Photos courtesy Firebird Raceway. Despite the relatively new grandstands and timing tower, not a whole lot has changed at Firebird Raceway in Idaho’s Treasure Valley since it was built in 1968. Sure,...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor, and from Volvo Cars Media The P1800 coupe has always been an icon for Volvo. An outlier in an otherwise sensib...
Aerial view showing the existing property and new parcel purchased. Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. Today, the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky, occupies...
Photo by Mike Boening. Prior to the collapse of the production line bridge at the former Packard plant this week, the Detroit News ran a piece looking back on an unusual chapter in the plant’s histor...
Bentley 4.5 liter. Photo by David LaChance. More than 240 years after the founding fathers met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to sign King George’s walking papers, the Simeone Foundation Automotive M...
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...
Tupelo Automobile Museum. Photos by Stephen Mancuso. Opened in 2002, the Tupelo Automobile Museum in Tupelo, Mississippi, was the dream of broadcast entrepreneur Frank K. Spain, who began collecting ...
The IMS Museum announced this week that it has digitized a good number of recordings of Indy 500 races past and is now offering the digital recordings for sale. * The story that Alex Pappademas wrote...
Dan Gurney’s 1961 Impala at the Jim Clark Museum, reopening summer 2019. Photos courtesy Jim Clark Trust. In 1961, Dan Gurney shipped a Chevrolet Impala to England, intent on beating the Jaguars that...
Bonneville Salt Flats. Photo by Steven Harris. Editor’s note: In response to our November 30 story regarding a recent University of Utah study on the Bonneville Salt Flats, the Save the Salt Foundati...
The change in air pressure from the tornado sucked in the garage doors in this building at Country Classic Cars. Photos by Anita Noel. Just 15 months after a five-alarm fire swept through Hemmings Pr...
Skidmarks observed at Bonneville in 2006. Photo by the author. Before any season of sanctioned racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats begins, a heavy truck pulls a heavy drag made up of multiple steel I...
Photos by the author; 1966 image of Mike Cook from Triumph Cars in America. We’ve just learned that our friend, current Jaguar Land Rover North America corporate archivist and former Hemmings Sports ...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. The downsized A/G-body Monte Carlo was one of the most popular and ubiquitous American cars of the 1980s, and ...
Photo courtesy the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway District. Inspired by an Imbued With Hues colorized photo, The Old Motor set out to learn more about the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. In the ...
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...
Aerial view of the Bondurant Racing School facility at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Arizona. Image courtesy Google Maps. After celebrating its 50th anniversary in February 2018, the ...
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...
An aerial view of the Buick City site. Image courtesy Google Maps. Buick City, a massive industrial site in Flint, Michigan, has been largely vacant since the last of its manufacturing plants were sh...
Images and video are courtesy of Jaguar Media Jaguar had a well-established reputation for building beautiful, powerful, and luxurious sedans (saloons, to the Brits) that dated back to the 1930s, wit...
The male of the species is always more colorful, but that’s because he’s competing for attention. Which is glorious. We look at a lot of cars in any given day. A lot of cars. And when it comes to mus...
Jeff Graham of Southern Shores, North Carolina, in his black ’58 Bugeye. Photos by Daniel Mainzer. In the early post-World War II years, sports car racing took place on the streets of America (and a ...
1970 Ferrari 365 GT 2+2. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Of all the reasons to buy a Ferrari, “room enough for the entire family” rarely makes the list, yet that’s exactly what prompted the purchas...
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor. The Ford Motor Company will debut a new Bronco in 2020, after a 24-year absence, and that model name — used fr...
Enzo Ferrari, racing driver, sometime in the 1920s. Public domain photo. From the 1920s until his death in 1988, Enzo Ferrari played a significant role in shaping the evolution of motorsports, as wel...