Photo courtesy Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Andy Granatelli couldn’t do it. Though he named his twin-supercharged Avanti the Due Cento for his 200 MPH goal, all he could muster at Bonneville in...
Photo courtesy New England Auto Museum. Pinning down a birth date for Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team isn’t exactly straightforward. Could have taken place in 1948, 1958, or any number of...
Dating to 1984, this 25-minute interview with Enzo Ferrari is probably the best such interview put down on video and the best account of Ferrari from Ferrari himself. * Chrysler didn’t just whip up t...
While researching the story on the Holden collection auction earlier this week, we came across this short video on the design and engineering of the first Holden. It’s a story pretty much every Austr...
Photos courtesy Burns and Co. It all started with a trip to Detroit. Specifically, to what as then known as the Henry Ford Museum, where a young Charlie McCarron saw both the first and last Ford Mode...
Photos courtesy University of Chicago, except where noted. How does one forget about a 1957 Cadillac? More puzzling, how does one forget about a 1957 Cadillac encased in concrete that, all told, weig...
Michiel Huisman, as William Davidson, astride a Harley-Davidson replica built by Alex Wheeler and crew. Photos courtesy of the Discovery Channel. Following up on our phone interview with Bug Hall fro...
Steve Kinser. Photo by Jack Kromer. If you’re one of the people who skipped the All Star Circuit of Champions sprint car race at Lebanon Valley Speedway in New York on Monday, August 22, you can star...
Photos courtesy The Henry Ford. Our impulse to pull back the curtain, to see the humble and real genesis of our fantasies, where does that come from? Are we not impressed enough with the film that we...
The Hawaiian Tropic 1979 Porsche 935 hammers at $4.4 million at Pebble Beach. Photo by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. It’s delivered class wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, plus overall wins i...
By the late 1930s, those wanting to win sprint car races at Midwest tracks often turned to Indianapolis race car constructor Floyd “Pop” Dreyer, who seemed to have a way with all things mechanical. D...
Bug Hall as Arthur Davidson in the upcoming Harley and the Davidsons . Photos courtesy Discovery Channel. Earlier this week, we had the chance to conduct an extensive phone interview with actor Bug H...
Dean Jeffries flies a GMC C6500. Photos courtesy Kevin Jeffries and the Dean Jeffries Archives, unless otherwise noted. Not many movies can blow up an interstate, have a star-studded cast, and severe...
Danny Thompson with the Challenger II in 2014. Photo by Holly Martin; all photos courtesy Thompson LSR. Danny Thompson, son of American racing legend Mickey Thompson, has been trying since 2014 to se...
Double-exposed film, an annoyance that digital photography has all but eliminated, can actually look rather nice in the hands of a photographer like Jacob Kahler, who specializes in double-exposed au...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The new-for-1947 Studebakers designed under Virgil Exner’s watch might have had some of the most modern styling of any American car up to that point, but one of Exner’...
Unimogs aren’t generally considered as race fodder, but they are nigh-indestructible and as we see from this story on Engine Swap Depot, they’ll go faster with bigger and more powerful Mercedes engin...
Photos courtesy GM Media. Most show cars make a big splash on their introduction, maybe tour the country or a few different countries for a year or so, then descend into warehouse purgatory until the...
Chris Amon (R) with Jim Clark at Indianapolis in 1967. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Best remembered for his win in the Ford GT40 Mk IIA with co-driver Bruce McLaren in the 1966 24 Hour...
Screen grab from Harley and the Davidsons trailer. Filming has been completed and the Discovery Channel has already released the dates, September 5-7, that the three-part, six-hour miniseries Harley ...
Photo by Eli Solomon, courtesy FIVA. In neither of its two entries in the 24 Hours of Le Mans did the severely aerodynamic CD SP66 No. 52 actually finish the race, but that hasn’t stopped the current...
Photos by the author. The Italian version of the DMV likely doesn’t appear on most folks’ European vacation itineraries. After all, there’s Roman ruins, stunning artwork, castles and clocktowers to s...
Cliff Vaughs. Photo courtesy the Motorcycle Film Festival. We learned of Cliff Vaughs’s passing over the July 4th holiday but knew of his exploits from researching previous articles about Easy Rider ...
Carl Haas (L), with Michael Andretti, Mario Andretti and Paul Newman in 1992. Image courtesy IMS. Carl Haas, a Chicago businessman who formed one of the most fearsome Indy car combinations in history...
Photos courtesy Terry Ernest. Long time Wills Sainte Claire Museum member Bill Mason’s son, Rick, emailed me earlier this year and asked if I could attend and represent the Wills Museum at his father...