VR contributor Mark Brinker went to Bonneville’s August Speed Week, with his sights on breaking the Grand Touring Sports Car...
I was disappointed. The Aston Martin I was supposed to drive was in the shop. But, Alberto Gutierrez had another...
Italo Piana is a living legend among Italian MotoGP fans. He won the Italian Motorcycle Championship three times, and was part of a team that set 46 world speed records at the Monza oval with a Ducati 100-cc Gran Sport in 1956. Born in Torino, Italy in 1930, Piana raced...
Half a century ago, if your perfectly good sports car were damaged in an accident, you had options. One such...
The German Grand Prix; Nürburgring, August 2, 1953. World Champion Alberto Ascari sits in his Ferrari 500/F2 in front of...
There’s always been something magical about the H-Modified cars of the ’50s and early ’60s. These 750-cc (and later 850-cc) weapons were driven with zing and enthusiasm, not grunt and anger. And the very best drove ’em foot to the floor all the way around, not hard on brakes, hard...
The racing surface didn’t have time to cure properly, so it had to be repaired at intervals by work crews...
Beginning Friday, Aug. 9, LeMay —America’s Car Museum (ACM) will recount the six-decade evolution of the Chevrolet Corvette, a sports...
It’s more Mad Max than Mille Miglia…a Porsche 356 with front skis and rear tractor treads replacing rubber tires and alloy wheels. This 1956 Porsche project has conquered all seven continents, including a class win (with wheels and tires) in the 2012 Carrera Panamericana. The configuration that took to the...
Sir Stirling Moss scored the first of his three Monaco Grand Prix wins in 1956 with this Maserati 250F, nipping...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders...
In order to understand the Pegaso story, it’s first necessary to understand the man behind the car and the tumultuous times that he lived in. Wifredo Pelayo Ricart y Medina was born in Barcelona on May 15, 1897. By 1918, he graduated from the Barcelona School of Engineering as an...
Le Mans 1957 represented the high water mark for Jaguar’s iconic D-Type. Handicapped by the reduction of engine size to 3-liters...
February 2006 BMC Competition Department Secrets With Marcus Chambers, Stuart Turner, and Peter Browning While the name of the book...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was still a kid. Stan won the 1954 New Zealand International Grand Prix, four 1955 Victorian Trophies at Fisherman’s Bend, Melbourne, became the 1958 Australian Gold Star Champion and won the...
Privateer Bruce Halford took part in the epic 1957 German Grand Prix, finishing 11th in his Maserati 250F. It was...
It was one of those good races spoiled by bad scoring. After taking the checkered flag at 10 pm, Phil...
Then After back-to-back wins at the Indianapolis 500 in 1953 and 1954, Bill Vukovich returned for the ’55 race with only one goal…to win three in a row. His mount was Lindsey Hopkins’ 1954 Offy-powered Kurtis 500C (Kurtis Chassis #372; the Hopkins Special; car #4) which had finished 21st at...
My motor racing career started with the most basic form of car, a 1952 Ford Anglia E93A, which I towed...
The author puts his back into steering the Trimax through a left hander at Mallory Park.Photo: Andy Thorpe Was Alvin...
The Conclusion of Boyd Harnell’s First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Mexico City-Leon, Leon-Durango: November 21, 1954 The carnage continued to mount on the next leg, Mexico City to León. There were four major crashes and one fatality, all of them occurring at a washboard curve outside Mexico City...
Then. Southern California is home to a seemingly endless supply of astounding cars hiding in garages, warehouses and barns. For...
One of many styling experiments built for day-to-day use by GM styling Chief Bill Mitchell, the XP-700 was built on...
This painting shows the Talbot Lago driven by Louis Rosier being tended by a mechanic at the very first World Championship Formula One race at Silverstone in 1950. This naturally aspirated 4.2-liter car finished 4th behind three supercharged 1.5-liter Alfa Romeos. The artist says he likes this image for its grass field...
This fabulous-looking 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa was sold by RM-Sotheby’s “Ferrari Legend and Passion” auction at the famous Fiorano...
1955 Le Mans-Winning Jaguar D-type Chassis XKD 505 The temptation is to dissolve into a wave of superlatives…that would not...
It’s hard to imagine that what was probably the greatest range of post-war production sports cars, really started life as an engine looking for a suitable chassis/body unit. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to...
Photo: Mike Jiggle If I was able to use only two words to describe my experience of driving the elegant...
1955 Crowfoot Holden Special The author opens up the wailing Crowfoot Special onto Wakefield Park’s front straight. Photo: Casey Annis...
Photo: Mike Jiggle The Porsche 356 is really the car that “started it all” for the iconic Porsche marque. Manufactured between 1948 and 1965, the Porsche 356 is the automobile that allowed the company to develop. This car is responsible for starting the world’s love affair with rear-engined machines. These...
