It took a one-ton truck to replace Murray County Rescue’s Hurst Rescue System 1 Gremlin, one of only a handful that George Hurst built to showcase his Jaws of Life and other assorted rescue equipment...
Photo courtesy Doug Partington. Of all the reasons one might have for building a race car – besides, you know, to go fast and race – Australians Geoff and Roy Wikner perhaps had the most oblique: The...
NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo courtesy NASCARHall.com. Each year, a voting panel of NASCAR representatives, NASCAR Hall of Famers, track owners, media, manufacturer’s repres...
Images and video are courtesy of Volvo Cars. “I designed the Volvo P1800, Roger Moore made it famous.” Pelle Petterson, son of Volvo executive Helmer Petterson, had only recently finished his educati...
Photos courtesy Lane Motor Museum. The term “failed successes” sounds like an oxymoron or perhaps a riches-to-rags story, but Rex Bennett at the Lane Motor Museum believes it best describes those Ica...
Photos courtesy Lamborghini. Though it technically debuted a couple months prior, the Lamborghini Marzal – the concept car that would eventually spur European coachbuilders to one-up each other with ...
The Shelby GT500 KR’s 50th birthday? It’s as good an excuse as any to put on a movie night and car show at Carroll Shelby International in California this Friday and Saturday. According to organizers...
We’re only linking to this Detroit Free Press article about a Pinto at the bottom of Lake Michigan for the “mussel car” pun. * Anybody interested about the general history of bookmobiles after readin...
Image courtesy Classic Car Club of America. Carroll Jensen certainly believes the Classic Car Club of America can only grow by attracting younger members. However, the newly elected president of the ...
Established in 2000, the Piaggio Museum in Pontedera recently got treated to a full renovation. It’s now, according to Piaggio, the largest Italian museum dedicated to two-wheeled transportation. Tha...
Photo courtesy Indiana Racing Memorial Association. While Indy 500 and local historians have a good idea in which grave Arthur Chevrolet likely now lies — and know for sure in which grave he doesn’t ...
Old Faithful , a 1924 Ford Model T touring car from Georgia, was featured in the December 1959 issue of Hemmings Motor News . What happened to her? While reviewing prices for brass cars for the next ...
Images courtesy Mel Francis. “Something happened that wouldn’t normally have happened,” Mel Francis said of the wedge-shaped supercars of the late Sixties and early Seventies, those low-slung mid-eng...
Photos courtesy Osenat, except where noted. The prospect of an inexpensive mid-engine road-car chassis excited many a designer when Porsche announced the 914; the car’s flat and angular design, an in...
Bobby Labonte. Photos courtesy NASCAR.com. Bobby Labonte, the 2000 Monster Energy Series Champion, has revealed that he will pursue another series championship in 2018, only this one will take place ...
Photo by The359. The Jim Clark color scheme might not be accurate, but the Lotus 29 in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum’s collection does carry significant history, which is why museum official...
Three generations of the Ness family (left to right, Arlen, Corey, and Zach). Photographs courtesy of the Quail Gathering. With more than 300 prewar and postwar motorcycles on display, May’s Quail Mo...
Reutter seat production for Porsche, 1961. All images courtesy Recaro. The history of Recaro seats starts in 1963 in the German automotive “capital” Stuttgart in very close range to the iconic brands...
Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. What went behind the decision to downsize pretty much every American automobile in the late 1970s and early 1980s? A May 1980 New Yorker article that Curbside Classic ...
Images courtesy Indiana Racing Memorial Association. Like many motorsports pioneers, Floyd “Pop” Dreyer pursued speed however and wherever he could. Motorcycle racing, Indy racing, midget car racing,...
Photo courtesy Bonhams. As the family of Piet den Hartogh indicated when they decided to close his museum dedicated to Ford vehicles a year and a half ago, they will sell the entire collection all at...
Photos by Richard Lentinello. In the 1950s, Chrysler developed cars using a functional structure. People specialized, so that one person might design nothing but axles. The chassis, body, electrical,...
John Miles at the Nuerburgring in 1970. Photo by Raimund Kommer. By the time John Miles began driving Formula 1 cars for Gold Leaf Team Lotus, the engineer-turned-racer had already proven his talent ...
Did we just miss the 200th anniversary of the first motorcycle? Over at the Vintagent, Paul d’Orleans presents us with possible evidence for a steam-powered Vélocipédraisiavaporianna, reportedly buil...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. Dual superchargers. Dual headlamps. Dual slicks. The car that Jim Street showed for a few years and then hid away for decades seemed to have dual e...