Nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winning driver, Tom Kristensen, managed to get behind the wheels of a 1930 Blower...
There I was, on Los Angeles’ Imperial Highway, helplessly hanging on in the passenger seat. No grab bar, no seatbelt,...
1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth The De Tomaso drew much admiration from the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo: Peter Collins Where do you start? Society weddings, the jet set racing crowd, brewery heirs, Mangustas, Grand Prix disaster. The De Tomaso story has it all, and the car you...
My motor racing career started with the most basic form of car, a 1952 Ford Anglia E93A, which I towed...
Watch Tim De Silva push his 1982 Alfa Romeo 182 to the limits at the historic Acura Grand Prix of...
900-horsepower 1984 Lancia LC2 goes full throttle at Brands Hatch in UK....
The 24 Hours of Daytona was won in both 1970 and 1971 by the Porsche 917. The race was for...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail...
Porsche’s Type 904 was officially called the Carrera GTS because Porsche and Peugeot were still in their bitter disagreement over numeric designations with “0” in them. The Porsche 904 succeeded the RSK Type 718 as the last sports-racing iteration of the 356 series. It was also the last full-competition Porsche...
Witness Formula One sensation Lando Norris drive Alain Prost’s McLaren MP4/2, the car in which Prost secured a second-place finish...
Thanks to the local newspaper, I learned about Bug-a-Palüza. It is an annual event that draws VWs of all types...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he grew up in a country that banned racing when he was four years old, and then overcame a seemingly endless succession of debilitating accidents behind the wheel of competition cars...
How many more trees do these Brits plan on killing? Since its beginnings in the early part of the 20th...
Considered as the first supercar in the world, the Lamborghini Miura definitely stood out in looks, technology, and performance. The...
Following their conquest of Mexico’s Pan-American Road Race in November of 1952, Mercedes-Benz factory drivers Karl Kling and Hermann Lang stand next to the pair of 300SLs that carried them to their one-two finish. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Hispano-Suiza, a distinguished name in Edwardian motoring, established itself as a leader in automotive engineering alongside Rolls-Royce. The Swiss engineer...
I have driven most types of racing car from Formula Ford to Formula One and from the best in sports...
Few cars have had more racing success and are more legendary than the Porsche 550 Spyder. From the model’s first competitive outing (at the time it was known simply as Type 550) in May of 1953, Porsche immediately knew it had a winner. In a torrential rainstorm, Helmut Gloeckler piloted...
With the recent debut of Lamborghini’s first hybrid super sports car, the Italian firm is celebrating the last of its...
The Targa Florio; Sicily, April 30, 1961. Olivier Gendebien goes airbone over a rise in the Ferrari Dino 246SP with...
The introduction of the Sting Ray in 1963 sent shockwaves through the North American sports car market, causing a sensation that far surpassed expectations. The overwhelming success of the model prompted the St Louis factory to implement a second shift, yet the demand for these cars remained insatiable. Manufactured under...
The 2013 Santa Fe Concorso, a gathering of more than 100 rare and exotic cars and motor-cycles, will take place...
A very deserving 1937 Delage was named Best In Show at the annual Keeneland Concours d’Elegance on July 20. The...
1956 Ferrari 500 TR Prototype I have to confess that we sometimes get very carried away by some of the machinery we get to examine and test. We even have some degree of conflict about not being able to more frequently feature more down-to-earth and historic cars. It’s not that...
At the 1955 Brussels Motor Show, Lancia introduced the B24 Spider America, an open two-seater that is arguably the most...
If I asked you to pick a brand associated with high performance and motorsport, chances are good the name Volkswagen...
Ray Petros is a dedicated Studebaker collector. It is natural that he focuses on that marque, since his family were Studebaker dealers for many years. Two of his cars, and two of Studebaker’s most iconic vehicles, have been featured in this magazine. His Avanti R1 was the subject of a...
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t Monaco, the first significant race of the 1933 season, a new Grand Prix team made its debut: Scuderia CC,...
1953 Leson Simca Special Progress is not always a good thing. In the early 1950s, if you wanted to go racing in America you could build yourself a car or have one professionally constructed to your exact specifications. Sure, that meant some homebuilt, crude and dangerous machines were flying around...
