You can’t rush perfection, and it seems that perfection is exactly what model maker Ken Foran is after with his scratchbuilt 1/8-scale version of Tommy Ivo’s quad-engine dragster. We came across the ...
Images courtesy the Loyed Woodland collection at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing. Whoever knew that a post-war fascination with mechanical innovation in construction and drag racing would lead ...
Photo credit: Fox Entertainment Group Does America champion the underdog? The pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps tales of the little guy making it big, the evergreen story of heart and determination...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Mickey Thompson sped along at 100 miles an hour or so. He didn’t have another land-speed record or motorsports title in his sights. He didn’t even have his hands on the wheel...
Photos by Katie Neeves, Martin Neeves Photography, via University of Warwick. It took a British schoolboy – one with access to a fully equipped machine shop working steadily for two years, but a scho...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. If we were to assemble a clickbait top-10 list of T.V. Tommy Ivo drag-racing moments, the creation of his quad-engine Showboat exhibition racer and...
Emerson Fittipaldi at Daytona, circa 1995. Photo by Bill Warner. He’s won a pair of Formula 1 world driving championships, the first, at age 25, marking him as the then-youngest champion in the histo...
The oldest surviving American automobile, as The Henry Ford pointed out this week, exists in the museum’s collection, and it well predates the internal combustion engine. Smoke-belching steam locomot...
Ford v Ferrari is a story that’s been a long time coming—in fact, it’s been over 53 years since Ford beat Ferrari at Le Mans. It took that long to take the bones of that story and bring it to the big...
Photos courtesy Tommy Lee Byrd and Great Race.com. The Vintage Car Rally Association (VCRA), The Great Race, Hemmings Motor News, and the Race for Autism lost a great friend and hero this week, with ...
Hemmings archive photos. These days, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway looks pristine, polished, and ready for the world stage pretty much any day of the year, and that condition certainly played no sm...
While perusing the several cars that Honda’s taking to SEMA to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Honda in the U.S., we were surprised to see that the company didn’t include the first Honda automobile...
Photos by the author. The 2019 Richmond, Virginia Folk Festival marked the 15th anniversary of a popular event that began with a three-year hosting of the national festival, featuring big names and n...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of American has developed and grown extensively though its 30-year history, but still carries out its primary mission to celebrate every form of racing. That journey is d...
Image courtesy Michigan State University. “The better half has, since the early twentieth century, mysteriously acquired 70 percent of the nation’s wealth and she is determined to spend 120 percent o...
It does exist! A decade ago, I mentioned that one of the Strick cabunder prototypes still exists in Germany, and thanks to a post on Truque, it appears we’ve found it still in operation as a “ platea...
While the ModenArt exhibit that featured the works of Giancarlo Guerra, Afro Gibellini and Oriello Leonardi is now over, we did receive plenty of photos from the organizers of the exhibit and its ope...
1952 Kaiser Manhattan. Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. We live in a golden age of crate engine options. From a catalog, one can order Hemis, LSes, even electric motors. And who knows, maybe we could ...
Colani’s Utah 8. Photos via CataWiki. Just a month after designer Luigi Colani died, a number of his full-size design studies and working one-off cars – including some of his Automorrow racers design...
Before embarking on his quest to break the world land-speed record, Rosco McGlashan was an exhibition drag racer who piloted jet dragsters, much like the Arfons brothers. McGlashan also decided – onc...
Sir Alec Issigonis and his Mini at Longbridge, 1964; i mage courtesy of The British Sports Car Hall of Fame Established three years ago, the Petersburg, Virginia-based The British Sports Car Hall of ...
Larry Bisceglia’s panel van. Photos courtesy IMS Museum. In May 1986, the Indianapolis media put out an all-points bulletin. Not for any elected official or public persona. Not for any bank robber or...
Today’s daily briefing covers the origin story of the plaid seats in the Volkswagen GTI, what happens when a 2017 Ford GT turns into a used car, and what James Bond will be driving in his next movie....
Benoist in a Delage. Photo courtesy Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The streets around the newly constructed Garage Banville in Paris’s 17th Arrondissement were and remain narrow, busy, and flat – ...
As The Detroit News reported this week, Allan Hill, who’s called the Packard plant in Detroit home for 15 years, was recently served an eviction notice. Hill has served as an unofficial spokesman for...