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Petersen Museum to present Speedway Motors founder with lifetime achievement...
“Speedy” Bill Smith (right) was awarded the Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award. For the first time in the history of the Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award, the award will go to...
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Kudos for Speedy Bill’s playhouse
Anyone who’s ever visited it will tell you at once that Speedy Bill Smith’s giant collection of racing and speed equipment in Lincoln, Nebraska, is one of the best of its kind on the planet. It’s a...
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Speedway Motors celebrates 60 years
Now that we’re into 2012, let’s take a moment to salute something genuinely cool, the fact that it makes Bill Smith’s 60th year at the helm of Speedway Motors, the specialty shop he founded in 1952 in...
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Speedsters to converge at Speedy Bill’s
Photos courtesy Museum of American Speed. Those stripped-down, lightened, noisy takeoffs on the Ford Model T known as speedsters have an exalted place in automotive history, not just as the first true...
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“Speedy” Bill Smith dies at 84
Photo courtesy Speedway Motors. One of the best friends that both the worlds of collector cars and auto racing history ever called their own has died. Bill Smith, known as Speedy Bill to his...
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Racers, restorers, and funny men: A toast to the car guys who passed in 2014
Tom (left) and Ray Magliozzi. Photo courtesy Car Talk. Death is inevitable for us all, but truly living is not. When we pause at the end of the year to remember the fellow car guys and the shapers of...
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