The record-setting ‘Herbie,’ a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle sunroof sedan. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. No one knows exactly how many Volkswagen Beetles Walt Disney Productions used in making the first...
I first discovered the car while mindlessly wandering through the internet, pounding in Mini-related search queries in a never-ending hunger for Mini photos for my archives. The little yellow Mini se...
The 1957 Corvette SS (L) and the 1963 Corvette Grand Sport. Photos courtesy The Revs Institute. A racer himself, Zora Arkus-Duntov – the ‘father of the Corvette” – understood the value of creating pu...
The personality of any hot rod, at some point, is gonna come down to the choices made around the exhaust system. All photos by the author and Tim Conder/Conder Custom, unless otherwise noted. If you’...
John Miles at the Nuerburgring in 1970. Photo by Raimund Kommer. By the time John Miles began driving Formula 1 cars for Gold Leaf Team Lotus, the engineer-turned-racer had already proven his talent ...
Steve Millen drives his restored Cunningham Racing Nissan 300ZX at the 2014 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Photo by T.M. Hill, courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In 1968, automaker Nissan took ...
A.J. Foyt poses with the Gilmore-Foyt Coyote at Indy in 1977. Photo courtesy IMS. In 2017, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum honored four-time Indy 500 winner A.J. Foyt with a special exhibit en...
Indy Roadsters on display at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in 2013. Photos by author, unless otherwise noted. There’s no precise definition of an “Indy Roadster,” and there are differing opini...
The road through Smugglers’ Notch in Lamoille County, Vermont, typically part of the GAMR. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith. From 1953-’57, the Great American Mountain Rally (GAMR) brought a taste of Euro...
Like the platypus, the Dodge Mirada went down an evolutionary path not shared with others. It may have blended into the scenery back in the early 1980s, but in today’s jelly-bean-sedan world, the Mir...
VRG at Watkins Glen in 2017. Photo by Bill Stoler, courtesy Bill Stoler Photography. In 2004, a group of like-minded racers formed a new organization dedicated to historic racing, called the Vintage ...
Graham Hill, the 1968 F1 world champion. Photo by Joost Evers. Fifty years ago, during the 1968 season, the sport of Formula 1 racing underwent a tectonic shift, and it’s no exaggeration to call the ...
In 1979, a Kremer Porsche 935 K3 sat atop the podium at LeMans, and its success led to a growing interest in 1980. Kremer sold a number of cars to customers and packaged up kits to update old cars wi...
Restored 1969 AAR Gurney Eagle Mk 5 Formula 5000 race car, reportedly driven in-period by Davey Jordan and Swede Savage. From the seller’s description: AAR Gurney Eagle Mk5 1969, meticulous restorati...
All photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. Here at Hemmings, it’s not lost on anyone that car shows are the lifeblood of car culture. It’s where we all meet up, where we debut our old cars, wh...
1976 Porsche 934. Photos by Brian Henniker, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company, unless otherwise noted. In 1976, Porsche introduced the 934, a new racing car built for the FIA’s Group 4 GT c...
All photos by Tim Conder/Conder Custom, unless otherwise noted. Look, I want you good people to understand one thing about custom shops: you have no idea. You have no idea, no real understanding of t...
As this Pro Street Mustang demonstrates, if one blower is good, then three must be better. All photos by Barry Kluczyk. Each year, Cobo Hall plays host to the Detroit Autorama, a show that’s become o...
Images courtesy Amelia Motoring Film Exhibition. It’s tough to be the new kid on the block, but last year’s inaugural Amelia Motoring Film Exhibition (AMFE) proved to be such a success that Popcorn O...
The fuel gauge on my Ford A/B speedster is from a World War II P-51-B Mustang fighter plane. Unfortunately, it stopped working just in time for the car’s maiden run. When you’re building cars—especia...
The car when we first got the Gotelli 392 Hemi located in its perch. “Although this is a Muncie M-21 trans with the stock bellhousing,” Conder explains, “you can see how the 392 (now mounted nearly 2...
Cars are a funny thing. They are the reason that you're here reading this article, they're probably the catalyst for a number of your friendships, they often motivate our actions and influence our de...
Ted Gotelli passing the time between rounds in one of the earliest versions of his Fuller-chassis-ed fueler in the early ’60s. Dig those weedburners… Photo: Sherm Porter. All remaining photos by the ...
1967 Ford GT40 Mk IV, chassis J-12. Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Originally dubbed the J-Car, in reference to the FIA’s Appendix J regulations under which...
The continuation D-type engineering prototype. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Introduced in 1954, Jaguar’s D-type was a revolutionary sports racer built with one primary goal in mind: victory in ...