Hot rod pioneer Nick Arias Jr., 1929-2017
Photo courtesy Nick Arias Jr. Racing Components. Even before a high school aptitude test confirmed it, Nick Arias Jr. knew that his future would involve the “industrial arts.” Born to a railroad mach...
Photo courtesy Nick Arias Jr. Racing Components. Even before a high school aptitude test confirmed it, Nick Arias Jr. knew that his future would involve the “industrial arts.” Born to a railroad mach...
Peter Brock. Images courtesy of the National Corvette Museum. Along with celebrating America’s sports car, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, also celebrates the people who have...
Given that none of the Diamond T Doodlebugs built for Texaco are known to have survived (and the plans to drop a quad-turbo Detroit diesel in it), we’re going to presume that the project sketches tha...
Photo by Todd Lappin. Keith Haring’s artwork and design language remained fairly consistent throughout his brief career: simple, representative and bold line drawings rendered with limited palettes. ...
Corvette rendering by Sparky Bohnstedt, circa 1954. Images courtesy Robert Edwards unless noted otherwise. Of course every car designer longs to tackle something like the Corvette: a prestige car, sl...
Per Gillbrand at the Swedish Radio concert hall Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, November 2014; photo courtesy of Claes Johansson, Klassiker magazine We learned this week of the November 30 death of automot...
Jeff Bliemeister. Photo by Mark Usciak, courtesy AACA Museum. If the name Jeff Bliemeister sounds familiar to readers of the Hemmings Daily, it should. From February 2003, when the AACA Museum in Her...
Photos courtesy Indiana Racing Memorial Association. For a man whose legacy includes one of the largest and most well known car brands in the world, Louis Chevrolet’s Indianapolis gravesite remains f...
From Curbside Classic comes the interesting tail of an old-car owner who put his or her neighborhood vandals street artists to work preserving a ’61 Rambler American. Apparently the unidentified owne...
Images courtesy Edsel & Eleanor Ford House It’s hard to overstate the importance of Edsel Ford to The Motor City. His father Henry may have put the world on wheels, and his son Henry II may have save...
From left: Bud Feldkamp, Don Amador, Jim Ober, Larry Raglun, Tracy Valenta. Photo courtesy Off-Road Motorsport Hall of Fame. Established in 1978 by National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA) co-fou...
John Fitch racing an MG-TD at Linden, New Jersey, in 1950. Photo courtesy IMRRC. Folks in the world of cars knew, admired and respected the late John Fitch. He was a racer, a patriot, a fighter pilot...
Photos via PhotOhio.org. In late 1985, probably more people talked about the De Lorean DMC-12 than at any other time in the car’s history. Its namesake had the year before beat the cocaine traffickin...
Photo by Steve Reyes. Though it’s been 40 years since “Jungle Jim” Liberman died, the impression he left on the sport of drag racing – particularly among funny car fans – through his incessant tourin...
Photos by Bruno Costers. Two years after shifting its focus to attract younger visitors, the world’s largest Ford museum – the Den Hartogh in the Netherlands – has failed to attract a new executive d...
Dan Gurney in 2016. Images courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Over the past six decades, Dan Gurney has earned remarkable success as a driver, team owner and constructor, but his ideas and designs ...
Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. Don Fezell didn’t build his collection for the fame of it. He didn’t go hog the spotlight at televised collector car auctions. He didn’t build a personal museum for the...
The 2016 Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame induction class, with founder John Scotti (foreground). Photos courtesy Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame. Last year was the first time that the newly estab...
Like Enzo Ferrari, Ettore Bugatti is one of the most revered European auto builders whose cars only barely eclipsed the story of his life, as told in this short video biography that Mac’s Motor City ...
Peter Brock chats about the cars that made him famous at the 2015 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Photo by the author. The man who had a hand in developing both the Corvette and the Mustang ...
Tony Adamowicz (back row, second from left) at a 2010 Trans Am driver reunion at the Petersen Museum. Photo by Jeff Koch. He was one of the most accomplished American road racers of the last generati...
Brock Yates with his Pebble Beach class-winning Eliminator. Photo courtesy Brock Yates, Jr. Brock Yates was never afraid of a fight. In a journalism career that stretched across six decades (includin...
Reader Greg Beaulieu forwarded this website that captures the golden age of American Motels, each a different example of mid-century architectural design and tourist trap aesthetic. They’re catalogue...
For those of us who didn’t get to see the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show last weekend, Mac’s Motor City Garage gathered some coverage of the annual event focused on independents and those marques abandone...
Photo courtesy Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. Andy Granatelli couldn’t do it. Though he named his twin-supercharged Avanti the Due Cento for his 200 MPH goal, all he could muster at Bonneville in...