It’s more Mad Max than Mille Miglia…a Porsche 356 with front skis and rear tractor treads replacing rubber tires and...
1955 Le Mans-Winning Jaguar D-type Chassis XKD 505 The temptation is to dissolve into a wave of superlatives…that would not...
1952 Ferrari 500/625 Ascari. Taruffi. Villoresi. Farina. Hawthorn. Trintignant. Maglioli. Gonzales. Mieres. Whitehead. Siracusa. Pau. Marseilles. Bremgarten. Sables d’Olonne. Naples. Monaco. Ardmore. Wigram. Invercargill. Johannesburg. Salisbury. Limpopo. Rafaella. El Pinar. Buenos Aires. Interlagos. Montevideo. Cordoba. This is the pedigree of the car you see in front of you. It was...
In the newest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, we got to take a look at another automotive royalty with an...
Known as “Le Monstre” by the French, this car was built on the Cadillac Series 61 platform with a tubular...
The U.S. motorsports community as a whole, and the profession of motorsports journalism in particular, suffered a great loss on September 28, when Chris Economaki passed away just two weeks shy of his 92nd birthday. Economaki may be best known as editor and publisher of the weekly racing newspaper National...
April 2018 • The Masterpiece Ltd.’s board of directors have elected Bob Budlow, Colin Comer and Paul Westphal as directors...
• A unique 1953 Ferrari 166MM, bodied by Oblin with wonderful racing provenance will star in Artcurial Motorcars’ Retromobile sale...
Beginning Friday, Aug. 9, LeMay —America’s Car Museum (ACM) will recount the six-decade evolution of the Chevrolet Corvette, a sports car whose iconic styling and performance will be showcased in the museum’s new “60 Years of Vette” exhibit that will run through the end of the year. Photo: GM “The...
In 1956, Chevrolet took desperate measures and saved the model’s future by presenting an armada of motorsports variants in 1956....
The Jaguar XK120 was the fastest production car in the world when it was first released in 1949, with a...
Photo: Gilco The early 1950s found Enzo Ferrari’s burgeoning company quickly climbing the steep end of the power curve. His sports and racing cars, powered by the company’s now signature V12 engine in its various displacements, were proving successful not only on the racetracks of the world, but commercially with...
1952 Ferrari 225 S While the history of the Ferrari you see here will forever associate it with the great...
1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the...
I was involved with the E-Type Jaguar right from its inception, initially as an employee under the wing of Lofty England. Following my discharge from National Service in the RAF, I had some deferred service to complete, I met Lofty at the 1959 Le Mans 24-hour race—he offered me a...
1955 Crowfoot Holden Special The author opens up the wailing Crowfoot Special onto Wakefield Park’s front straight. Photo: Casey Annis...
1955 Zephyr Special Today, you would describe Eldred De Bracton Norman as a lateral thinker, but during the 1950s, “eccentric”...
Juan Manuel Fangio, called by the Argentinos “El Chueco” the bandy-legged one, is considered by many to have been the greatest Grand Prix driver in the world. Five times a world champion Fangio won his titles driving for Alfa Romeo (1951), Mercedes-Benz (1954–55), Ferrari (1956), and Maserati (1957). Like most...
Equipe Classic Racing, organizers of the Equipe GTS and Equipe Pre ’63 FIA Production Sports Car series, is introducing a new...
Silverstone Auctions has opened its catalogue for entries to the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show with a very rare and...
Le Mans 1957 represented the high water mark for Jaguar’s iconic D-Type. Handicapped by the reduction of engine size to 3-liters for the 1958 season, the D-Type was never to win again at Le Mans. However, the model, having won the previous two 24-hour races, cemented its hat trick by achieving an overwhelming...
Photo: Mike Jiggle If I was able to use only two words to describe my experience of driving the elegant...
Is it possible to see genius ? Yes, you can see it in the trail of genius that Fangio left...
September 2010 A great idea that failed. Jaguar created special streamlined bodywork for its C-Types for the 1952 Le Mans 24 Hours in an effort to increase top speed. Unfortunately, the new shape did not allow sufficient engine cooling and all three entries retired. While they were still running, Tony Rolt...
March 2008 The Nürburgring 1000 km Race, June 1, 1958. Gino Munaron in the Karussell with the Ferrari 250TR/58, which...
May 2018 This is the Elva Mk. I, designed and entered by Frank Nichols at the Prescott Hillclimb on May...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California, in July of 1955, his first appearance in California. That’s Alan with the checkered flag. With this same car, Alberto Ascari and Nino Farina had won the 1953 Nürburgring 1000km,...
Formula 3 was a superb training ground for many British drivers in the early 1950s. For this sunny International Daily...
Near the Lancia factory in Turin during March of 1954, Piero Taruffi seems pleased after a test of the Lancia...
Here is Maria Teresa de Filippis at the Gasometer turn, at the end of the main straight along the harbor, during practice for the 1959 Monaco GP. She was trying to qualify the Behra-Porsche, an F2 car built from 550RS components with a chassis constructed in Modena. It was one...
