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Vic Elford poses with the Porsche 907LH. Photo courtesy Porsche North America. He’s one of the fastest, most disciplined and most versatile drivers in the history of international motorsport. Now the British endurance and rallying hero Vic Elford has been honored for a lifetime of achievement with the 2015 Phil Read more
Photos courtesy Thompson Speedway. Few racing facilities in America can boast as long and deep a history as Thompson Speedway in northeastern Connecticut. Its high-banked 5/8th-mile oval dates back to 1940, and its road course, which dates to 1952, was recently rejuvenated for club racing and track days. The facility Read more
Late January 1961, Greenville, North Carolina, saw a little snow, though apparently not enough to shut everything down, as we see from this group of photos from the East Carolina University Digital Archives showing the intersection of Fifth and Evans, above, and Third and Evans, below. In fact, it appears Read more
We’ve seen lavishly restored big trucks in this space and wondered what use anybody would get out of them beyond parade duty. Can’t really haul much with them without worrying about scraping them up, and like any other restored vehicle, you’re not likely to take it out in inclement weather. Read more
1954 Buick Wildcat II. Photos courtesy General Motors. When Futurliner No. 10 goes on display today at the Washington Auto Show as part of its induction into the National Historic Vehicle Register, it’ll have some fitting and significant company when two GM Motorama dream cars – the 1954 Buick Wildcat Read more
The Malco Gasser 1933 Willys, hood up at Engines Exposed. Photos by KMS Photography, courtesy The Henry Ford. Automotive museum exhibits are often designed to highlight the exterior styling of vehicles on display with lighting and positioning. That might be interesting to most, but some visitors prefer a peek beneath Read more
In 1959, Harley-Davidson gave away two special-edition FLH model panhead Hydra Glide dressers to two legendary music icons. The first one was given to Jerry Lee Lewis, while the second bike went to Elvis Presley; this became something of a sore subject with Elvis, who felt he should have been Read more
Still images captured from video below. Sponsored by Plymouth, this chunk of celluloid might be overlooked as just another ode to “safe and courteous driving in the modern era,” but this one has enough going for it, including some subtle humor, to warrant a 10-minute break from your daily grind. Read more
According to Roger Wollstadt, this surprise snowstorm dumped about 12 inches of snow on Arlington, Virginia, before the morning of January 20, 1966, and from the snowbound cars on the street in front of Roger’s apartment, it doesn’t look like most of his neighbors – or the city itself, judging Read more
War Bonnet Yellow was one of three new “firemist” metallic colors available on the Corvette for 1971 (the other two were Steel Cities Gray and Ontario Orange). It was a hit with buyers, outselling all nine other Corvette colors that year, and a grand total of 3,706 Corvettes were painted Read more