If you’re not into pre-WWII cars, or even if you are, you might expect the proprietor of an outfit specializing in early Fords to be at least 80 years old. After all, conventional wisdom says Model T...
All photos by Jim O’Clair It’s modern beach racing at its finest, restricted to pre-1934 car bodies (among other rules) and American motorcycles from 1947 or older. As a longtime follower of the Oile...
While “Joseph J. Ossichak Jr.” is what heads his obituary, I’m not sure how many people actually knew him by that name. To much of the world, the now-iconic boss of the staging lanes at The Race of G...
Hailing from the East Coast, the Race Of Gentlemen has graced our golden coast for a second time since its East Coast beginnings in 2008. The rules are simple. Era Correct modifications only. Things ...
Gene, in a ’32 Ford Roadster he helped build, now owned by Rob Ida. Photos by Kevin Carlson unless otherwise noted. Many of us have heard the story of the elderly gentleman reunited with a car from h...
The Race of Gentlemen is all about old cars and motorcycles in motion. Images by the Hemmings staff except as noted. The Race of Gentlemen is a dynamic event. Not only is it all about hopped-up cars ...
Every year people from all over the world meet in Wildwood, NJ to race their bikes and hotrods from the 1920’s and 1930’s on the beach, creating a MadMax like spectacle. This film is about the wonder...
Though my garb here is a little out of sync with the early-Fifties-era Hudson Hornet-powered rail my club ran at this year’s Race of Gentlemen, it’s period-plausible for my early Thirties Ford speeds...
Image courtesy The Race of Gentlemen. It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong, especially knowing the naysayers will be quick to crow, “I told you so.” But that’s exactly what Mel Stultz, founder...
Feel what its like to race in the Spectacle that is "The Race of Gentlemen". Go onboard the Cars and Bikes of The Race of Gentlemen in Wildwood, NJ and see what its like to race on the beach at TROG ...
The flag drops and the hammer’s down at The Race of Gentlemen on Pismo Beach. Photo by Jeff Koch. It rained at Woodstock in 1969. More than 400,000 people showed up and made the best of it despite th...
The Navarro roadster. Photo courtesy of The Race of Gentlemen. If the East Coast progenitor of The Race of Gentlemen is any indication, the opportunity to follow in the tire tracks of history by raci...
This 1927 Ford roadster came about because of a free, splash-oiled 216 Chevy. “Waste not, want not” sounds like it probably came from Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack, but it could very we...
Jeremiah Thomas’s 1929 Ford A/V8 is a veritable oldtimer in the East Coast traditional rodding scene. Photos by the author. You’ve probably seen this ’29 Ford roadster with the Ford V-8 logo stencile...
Matt Kutz’s Kammback phaeton speedster cuts a dashing figure in spectator parking at The Race of Gentlemen. Photos by the author. We spotted Miss Fire here as she wheeled into the impromptu Friday ni...
For the first time in 55 years, Oiler Quint Meland is staged to race. Photography by the author. As the weather warms, the days lengthen and the annual Race of Gentlemen in Wildwood, New Jersey—now h...
In honor of the International Women's Day and the TROG being featured on Americarna on the Velocity channel, Motor House Media put together a video of the Women who participated in The Race of Gentle...
This is the raglan-sleeve jersey that Hometown Jersey made for my car club. A couple of us here are members of a group called the Barnstormers VSC (Vintage Speed Club), and when we decided to have je...