Joan Newton Cuneo, circa 1911 behind the wheel of a Knox Giantess. Image courtesy of Wilmington Historical Society. Since 2015, the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in Watkins Glen,...
Looking to bring both spectators and American automakers back to the Indy 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Eddie Rickenbacker proposed a series of rule changes in 1929 that would become kno...
Exactly a year ago, we unveiled the latest StanceWorks build: a 1982 BMW E28 Group A tribute dubbed "the Parts Car." Inspired by BMW's ETCC racing efforts of the early 1980s, the E28 is an exercise i...
Gas Ronda. Photo by Greg Sharp. Even as a child, long before the sport of drag racing entered his life, Gaspar Ronda went by the nickname “Gas.” One of Ford’s factory Thunderbolt racers and an early ...
Rolla Vollstedt, in yellow cap, with Jim Clark’s 1967 Rex Mays 300 car. Photo courtesy Michael McKinney. If a career spent designing and building racing cars and serving as a team owner is measured s...
piloti, che gente. . . by Enzo Ferrari. Photos by author. Well before he became the world’s most famous carmaker, Enzo Ferrari’s main interest in life was to become a journalist. He was highly articu...
The John Tojeiro built AC Ace prototype. Photos courtesy JD Classics. By 1953, John Tojeiro’s reputation for building competitive sports racers was well-established. When friend Vin Davison approache...
1913 Peugeot L45 Grand Prix car, part of the Bothwell Collection. Photos courtesy Bonhams. For 60 years, Lindley Bothwell indulged his passion for buying and driving antique cars, amassing what was o...
Bill Puterbaugh, after qualifying for the 1975 Indianapolis 500. Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 was a childhood dream of racer Bill Puterbaugh, whose...
Bill Puterbaugh, after qualifying for the 1975 Indianapolis 500. Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 was a childhood dream of racer Bill Puterbaugh, whose...
The Shelby-built Trans-Am Mustang of John McComb, which sold for $400,000 in January 2013. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. Chuck Cantwell is no stranger to fans of early Shelby Mustangs. As project en...
I picked up this third printing of JEG Harwood’s Speed and How to Obtain It at a bookstore while traveling with the Hemmings Great Race this past June. I paid very little for it, but it is full of te...
Pirelli Cinturato CA67, part of the newly updated Collezione product line. Images courtesy Pirelli. In recent years, passenger-car tires have made sizeable gains in performance and safety, good news ...
Nissan’s doing something interesting in Australia. Rather than running their vintage race cars past grandstands full of spectators, they’re packing the spectators onto buses and running both the buse...
1990 Nissan Skyline GT-R NISMO. Photos by author. The details – power, production numbers, you name it – make the Nissan Skyline GTR NISMO very much a match for the Buick GNX (see the September ’17 i...
The mutant vehicles of Burning Man are always good for stretching the definition — if not the concept — of automobiles. Alexandrailer shot a bunch this year. * Japanese Nostalgic Car has the full sto...
Early morning crowds were light, but it filled up by midday. From new to old, there was something for everyone. Photos by Hemmings editorial staff. Changing to a rain date for an event like Musclepal...
The Mormon Meteor Duesenberg. Photos by David LaChance. Next month, an event commemorating the racing successes of some of America’s most storied carmakers will feature an appearance by a landmark Du...
It always seems as though August is the busiest month of the year. With SEMA rapidly approaching, our project builds take off, just as the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion arrives. Balance that wit...
Porsche 917K, chassis 917-024, sells for a hammer price of $12.8 million, $14.08 million with fees. Photo by Jensen Sutta, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Porsche’s legendary 917K is a r...
The “Original Venice Crew” of (L to R) Peter Brock, Jim Marietta, and Ted Sutton pose with a continuation Shelby G.T. 350R. Photos courtesy OVC Mustang unless otherwise noted. Launched in 1965, the S...
The Supernova 1964 Chevrolet Corvette convertible. Photos by Matthew Little, courtesy Auctions America. Bill Jobe’s day job was selling computers for Data General, but on weekends he vented stress by...
Though my garb here is a little out of sync with the early-Fifties-era Hudson Hornet-powered rail my club ran at this year’s Race of Gentlemen, it’s period-plausible for my early Thirties Ford speeds...
Photos by Casey Keil, courtesy of Lime Rock Park. The folks at Connecticut’s roadracing gem are gearing up to put on the Lime Rock Park Historical Festival 35, a combination vintage race and classic ...
Trans-Am race cars have a menacing look to them that draws me in every time I come across them. I'm not often a muscle car guy, but the low-slung physique mated with aggressive air dams and meaty tir...