Junior Johnson to Shoe a Shoebox at Goodwood
If you thought the Goodwood Festival of Speed was a snooty English vintage hill climb for guys in tweed jackets with elbow pads you couldn’t be any more wrong. In fact, one of America’s least...
View ArticleClik here to view.
superheated Smokey Fiero
The topic of superheated-fuel engines has come up several times recently, especially here with the 376 mpg Opel that was recently discovered. We’re working on another update to that story, but in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The workshop of a genius, gone that quick
Nobody will ever know, exactly, just how much wild and creative stuff went on inside Smokey Yunick’s garage, mechanical and otherwise. Yunick can’t tell us, other than through his outrageous...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Indy 500 winner Jim Rathmann dies
Photos courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway As the obituaries about his life flowed in, Jim Rathmann, who died November 23 at the age of 83, was remembered most of all for winning perhaps the 1960...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Smokey Yunick big-brake fuelie 1957 Corvette headed to auction
Photos by David Hunt, courtesy Mecum Auctions Up until the June 6, 1957, Automobile Manufacturers Association ban on auto companies’ direct involvement with racing, Chevrolet invested heavily in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s a motorcycle. It’s a motorcycle. It’s a …
Recently, we wandered in a state of rapture into the Meadow Brook concours in Michigan, and found out that one of the feature categories encompassed motorcycles with sidecars. Good thing, because we’d...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Monterey Historics: Trans-Am Snippets
As much as I’d like to post all 569 action shots I took of the 10-lap Trans-Am event on Saturday afternoon at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, I can’t. For a number of reasons. Including the 33-shot sequence...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Four-Links – Wagon Queen hits the road, Reverse Torque Special, Custom Car...
* If your last name is Griswold and you have a family and you want to take them on a summer vacation, what do you do? Commission a replica of the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, of course. * Smokey...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Racing Heroes – Glenn “Fireball” Roberts
Glenn “Fireball” Roberts after winning the 1963 Firecracker 400. Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company. Before NASCAR had superstars like Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt, its very first celebrity driver...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“The Real McCoy” 1956 Corvette to cross the block
The Real McCoy 1956 Corvette SR Prototype. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1955, Chevrolet was struggling to find buyers for its Corvette roadster, which had yet to be proven in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Indy 500 comes to the National Corvette Museum
Offloading the Corvette SS at the National Corvette Museum. Photo courtesy the National Corvette Museum. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is roughly 230 miles from the National Corvette Museum in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GM Heritage Center adds Le Mans Cadillac, NASCAR Chevrolet re-creations
Photos courtesy GM Heritage Center. We always get amped when collections display historic race cars, even if they’re necessarily re-creations. That’s frequently the case because too many early race...
View Article
