From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors...
In 1903, Henry M. Leland began selling a $750, single-cylinder, automobile under the name Cadillac. Later touted as the “Standard...
The U.S. motorsports community as a whole, and the profession of motorsports journalism in particular, suffered a great loss on September 28, when Chris Economaki passed away just two weeks shy of his 92nd birthday. Economaki may be best known as editor and publisher of the weekly racing newspaper National...
To anyone interested in automotive history, the late 1940s and early ‘50s was a fascinating period of time, especially in...
Sir William Lyons, founder of the Jaguar car company, knew, as domestic car production returned to the UK, after World...
Two Citroën Traction Avants at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, examples of fairly mild French styling of the Deco era. The French initiated the Art Deco movement in 1924 with the Paris exposition of the industrial and decorative arts, so it is no surprise that some of the automobiles subsequently...
Renowned engineer and author Bill Milliken passed away in his sleep July 28 at the age of 101. Born in...
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack. With the rebuilding and recovery of Europe ongoing six years after the end of World War II, Mercedes competition boss Alfred Neubauer was told that the resources for a resumption...
After World War II, Enzo Ferrari began the work of retooling his small company from manufacturing parts for Italy’s war...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for...
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