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Chris Runge spent five days teaching a young metalshaper in his shop and never once saw the kid's phone. He noticed the way you notice a sound after it stops. "I didn't see Vince on his phone one time in the last five days," Runge says. "I have not seen the kid pick up his phone." Vince is Vincent Ramirez, from Afton, Minnesota.

by Kris Clewell - Chris Runge spent five days teaching a young metalshaper and never once saw the kid's phone. That detail says more about what happens inside Runge Cars than any spec sheet could. Runge taught himself coachbuilding in a Minnesota barn with books, a homemade English wheel, and a found set of tools, because in 2010 there was nowhere to go and nobody to ask.

Photos: Jacob Hopkins & Ian Skelton In a jet lagged haze only a transatlantic red eye could induce, I trudged through the airport parking garage. There, my ride awaited. It wasn't your typical Uber. Instead, it was a 1977 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow with brown-on-tan leather. Burl walnut wood inlays accented the whole interior, and sliding into the luxurious leather backseat transported me in time.

Who is Reinhard Klein? Reinhard Klein is one of the definitive photographers of world rallying, having chased the sport from stage to stage since the mid-1970s when he hitch-hiked from Cologne to his first Rallye Monte-Carlo and never looked back. Over the next five decades he shot every era of the WRC, from the Group B years to the modern hybrids, building an archive that has become the visual record of the sport itself.

The pit lane was empty. It was October 1972, the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, and a 19-year-old kid from Indiana was standing in the middle of it with a Nikon he had taught himself to use eight months earlier. He looked up the lane. He looked down. He could not believe what he was seeing, which was nothing. No ropes. No credential checks. No publicists. Just open concrete and race cars and the men who drove them. "That was where the gold was," Kelley said. "That was where the diamonds were.

My name is Aurélien Vialatte. I’m a French automotive photographer, and for nearly four years now I’ve been the official photographer of a rally raid category that matters deeply to me: Dakar Classic. I first joined the Dakar between 2017 and 2019 as an official photographer during its South American years, traveling through Argentina, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. Since 2020, the rally has taken place in Saudi Arabia, where I now follow what I like to call the legends.

For more than 30 years, the Goodwood Festival of Speed has existed as something far beyond a traditional automotive event. Set at the Goodwood House in West Sussex, it has become a yearly experience for enthusiasts, where pre-war racers, legendary Formula 1 race cars, modern hypercars, and the icons who built motorsport history all share the same piece of asphalt.

The raucous sound of one of motorsport’s most iconic machines will soon echo across California’s Monterey Peninsula.Mazdawill dazzle at the 2026Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunionwith an extraordinary gathering of its historic race cars, led by the legendary 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans-winning Mazda 787B – the rotary-engined machine that rewrote endurance racing history.

McLaren was originally established in 1963, but its first road car, the F1, wouldn’t emerge until the ‘90s. However, Bruce McLaren, the manufacturer’s legendary founder, envisioned a roadgoing McLaren much earlier than that. The M6GT, derived from McLaren’s M6A racing program, was the first iteration of the ambitions that Bruce McLaren had to create a road car. The prototype was the beginning of McLaren’s road supercar story, and Bruce used it as a personal transport to meetings and events.

Not too long ago, we spotlighted Lancia's return to the top step of rallying with the Ypsilon Rally2 HF Integrale. That conversation touched on icons like the Lancia 037, the last rear-wheel-drive car ever to win the World Rally Championship. Now, another storied name from that era is being revived, as Kimera Automobili has now applied it to its EVO38 with its Collezione Martini.