Friends and owners of the Allard are being invited to take part in a special weekend of activities to be...
April 2005 The Lotus Book—Series 3 By William Taylor For almost 60 years, the Lotus name has been synonymous with...
This year’s HMSA Baxter Auto Parts Portland Historic Races, to be run July 7–9 at Portland International Raceway, will pay tribute to America’s first sports car, the Corvette, as well as Britain’s Allard. Legendary Corvette driver Dick Guldstrand will serve as the event’s Grand Marshal on a race weekend that...
Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of...
1957 Climax-powered Jomar 1957 Climax-powered Jomar. Photo: Harold Pace You know the story. Start with a svelte English chassis, add...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North American road racing. He began as did so many others of his contemporaries in the 1950s, went on to race with Briggs Cunningham’s team, and from there went to the...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In...
Joseph Pendergast, historic racer, race organizer, and collector for nearly 40 years, succumbed to complications from pneumonia on September 14,...
The 1947 Steyr-Allard racer owned by the legendary Sydney Allard, one of America’s greatest automotive pioneers, will be sold at No Reserve during the 38th annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 11-18, 2009. Considered the most famous of all Allards, the race car captured victories worldwide and...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs on an empty stretch of road in Arizona’s Saguaro National Park. Photo: Casey Annis It’s enough to make any self-respecting purist cringe. Take a seductive 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300,...
By Will Silk Our latest Classified Ads of the Past profile is an incredible 1951 Allard J2X Roadster that was...
Frank Sinatra purchased his first hybrid car in 1957. So did pals, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Eddie Fisher, as...
Few auctions in the world can match Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic for variety, and fewer still are able to compete with the sheer number of vehicles offered for sale. Billed as the “World’s Largest Collector Car Auction,” this annual rite of spring stretches across six days at the Indiana...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at...
Under warm and sunny skies at the 3rd annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California,...
It’s been a very long time since Bill Pollack raced his Cadillac-powered Allard to victory through the forested road course of Pebble Beach. His back-to-back wins in ’51 and ’52 over Phil Hill and others cemented his place in history as one of the best ever. He remains the only...
Al Moss, known to almost everyone who reads this journal, died peacefully on September 25 at his home in Sedona,...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Mike Lawrence Recently, yet another attempt to revive the Allard name was announced. There have been three Allard revivals to...
Masten Gregory sits in the cockpit of the 1965 BRP Indycar as team manager Tony Robinson looks on. What brothers?...
Allard will be the Featured Marque for this weekend’s 6th Annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California. One of the “Gold Medallion” events on Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s schedule for 2015, the invitational event salutes and rewards cars that are prepared as they were raced in...
This summer’s Silverstone Classic will honor the 50th anniversary of the Historic Sports Car Club with a very special parade...
La Leggenda di Bassano is a historic racing event on the calendars of the FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Vèhicules Anciens)...
A 1933 Delage D8S Coupe Roadster by DeVillars was named Best of Show at last weekend’s 14th annual Keeneland Concours d’Elegance at the historic Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. The show field featured two classes of this year’s featured marques, Rolls-Royce and Bentley, and classes of horse-drawn carriages and cars of...
The car collector world is full of automotive puzzles and owners and pundits with “theories”. Some theories arise out of...
Ever hear the name TVR? Well, without Raymond Saidel, Trevor Wilkinson may never have brought TVR to the production car phase of its life. In 1950, Ray Saidel sold his share of the Sky Service of New England (a charter flying service he had started after WW II) and took...
