Called one of the “Winged Warriors”, a list that included Plymouth Superbird, Ford Torino Talladega, and Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II,...
With the disappointing performance of the 1968 Dodge Charger 500 in NASCAR competition and Plymouth’s superstar Richard Petty leaving them...
Launched in 1968 at the Geneva Salon, the Islero marked an evolution from the 400 GT 2+2, itself derived from Lamborghini’s inaugural production car, the 1964 Touring-styled 350 GT. Crafted by three notable Italian engineers, the 350 GT featured a remarkable 3.5-liter, four-cam V12 by Giotto Bizzarrini, housed in a...
Ferruccio Lamborghini’s challenge to Ferrari began in 1964 with the 350GT, but it was the introduction of the Miura, often...
Launched in February 1969, this was the first Skyline to wear the GT-R badge. This special model was heavily modified...
As a car credited for starting the muscle car era, the Pontiac GTO enjoys legendary status as a truly revolutionary car. The Pontiac GTO followed a rather simple recipe of putting a high output V8 in an intermediate Le Mans body, which soon worked out so well that other brands started copying...
Of all the 917 variants, the ‘Interserie Spyder’ was one of the most successful. It won the Interserie championship outright...
Porsche’s Type 904 was officially called the Carrera GTS because Porsche and Peugeot were still in their bitter disagreement over...
• RM Auctions’ February 18–19, Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum sale generated more than $9.1 million with 100 percent of all lots sold. Numerous microcar records were set including: a 1958 F.M.R. Tg 500 “Tiger” fetching $322,000, a world record price for a microcar sold at auction; a 1951 Reyonnah selling...
• A unique 1953 Ferrari 166MM, bodied by Oblin with wonderful racing provenance will star in Artcurial Motorcars’ Retromobile sale...
Six cars from the Ford Performance Collection of megadealer Jim Click will be offered for sale by RM Sotheby’s at...
Photo: Casey Annis History is a curious thing, we tend to think of it as fixed and absolute, when in fact, like most things in life, it is dynamic, it can change. Or sometimes, like in grade school, we learn about a piece of history at a very superficial level,...
During the FIA World Championship of 1965, the Ford Cobra Coupes competed in the Monza 1000 Km. The two-car team,...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the...
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...
1965 Corvette XP-819 In 1965, famed General Motors designer Larry Shinoda designed a one-off concept car, the XP-819, that tested...
Piers Courage raced this Frank Williams-entered Brabham BT26A-Cosworth in the 1969 French Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand’s Charade circuit, but was...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is teaming up with Spotfund – an all-new and innovative fundraising platform that supports only 501(c)(3) non-profits – to close out the funding required to get Dan Gurney’s legendary Lotus 29/1 back on the racetrack. The IMS Museum’s Restoration department is getting ever closer to...
It’s hard to believe it is already January 2013! With the coming of the New Year comes renewed attention and...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car Author found the Maxi rally machine to be very responsive to driver inputs. Photo: Kary Jiggle At the dying stages of the 1966 World Cup Finals at Wembley Stadium, BBC soccer commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme uttered words that would become a phrase forever synonymous with him. As...
Ex-Essex Wire 1965 Ford GT40 #1010 One hundred years of Ford! Where do you start? There are far too many...
1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB “Comp/61” Inevitably, when the name Ferrari is brought up in conjunction with racing, the first thing that...
The 2023 Goodwood Revival featured the Fordwater Trophy race, marking 60 years of the Porsche 911. The race showcased 30 early 901 and 911 models, all running on sustainable fuels. Watch and enjoy the sound of 30 air-cooled flat-six Porsches going all out on the race track!...
For the first time in his career, Marvin Panch posed for a photo before an event. He would never do...
June 2011 There was no place for frills at the Cooper Car Co. in Surbiton, Surrey, England, circa 1962. As this photo shows, the interior of the “works” was cramped and informal in a typically 1960s British fashion. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
The Targa Florio; Sicily, April 30, 1961. Olivier Gendebien goes airbone over a rise in the Ferrari Dino 246SP with...
January 2009 The Le Mans 24 Hours; Le Mans, June 10-11, 1961. Augie Pabst seems serene at the wheel of...
November 2017 The Targa Florio; Sicily, May 4, 1969. This is the Nomad Mk II with BRM power. It was driven by Mark and Gabriel Konig, but retired on the fourth of the ten laps due to an accident when the left front suspension collapsed. The earlier Mark I Nomad, now fitted with...
