Formula 1 vs NASCAR – Which is the Superior Motorsport? Motorsports have become an integral part of sports worldwide, with...
Well in advance of the holidays, Sports Car Digest and Senior Photographer Dennis Gray have produced a pair of vintage...
Michael J. Barrett has been named the new Executive Director of the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum in Hershey. He was selected for this position by the AACA Museum Board Executive and Search Committees following a nationwide search. Mike is a business and marketing executive with over 36...
By Will Silk True Scale Miniatures is a relatively new company to the world of scale sports car models, having been...
By Stephen Mitchell Reading through my friend Marc Sonnery’s book “Rebel Rebel” which deals with the life and times of...
Petersen Automotive Museum is celebrating the opening of the exciting new exhibit, NHRA: Sixty Years of Thunder by paying tribute to one of the sport’s most iconic figures – Don “The Snake” Prudhomme – during their annual Tribute Night on Wednesday, November 10, 2010. The day will begin with the...
As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, Porsche Cars North America embarked on a quest to find the oldest Porsche...
A growing number of businesses have committed to 2011 advertising campaigns with Sports Car Digest – and we’d like to...
Story by Will Silk and photos by Marshall Autry The outbreak of World War II spawned the American aviation company known as Grumman to begin design of a twin-engine high performance fighter aircraft that would later become known as the Grumman F7F Tigercat. It was in 1941 that Grumman was...
South African artist Esther Mahlangu’s 1991 design of a BMW 525i will be displayed at the Museum of Arts and...
By Will Silk It’s that time of year again when the sound of unrestricted race engines at full song begins...
By Will Silk Our latest Classified Ads of the Past profile is an incredible 1951 Allard J2X Roadster that was advertised in a 1965 Vintage Car Store catalog. The Allard J2X marked the high water mark for the Allard marque when it first appeared in 1951 as an evolution of...
By Will Silk In 1952, Schuco Toys of Nuremburg, Germany released a tin toy motorcycle powered by a wind-up clock...
By Will Silk Amidst the rumors and ongoing legal battles between Group Lotus and the 2010 Team Lotus race organization...
The British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) celebrated motor racing achievements of 2010 on 6th December at the BRDC Annual Awards. The ceremony, hosted by BBC Formula 1 presenter Jake Humphrey, was attended by motor racing’s finest, including three of the BRDC’s Knights of the Realm – Sir Stirling Moss OBE,...
Sports Car Digest is taking a break for the holidays, but we will be back in the New Year with...
Contributor Stephen Mitchell has plans for a documentary on the original Carrera Panamericana races (!) and would like to tap...
Sports Car Digest published 516 stories in 2010, ranging from auction results, car profiles, event and vintage racing coverage, yet several resonated more than others with our readers. Based upon page views attributed to each story, our photo gallery from the Goodwood Festival of Speed was the most popular story...
By Will Silk It has taken some time, but 2011 will mark the debut of a new series of racing...
The Board of Directors of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame announced the 2011 class on Wednesday, January 12 at...
By Will Silk Artists Nicolas Cancelier of Belgium, Paul Chenard of Canada, Anna-Louise Felstead of the United Kingdom and Rick Rucker of the United States have created an international organization of automotive artists entitled Club Artistes Auto (CAA). The goal of the new organization is to assist automotive artists on an international level...
The story of Carroll Shelby will be told at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum through the special...
Story by Stephen Mitchell The first time I saw a Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso was at Riverside Raceway where...
From Bloomberg: Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is helping an investment group that aims to buy $150 million worth of classic cars and make annual returns of 15 percent. Mason is an auto enthusiast who has competed five times in the Le Mans 24 Hours race. He is on the...
By Will Silk Speculative interest in using vintage cars as a means of investment have been in use for decades,...
In late January, 2011, the dynamic duo of the Scott brothers announced that they will be producing a TV series...
Audi will unveil the latest in its range of e-tron concept studies – an all-electric, 1:2 scale version of the 1936 Auto Union Type C Grand Prix car – at the International Toy Fair in Nuremberg from 3 to 8 February, 2011. The electrically-propelled reworking of the Thirties racing classic...
Augie Pabst, described as “one of the fastest, most charismatic and popular drivers in his day” by the Motorsports Hall...
Most of the international racing successes of Porsche works drivers Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France) were clinched together....
By Will Silk The Chevrolet Vega is perhaps one of those cars that history has brushed aside for a number of reasons. The early 1970s were difficult times, with the first global fuel crisis accompanied by a recession in the United States, automakers were willing to make bold moves in...
