1936 De Soto Airflow The story of De Soto begins with a record for first year sales that stood for...
Roy Brown Jr.—designer of the much maligned, ’50s flop the Ford Edsel—passed away on Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,...
The original Trans-Am was part and parcel of one of the things that made the Golden Age golden. Many of the best U.S. drivers and teams participated, as well as most of the carmakers. One aspect of its huge success was that fans and aficionados drove and identified with the...
Gaston Chevrolet Ricardo Rodriguez 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice...
Have you ever seen a Commuter? I’m talking about a 1959 Mercury Commuter two-door station wagon. Not many of us...
It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney enhanced his record as an all-around champion there. Some assume that post-WWII stock car road racing started at Riverside, but that’s not true. There were five stock car events on...
Derek Bell Gaston Chevrolet 2 The Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California,...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...
Lots of car buffs have fantasized about designing and/or building their own four-wheeler at one time or another. Fewer have...
Celebrated automotive historian, museum curator and author Ken Gross, who is also a Chief Class Judge and Selection Committee Member for Pebble Beach, has assembled the first postwar class of Mercury Customs to be shown at the fabled Concours, set for this Sunday, August 16, on the famed golf course’s...
As a racecar driver, Jack McAfee needs no introduction. He was one of the greats of early sports car racing...
Homebuilt or custom-made racecars were not new to America’s racetracks as they had been appearing for decades on dirt ovals,...