Stanley Museum Pays Tribute to Speed
Although Barney Oldfield won’t be at Ormond Beach next year to defend the record-setting run he made back in 1910, besting the previous land-speed record set by a Stanley Steamer, he will be there in...
View Articlethe Ralph Schenck streamliner
When I ran the lakes modifieds website that landed me in this job (thanks, Cris, for adopting it), I’d often come across an early streamliner that Ralph Schenck built. At first glance, it looks a lot...
View ArticleSo Dan Webb’s replicating the Golden Submarine…
Didn’t get the chance to go to the Detroit Autorama this year – again. S’ok, I thought, I’ll get all the coverage through the H.A.M.B. And I did, but it was not okay, because I should have been there,...
View ArticleLakeside event picking up speed
The great Barney Oldfield helped break in the Lakeside Auto Speedway when it opened 100 years ago. Today, a celebration is being organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the defunct racetrack...
View ArticleBranson Vintage Rally – day one
So rather than run the big blue Hemmings panel truck in the Great Race this year (as we did the last two years), we decided to do something different with the Hemmings Branson Vintage Rally, a...
View ArticleA look back at Indy pace cars and drivers past
A Duesenberg Model A driven by Fred S. Duesenberg awaits the chance to pace the 1923 Indy field. With the Indy 500 just around the corner, it seems like a good time to peer back through the misty haze...
View ArticleThe first RV: Brokaw’s berline de voyage Land Cruiser
Railroad tycoon W. Gould Brokaw was no stranger to the early racing scene, as a Vanderbilt Cup competitor and serial buyer of enormous, powerful cars. He even held race meets at his Great Neck, Long...
View ArticleCorona, California: The city that doubled as a race course
The city of Corona, California, earned its “Circle City” nickname – and even its formal name – from its most unusual feature: The three-mile-diameter circular Grand Boulevard, laid out by Henry Hiram...
View ArticleLand-speed tractors: Oldfield v. Jenkins
When I read a long time ago in William Nolan’s “Barney Oldfield: The Life and Times of America’s Legendary Speed King,” about Oldfield’s land-speed runs on the back of an Allis-Chalmers tractor, I...
View ArticleWho do ya think ya are? Barney Oldfield?
Jack Shea, himself an occasional contributor to the Hemmings Blog, has recently been helping Fred Hill of LaGrande, Oregon, digitize his photo collection and identify the cars pictured in it. One of...
View ArticleIndiana State Fairgrounds, 1917
The Hemmings Nation comes through yet again. We received a packet of ancient negatives from reader Gary E. Banas of Warren, Michigan, not long ago. Gary found them at a series of postcard shows, a...
View ArticleFour-Links – Stroppe F100 found, concept car gallery, Midget made more so,...
*Remember Ford’s “Better Idea” marketing campaign from the late 1970s, one that went so far as to fly a light-bulb shaped hot-air balloon across the country? Then you probably also recall the chase...
View ArticleRacing Heroes – Barney Oldfield
Barney Oldfield and Henry Ford. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. In the modern age of racing, a handful of drivers have achieved “household name” status, including Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, Dan...
View ArticleOne-off handbuilt car pays tribute to Barney Oldfield’s groundbreaking Golden...
Photos by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Auctions America. Dale Bell and Charlie Glick might not have the same name recognition among auto historians as do Barney Oldfield and Harry A. Miller, but the duos do...
View ArticleOn the ground at the 2015 Jalopy Showdown
Jeremiah Thomas leads this pack of eight-cylinder and banger-powered roadsters as it tears around turn three at the Latimore Valley Fairground track. Photography by the author unless otherwise noted....
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