Back, L to R: Brad Francis, Greg Ozubko, Simon Menzies, Alan Kenny, Kevin Power, Rob Flynn, Gary Beck, Bob Papirnick, Eddy Bryck, Ray Peets, Don MacCallum and Robert Slater. Front, L to R: Greg Nicke...
If you plan to race in Baja’s Class 11, be prepared to meet Eric Solorzano and come away from your encounter with a tale or two, as this Playboy profile of the long-time racer illustrates. * Do you t...
The #23 Porsche Konstruktionen Porsche 917 K driven by Richard Atwood and Hans Herrmann drives under the Dunlop Bridge during the International Championship for Makes 24 Hours of Le Mans race on13 Ju...
Lehrstück Es war ein besonderes Schauspiel kürzlich, als Carlos Tavares, der kleine Portugiese mit den wachen Augen und der schnellen Gestik, die Zukunft von Opel präsentierte. Opel hat eine großarti...
Joan Newton Cuneo, circa 1911 behind the wheel of a Knox Giantess. Image courtesy of Wilmington Historical Society. Since 2015, the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in Watkins Glen,...
The Model T Ford Club of America maintains a museum and library in Richmond, Indiana. Images courtesy Susan Yaeger. If you have anything more than a passing interest in the Ford Model T, you likely h...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Not intentionally, of course, but the brothers Santler couldn’t help but break existing British road laws when they first ventured out in the little car they called “Malverni...
Joe Oldham in 2013. Photo by Jeff Koch. Editor’s note: Author, Hemmings Muscle Machines columnist, and muscle-car authority Joe Oldham died at his Palm Springs home last Thursday. This tribute comes ...
Gas Ronda. Photo by Greg Sharp. Even as a child, long before the sport of drag racing entered his life, Gaspar Ronda went by the nickname “Gas.” One of Ford’s factory Thunderbolt racers and an early ...
Rolla Vollstedt, in yellow cap, with Jim Clark’s 1967 Rex Mays 300 car. Photo courtesy Michael McKinney. If a career spent designing and building racing cars and serving as a team owner is measured s...
Images courtesy Barry Gremillion. Stolen, abandoned, slated for the scrap heap: Certainly not the fate Bill Cushenberry imagined for what was to be his crowning achievement, the Silhouette II Space C...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. The stars all appeared to align for Duesenberg’s return in the mid-Sixties: a Duesenberg family member at the helm, an Exner-designed and Ghia-built prototype, confirmed or...
Image via Google Street View. Kristi Schwartzly still recalls the morning she came to work at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum to find that a roof leak had flooded the executive director’s office....
The Shelby-built Trans-Am Mustang of John McComb, which sold for $400,000 in January 2013. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. Chuck Cantwell is no stranger to fans of early Shelby Mustangs. As project en...
Steve McDonald speaks at a SEMA Town Hall meeting. Photo courtesy SEMA. Steve McDonald’s name may not be familiar to everyone in the old car hobby, but his battles against overbearing governmental re...
Does the world really need another book on Carroll Shelby and his Cobra sports car? When the book comes from Shelby American’s official shooter, Dave Friedman, and it covers the exciting, early years...
Robert Yates in 2010. Photo by Ted Van Pelt. Legendary engine builder and successful NASCAR team owner Robert Yates passed away on Monday, October 2, succumbing to liver cancer first diagnosed in 201...
Derek Bell at Sebring in 2008. Photo by Freewheeling Daredevil. Derek Bell has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans a total of five times, the 24 Hours of Daytona three times, and the World Sportscar Champion...
Proposed Jim Clark Museum. Image courtesy The Jim Clark Trust. Jim Clark, widely regarded as one of the best racing drivers ever to compete, is today honored by a single-room museum in the town of Du...
Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy RM Sotheby’s, except where noted. The race took place over the distance of two telephone poles, or about 60 feet, and the winner never shifted out of first gear, but...
The mutant vehicles of Burning Man are always good for stretching the definition — if not the concept — of automobiles. Alexandrailer shot a bunch this year. * Japanese Nostalgic Car has the full sto...
Photo and collage by the author. There’s the car, of course, perhaps the most successful attempt at an American microcar. But there’s also the anti-baldness device, the proximity fuze, the refrigerat...
Images courtesy VanderbiltCupRaces.com. For 37 years the quonset huts that made up the Long Island Automotive Museum, bereft of their four-wheeled inhabitants, steadily deteriorated into rusted, graf...
Lonnie James Isam, Jr. Photo courtesy Felicia Morgan. Lonnie James Isam, Jr., best known for being the motivating force behind, and the organizer of, the Motorcycle Cannonball semi-annual cross-count...
Photos courtesy Crosley Automobile Club. You all know Paul Gorrell by now. Built that Crosley sign-turned-scooter. Owns the most complete collection of Crosley prototypes. His latest creation remains...