Indianapolis, 1965
We probably should’ve run these closer to this year’s 100th running of the Indy 500, but today’s close enough. From Jim and Chester’s Garage come these two photos of a parking lot at the 1965 Indiana...
We probably should’ve run these closer to this year’s 100th running of the Indy 500, but today’s close enough. From Jim and Chester’s Garage come these two photos of a parking lot at the 1965 Indiana...
Ford rolled out the Mustang’s Mach 1 package in 1969 as well as the thundering 428 Cobra Jet engine offering buyers what reviewers back then hailed as the ultimate performance Mustang. The Mach 1 goo...
TROG East 2016, day one: Jeff Bloedorn’s ’32 coupe gets a jump on Scott Sheehan’s ’30 roadster Jeff Brock’s ’21 roadster. Photos by author. Kevin Carlson, Race of Gentlemen regular, owner of the Sass...
1968 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet posing on the line at Lebanon Valley Dragway. All photos by the author. Forgive me if I am telling you something you already know, but drag racing is not nearly as easy as...
1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT brochure from the author’s collection. Most of us wouldn’t likely equate the Comet Cyclone GT with Russian spies, but it appears that Mercury wanted viewers of this film...
Parnelli Jones driving the Marmon Wasp in 2011. Photo by Jim Donnelly. When one of the Marmon Wasp’s tires blew on the brick surface of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 90 miles per hour, Ray Harro...
Photo courtesy Shirley Muldowney. Our friend, colleague and Hemmings Muscle Machines columnist Shirley Muldowney has more than a nodding acquaintance with tribulation. First, she had to come up as pr...
It might need a little work here and there to get into show-worthy condition, but this two-family 1987 Dodge Shelby Charger GLHS for sale on Hemmings.com appears to be all original and able to hit th...
Harley Earl with Firebirds I, II, and III. Photo courtesy GM. With almost 270 men and women among its ranks, the Automotive Hall of Fame has already recognized some of the automotive industries most ...
Photos courtesy Motostalgia Auctions. Marty Robbins may be best known as the country singer who amassed 43 top-10 records over a career that spanned three decades, but in his heart, he was a race car...
Brochure images courtesy The Old Car Manual Project. If you remember the 1970s, the saying goes, you weren’t there. For those that have forgotten the start of the decade that saw the death of the mus...
Early morning crowds check out some of the show cars on display. Photos by Hemmings staff. After a non-winter in the Northeast, followed by a wet and cold spring, summer descended on us full force ov...
America on Wheels museum. Images courtesy America on Wheels. Museums rely on both benefactors and visitors for funding, and when the needed traffic failed to materialize at Allentown, Pennsyslvania’s...
Return of the North Woodward Timing Association? Photo by the author. It’s no secret that in the 1960s and ’70s heyday of the muscle car, Woodward Avenue, which flows northwesterly from Detroit to Po...
Upon being handed the keys to a brand-new performance car back in the late ’60s, what’s the first thing you’d have done? Lay a long strip of rubber all the way to your buddy’s house? Go straight to t...
Originally designed as an upscale version of Ford’s Mustang, the Mercury Cougar would take an entirely different direction for the 1974 model year, growing in size and plushness to become a personal ...
One of the vehicles contesting next month’s Peking-to-Paris race will be a 1968 AMX looking sufficiently beefy and campaigned by rally veterans Jim Valentine and Jonathan Lodge. What’s more, they’ll ...
The 1940 Packard Royal roadster. Photos by Patrick Ernzen, courtesy Auctions America. It measures 31.5-feet from end-to-end, nearly 10-feet longer than a Ford Super Duty pickup. Despite the mostly al...
For the first time in 55 years, Oiler Quint Meland is staged to race. Photography by the author. As the weather warms, the days lengthen and the annual Race of Gentlemen in Wildwood, New Jersey—now h...
Last fall’s Musclepalooza XXII. Photos by Hemmings staff. Summer is so close we can just about smell it, and in the Hemmings offices that’s a sure sign that Musclepalooza is back. The 23rd running of...
Photo by Phil Parrish, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Though it rolled down the assembly line at Norwood, Ohio without a name or nameplate and with a simple six-cylinder engine, the car then ...
Photo by ceajaegirl. After Bureau of Land Management officials urged patience and recommended another study of the shrinking salt at last week’s Bonneville Salt Flats summit in Salt Lake City, racers...
Photo courtesy Nader.org. He may never have owned or driven a car, but Ralph Nader has had an undisputed influence on the development of the automobile over the last 50 years, and it’s for that influ...
2016 Ford Shelby GT350R. Photos by author. It was no coincidence that a 1965 Shelby G.T. 350 R sat center stage at Ford’s “Track Tour” introduction of the latest Mustang to carry that hallowed name. ...
Photographer Tom Blachford’s Midnight Modern series expertly pairs mid-century modern architecture found throughout Palm Springs, California, with automobiles representative of the mid-century era, a...