else has” is a good enough reason to build a product that most would deem too dangerous, too impractical and too limited in sco...
A.J. Foyt, with the Bowes Seal Fast Special in 1961. Image courtesy IMS. A.J. Foyt was the first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, earning victories in 1961, 1964, 1967 and 1977. Two of ...
Former Pure Stock Drags 1968 Oldsmobile 4-4-2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I have owned this 4-4-2 since 1986. This car is equipped from the factory with power seat, remot...
Old and new: A 125 S replica and a 2017 La Ferrari Aperta outside the factory. Images courtesy Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari never envisioned himself an industrialist. He was, first and foremost, a driver, w...
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...
The track from the air. Image courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The Sports Car Club of America’s Canadian-American Challenge Cup, generally shortened to Can-Am, began as a way of bringing the FIA’s...
Parnelli Jones and A.J. Foyt at the 1964 Indianapolis 500. Photo by Dave Friedman, courtesy The Henry Ford. Chapter Eight: Tire Wars Less evident to casual race fans than the changes being caused by ...
Breedlove at the time he received the Spirit of Competition Award from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia in 2011. Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. “The Bonneville Salt Flats have...
Dario Franchitti (L) and Bruce McLaren. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Bruce McLaren, best known for his dominance in the Can-Am series as both a driver and constructor, never drove in t...
Restored 1968 Zink Formula Vee racer for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Turn key and ready to race, very good to excellent condition, rebuilt motor Oct 2015 (Autowerks), one rac...
We had expected to see a lot more automotive tributes to Chuck Berry following his death last weekend; after all, cars were an integral part to the mixture of influences he used to conjure up rock an...
Pete Hamilton with his Petty Enterprises Plymouth Superbird prior to the start of the 1970 Daytona 500. Photo by Skeensss. Pete Hamilton, winner of the 1970 Daytona 500, died earlier this week at the...
Still from “ 27 Hours to La Paz.” It started out as little more than a lark, an informal competition among off-road racers to see who could make it from one end of the Baja peninsula to the other the...
One-off V-8-powered 1939 E.R.A. Raymond Mays sports car for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The works car that competed in the 1939 RAC rally driven by “Bentley Boy” S.C.H ( Samm...
In 1950, the novel Hot Rod, by Henry Gregor Felsen, showed young people that hopping up cars was cool, but racing them on public roads could be deadly. In the intervening years, beginning with Santa ...