Win Rittall’s 1968 Mercury Cougar XR-7 GT-E. Photos by Russ Rocknak, courtesy of Owls Head Transportation Museum. In 1968, the highest-performance Mercury Cougar was the 427-powered Cougar GT-E. Just 357 of this single-year model were built, each with the three-speed Read more
Michael Argetsinger. Photo courtesy International Motor Racing Research Center. Michael Argetsinger, an author, motorsports historian and a founder of the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, New York, died of cancer July 7 at his home in Chicago. Read more
Tire failure can have disastrous, and expensive, consequences. Photo by The Tire Zoo. Whether to use a tire plug or patch on a radial tire can be a controversial subject, especially depending on where the injury to the tire has Read more
Filed under: Green, Motorsports The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has announced a vast array of changes for the future of racing, including a new F1 calendar and revised regulations for LMP2 and WRC, among others. Continue reading FIA approves Read more
Today’s Weekend Wallpaper comes to us courtesy of Belgium’s Mathias Decru. He captured these Lexuses (Lexi?) in their natural environment: Read more…
Production of the Bugatti Veyron has officially ended. All 450 Veyrons have been spoken for, and a staggering thirty-four unique special editions and one-offs exist. Here’s a guide to the most unique special edition Bugatti Veyrons.http://oppositelock.kinja.com/eight-things-y… Read more…
Filed under: Celebrities, United States, Autoblog Black, Racing Triumph and Guy Martin hope to hit 400 miles per hour in a two-wheeled, streamlined motorcycle at the Bonneville Sale Flats in 2015. Continue reading Guy Martin and Triumph aim for 400 Read more
From the pictures, this 1974 Pontiac Grand Ville convertible for sale on Hemmings.com sure doesn’t look like an all-original unrestored example, but that’s just what the seller claims it to be, and we can indeed see how any top-of-the-line convertible Read more
Fans of Michael Paul Smith’s work, particularly those who enjoyed the excerpt we ran from Smith’s latest book the other day, won’t want to miss this well-done short film profiling Smith and revealing his reasons for creating and exploring the Read more
The Packard engine swap in this 1924 Delahaye for sale on Hemmings.com is rather unexpected, but not all that out of line, we’d argue. It’s large, powerful, somewhat of the era, and about as stately as the car it’s going Read more