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...
Photos by Michael Chetcuti. In June of 1969, under codename E18, BMW engineers took delivery of an aggressively styled mid-engine coupe for development and testing. Except the car wasn’t theirs, wasn...
Image courtesy Bloodhound LSR. Judging from videos, the mood of the entire Bloodhound LSR team as it packed up and left Hakskeen Pan this week ran from celebratory to jovial. The jet car had performe...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Hemmings archive photos. These days, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway looks pristine, polished, and ready for the world stage pretty much any day of the year, and that condition certainly played no sm...
Yeah, yeah, yeah… we know. We know you’ve seen that one episode of “The Munsters” with the drag race. WE. KNOW. But look, it’s the Halloween edition of the Muscle Machines weekly and do you really th...
When considering various forms of motorsport, a practical approach would lead most people to select the vehicle best-suited for that particular form of competition, and to prepare that vehicle accord...
Full disclosure: we do love us some Halloween. Mainly because it’s the one time a year we can dress up like The Spaceman or The Starchild. The Demon? Sure. We bought the plastic tongue that one year ...
Color: it’s the most important element of a location shoot like this one. Make sure that the car’s color is complemented by its surroundings. Guess what the complementary color of blue is, on the col...
Color: it’s the most important element of a location shoot like this one. Make sure that the car’s color is complemented by its surroundings. Guess what the complementary color of blue is, on the col...
What’s the one thing that unites all gearheads? The one pilgrimage that we all dream about? That one singular experience that separates us from mere mortals…or, at least, the smarter guy on the block...
Before embarking on his quest to break the world land-speed record, Rosco McGlashan was an exhibition drag racer who piloted jet dragsters, much like the Arfons brothers. McGlashan also decided – onc...
Frame-off restoration, Pro-Touring 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1967 CORVETTE Pro-Touring coupe Complete 3 Year Frame Off Restoration wit...
Bringing back the Milwaukee Mile As we wrote earlier this year, the push to bring professional racing back to the Milwaukee Mile has been building momentum, and Milwaukee Magazine recently checked in...
Photo courtesy DeLorean Motor Company. At least one carmaker that had planned to build turnkey replica vehicles under the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act has already thrown in the towel du...
High school shop class-built electrified Volkswagen Rabbit. Photo courtesy Volkswagen. FIVA, the global organization dedicated to preserving older vehicles in part by fighting legislation aimed at ge...
GM Media photo. Unless you’re new to the hobby (in which case, welcome!) or completely unfamiliar with American cars (Wilkommen! Bienvenue! Ni hao!), you know exactly what car that is above. You know...
Think, for a moment, about all the external forces that have shaped the development of the automobile, from the earliest days of the Mercedes-Benz Patent Motorwagen to the hybrid-drivetrain supercars...
Back in 1989, ESPN sent Peter Graves out to cover the racing at Bonneville, almost on a play-by-play basis with color commentator Rick Vesco. Speeds were high, records were set, and the salt stretche...