Achille Varzi, in the Alfa Romeo 158 “Alfetta”, set the 2nd fastest time for Heat 1 behind the Alfa 158...
For 10 years, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering has provided an unparalleled and exclusive experience for motorsports enthusiasts and collectors...
I have a Minichamps model of the legendary Lancia Stratos HF rally car in Alitalia’s green and white colors sitting on my desk and every time I look at it, Italy’s “Il Drago” or “the Dragon” comes to mind. That was world rally champion Sandro Munari’s nickname because, according to...
With no fewer than 32 world championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports...
In just a few short weeks, the London Concours, presented by Montres Breguet will commence. Recently, they announced the newest...
1990 Ferrari F40 It has been 30 years since the last car ordered by Enzo Ferrari reached its first owners. That car, the F40, was in honor of the firm’s 40th anniversary, and it was kept very quiet until it was shown, first to a few Ferrari dealers and then...
Last weekend’s third edition of The London Classic Car Show featured an expanded format that also included the Historic Motorsport...
The 33rd Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix will take place in the Pennsylvania city’s Schenley Park this July 18-19, with its...
Due to the shortage of new models and the rising demand for older vehicles, the average price of a second-hand car grew by 28 percent last year. If you know where to look, however, you can get some summer-ready roadsters that are not much affected by the price hikes. The...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
The 10th annual The Quail—A Motorsports Gathering, proved another resounding success with a sellout crowd of 3,000 guests in attendance...
Starting in 1954, Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo launched a series of small, affordable sports cars based around its all-alloy, 1300-cc, inline, 4-cylinder engine. This new model came to be known as the Giulietta (750 Series) and for the next 10 years would prove to be a fabulously successful offering for...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Two major exhibitions opened recently in “Motorland,” as the locals often call Modena, the unofficial home of Italy’s high-performance racers...
The 1932 season would be fought without the German cars from Daimler Benz. It would also be one with an open formula which limited only the length of the races to five hours. Building upon the lessons learned with the P2, Jano created the P3. The P3 Monoposto was the...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
75 Years and still going strong In the wake of World War Two, as the dust had settled and an...
Alfa Romeo has announced the introduction of the new Giulia and Stelvio Quadrifoglio 100th Anniversary models, celebrating 100 years passed since the iconic symbol of Alfa Romeo, the Quadrifoglio, made its racing debut. Limited to just 100 units each globally for the Giulia and Stelvio (200 total), the anniversary models...
Moved up a day to avoid impending storms on Sunday, the 22nd Annual Amelia Island Concours took place March 9-11...
Just days after his 1959 Le Mans-winning teammate, Carroll Shelby, and a matter of weeks since Ted Cutting, designer of...
Louis Chiron Biography Born in August 1899, the son of a French hotelier in Monaco he became that principalities most famous sportsman. Holding dual citizenship Chiron joined the French army prior to his 18th birthday, serving as an artilleryman during World War I. He later became the personal driver to...
A little bit of almost everything could be found at last weekend’s 76th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood, March 17-18, as...
Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. was founded on June 24, 1910 in Milan, Italy and the famed Italian car maker’s 100th anniversary will be celebrated at the 2010 Concorso Italiano. Concorso Italiano plans to honor the marque in a variety of ways, headlined by the Centerpiece Display, a wide-ranging exhibit of...
The flying man from Mantua On April 13, 1930, just after 5:00 am, the silent shadows beside Lake Garda are...
Watch Tim De Silva push his 1982 Alfa Romeo 182 to the limits at the historic Acura Grand Prix of...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor racing to men and women of modest means. His speciality was conversion. And he turned the Fiat 500 and 600 low-powered tin boxes into teeth-gnashing, tire-smoking predators that won thousands...
December 2007 Alfa Romeo Argentina By Christián Bertschi & Estanislao Iacona With nearly a 100-year continuous history, it may come...
So what do you do if you’re a leading pulmonologist, at a National Cancer Research hospital, and you can’t find...
One of the more interesting developments in the classic car hobby, over the past few years, has been the broader expansion of classic car rentals. Early on, there were a handful of companies that popped up in major markets that would offer to rent you a classic car, in the...
