The 50th annual Newport Antique Auto Hill Climb brings a huge crowd of vintage automobile fans to the tiny Vermillion County town of Newport, Indiana.

NEWPORT — The 1953 Packard Clipper Andy and Luke Kluender bought to enter in the Newport Antique Auto Hill Climb in memory of their father finished well, winning a third-place trophy in its ...

Interest in the event waned after a few years. There was no hill climb from 1916 until 1963, when the Newport Volunteer Fire Department revived the event for two years as the Antique Auto Hill Climb.

Gardner Nichols hoped to break 11 minutes in his race at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb race. Not only did Nichols drive a sub-11 time, he shatter his year old record in the race.

Hans Stuck charges up the hill at the 1936 Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb in a dual-rear-wheeled Auto Union Type C.

The Newport Antique Auto Hill Climb is a scratch for 2020. Instead, the 53rd running of the climb will be in 2021.

The 12.4-mile sprint up to an altitude exceeding 14,000 feet is renowned internationally but more obscure in the United States, where hill climbs and rally racing are less popular.