Hemmings Auto Blog

Photos by Jim Donnelly. No cheater slicks, no line locks, no delay boxes, no handicapping, not even a Christmas tree. Just heads-up drag racing the way it used to be, mano a mano, carro a carro, first to the finish line wins all the bragging rights. That is, if the Read more

Photo courtesy Eastern Museum of Motor Racing. If you’re into drag racing history, especially the eastern variety, make plans to be in York Springs, Pennsylvania, this coming weekend for the spring open house at the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing, with drag racing as the featured category of competition. New Read more

Photos by the author. The Larger family from Westerville, Ohio, brought their very distinctive barrel-back woodie wagon to take part in the special Chrysler Town and Country class. Produced in late January 1942, just one month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this particular Town and Country was one of Read more

 All brochure images are from the collection of Mark J. McCourt Mazda has always played the role of the scrappy underdog with lots of moxie, and few of its cars have had more heart and enthusiast appeal than its rotary-powered vehicles and, of course, the incredibly popular MX-5 Miata. The first-generation Read more

Once a fruit farm, the Country Counter served the grocery needs for the community of Richfield, Ohio, for quite a few years before becoming a Giant Eagle. Interestingly, it didn’t just become a big-box supermarket once the chain grocery moved in. Rather, as we can see from comparing the above Read more

The 1963 Corvette V7 twin-turbo show car. Photos courtesy Auctions America. Inspired by his mid-engine Ford GT and rumors of a possible mid-engine Corvette for the car’s then-unreleased seventh-generation, designer Mark Harlan pondered the question “what if GM had created a mid-engine version of the second-generation Corvette to run at Read more

Photos by the author. One of the rarest cars on the show field at the Amelia Island Concours, a car which never made it to production, was this 1969 Porsche 914/8. Yes, a 914/8. This is the car that was ordered by Ferdinand Piech to be built with a flat-eight Read more

Somewhere between shifter kart and open-wheel dirt track racer lies this 1975 Jenssen midget car for sale on Hemmings.com, a one-off with a number of outside-the-box innovations, including a rear-mounted four-cylinder Chrysler marine engine, torsion bar suspension, and a handmade body and chassis. While it reportedly was never approved for Read more

* The image above, of the 1965 Honda RA272, isn’t all that striking – especially after the nice images of it under the bright lights that we recently saw – but the sound of that 1495cc 48-valve transverse mid-mounted V-12, as pointed out this week by MotorsportRetro.com, well, that makes Read more

* Over the last 85 years, Pinin Farina (later Pininfarina) has built plenty of noteworthy cars. As this week’s story from Petrolicious noted, it’s a monumental task to sift through that history to pick even the 50 best Pininfarina cars, but it’s a task Paolo Pininfarina, grandson of the company Read more