The International Motor Racing Research Center announced a fund raising event called the Hot Lapz Experience as part of the...
Sixty years ago today (13th May), Alfa Romeo completed an historic 1-2-3 finish at the first ever Formula One European...
Story and photos by Stephen Mitchell The 250GTO #3987 was the third car I’d ever owned. The first was a 3.8 E-Type Jaguar. It was a beautiful car, but featured a low-revving six cylinder with an unsynchronized first gear that was like a granny gear off a truck. The car...
Story by Will Silk Sports Car Digest is proud to revive our vintage classifieds column to reflect on the market...
The Jeff Koons BMW Art Car was unveiled June 1st, 2010 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the same place...
Story by Will Silk Perhaps no single man had more involvement in the development of West Coast racing in the United States than Les Richter. Les was born October 26, 1930 in Fresno, California. He attended high school in Fresno before moving onto the University of Berkeley where Les became...
Story by Stephen Mitchell Back in the day, the Ferrari Owners’ Club in Los Angeles held monthly dinner meetings with...
On October 15, 1953, Achille Castoldi sat in his boat on the water of Lake Iseo nestled between its more...
Story by Will Silk I recently received an email from a gentleman in Maryland that does wood carvings of sports cars. One look at the pictures he sent along made me promptly sit down and have a closer look. The carvings were of a Porsche 917K and a Ford GT40,...
Story and photos by Paul Chenard The Lotus 49 was another of a long line of brilliant Colin Chapman (and...
On a beautiful sunny day at 25 degrees Celsius, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport achieved a new landspeed world...
The Ferrari 458 Challenge made its world premiere debut in Maranello during their annual dealer meeting, a traditional event that brings together the representatives of Ferrari’s international sales network. The new berlinetta, which will flank the F430 Challenge in the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli in the 2011 season, is the...
Story by Will Silk This edition of Classified Ads from the Past features an advertisement for a rare Mercedes-Benz 300...
The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) will offer a 427-powered Cobra replica as its annual raffle car for 2010....
Story and photos by Stephen Mitchell Once upon a time, I received a call from an acquaintance Mario Tosi. He and I both owned Ferrari GTOs and used them as daily transportation. His had been for sale and I came close to buying it before finally purchasing 3987. Mario was...
The Alvis Car Company used the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2010 to announce details of a unique project to re-introduce...
In a move aimed at the many fans who flock to visit the Galleria Ferrari in Maranello every day, the...
Formula 1 Safety Safety has always been a slightly difficult topic in motorsports. Automobile racing is a dangerous sport, and some say that this danger is part of the sports allure. In fact, Ernest Hemmingway, the famous author once remarked that, “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering;...
By Will Silk The latest Classified Ads from the Past is a rare all-aluminum 1955 Arnolt-Bristol offered for sale in...
Although Alfa Romeo has to date created more than 70 models in its rich 100 year history, it all came...
By Bill Crowley, Chubb & Son What’s the biggest financial exposure that owners of valuable automobiles confront? Leaving aside a depressed sales market, a collision is the top risk followed by fire. There is a sea of difference between these two threats, however. A collision will bang up just one...
The team responsible for bringing Formula 1 racing back to the United States revealed the track layout for the Formula...
By Bill Crowley, Chubb & Son Many car collectors are shrewd not to drive their cherished vehicles to automobile shows...
By Will Silk Our latest classified ad from the past comes from an April, 1986 edition of Hemmings Motor News and is none other than a pristine Aston Martin DB3S Coupe; a rare variant of one of Britain’s greatest sports cars. The 1950s saw a new breath of life come...
By Bill Crowley, Chubb & Son Few things say “vintage” like the feel and smell of a collectible car’s luxuriant...
Famed aviator, race car driver and inventor John Fitch has been selected as the recipient of the third annual “Spirit...
By Bill Crowley, Chubb & Son While insurance does not cover a prized vehicle’s sudden or gradual mechanical breakdown, it does address a mechanical failure that causes or results in a collision. Such claims tend to fall into three categories—breakdowns in the car’s braking, steering or suspension systems. Face it—older...
The museum of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart will be celebrating a special anniversary this year: It was...
By Will Silk A new diecast company has joined the world of sports car replication in scale. Automodello of Buffalo...
By Will Silk Few will doubt that perhaps the most breathtaking cars ever to emerge from Germany were the beautiful 300 SL Gullwing coupes of the mid-1950s. This edition of Classified Ads from the Past spotlights an advertisement for two of these svelte machines that originally appeared in the pages...
