It’s hardly the first place that two cars squared off each other, but C.J. “Pappy” Hart achieved immortality by conducting the first organized drag races on the West Coast at an airport in Santa Ana, California, in Orange County. Hart Read more
Barney Oldfield and Henry Ford. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. In the modern age of racing, a handful of drivers have achieved “household name” status, including Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, Dan Gurney and Dale Earnhardt. At the dawn of the Read more
Elephant Tamer – 1969 Plymouth Road Runner 426 HemiA few years back, Al got a hankerin’ for a new ride, and not just any ride, a Hemi. He found a badly beaten 1969 Road Runner for sale, then heard of Read more
Filed under: Motorsports The United States has had a colored history in Formula One. The US Grand Prix has bounced around more locations than a pop-up restaurant, we haven’t sent one of our own into F1 since Scott Speed flunked Read more
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Earnings/Financials America’s automotive industry continues to boom, with analysts predicting that sales in 2014 will reach over 16 million units while marking just the second time since World War II that the industry has seen five consecutive Read more
While researching the story on the Early Ford V-8 Foundation’s planned replica of the Ford Rotunda, we wondered how much history of the Rotunda to actually include in the story – after all, it had a pretty remarkable 28-year existence Read more
Polish ex-F1 driver and current rally pilot Robert Kubica hit a rock and lost his wheel at Rally Poland over the weekend. Did he stop? Hell no. Read more…
This is Randy Mamola making one of the most amazing high-side saves on video at the San Marino Grand Prix back in 1985. It is what one announcer calls ‘the absolute closest you can get to crashing, without falling off." Read more
Community potluck? Company picnic? Just another day in the park? We’re not quite sure what brought these folks together in this photo we came across over on Photos from the 1950s on Flickr, or where exactly the scene took place, Read more
The Plymouth Special Deluxe and its lower-cost brother, the Deluxe, helped to bridge the gap from wartime production to post-war prosperity for the Chrysler brand. Though perhaps underappreciated compared to other convertibles of the period, the Plymouth models have a Read more