Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Fifty years ago, while Alan Bean watched his fellow astronauts walk on the moon knowing that he too would soon leave footprints there...
Especially in the early days of motorsport, long before telemetrics and minutia came to dominate it, drivers tended to be daring, cultured, highly personable sorts. They knew how to take risks and pu...
One of the largest collections of Soviet cars in the world lies in the former Soviet state of Georgia, according to Atlas Obscura: The auto museum is actually a private collection of cars and some mo...
Photo by Dick Lasher. A towering plume of ash rises in the distance of the photo, swirling with menace and threat, lightning arcing within it. As if to accent the peril, the canyon of trees that fram...
2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. Photo courtesy of Chevrolet . Only days after its long-awaited reveal, the all-new mid-engine 2020 Corvette Stingray C8 will appear at the Petersen Automotive Museum...
Gardner Special photos via Bonhams; Manta Ray photos via Mecum Auctions. At first glance, the 1949 Vince Gardner Special and the 1952 Manta Ray seem to share little other than their custom bodies and...
Steve Hingtgen, founder of Vintage Trailer Supply, has opened a new distribution center and showroom in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in response to a growing market. To celebrate the new center, Vintage Tra...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Just how fast could a bewinged Dodge Charger Daytona go – without interference from NASCAR, that is? One championship-winning team se...
Of all the people involved in motorsport over the last century plus, Jack Brabham may have best encapsulated the sport. He could compete in the highest echelons of racing as a driver, no doubt about ...
Photo from 2006 article courtesy Bruce Crower. On his newest self-built hot rod, which looks more like an IRL car with two seats instead of one, the license plate reads simply “INMYDNA.” Now, there’s...
Photo via Stroppe Performance. The Edsel brand had just three short years on this earth, all of which were consumed by a fight to remain in existence, so understandably no Edsel Racing Team ever form...
Race car driver Joan Newton Cuneo. Photo courtesy of the Saratoga Automobile Museum’s Facebook page. To honor the upcoming 100th anniversary of American women gaining the right to vote, the Saratoga ...
Photo courtesy Daimler media. Mercedes-Benz was not too happy when they discovered one of their Maryland dealerships was a clothing store, where the only showroom was reserved for men’s suits. And th...
Cadillac Style honored by the Cadillac La Salle Club By Richard Lentinello At the recent Cadillac La Salle Club’s Grand National Meet held in Louisville, Kentucky, I had the distinct honor of being a...
Photo by Barry Wong, courtesy Seattle Times. In 1980, social media was the local newspaper. With old-fashioned, black-and-white print, people could read the news of the day, follow their favorite per...
Abigayle Morgan and Amanda Gutierrez pose with the McPherson College 1965 Porsche 356 C. Photo courtesy of the McPherson College Auto Restoration Facebook page. Amanda Gutierrez and Abigayle Morgan o...
Jacky Ickx drives the Lola T33 CS Can-Am at Watkins Glen in 1979. Photo by Bill Warner. The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) has an ambitious goal: To honor the greats from every form of r...
Photos courtesy Silverstone Auctions. Whizzo Williams didn’t exactly have the most professional race team around, especially for the 1964 International Welsh Rally. Rather than white coveralls, much ...
The Mustang might be Lee Iacocca ‘s most celebrated success, but honestly, Ford probably has never leaned on the pony car for its survival. The K car, however, kept Chrysler solvent through the Eight...
Does anybody look back fondly on the Reliant Robin? Not Martin Gurdon, who wrote about his rather brief experience owning one for Influx: The starter motor sounded sluggish, making slow churning nois...
Photo courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers. Worldwide Auctioneers recently announced that the company would be adding a new division focusing solely on automotive and Motorsports memorabilia. The new di...
Lee Iacocca in 2005. Screen grab from video, courtesy FCA. Editor’s note: He was the driving force behind the Ford Mustang, as well as the Ford Pinto, intended to be the compact car that save Ford fr...
Photos by Mathieu Heurtault, courtesy Gooding & Co., except where noted. Though Ab Jenkins never got the chance to round out his racing resume with a run at the Indianapolis 500 due to a case of bloo...
Photo courtesy Rod Hall Racing. Racing Baja in the Sixties took place at a far different pace than today’s races. One could get lost a dozen times driving used four-wheel-drive rigs and somehow still...
A 1926 Duesenberg Model A chassis. Photo courtesy of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum of Auburn, Indiana, recently received a large and very ...