Tag: america

  • Offenhauser’s Golden Decade at the Indy 500

    Perhaps no racing name is more closely linked with the Indianapolis 500 than Offenhauser. This venerable engine manufacturer was a dominant force at The Brickyard from the early 1930s up until ...

  • Midget Car Racing – Gateway to Auto Racing

    If you are a racing fan you likely already know all about midget car racing. Many racing car drivers start out their professional careers with midget cars or at least quarter midget cars and ...

  • The Great American Automobile Race of 1908

    Ever since the invention of the wheel, mankind has been searching for better ways to travel faster and more effectively. This process has taken many thousands of years yet one competition has ...

  • People Who Share a Passion

    NASCAR and the Automobile Racing Club of America (“ARCA”) started at about the same point-that is towards the middle of the last century. ARCA has not been able to match the scorching growth ...

  • Car Racing Pleasure

    Imagine making a grand living from your interest in car racing! Well, love for automobiles can spawn an international business. There is a huge and a growing demand for restoring and carefully ...

  • Motorcycle Movies, Part 2: Easy Rider

    By the time Easy Rider was released in 1969, three full years had passed since The Wild Angels hit the nation’s drive-in movie screens. In the sixties, three years was a very long time indeed. ...

  • Motorcycle Movies, Part 1: The Wild Angels

    In 1966, the widening generation gap was about to split the country wide open. The older generation who had lived through and fought World War II could neither understand nor relate to their ...

  • The Soap Box Derby – Auto Racing

    You might be forgiven for wondering what the Soap Box Derby has to do with auto racing - the "racers" have no engines after all! Yet a race is a race, and since its inception way back in 1933 ...

  • NHRA: A Brief History – Auto Racing

    In 1951, Wally Parks created the National Hot Rod Association to spotlight the sport of drag racing. Starting in the California, Wally and a few friends roll up their top fuel dragsters and ...