Not just anybody can decide one day they’re going to go racing and show up at the 24 Hours of Le Mans ready to go. No, they need to have a number of things taken care of first, including a competition license and some racing experience. Yet in 1949, Brit Bob Lawrie, a complete amateur, […]

Tomy, makers of Tomica-brand diecast cars and playsets, announced last week that they will buy RC2 Corp., maker of Johnny Lightning-brand die-cast cars, outright, in a deal valued at $640 million. Tomy is increasing its foreign penetration, in part because toys are no longer a growth area in its home market of Japan, and in […]

Hemmings Muscle Machines readers will soon be opening their May issues to see a story on Steve Steers and his 1954 Victress S1A, the construction of which was at least partially inspired by the fiberglass and other homebuilt cars his father, John, built and raced while living in Palo Alto, California, in the late 1940s […]