Photo by PSParrot. Fifty years ago, to the day, Larry Rathgeb had brought a cadre of engineers, a hired shoe, and the hottest car on the planet to Talladega. His goal: get the driver, Buddy Baker, to...
How could we not want to look at something Holden-related this week, given the recent news that General Motors plans to phase out the brand in 2021. Many will argue that Holden really died when local...
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...
No history of rock-n-roll cars would be complete without a mention of John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce, so let’s see what GQ had to say about it. To take a Phantom V – a stately wagon once possessed by both...
Photos by Richard Lentinello (left) and courtesy Smith family (right). Though best known for designing the complicated but functional retractable hardtop system that went into the Ford Skyliner, engi...
Colin Seeley with one of his signature bikes. Photo credit: Bonhams. We lost a significant figure in both British motorcycle racing and innovative motorcycle design with the passing of Colin Seeley o...
Photo by the author. It seats just one, has no luxury amenities, sports zero-wheel drive, and its original design didn’t change for 20 years. Still, the car that Jim Mariol, a former Chrysler illustr...
Jack working on Nebulous Theorem XII. Photo via JackCostella.com. For 50 years, Jack Costella returned to the salt at Bonneville in what amounted to a decades-long science experiment, probing the lim...
First reported by Autoline’s John McElroy on Facebook, Futurist Syd Mead passed away this morning in his Pasadena, California home. He was 86 years old. Famous for his futuristic renderings seen in m...
As December draws to a close, it’s time to look back on another year of Hemmings and what stories readers liked the most on our website. That’s right, here are the Top 10 stories of 2019. We’ve limit...
Moonshiner, NASCAR driver and former team owner Junior Johnson passed away on December 20th at age 88. His health had been on the decline recently and he died peacefully while under hospice care. He ...
Photo courtesy Indianapolis Star Newspaper Racing legend and safety innovator Bill Simpson passed away on Monday, a few days after suffering a stroke. He was 79 years old. As a driver, Simpson was in...
With a deep-seated passion and life-long appreciation for automotive literature, this soft-spoken gentleman was a friend to everyone who ever met him. On Friday, November 15, the collector-car hobby ...
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 ...
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...
Paul Walker’s role as Brian O’Conner in The Fast and the Furious movie series made him car celebrity royalty, but he was a gearhead off-camera as well. And now 21 vehicles from the late actor’s estat...
Photo via Colani.org. If Syd Mead were as consumed by the pursuit of aerodynamic perfection as Alex Tremulis and stripped of any and all regard for design precedent, the result would come relatively ...
Photo via NHRA. Tom Jobe, the last of the Surfers drag team, died earlier this month at the age of 89. If you’re not a hardcore drag racing fan (or if you weren’t paying close attention to the story ...
“It may seem a little crazy to walk directly into the line of fire… those who are willing, are those who achieve great things. People say I’m crazy. I say thank you.” Jessi Combs wrote this on her In...
Photo courtesy North American Eagle Facebook page. Just over a year after the North American Eagle land-speed racing team lost one of its two co-drivers, Ed Shadle, and vowed to continue his quest to...
Images are courtesy of Volkswagen and Audi Volkswagen Type 1 designer and founder of the eponymous sports car company, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche would have been very proud of the accomplishments of his g...
Steve Hingtgen, founder of Vintage Trailer Supply, has opened a new distribution center and showroom in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in response to a growing market. To celebrate the new center, Vintage Tra...
Photo from 2006 article courtesy Bruce Crower. On his newest self-built hot rod, which looks more like an IRL car with two seats instead of one, the license plate reads simply “INMYDNA.” Now, there’s...
Lee Iacocca in 2005. Screen grab from video, courtesy FCA. Editor’s note: He was the driving force behind the Ford Mustang, as well as the Ford Pinto, intended to be the compact car that save Ford fr...
Photo courtesy Rod Hall Racing. Racing Baja in the Sixties took place at a far different pace than today’s races. One could get lost a dozen times driving used four-wheel-drive rigs and somehow still...