Photos courtesy Aussie Invader. On the one hand, according to Rosco McGlashan, plenty of people have told him that they too intend to build a vehicle that’ll break the world land-speed record, typica...
Photo courtesy Bloodhound LSR. Less than a month ago, Bloodhound LSR owner Ian Warhurst believed the massive jet/rocket-propelled car could still make it back to Hakskeen Pan for a run at the world l...
Photo via BloodhoundLSR.com. All winter, the Bloodhound land-speed racing team has made it clear that they won’t be able to return to South Africa’s Hakskeen Pan for a run at the world land-speed rec...
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...
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...
Image courtesy Bloodhound LSR. Judging from videos, the mood of the entire Bloodhound LSR team as it packed up and left Hakskeen Pan this week ran from celebratory to jovial. The jet car had performe...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. In early August 1971, the Apollo 15 astronauts deployed the first moon buggy — technically the Lunar Roving Vehicle — on the surface of ol’ Luna, reaching blistering s...
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...
Back in 1989, ESPN sent Peter Graves out to cover the racing at Bonneville, almost on a play-by-play basis with color commentator Rick Vesco. Speeds were high, records were set, and the salt stretche...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. In just a few short years, Danny Thompson did what nobody else in the world has done. Not only did he set a land-speed record for a piston-powered ...
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...
The sign in 2006. Photo by the author. Other than the long dark lines that racers follow on their quests for speed and a few drainage ditches, the Bonneville Salt Flats differs from other federal lan...
We know that Ronan Glon at RanWhenParked has a good eye for unusual European cars of the Eighties, Nineties, and beyond, so we’re always happy to see his coverage of local European events like the re...
Photos courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, except where noted. Just how fast could a bewinged Dodge Charger Daytona go – without interference from NASCAR, that is? One championship-winning team se...
Photos courtesy Bloodhound LSR. Though it’s one of the flattest places on earth and boasts a rock-free 20 kilometers of racing surface thanks to the efforts of hundreds of area residents, no land-spe...
Photo via Team Vesco Racing. Typically, one enters a hall of fame after accomplishing their greatest feats, not before. Rick Vesco and his team, however, were more than happy to accept honors from th...
The rebodied 1979 BMW M1 driven by Harald Ertl to an LPG-powered speed record. Images courtesy Coys. On October 17, 1981, racing driver and motoring journalist Harald Ertl piloted a specially prepare...
McGlashan with the Aussie Invader III. Photos courtesy Lloyds. When collector-car dealer Tony Denny set up shop in Australia five years ago, he aimed to build the country’s largest car museum-slash-d...
This past week, as Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, marked the 50th anniversary of Nissan’s GT-R, the sedan with the heart of a race car, designed by Prince engineers working within the company. What re...
Photo by the author. Convinced that a salt restoration program conducted in conjunction with the mining company that has removed millions of tons of salt from the Bonneville salt flats will return th...
As the monochrome-and-billet excesses of street rodding began to give way to the stripped down, back-to-basics aesthetic of traditional hot rodding in the late Eighties and into the Nineties, one voi...
Photo by Cmglee. More than 20 years after it became the first car to set the world land-speed record in excess of the speed of sound, ThrustSSC not only still holds the record, it’s also still rackin...
Charles Kettering gets all the credit for inventing the self-starter for internal combustion engines and thus making gasoline-engine cars the dominant mode of transport today. But as John Heitmann at...
Photos courtesy World of Speed Motorsports Museum. We’ve written a bunch in recent years about the trials, tribulations, and, ultimately, triumphs that Danny Thompson and his Challenger 2 crew experi...
Rendering courtesy Bloodhound SSC. Never say never, apparently. Just 10 days after the administrators in charge of the Bloodhound SSC world land-speed effort announced they were scrapping the project...