Photos courtesy Barris.com and Barrett-Jackson. Solar panels? Check. Swanky interior with a rotating bed? Check. Its own logo? Check. In fact, the Super Van’s probably got more unique features than m...
Model kits do a good job of priming kids’ interests in more adult pursuits, like cars or planes. As Mac’s Motor City Garage pointed out this week in a look back at the Visible V-8 kit, which dates to...
Robert Carini. Photo courtesy Klingberg Vintage Motorcar Festival. Robert Carini may not have achieved the level of fame realized by his son Wayne, star of Velocity television’s Chasing Classic Cars,...
Well yes, it certainly does move! Those hop ups and motorcycles get going pretty fast over that eighth-mile stretch of beach sand. But what we really mean is that the date of the race is changing, an...
Retired designer Rodell Smith. Still from American Dreaming trailer. Aiming to eliminate the industrial stigma the art world has attached to automotive design and renderings, two collectors and chron...
Laguna Seca USRRC, 1965. Ken Miles (#98), Ed Leslie (#96), and Bob Johnson (#97) in their Shelby American Cobras lead at the start. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. In 1962, the SCCA launched its f...
John Surtees at Goodwood in 2011. Photos courtesy Daimler AG. In an era when versatility defined racing’s best drivers, perhaps none was a proficient at multitasking than John Surtees. From 1956 thro...
Roy Lunn, the man behind Ford’s GT40 and, ultimately, its racing successes, recently was feted at an event put together in Florida that featured plenty GT40s, GTs, and Cobras. Car Guy Chronicles has ...
Ron Bouchard at Dover in 1985. Photo by Ted Van Pelt. Outside of New England racing circles, the name Ron Bouchard may not be known to those without a passion for NASCAR trivia. Over the course of a ...
Photos by Brian Henniker, courtesy Gooding & Company. Raw speed, indeed, is the only thing that’ll get a racer to the finish line first – chrome don’t get you home, as they say – but developing a pro...
1966 Sunbeam Tiger. Photo Courtesy: David LaChance. If you’re among the many who got to know Andy Rooney through his weekly commentaries on 60 Minutes, you might describe him as irascible. Fellow CBS...
Despite the very brief reign of Miss Colombia, whose Miss Universe tiara was snatched away moments after erstwhile comedian Steve Harvey read her name as the winner, there was other recent news from ...
Bob Bondurant, photo by John Prumatico. All photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. The National Corvette Museum has maintained a Hall of Fame since 1998 to honor individuals who have been influent...
As renowned a career that Sam Posey made for himself as a race car driver, he’s spent far more time as a motorsports observer – albeit a highly qualified one – either as a commenter or writer, and it...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. As lore has it, Dale Earnhardt was just about ready to hang up his helmet in 1974 and turn his back on racing for good when he got the opportunity to test a factory-bu...
Photo by the author. It is well known that before World War II, Ford Motor Company was never a well-organized corporation, and that in the wake of Edsel Ford’s death in 1943, things spiraled so nearl...
We’ve taken a look at the Hansen Cobra before – specifically the one that’s not in the Petersen Automotive Museum – but with the recent re-opening of the museum, Jive-Bomber at The Jalopy Journal sha...
Photos courtesy Gilmore Car Museum. Donald Gilmore didn’t even care much for old cars before he retired, but his wife, Genevieve, figured he needed something, anything, to keep him busy after a long ...