Janet Guthrie at Indianapolis in 1976. Photo courtesy IMS. Founded in 1939, the Automotive Hall of Fame — today located in Dearborn, Michigan — is dedicated to honoring those who have made a signific...
Photos by Christian Martin, courtesy Artcurial. Long considered one of the last great secrets of Italian sports car culture, the trio of uncirculated Serenissima sports cars still in the collection o...
Mario Andretti at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in January 2019. Photo by James Black, courtesy of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Editor’s Note: This year marks the 50th anniversary of Mario Andr...
Mario Andretti waves from the cockpit at the 1969 Indianapolis 500. Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. When Mario Andretti arrived in Indianapolis in early May 1969, the two-time USAC Champ...
Photos courtesy Evro Publishing. Over the course of a three-plus-decade career as a racing driver, David Hobbs – “Hobbo” to his friends – piloted everything from sports cars to Can-Am cars, Formula O...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Going into business for yourself requires a sense of timing, a degree of skill in your chosen field, some (make that plenty) startup capital, and perhaps above all a bold vis...
Professor Gordon Murray, CBE, poses with a few of his automotive creations. Photos courtesy Gordon Murray Design. Automotive designer. Race car driver. Formula One team technical director. Honorary p...
Charles Kettering gets all the credit for inventing the self-starter for internal combustion engines and thus making gasoline-engine cars the dominant mode of transport today. But as John Heitmann at...
Dan Gurney prepares to climb aboard the winning Ford GT40 Mk IV at Le Mans in 1967. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Some were artists, who challenged our perspective or took us to worlds far bette...
Bob Marley in 1973. Photo by Arthur Gorson, courtesy BobMarley.com. Some would argue that what an artist or musician does or says off the stage should have no bearing whatsoever on their legacy and t...
Rendering courtesy Bloodhound SSC. Never say never, apparently. Just 10 days after the administrators in charge of the Bloodhound SSC world land-speed effort announced they were scrapping the project...
What exactly was the connection between Colin Chapman’s Lotus and John DeLorean’s DMC? How did Chapman keep Lotus going financially — and personally — in the years before his death? Through interview...
The IMS Museum announced this week that it has digitized a good number of recordings of Indy 500 races past and is now offering the digital recordings for sale. * The story that Alex Pappademas wrote...
Photos by Mike Maez, courtesy Gooding & Company. Imagine any top-level sports team not only going undefeated through an entire season and, as a result, winning a championship, but also setting a scor...
Dan Gurney’s 1961 Impala at the Jim Clark Museum, reopening summer 2019. Photos courtesy Jim Clark Trust. In 1961, Dan Gurney shipped a Chevrolet Impala to England, intent on beating the Jaguars that...
Sam Foose (L) with Goodguys founder Gary Meadors in 2014. Photo courtesy Fuel Curve. His son Chip may be better known, but it isn’t likely one will find someone better-respected in the Southern Calif...
Photos by the author; 1966 image of Mike Cook from Triumph Cars in America. We’ve just learned that our friend, current Jaguar Land Rover North America corporate archivist and former Hemmings Sports ...
1966 Toyota Corolla. Photo courtesy Toyota Motor Corporation. Three vehicles, and three men, have been celebrated for their contributions to the auto industry in Japan. They are the 2018 inductees to...
The RE Olds Transportation Museum. Image via Google Street View. Lansing, Michigan, is best known outside the automotive world as being the state capital, a designation it received in 1847 on the fee...
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...
David Pearson at the 1969 Motor Trend 500. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Over his 27-year NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup career, David Pearson only ran 574 races, yet racked up an astound...
Ron Hickman poses with the Lotus Elan. Photos courtesy National Motor Museum Trust. Though he retired in 1982, Ron Hickman never really stopped designing things. Over a three-decade career, his achie...
There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when drag racing was really, really cool. Drivers were gladiators, teams were small bands of nomads, motel parking lots were all-night parties, and the ...
Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. For nearly 20 years, Mari Hulman George was the voice that started the Indianapolis 500 with the command, “Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines,” but h...
Images courtesy Evro Publishing. Books about famous racing drivers and titans of industry abound, but tomes on mechanical engineers are few and far between. Reid Railton was no ordinary engineer, and...