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Chip Ganassi accepting the Phil Hill Award from Bobby Rahal. Photo by Brian Cleary, courtesy RRDC. Since 1993, the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) has annually presented its Phil Hill Award to a candidate who has “rendered outstanding service to road racing” as a driver, team owner, or member of Read more
Images are from the brochure collection of Hemmings Motor News, courtesy of Bruce Zahor No, there’s nothing racy about the above photo, just a wholesome young lady and her car… Okay, so you don’t have to be Freud to see that the American branch of Jaguar Cars was selling more Read more
Date: 1964 Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California Source: NASA What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: Motorcar studio is pleased to offer this rare 1971 Volkswagen Type 3 Fastback. A great-looking, honest example with 74,000 believed to be original miles and three owners from new. Sold new in Virginia where it stayed with its original female owner for over thirty years before Read more
Photos by Jim Coventry, courtesy Auctions America. Oliver Hine didn’t set out to build a custom that would set the show world on fire and continue to win awards nearly six decades after it was built. Instead, he wanted a car to go drag racing, but by 1953 it was Read more
Photo by the author. About a month into the new legislative session for many states, at least six have introduced bills that would provide for greater freedom for displaying license plates on older vehicles. Of the six, five would allow single license plates while the other would provide for historical Read more
A few years ago we made the informal decision to stop including most prewar cars in the Lost and Found department in Hemmings Classic Car. While we have nothing against prewar cars, we discovered that entries featuring them tended to draw fewer responses than entries featuring newer cars. But that’s Read more
Date: circa 1970s (above), circa 1956 (below) Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California Source: NASA
From the seller’s description: Produced from 1960 to 1964, the Studebaker Champ was the first major redesign of Studebaker’s truck line in more than ten years. Although the cargo bed and chassis were carryovers from previous models, the Champ cab was an all new design based off the Lark which Read more
Launched in 1970, Land Rover’s Range Rover SUV was designed with an ambitious goal in mind: to be as functional on-road as it was off-road. Early advertising referred to it as “a car for all reasons,” and buyers agreed, making the Range Rover a sales success that remains in production Read more