Story by Will Silk This edition of Classified Ads from the Past features an advertisement for a rare Mercedes-Benz 300...
The Ferrari 458 Challenge made its world premiere debut in Maranello during their annual dealer meeting, a traditional event that...
On a beautiful sunny day at 25 degrees Celsius, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport achieved a new landspeed world record for production cars, on the proving grounds of the Volkswagen Group at Ehra-Lessien (nearby its headquarters at Wolfsburg). In the presence of the German Technical Inspection Agency (TÜV) and...
Story and photos by Paul Chenard The Lotus 49 was another of a long line of brilliant Colin Chapman (and...
Story by Will Silk I recently received an email from a gentleman in Maryland that does wood carvings of sports...
On October 15, 1953, Achille Castoldi sat in his boat on the water of Lake Iseo nestled between its more famous siblings Lake Como and Lake Garda. Surrounded by dense woodlands and soaring peaks, the lake remains the least known of Italy’s Lombard Lakes, but Achille was not there to...
Story by Stephen Mitchell Back in the day, the Ferrari Owners’ Club in Los Angeles held monthly dinner meetings with...
Story by Will Silk Perhaps no single man had more involvement in the development of West Coast racing in the...
The Jeff Koons BMW Art Car was unveiled June 1st, 2010 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the same place Roy Lichtenstein first presented and signed his Art Car in 1977. In the spirit of Calder, Stella, Lichtenstein, Warhol, BMW announced this year that the 17th Art Car created by...
Story by Will Silk Sports Car Digest is proud to revive our vintage classifieds column to reflect on the market...
Story and photos by Stephen Mitchell The 250GTO #3987 was the third car I’d ever owned. The first was a...
Sixty years ago today (13th May), Alfa Romeo completed an historic 1-2-3 finish at the first ever Formula One European Championship race, which was held at Silverstone motor racing circuit. Italian driver, Giuseppe Farina, dominated proceedings to bring home his 300bhp 158 race car – also known as the Alfetta...
The International Motor Racing Research Center announced a fund raising event called the Hot Lapz Experience as part of the...
The BMW Classic specialist workshop will not only be repairing and restoring its own classic vehicles, but also those belonging...
The Mullin Automotive Museum, a facility that pays homage to the art deco and machine age design eras (1918-1941) that produced exquisite art and magnificent automobiles, officially opens its doors for the first time in the beach community of Oxnard, California on April 15th, 2010. The dramatic facility will be...
The Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) will honor racing icon Parnelli Jones at its second annual West Coast dinner prior...
Book Review: Porsche Showroom Posters: The First 25 Years Author: Everett Anton Singer Publisher: VintageAutoPosters.com Format: Hardcover, 12” x 12”,...
Bobby Rahal, president of the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC), named FIA Senate President Nick Craw as the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Phil Hill Award at a dinner preceding the Rolex 24 At Daytona. The Phil Hill Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the person who the...
Sports Car Digest is pleased to announce our new Forum section, a great place for enthusiasts to talk about auction...
The home of today’s Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has a very special sound in the world of...
Porsche scored its first major international overall victory at Sebring’s 12-hour classic in 1960 when Hans Herrmann and Olivier Gendebien drove a Porsche RS60 to victory, finishing nine laps ahead of a Porsche driven by Bob Holbert and Roy Schechter. Since then, Porsche has built an unsurpassed resume of records...
The votes are in for your favorite car competing in the Etceterini Class at the 2010 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance....
Paintings from Barry Rowe, Charles Maher and Peter Hearsey of the Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) will be featured during...
Endurance racing legend Derek Bell has been named Grand Marshal for the 58th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. A five-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Bell also won the two World Sports Car Championships. He ranks third on Sebring’s all-time podium finishes list...
Bill Warner and the crew at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance continually produce a very entertaining and diverse collection of...
Porsche has been successful in many branches of motorsports, scoring tens of thousands of victories worldwide over the course of...
Over thirty rare, unusual and beautiful sports and racing cars manufactured in England will be on display at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum from February 20th through March 14th, 2010. Titled the “Best of Britain,” the show is comprised of cars from individual collectors in the mid-Atlantic states and is...
The Allure of the Automobile exhibit will be displayed at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia from March...
What was once one of the most important collections of vintage and collector Ferraris in the world has been salvaged...
Steve Earle, creator and organizer of the Monterey (Calif.) Historic Automobile Races, was named the recipient of the 2009 Bob Akin Award by the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) at a dinner prior to the running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the season opener of the 2010 GRAND-AM Rolex...
