This is the debut showing of Reed Railton’s land speed record car, its tire fairings here removed, in front of...
The name of Noel Macklin is writ large in the history of British sporting cars. Marques such as Eric-Campbell, Silver...
The 190SL, a smaller and less expensive version of the Mercedes Benz 300SL, was introduced in 1954 at the New York Motor Show. Despite its smaller size, it was still equipped with advanced technology and provided capabilities for sports driving. Over 26,000 units were produced from 1955 to 1963, with...
Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle...
The Ford Thunderbird was introduced to the U.S. market in 1955 as a response by Ford to the Chevy Corvette,...
Trevor Wilkinson started his engineering business, in 1946, in Beverly Grove, Blackpool. It was named Trevcar Motors and the business was general engineering, work was not always automotive-related. A year later, Trevor was joined by auto enthusiast Jack Pickard. The company was then renamed TVR Engineering and carried on much...
Sex, infidelity, theft, intrigue, a lightly raced car, a tragic airplane crash and a pack of lifelong friends…some famous, some...
1964 Porsche 904 GTS Resplendent in its red and white Scuderia Filipinetti livery, 904 #079 looks lean and lithe and...
May 2018 This is the Elva Mk. I, designed and entered by Frank Nichols at the Prescott Hillclimb on May 22, 1955, here driven for Nichols by Robbie MacKenzie-Low. MacKenzie-Low set a new class record of 51.14 seconds. This was a great start for Elva cars. Photo courtesy of: THE...
Imagine an F1 car reimagined for road use. That, and more, was what the Caparo T1 promised back when it...
Inspired by the iconic Alpine A110 that won the 1973 Sanremo Rally, this new limited edition features a modern and...
Leading historic race organizer, Motor Racing Legends, has launched an all-new race series for Groups 1 and 2, and Group A Touring Cars, such as raced in the British and European Touring Car Championships between 1977 and 1985. The new series will be called the JD Classics Challenge, thanks to...
The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA), the world’s largest organization of its kind, held its annual Grand Nationals in...
This BMW 3.0 CSL is the first of BMW’s world-famous Art Cars. Created in 1975, it was one of the...
Photo: Sean Smith Watkins Glen, New York, September 19, 1953. On lap 19, of a scheduled 22-lap race, Walter Hansgen lost the lead of the Watkins Glen Grand Prix. Walt’s car began to run out of fuel—a momentary stumble—forcing him to switch to his reserve tank and allowing the more...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
March 2018 Dan Gurney scored his initial Grand Prix victory in this 8-cylinder Porsche 804, seen here at Nouveau Monde...
The 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.0 stands as the ultimate evolution of the naturally aspirated Porsche 911 designed for competitive purposes. It integrates insights gleaned from its predecessors in the 911 lineage and incorporates features reminiscent of the dominant Porsche 917. In its street configuration, the 3.0-liter six was...
My motor racing career started with the most basic form of car, a 1952 Ford Anglia E93A, which I towed...
Despite already being 76 years old, Walter Röhrl still managed to complete a remarkable lap around the Nürburgring. During the...
The motorsport industry considers the Goodwood Festival of Speed as a sacred site. This event takes place in late June or early July and showcases a wide range of vehicles, including pre-war cars, prototypes, and modern electric race cars. The highlight of the festival, without a doubt, are the races,...
At the Ferrari Factory in Maranello, Italy in February of 1967, the Ferrari 330/P4s that had just returned from finishing...
Thanks to the GM Heritage Center in Warren, Mich., the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., and the Revs Institute in Naples, Fla.,...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from Sept. 7-9, 2018, from the 20th Goodwood Revival in Chichester, UK. Line astern 1963 Ford Galaxie 500, 1965 Plymouth Barracuda & 1960 Ford Anglia. Photo: Roger Dixon Klaus Lehr’s 1948 Talbot-Largo 26c leads an ERA B-Type and an Alfa Romeo Tipo B through Goodwood’s chicane....
A new dawn is upon us in the land of super sports cars (supercars), as we are bearing witness to...
There is no hidden racecar in this story, but there are four treasures, one mechanical and three human. I love...
By the early 1950s, several British automotive manufacturers had completely devoted themselves to satisfying the seemingly insatiable postwar appetite for affordable sports cars. One such manufacturer was Coventry’s Standard-Triumph. After a woefully misguided attempt to enter the market with the underpowered and frumpy-looking 1800 Roadster, in 1953 Standard unveiled a...
In 1985 Automobili Lamborghini was working on Project 132, with the intention of succeeding the Countach at the top of...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport...
1984 Lancia LC2 Twenty years ago, when Group C sports car racing was in its heyday, the focus of attention was on the moment. As a result there weren’t many people thinking about Group C machines becoming “historic.” When Group C faded, many of us thought we would never see...
