Jeff Gordon celebrates Brickyard 400 win number five in 2014. Photo copyright and courtesy of Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Founded in 1952 as the Auto Racing Hall of Fame, the institution created to ...
Ed Justice, Jr. (L) and Scott Pruett. Photo courtesy Justice Brothers, Inc. In a racing career that spanned five decades, Scott Pruett earned countless wins, poles and podiums, along with championshi...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. For several years it toured the country claiming a Guinness world record for “world’s most expensive automobile,” and it very well may have been, g...
This week, The Women of Trucking blog took a look back at the pioneers who fought their way into the male-dominated industry, going as far back as Luella Bates (pictured above) and Lillie Elizabeth M...
A trio of Playboy convertibles were displayed by owners David Kaplan and Lee Singer at the 2014 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Front-to-back: 1949 convertible #97; 1947 Prototype convertibl...
Issigonis’s Mini certainly contributed to the development of front-wheel drive, but the true father of today’s transverse-engine front-wheel-drive layout, as Neil Briscoe at Influx argues, is Dante G...
Roy Fjastad. Image via Facebook. From the drag strip, to the salt flats, to the street, there was very little in hot rodding that Roy Fjastad didn’t touch in the course of his career. Fjastad, who di...
Through the years, hundreds of coffee table books have honored the sporting marques of twentieth-century Great Britain. Until now, not one of those has brought together the roster of talent we find b...
Patrick Rollet with his 1932 Lagonda 16/80 Semi Sports. Photo provided. Our recent articles on the Charter of Turin Handbook and on what categories of vehicle the Fédération Internationale des Véhicu...
Photos by Joe Wiecha, courtesy Artcurial. They chased him off once, but Pinin Farina had spent the last several months working hard on an appropriately over-the-top response to the decision by the or...
Jeff Gordon celebrates a win at Kansas Speedway in May 2014. Photo by HHP/Harold Hinson for Chevrolet. What do “Lil’ John” Buttera, Carl G. Fisher, Jeff Gordon, Howard Hughes, “Flyin’ Fred” Merkel, U...
Jerry Sneva at Indy, 1977. Photos courtesy IMS. Born into a racing family, Jerry Sneva climbed the ladder from Spokane, Washington’s dirt tracks all the way to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In 197...
Sir Stirling Moss at the 2015 Mille Miglia. Photos courtesy Mercedes-Benz. Consider this: In his active years as a driver, Sir Stirling Moss won 57-percent of the races he entered, across a variety o...
I wanted to meet “Big Daddy” Don Garlits when he raced Swamp Rat-I at Atco Dragway in 1962. But it wasn’t to be, and I had to wait 41 years for it to happen. Photo courtesy Garlits Museum of Drag Rac...
More than a few years ago, we visited with some fine car folks in Istanbul during one of the Hemmings cruises. Now we learn that some of those same folks have organized the first Istanbul internation...
Visitors at the 2017 induction ceremony. Photos courtesy British Sports Car Hall of Fame. Established in 2016, the British Sports Car Hall of Fame’s mission is to “preserve and perpetuate the legacy ...
Dan Gurney (R) with A.J. Foyt at Le Mans in 1967. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. If Dan Gurney wasn’t the greatest American racing driver of all time, he was certainly in the running for the hono...
Photo courtesy Ford Media. Henry Ford was a complex and contradictory man who left behind a sometimes perplexing legacy. And it certainly helps little that his biographers–himself included–have compl...
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Bob Glidden. Photo by Autostock, courtesy Ford Motor Company. As poet, singer, and lizard king Jim Morrison once observed, “no one here gets out alive,” a statement addressing the end we all must fac...
The car with the motor in it, as we size-up what it might’ve looked like with a 6-71 roots-type supercharger and an Enderle “bugcatcher” mechanical fuel injection setup. All photos by the author unle...
Bob Glidden is inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in April, 2005. Photo by Autostock, courtesy Ford Motor Company. When Bob Glidden was inducted as number four on the NHRA’s Top...
Earlier this year, the folks at Moss restored MVC 575, a Triumph TR2 that set a speed record of nearly 125 mph at Jabbeke using its production 2.0-liter engine. * And speaking of historic British rac...
2018 Corvette Hall of Fame inductees John Greenwood, Burt Greenwood, Tom Wallace, and Mike Yager. Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. Since its inception in 1997, the Corvette Hall of Fame, loc...
Photo courtesy of FIA On the evening of December 4, The FIA formally introduced the Formula 1 Hall of Fame by inaugurating its first class: each of the 33 men who have won at least one F1 title since...