Remembering Norman Dewis, 1920-2019
Norman Dewis (center) with Sir Stirling Moss at the 2014 launch of the Jaguar XE. Photo courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. The Prince of Brown’s Lane Norman Dewis well recalls his first meeting with William...
Norman Dewis (center) with Sir Stirling Moss at the 2014 launch of the Jaguar XE. Photo courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. The Prince of Brown’s Lane Norman Dewis well recalls his first meeting with William...
Roy Clark’s 1963 Pontiac Bonneville Safari Station Wagon. Photo courtesy of Leake Auctions. Known for his show Hee Haw and hits like Yesterday When I was Young , the late Roy Clark also collected car...
While the narration and production quality of this video detailing the development and racing victories of the Audi Quattro through WRC, SCCA Trans Am, and IMSA GTO are pure 1990, the interviews with...
One of the things Internet culture has lost with the advent of social media and Facebook groups is the preponderance of websites dedicated to individual models run by single-minded enthusiasts. All i...
Rendering of The Mullin at Great Tew, via Foster + Partners. The backers of The Mullin at Great Tew, the proposed museum in England’s Cotswolds that would house part of businessman and collector Pete...
Photos by Roy Trahan, via National World War II Museum, unless noted otherwise. Seventy-five years ago today, thousands of troops came ashore in the Normandy landings via LCVP Higgins boats, built fr...
Ian Callum pilots a Jaguar at the Mini Miglia 2015. Photo courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Ian Callum was 14 years old when he penned a letter to Jaguar, declaring his desire to design sports cars for the...
Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, the NASCAR Hall of Fame honors the history and heritage of NASCAR, and each year a Voting Panel of the sport’s insiders selects five new inductees based upon the...
Photo by Jim Donnelly. The young ex-U.S. Navy pilot had arrived from California by train. He was early for his appointment, so he hung about on the sidewalk in downtown New Orleans that January morni...
Photo courtesy the owner. For the short period of time that the Fageol Supersonic existed as the Fageol Supersonic, it wowed the world. All ray gun spaceship cool and unlike anything else on the road...
Photos courtesy Keino Cycles unless otherwise noted. An exclusive small-group instructional class on the basics of metal shaping and custom sheetmetal fabrication will be offered at the shop of Keino...
While the story of Andy Granatelli’s STP turbine car entry at the 1967 Indianapolis 500 should be familiar territory for readers of the Hemmings Daily, nothing beats actually hearing the whoosh of th...
Niki Lauda at the British Grand Prix in 2017. Photo courtesy Daimler media. Three-time F1 champion and global motorsport icon Niki Lauda died on Monday, May 20, at University Hospital in Zurich, Swit...
Photo courtesy Ferrari. While his name might not be synonymous with the masterpieces he created, Leonardo Fioravanti’s work, at least, is familiar to an entire generation of automobile enthusiasts wh...
Photos courtesy the Patrick Foster collection, unless otherwise noted. As we saw in chapter 12, the Senior Jeep models, namely the Wagoneer, Cherokee and J-Series truck were offered from 1973 with Bo...
The “Carmen Curls” The First All Girls Motor Racing Team in 1971: The House of Carmen, leaders in beauty and personal care products are sponsoring a two-car racing team from Motor Racing Stables. Car...
This past week marked the 25th anniversary of three-time F1 champ Ayrton Senna’s death at the San Marino Grand Prix, an event that left the motorsports world shattered, as this BBC documentary from a...
This 1936 Pierce-Arrow is one of three in the JAB Collection coming up for sale June 15. All photos courtesy VanDerBrink Auctions, LLC. In the past 16 years, if you were after a part or a project car...
A.J. Foyt (R) and Hulman and Company CEO Mark Miles unveiling the commemorative bricks. Photos by Joe Skibinski, courtesy IMS. In 1977, A.J. Foyt became the first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 f...
Heidi Hetzer fills up Hudo , her 1930 Hudson Great Eight, at Hemmings world headquarters during her 2014-’17 drive around the world. Photo by Crystal Conwill. When we met Heidi Hetzer a couple years ...
Godard in the Spyker (right). Photo via Louwman Museum. Under any other circumstances, Charles Godard might today be hailed as one of two drivers to take on two of the most grueling distance races fo...
Photos and images courtesy Geoff Hacker. Fifteen years after Giovanni Bucci left Europe on his own terms, he returned in the same manner, driving a singular vehicle of his own design and construction...
This year marks the centennial of Checker Taxi — the cab company, not the manufacturing company. It’s a little confusing, but the Internet Checker Taxicab Archive lays out the history of how Checker ...
Read enough about Wendell Scott and you’ll inevitably see somebody compare him to Jackie Robinson. Both men did indeed break the color barriers in their respective sports, but they did so through ent...
While “Joseph J. Ossichak Jr.” is what heads his obituary, I’m not sure how many people actually knew him by that name. To much of the world, the now-iconic boss of the staging lanes at The Race of G...