Philanthropist Peter Mullin is founder of the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California, as well as Chairman of the Board...
In this month’s feature article, we pay tribute to one of Britain’s oldest racing circuits, Donington Park. Founded in 1931...
Ayrton Senna Biography Ayrton Senna was born on 21 March 1960, the second child of Milton da Silva, a successful businessman and landowner. The family lived in Santana, a well-to-do neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Growing up Ayrton was an awkward child and was later diagnosed as having a motor...
Tim ParnellPhoto: Pete Austin It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near...
This year is the 50th anniversary of the 911. Its first public viewing was at the September 1963 Frankfurt Auto...
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Mike Lawrence We are seeing some quite extraordinary prices paid for certain cars, and some people have recalled the late 1980s when prices shot through the roof. Then the bubble burst and, in its wake, so did bankruptcies, court cases and at least one suicide. This time, however, I think...
Talk about a gift from the heavens…LeMay – America’s Car Museum announced the surprise arrival of a 1964 Lincoln Continental...
RM Auctions, the official auction house of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, continued its run of fantastic 2013 results, on...
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...
The 1936 Duesenberg SJN (Supercharged) and the 1968 Ford GT40 “#1075” won the Best In Show honors on Sunday, March...
Mecum Auctions’ record-setting 10-day auction, held January 18-27, broke the record for the largest collector car auction, based on the...
Roy Brown Jr.—designer of the much maligned, ’50s flop the Ford Edsel—passed away on Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from complications of pneumonia and Parkinson’s Disease. He was 96. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, after World War I, Brown first went to work at GM’s Cadillac Studio before moving...
• RM Auctions’ February 18–19, Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum sale generated more than $9.1 million with 100 percent of all...
At the Prescott Closed Meeting in 1939, a Bugatti T59 assaults the hillclimb course. Note the dual rear wheels for added traction capability. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited...
If there are so many of us desperately searching for our old racing cars, why in the heck are we...
Vintage Racecar and Historica Racewear, in association with the British Women Racing Drivers’ Club (BWRDC), have introduced the “Champion of...
South African racing legend Dave Charlton, who started 11 World Championship Grands Prix from 1967-1975, has died at the age of 76. British-born Charlton, whose family emigrated to South Africa in his youth, was a regular in his home round of the F1 World Championship. His best result came at...
One of the legendary 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix cars raced by five-time World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio will be...
The Royal Automobile Club has awarded the historic Segrave Trophy to John Surtees OBE. Speaking at the award ceremony, RAC...
Pete Lyons There is no great genius without a trace of madness,” declared the Roman philosopher Seneca, and can we have any doubt he was looking ahead 1.9 millennia to designers of Can-Am racecars? The wonderful old Canadian-American Challenge Cup series of 1966 through 1974 is justly famed for many...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport...
It is interesting to note that the two most iconic constructors of Italian road-going sports cars—Ferrari and Maserati—only grudgingly began...
For the first time in his career, Marvin Panch posed for a photo before an event. He would never do so again. It could have all ended so differently, this confluence of seemingly random events that culminated that cold Valentine’s Day in 1963 at Daytona International Speedway, were it not...
High-powered Italian automotive exotica has always had an attraction for a select number of prominent people of means. Today it’s...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
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...
