Hemmings Challenge Day Four

Heading north this morning, the Hemmings Challenge wound its way along the Ohio River valley through Owensboro, Kentucky, and across the river into Tell City, Indiana, for lunch. Temperatures started out a little cooler than the previous three days but quickly rose into the 90s. An enthusiastic crowd greeted racers with checkered flags in hand […]

Parnelli Jones’s ‘69 Trans-Am Boss up for grabs at Monterey

Team Penske’s Camaros drove off with another SCCA Trans-Am championship in 1969, but not without serious competition from the Shelby American Mustangs and, of course, the Bud Moore Mustangs of George Folmer and Parnelli Jones.
Ford won four of the first five races, but Penske drivers Mark Donohue and Ronnie Bucknum ultimately grabbed six victories, including […]

A tidal wave of Long Island memories

It basically occupies a single house, so when Marty Himes opens up his Long Island Racing Museum to the public for its annual open house, that’s really saying something. If you plan to be on Long Island, Marty says come on-a over a my house on Sunday, August 29th, from 10 a.m. to dusk, rain […]