Under warm and sunny skies at the 3rd annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California,...
Joseph Pendergast, historic racer, race organizer, and collector for nearly 40 years, succumbed to complications from pneumonia on September 14,...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary of his racing career. John FitchPhoto: Mercedes-Benz Before, after and during that career, however, John Fitch was much more than a racing driver. He served as pilot of both Light...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North...
1957 Climax-powered Jomar 1957 Climax-powered Jomar. Photo: Harold Pace You know the story. Start with a svelte English chassis, add an American V-8, clothe it in a lightweight body and go racing. It worked for Carroll Shelby. It worked for Sydney Allard. Worked for a lot of other folks too,...
Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of...
Frank Sinatra purchased his first hybrid car in 1957. So did pals, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Eddie Fisher, as...
By Will Silk Our latest Classified Ads of the Past profile is an incredible 1951 Allard J2X Roadster that was advertised in a 1965 Vintage Car Store catalog. The Allard J2X marked the high water mark for the Allard marque when it first appeared in 1951 as an evolution of...
Allard will be the Featured Marque for this weekend’s 6th Annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma,...
Ever hear the name TVR? Well, without Raymond Saidel, Trevor Wilkinson may never have brought TVR to the production car...
La Leggenda di Bassano is a historic racing event on the calendars of the FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Vèhicules Anciens) and the ASI (Automotoclub Storico Italiano) that is unique because it is run for Sport-Barchetta racing cars built until 1960. This year’s event, held over the weekend of June 22-25,...
Al Moss, known to almost everyone who reads this journal, died peacefully on September 25 at his home in Sedona,...
A 1933 Delage D8S Coupe Roadster by DeVillars was named Best of Show at last weekend’s 14th annual Keeneland Concours...
Masten Gregory sits in the cockpit of the 1965 BRP Indycar as team manager Tony Robinson looks on. What brothers? Most motor racing aficionados know something about Masten Gregory. An American, he won Le Mans in 1965 and drove in Formula One. Few, however, remember that he had a brother...
Few auctions in the world can match Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic for variety, and fewer still are able to...
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...
This year’s HMSA Baxter Auto Parts Portland Historic Races, to be run July 7–9 at Portland International Raceway, will pay...
April 2005 The Lotus Book—Series 3 By William Taylor For almost 60 years, the Lotus name has been synonymous with...
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...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like what it might do to your dental fillings, the “Hurg” is one of the most elegant cars of the 1930s. It also reminded me about what government decisions have done...
Mike Lawrence Recently, yet another attempt to revive the Allard name was announced. There have been three Allard revivals to...
After lying low for 60 years, Allard Motor Company is creating a new chapter of history by introducing the Allard...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at Le Mans over 50 years ago, has died. It is little known, but due to a fact-finding visit to Maserati, initiated by John Wyer, he didn’t see his cars cross...
The car collector world is full of automotive puzzles and owners and pundits with “theories”. Some theories arise out of...
This summer’s Silverstone Classic will honor the 50th anniversary of the Historic Sports Car Club with a very special parade...
Friends and owners of the Allard are being invited to take part in a special weekend of activities to be held in conjunction with this year’s Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. This year’s event will be held July 20-22 and will feature several Allard-only events including parade laps, a dedicated display...
