Italy’s remarkable GT cars have surprising origins, with Iso’s inception standing out as unconventional. The company, initially focused on manufacturing...
The McLaren P1 was introduced at the Paris Motor Show in September 2012, and production was launched the following year....
November 2007 Racing Sports Cars, Memories of the Fifties By Art Evans Readers of this magazine will no doubt be familiar with Fabulous Fifties columnist Art Evans and his previous books on both the drivers and the tracks of ’50s American sports car racing. In his latest work, Racing Sports...
RM Auctions has announced the consignment of one of history’s most important racing Ferraris, the 1953 340/375 MM Pinin Farina...
This 1977 Porsche 935 K3, identified by Chassis No. 930-770-0907, boasts a remarkable racing history, having achieved four first-place victories...
Photo: Peter Collins Things were bad. There had been difficulties before for Lancia, but on both occasions the good guys had ridden over the hill to save the damsel in distress in the nick of time. Back in 1955 Gianni Lancia had had to say goodbye to his eponymous company....
900-horsepower 1984 Lancia LC2 goes full throttle at Brands Hatch in UK....
The Porsche 910, also known as the Carrera 10, was introduced during the summer of 1966 and raced through 1967,...
Photo: Courtesy of the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen In 1983 Matt Jones of Livingston, Texas, received an unexpected telephone call from a man in Porterville, California. The man said, “I hear you’re interested in Alfa Romeos, and I have a Disco Volante I want to sell.”...
The 14th annual Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance presented by Mercedes-Benz and AutoNation selected the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Coupe owned...
The German Grand Prix; Nürburgring, August 1, 1954. A field of Porsche 356s approaches the South Curve complex following the...
This past weekend I made the annual pilgrimage to the Long Beach Grand Prix. This year was the event’s 48th running…whew!… that realization hit kind of hard when it dawned on me that this was the 48th Long Beach Grand Prix that I’ve attended! The inaugural Long Beach Grand Prix,...
A special era in the history of the Porsche 917 stems from a private conversation held between Porsche team manager...
Moss at His Best When it was announced in 1958 that the capacity limit for Formula One would change from...
Highlights from the1964 Italian Grand Prix. John Surtees won the race as he started from pole position driving a Ferrari car....
Photo: Pete Austin Where do we start with the story of the March 761? In true Sound of Music fashion—at...
Here’s a video of a 1990 Mercedes Sauber C11 and its 750hp biturbo V8 roaring around the track during Le...
1957 Aston Martin DBR1 Aston Martin’s relationship with the 24 Hours of Le Mans goes all the way back to 1928 when Jack Bezzant/Cyril Paul and “Bert” Bertelli/George Eyston launched the British company’s assault on the event with LM2 and LM1, Aston’s 1495-cc, 4-cylinder racer. Neither car made it to...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
Bugatti presented the Type 59 Sports for the first time on September 24, 1933, at the San Sebastian Grand Prix....
The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA), the world’s largest organization of its kind, held its annual Grand Nationals in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, this year. The event included AACA’s annual Zenith Award competition and its Grand Nationals car show. AACA’s annual Grand Nationals is always without question the Nation’s largest and...
Despite the weather, the IROC Camaro proved capable on both the oval track at Rockingham and Silverstone’s club circuit. Photo: Pete Austin...
Pete Lyons Come with me to Italy, if you’ve got a minute, I want to show you something neat. We’re...
Experience exhilarating lightweight racing excitement on the combined Nürburgring GP track and Nordschleife with the Porsche 914/6 GT....
In my book Vintage American Road Racing Cars, I wrote, “Of all the Kurtis road racing cars, the 500X is...
One of the prettiest Ferrari racers ever is the 750 Monza. The 750 Monza prototype made its debut in 1954...
A 296 GTB managed to officially lap around Nürburgring in less than 7 minutes, making it the first production car from Ferrari to do so. This amazing feat was accomplished by Christian Gebhardt from Sport Auto which you can watch in the video below....
Nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winning driver, Tom Kristensen, managed to get behind the wheels of a 1930 Blower...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with...
Photo: Steve Oom With just over 600 produced between 1954 and 1962 it can t be said that the Jensen 541 was built in huge numbers. In my 45-plus years of older car enthusiasm, I can say that I have seen four Jensen 541s, and with pleasure have driven two...
