Ross Paswell, convicted of auto theft in 1945. Mugshots courtesy angusmcdiarmid on Flickr. They make it look easy in the movies: Fiddle around under the steering wheel, strip some wires, and touch tw...
Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy RM Sotheby’s, except where noted. The race took place over the distance of two telephone poles, or about 60 feet, and the winner never shifted out of first gear, but...
Photo by the author. Just about everybody in Wednesday’s Congressional subcommittee hearing addressing the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act seemed to agree that nobody wants to bring an ...
Photos by Greg Keysar, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. Ironically, while Alexis de Sakhnoffsky’s designs emphasized streamlining and speed, the 14-passenger bus he drew up for White to sell to tour operators ...
The 2018 TVR Griffith. Photos courtesy TVR. In 2013, then-defunct boutique British sports car brand TVR was revived by Les Edgar, John Chasey and a group of investors under the TVR Automotive Limited...
AMC’s Plymouth Road headquarters in July 2009 (left) and October 2016 (right). Images courtesy Google Street View. Despite earlier discussions entertaining the possibility of demolishing the Detroit ...
Photo and collage by the author. There’s the car, of course, perhaps the most successful attempt at an American microcar. But there’s also the anti-baldness device, the proximity fuze, the refrigerat...
Photos courtesy Lloyds Auctioneers. A crash and fire might have taken the first Holden Dealer Team-prepped car out of its very first race, but that front-page event also provided the key to the team’...
Rendering courtesy AACA Museum. Back in April, our friends at the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, announced that they had recently reached their fundraising goals to construct a new visitor ent...
Images courtesy VanderbiltCupRaces.com. For 37 years the quonset huts that made up the Long Island Automotive Museum, bereft of their four-wheeled inhabitants, steadily deteriorated into rusted, graf...
Images courtesy of Bonhams and the Hemmings archives Saab fans from around the world have traveled to the Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan, Sweden, to see the “UrSaab,” or the original Saab car prototy...
Route 66 bridge in Winona, Arizona. Photo by Randy Heinitz. Earlier this summer the town of Galena, Kansas, celebrated the restoration of the Front Street Bridge, a span that once carried Route 66 ov...
Photo by Rijel. Despite a warning from a leading Bonneville scientist that it might not work, the land-speed racers behind Save the Salt have opened talks with a local mining company to return as muc...
Not the 1867 racer. Image courtesy Grace’s Guide. Lore holds that the first automobile race took place after the second automobile was built. The historical record, however, shows that nearly a centu...
Photos courtesy Dragone Auctions. Most TV shows get at most one chance to introduce a cool hero car: the A-Team van, KITT, and the Batmobile all pulled solo duty on their respective shows. Not so wit...
Photography by the author. The year is 1964, and a young man’s dreams turn to sketching his ideal sports car. Thoughts of rack-and-pinion steering, four-wheel independent suspension with a firm ride ...
1942 Ford GPW. Photo courtesy Collings Foundation. After more than three years of wrangling over a proposed museum on the edges of suburban Boston, the town of Stow, Massachusetts, agreed to let the ...
From its 1989 debut through its 1997 end of production, Mazda built over 400,000 first-generation (NA, in Mazda-speak) MX-5 Miatas. Japan, where the model is known as the Eunos Roadster (or simply Ro...
Swanston dock in Melbourne. Photo by David Wallace. Renewed enforcement of Australia’s total ban on asbestos-containing imports has led to enhanced scrutiny of collector cars entering the country and...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. No coincidence that the nose of Brooks Stevens’ Die Valkyrie concept car not only had the shape of a giant V but also a smaller V-8 emblem within the V: He wanted to make s...
Photo courtesy Historic England. The Brooklands race track will, in all likelihood, never again host a competitive race. The ravages of time and the encroachments of development have ensured that fat...
Photo courtesy Library of Congress. From the beginning, the architects of the National Historic Vehicle Register intended to not only document some of the country’s most important vehicles, but also ...
Photos by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Auctions America. What started out as a way to save lives by studying highway crashes led to a cascade of events that culminated in perhaps AMC’s biggest marketing op...
Typical soap box derby stock cars. Photo by thegforcers. Formulas and templates dominate pretty much all forms of racing, and soap box derby racing is no exception. The stock car template in soap box...
Photos courtesy Internet Checker Taxicab Archive. Kaela Petkovits grew up in her father’s Checker taxis as he drove the streets of Seattle in the Eighties and dreamed of having her own to drive somed...