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Photo by Richard Lentinello. Ask a bunch of students to design a car and you’re guaranteed to end up with some unconventional results. Actually produce any of those unconventional results and you’re likely to end up with a striking car like the 1952 Pegaso Z-102 Cupola, a car that the Read more
The motorsports history at the Iowa State Fairgrounds dirt track, which dated back to 1907, came to an abrupt end this week when the fair board announced that all racing activities in the future would cease on the half-mile dirt track, a decision that was reported in the Des Moines Read more
Images via OldCarBrochures. Recently, thanks to regular commenter italianiron, we were introduced to a nickname for the chrome trim pieces that adorn the rear flanks of 1951-1952 senior Packards: bottle openers. Seemed a lot of our other regular commenters hadn’t heard this term before, which led italianiron to wonder out Read more
By now, just about anyone who is into vintage cars and has visited the Hemmings Daily knows who Henry Jamison “Jam” Handy was. We’ve frequently featured various selections from his treasury of automotive documentary, educational and marketing films, and Kurt Ernst did a detailed biographical piece on Handy in May Read more
Date: November 1965 Location: Luanda, Angola Source: The Chicane on Tumblr What do you see here?
1969 Chevy Camaro SS396; image by the author. During this past weekend’s 10th annual Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance presented by Gullwing Motor Cars, the event staff announced the featured marques for its 11th annual three-day extravaganza, to be held on September 22-24, 2017, in Saratoga Springs, New York. In keeping Read more
Images courtesy AACA Library. Libraries aren’t exactly arcades, but video games did provide an introduction to cool cars for many a younger automotive enthusiast, so the AACA Library recently added a small collection of racing simulator and other video games from the 1980s and 1990s to its collections. “It’s a Read more
Dan Gurney (#30) and John Surtees (#3) in Lola T70s at Bridgehampton in 1966. Photos courtesy Ford Motorsports, unless otherwise noted. Can-Am evolved as a series that saw one dominating car and driver combination each year. And 1966, that first year, was no different, as John Surtees and the Lola Read more
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News As we posited in “Earthbound Spaceship,” our Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car retrospective of the Citroen DS, this front wheel-drive French classic may just be the most groundbreaking, technologically advanced production car in all of automotive history. Citroen’s flagship four-door was Read more
Date: circa 1959 Location: Cypress Gardens, Winter Haven, Florida Source: Americar via The Old Motor What do you see here?