How exactly did Watkins Glen make its way from the tiny upstate village to the massive racing complex outside of town? The International Motor Racing Research Center provided the whole story this wee...
Photo courtesy Onondaga Dragway. A bittersweet farewell message greeted visitors to Onondaga Dragway’s website earlier this month, noting that “we don’t know where to go from here” after a six-year-r...
Image by Frerk Meyer, via Creative Commons. If you were taken aback by the story a few weeks ago that Volvo was going to limit the speed of all of its cars worldwide to a 112-mph maximum in the name ...
Photo by Thirteenth Nile. In an effort to prevent abuse of the state’s antique vehicle registration system, lawmakers in Arkansas have limited the eligibility of vehicles to those 45 years and older,...
Photo by C Watts. Though Texas’ H.B. 1755 doesn’t once mention dune buggies or sand rails by name, it very well could end the state’s ongoing ban on dune buggy registrations and provide a means for d...
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...
Photo courtesy Oregon Department of Transportation. Pulling out of the weekend show-and-shine, trophy in hand for favorite muscle car, you succumb to the encouragement of the crowd. “Light ’em up!” t...
Photo by Johann Schwarz. Legislation that aims to protect European motorsports from potentially devastating mandated insurance requirements passed the first, and perhaps most crucial, of a series of ...
Photo by the author. After vetoing a bill designed to permit licensing of surplus military vehicles for street use in Michigan, former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has effectively made it impossible...
Dave Lockard, who we met at Hershey a few years back, will take home a pair of AACA National awards for his pair of Packard World War I trucks, as we learned this week on the WWI Centennial Commissio...
Photos courtesy Kevin Mackay. The years-long ownership dispute over the last unrestored Briggs Cunningham Le Mans Corvette — a car that could be worth millions — may soon come to an end now that a ju...
Photo by Doug. With less than two months to go in the current Congress, a pair of U.S. Senators have introduced a bill of their own to help in the effort to designate Route 66 a National Historic Tra...
Photo by Craig Howell. It’s not quite a green flag, but the European Parliament has, for the first time, acknowledged the threat to European motorsports posed by the expanded scope of the Motor Insur...
The KiMo Theater in downtown Albuquerque on Route 66. Photo by Karen Blaha. Where Route 66 passes through downtown Albuquerque and takes the name Central Avenue, the neon signs of the tourist-laden r...
An aerial view of the Utah Motorsports Campus site. Photo courtesy Utah Motorsports Campus. In August 2015, Tooele County, Utah, accepted a bid from the Mitime Investment and Development Group — a di...
Superformance’s Shelby Daytona coupe replica. Photo courtesy Superformance. Despite a number of pleas from the Specialty Equipment Market Association to move along regulations that would allow replic...
In case you missed it, the entire hour-long Save the Texas Dune Buggy rally in front of the Texas state capitol – which took place this past Thursday – is still on the Save the Texas Dune Buggy Faceb...
BMW in Greece. Photo by Charlie. Just as a farming accident inadvertently imperiled the future of motorsports in Europe, an ill-fated joyride has now made it more difficult for museums, collectors, a...
Photo by Casey Maxon, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Bruce Meyers sees the Texas DMV’s ban on homebuilt cars as far more than just a threat to the Meyers Manx and fiberglass-bodied dune buggi...
Photo by Russell Lee, courtesy Library of Congress. More than any other place in the country, Route 66 in its heyday posed a problem for black motorists. Sundown towns — towns that did not allow blac...
Jaywalking simply didn’t exist before the automobile, so how did it — both the term and the crime — come about? According to this deep dive into the history of jaywalking, it was actually a concerted...
Images are courtesy of Aston Martin Media Aston Martin is no stranger to capitalizing on its incredible back-catalog, having recently sold 25 “ continuation ” alloy-bodied DB4 GT Lightweights, each o...
Photo by Emma Nairne. Nations have capitals; states have capitals; roads generally do not. Route 66, however, technically hasn’t been a federally designated road for more than 30 years now — instead,...
Photo courtesy Save the Texas Dune Buggy. After tossing aside a proposed ruling that would definitively outlaw all but a minority of dune buggies in the state, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles ...
There’s an early 1980s’ CNN report floating around YouTube in which reporter Robert Vito runs down the high-level challenges that the American auto industry faced circa 1982. But a couple years earli...