More on the Missing Cunningham Dear Editor, On page 20 of the November, 2012 issue there is a letter with...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos we showed him started a discussion so interesting that I’m keen to share it with you. The picture was made by Art Evans at Palm Springs in November, 1956. It...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
November 2007 Racing Sports Cars, Memories of the Fifties By Art Evans Readers of this magazine will no doubt be...
Due to the lead time it takes to print and distribute any given magazine, I sit here today, writing this column on February 23. Not an insignificant date in that it happens also to be the day, 85 years ago, that a man by the name of Hans Herrmann was...
Few early American racers did more than Ak Miller. He was a well-known hot rodder, successful long-distance racer, had more...
1956 Ferrari 500 TR Prototype I have to confess that we sometimes get very carried away by some of the...
1958 Devin D Porsche Across the southern hills of the Dolomite Mountains of Italy, north of a line drawn between Schio, Marostica and Bassano del Grappa, lie some of Europe’s most beautiful and challenging roads…long and fast sweeps coming down from 3,000 meters, medium speed twists across alpine meadows, and...
The Super Dart 400 was built on a 1957 300C Chrysler chassis and proudly featured a 400-horsepower Chrysler Hemi engine...
Then. I’ve been hiding something from you. I’m not proud of it, and it’s been going on for way too...
One of the stars taking the green at this year’s Greenwich Concours, June 1-2, will be a very rare Ghia-bodied 1955 Jaguar XK140MC, one of just three built. With a flowing, hand-made aluminum body by Italian carrozzeria Ghia, the sleek coupe is substantially lighter than a stock XK 140. The...
John Michael Hawthorn was a Yorkshire lad of 24 with hardly any top-level motor racing experience when he drove the...
There I was, on Los Angeles’ Imperial Highway, helplessly hanging on in the passenger seat. No grab bar, no seatbelt,...
Would you consider equipping your sports car with an aftermarket supercharger then drive it across country from New York to race at Sebring? That’s precisely what John Bentley and Paul O’Shea did with Bentley’s 1950 Simca 8 Sport Cabriolet (#888673). The year was 1950 and the first-ever race at Sebring...
It takes all kinds of digging to unearth a Hidden Treasure. Sometimes you even have to bring a shovel. Chip...
The 1957 season was Juan Manuel Fangio’s swan song. With four World Championship victories under his belt, Fangio rejoined the...
There is no hidden racecar in this story, but there are four treasures, one mechanical and three human. I love this one. The mechanical treasure of this month’s installment is the 1953 Siata 208S (#BS520). Painted in a lovely shade of white, BS520 was the E-Production Class Winner at the...
Pete Lyons Fifty years—let’s set the old timescope at that fulsome number today. It’s been a long time since 1954,...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the BRM P25 front-engine car as one of the best cars he has ever driven. “Great car–bad team” was basically his view. More about that later, though it was especially interesting...
For the last 20 years or so of his life, Rodger Ward and I were friends. Even though I had...
The Berkeley Coachwork Company of Biggleswade was England’s top manufacturer of trailers in the 1950s. Company topper Charles Panter decided...
Strap in and listen to the screaming V6 engine from a Ferrari 246 Dino F1 as it tears up the Zandvoort Circuit. ...
The prize money for winning the 1972 Formula One “Race of Champions” at Brands Hatch in a BRM P160 allowed...
Then. By his own admission, Geoff Hacker specializes in finding cars that no one is looking for. It’s actually an interesting collecting strategy that virtually guarantees no competition. One of Hacker’s recent acquisitions is a post-war Singer racer. Now how many amazing post-war racing cars from Singer Motors of England...
The Jaguar XK120 was the fastest production car in the world when it was first released in 1948, with a...
In the newest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, we got to take a look at another automotive royalty with an...
Pete Lovely said it best: “We couldn’t believe they would let us race through this beautiful park, which was almost in the heart of a major city.” Not only were the races held for three years on what many sports car publications called “the best road race course in the...
