Clark, Chapman, Gurney, and a Lotus-Ford

We still have a couple of Greg Steinmayer’s found photos to go through (previous ones include the Ford GPA splashing down in the Detroit River, the people and monster of Ford’s factories, and the Maico 500 Sport), including this one that doesn’t immediately appear to have much to do with the others, which were all […]

Vintage Cool: Hot Wheels’ Trans Am and Pro Stock models are the highlights of the 2011 Vintage Racing line

Photo courtesy www.1stopdiecast.com Two of the more criminally under-represented categories in small-scale diecast have been vintage Trans-Am (which have only lately been tackled to any serious degree; the old Hot Wheels 100 percent Pony Power castings were nice, but didn’t have authentic liveries) and vintage Pro Stock. So weren’t we pleased to hear about Hot […]

The real cars of NASCAR in the ’60s, with Freddie Lorenzen

Think the olden days of NASCAR were better simply because the “stock” cars were really stock? Then take a good look through these photos sent to us by Ron Kellogg of the Kellogg Auto Archive featuring Freddie Lorenzen’s Holman-Moody-prepped 1963 Ford Galaxie, as shot by photographer Ralph Poole shortly before the 1963 Motor Trend 500 […]