Like atomic warfare, jalopy racing is a pursuit in which non-combatants are more likely to get bumped off than those individuals fortunate enough to have an active part in the enterprise. That, at ...

BRATTLEBORO — In the 1950s and ’60s, stock car racing was found in every corner of Vermont and throughout New England. Here in Brattleboro the West Brattleboro, Speedway operated on farmland owned by ...

It's amazing how no money, some spare time, and a passion for racing can amount to big things. From just before World War II to the late '60s, jalopy racing was a staple of fairgrounds and dirt tracks ...

Marcia Barker, 63, a retired L.L. Bean inventory manager living in Boonton, N.J., on her jalopy racing car, as told to A.J. Baime. For years while I was working at L.L. Bean in Maine, I owned a ...