Within the 306 pages of this 9.5 x 12.5-inch hardcover book exists the most authoritative story ever told about how American automobiles were designed and styled and the men responsible for it all. I...
Images courtesy of the publisher Niki Lauda wasn’t supposed to be a racing driver. Born into a wealthy Austrian family, the assumption was that Lauda would complete his formal education, then join th...
Cussler in 2017 with his 1949 Packard Eight Station Sedan. Photo courtesy the Cussler family. That old cars are time machines and ready catalysts for fantasy is well known to enthusiasts, but the sto...
Think, for a moment, about all the external forces that have shaped the development of the automobile, from the earliest days of the Mercedes-Benz Patent Motorwagen to the hybrid-drivetrain supercars...
Back in 1980, Octopus Books Limited of London, England, started publishing a series of single-marque history books on a variety of automobiles. This was the time when the publishing of serious automo...
Four days after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, American open-wheel racing series CART held its first race in Europe, hastily renamed from the German 500 to the 2001 American Memorial. With ...
The scene of the last point races for the A.A.A. championship changed from the East to the West Coast, to sunny California. The Vanderbilt Cup and the Grand Prize were run at Santa Monica. Both races...
Especially in the early days of motorsport, long before telemetrics and minutia came to dominate it, drivers tended to be daring, cultured, highly personable sorts. They knew how to take risks and pu...
For the purpose of showing that the electrics were as fully capable of traversing the average country roads and climbing hills as the “higher powered” gas cars, two electric machines left New York Ci...
Although it bore almost no relationship to the road-going car, the Corvette GTP of 1984-1988 certainly saw a lot of racing and bore the Corvette name with pride. The GTP Corvette was borne in an effo...
One of America’s favorite automotive writers is right where we left him — in our hearts and minds, and out with a new “Best Of” book. By William Hall His dual role as editor-at-large for both Cycle W...
The biggest news of the year happened away from the track. In October 1973, Saudi Arabia — controlled by OPEC — organized an oil embargo in retaliation for United States support of Israel during the ...
Photos courtesy Evro Publishing. Over the course of a three-plus-decade career as a racing driver, David Hobbs – “Hobbo” to his friends – piloted everything from sports cars to Can-Am cars, Formula O...
Images courtesy of Evro Publishing. Jim Clark was widely considered by his peers and fans as the best racing driver of the era, and his death in an April 1968 Formula 2 crash stunned the world. “If i...
The RE Olds Transportation Museum. Image via Google Street View. Lansing, Michigan, is best known outside the automotive world as being the state capital, a designation it received in 1847 on the fee...
The 1970s were a decade of change for the sport of Formula 1, as — for the first time — driver safety became a serious consideration and big-dollar sponsorships widened the gulf between the haves and...
Images courtesy Evro Publishing. Books about famous racing drivers and titans of industry abound, but tomes on mechanical engineers are few and far between. Reid Railton was no ordinary engineer, and...
Craig in his dad’s garage with the Spirit of America mockup, holding his model of the car in its original configuration. Note that “Firestone” is painted on the front wheel. (That’s another story!) I...
Story and photos by Joe Essid. Why is a nearly 40-year-old collection of speculative fiction about cars gone bad worth rediscovering? The simple answer is that we might find some solace in past cultu...
Jerry Entin in his McLaren-Oldsmobile in pit lane at the 1965 Inaugural Stardust Grand Prix. Photo courtesy of the Jerry Entin Collection. [Editor’s note: Given its location, one would expect no less...
Photo courtesy Brock Racing Enterprises. Once the youngest designer in GM’s history, Peter Brock left Detroit at age 21, bound for California and, he envisioned, a career racing cars. There, he lande...
Being a life-long Triumph nut, as proven by the TR2, TR3A, GT6 MKI, Spitfire MKIII, and Herald saloon parked in my garage, it should be no surprise that I’ve also amassed an extensive collection of T...
It’s one of Great Britain’s greatest automotive brands, yet it’s one that few car enthusiasts know much about. Alvis started building its vision of well-engineered and distinctively different-looking...
Having long been a huge fan of Ford’s stylish Thunderbird, my automotive library has several books dedicated to this sensational automobile, but, of all the Thunderbird books lining my shelves, this ...
For automotive enthusiasts, nothing could be more fascinating than to see cars being built. From piles of raw materials sitting on a factory floor to the fully assembled automobile rolling off the as...