1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” Across the annals of automotive history, few families can lay claim to more engineering genius...
One of my favorite telephone conversations of 2007 was with 1950s Bonneville-racing-legend Denny Larsen. For those of you unfamiliar, Larsen...
“Phil Hill, World Champion Formula One 1961” Water Color Painting by Uli Ehret Weinheim, Germany Limited edition prints available e.g. 20”x40” print on canvas, incl. stretching and shipping to USA or UK price: £259 / €329 / $490 info: Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
January 2009 The Le Mans 24 Hours; Le Mans, June 10-11, 1961. Augie Pabst seems serene at the wheel of...
1968 Lolita MkI & the 1969 Lolita MkII My first car was a British Motor Corporation Mini. I had just turned...
1967 Brabham BT24-Repco Sometimes all your birthdays and Christmases come at once. Shaking down the BT24 on Australia’s legendary Phillip Island circuit revealed it to be a nimble, responsive and forgiving beast. Photo: Casey Annis Picture the scene: It is February 2006 and the Vintage Racecar team has gathered at the...
What is it among first experiences that’s supposed to be the most unforgettable? A boy’s first kiss? I certainly remember...
1964 Porsche 904 GTS Resplendent in its red and white Scuderia Filipinetti livery, 904 #079 looks lean and lithe and very much ahead of its time.Photo: Mike Jiggle When I first started going to races in the 1950s, I had the great good fortune to be able to tag along...
1969 Porsche 917K In 1969 it was make-or-break time for Porsche. After over a decade of dominating small-bore racing, the...
Ever wonder what it must’ve been like way back when during those early shade-tree mechanic days when racers would vanish...
The 1965 Le Mans-winning NART Ferrari 250LM driven by Jochen Rindt and Masten Gregory and currently owned by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, took home the Best of Show award from the recent Saratoga Wine & Food Festival in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. This car remains the last Ferrari to win...
Piers Courage raced this Frank Williams-entered Brabham BT26A-Cosworth in the 1969 French Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand’s Charade circuit, but was...
My time with the BMC competitions department saw me racing the big Austin Healeys, and later racing at Le Mans...
February 2010 The Spirit of Competition By frederick a. Simeone, M.d. Dr. Simeone began collecting cars before he could drive, because his father gave him, as his first car, an Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 in dire need of restoration. He figured the job would deter his son’s driving days for...
The Aston Martin DB5 was made famous in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, and from then on it has...
Al Hoyt is an American hero. He flew 50 missions in a B-17 bomber during World War II and 100...
Sir Jackie Stewart, BRM P115, Grand Prix of Mexico 1967—his last year with the BRM team. Often I review my print archives on racing car history in order to find an image that inspires me; it becomes the starting point for my paintings and drawings. In the case of this...
When Japanese cars first came on the scene, although practical, most were somewhat stodgy. In the mid-’60s, however, Toyota decided...
This Uli Ehret painting displays the Eau Rouge corner at Spa-Francorchamps back in 1967. The setting is exactly as it...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped the junior grades of motor racing and went in at what we could safely call the “deep end.” He drove sports cars in America, then in Europe, moved to Grand...
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in...
In 1958, former Huntington Park High School friends Larry Kent and Ray Weaver decided to take a shot at the...
Several months ago I received an irate email from a VR reader with one simple, albeit piercing, question; “Mark, why in the hell don’t you ever write about British drag racing cars?” British drag racing? What did I know about that? And how would I ever find a “hidden” one...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
The Targa Florio; Sicily, April 30, 1961. Olivier Gendebien goes airbone over a rise in the Ferrari Dino 246SP with...
1965 JWF Valano GT It was the classic case of three schoolmates with like interests that eventually evolved into a profitable business. It was the early 1950s and the area was the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. Ian “Sam” Johnson, Geoff Williams and Grant Furzer were at school together and shared...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings...
This month’s Hidden Treasure begins with the sound of J. Why do I bring this up? Because for years I’ve...
F1-67 “NONDA” Think back, if you can, to the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and possibly even the ’80s. Did you ever think that the sports cars and single-seaters roaring around the circuits of the world would someday be about the most expensive and desirable items even the most acquisitive of us...
