A husband-and-wife team from Great Britain recently completed a remarkable trip around the world in a rare 1956 Bristol 405...
Sports Car Digest is taking a break for the holidays, but we will be back in the New Year with...
Several prominent cars from the famed Ralph Lauren Collection are currently offered for sale, and at prices that will make you jump for your wallet. For a mere $9,500, you can have your choice between the Ferrari 250 GTO, Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic, McLaren F1 GTR or Ferrari 250...
By Will Silk Spark Models has been around for a little over a decade now, and recently the company released...
A 1965 Lotus 35 Climax powered Tasman Series/Formula 2 race car has been added to the collection of automobiles at...
By Edward Lenahan Among the many reasons to read Michael Cannell’s newest novel “The Limit,” which accurately reanimates the 1961 Formula One world championship with sharp writing and fastidious research, none is so important or rare as the book’s honest portrayal of frailty in those too often romanticized as superhuman....
Margie McNally Petersen, wife of Robert E. Petersen and co-founding benefactor of the Petersen Automotive Museum, passed away at her...
All three of the major endurance races will celebrate notable anniversaries in 2012. The most famous race of them all,...
British enthusiast Martyn Corfield aims to revive the pre-war British car marque Atalanta Motors by producing a new traditionally coach-built Atalanta. With more than just a gentle nod to Atalanta’s heritage, it is the objective of this venture to bring this innovative pre-war sports car concept up-to-date, by acknowledging 72...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers assigned to the Outbound Enforcement Team (OET) at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport...
The BMW Museum in Munich is devoting a special exhibition to the development of the big BMW Coupes and Convertibles,...
Review by Wallace Wyss With John Bentley doing the ghostwriting, Carroll Shelby wrote his book The Cobra Story in 1965, at a point when the Cobra story wasn’t done yet — not by a long shot. So you could say he began building the legend of Shelby American even before...
The Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) created a website devoted to the education of racing drivers, with top champion drivers...
For its thirteenth annual fall celebration of the Legends of Motorsport, The Petersen Automotive Museum, along with The Phil Hill...
Arnold Hubert Wagner, an original partner of Andial – one of America’s most successful and respected authorities on Porsche performance tuning – died at the age of 75. Wagner, who, along with partners Dieter Inzenhofer and Alwin Springer, worked at Vasek Polak Porsche in Redondo Beach before the three Porsche...
Catching the spirit of Can-Am is one of the goals of the new Unlimited Racing Championship (URC) that will feature...
Slot Car Racing Around the World Four Wheels and a Guide Flag During the 1960s when the slot car craze...
By Stephen Mitchell My pilgrimage to Pebble Beach this year was memorable for many reasons. My purpose in attending was to shoot footage of the Ferrari 250 GTOs that would be the feature attraction–for me, at least–of the event for inclusion in my on-going GTO documentary. The cars looked great...
Craig Breedlove – the first person to exceed 400, 500, and 600 miles per hour on land – will receive...
By Will Silk When conversing about American premium luxury automobile manufacturers, no conversation would be complete without the mention of Packard;...
The Puzzles Facing the Car Industry – Oil Prices and Consumer Biases By Martin Swig Car selling requires a long-term strategy. Consider Hyundai. In their first ten years in the U.S. they wandered all over the map. They then “idled” for about five years. Finally they found a sound strategy...
On Friday 15 July 2011, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrated the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy with an historic event....
By Stephen Mitchell A friend once asked me what was the fastest I’d ever driven a car. My answer was...
By Art Evans Sports Car Digest Editor Jamie Doyle has assigned me to write a column about the history of sports cars. For the first one, I thought it would be interesting to look at the first events that established motorsports. It’s rather obvious that the first was the invention...
A virtual museum tour of the famed BMW Art Car Collection is now available, with an extensive overview of the...
The Lyon Air Museum in Southern California is currently exhibiting ten Duesenberg automobiles from the collection of General William Lyon....
Mickey Thompson: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of a Racing Legend By Al Axelrod OK…finally a book on a wild and crazy guy, whose accomplishments are little noted or recognized. Why, you may ask , was it written? The tragic life-ending event for the Thompsons–murder–has somehow made all sort...
Porsche will return to Le Mans with a works-run LMP1 sports prototype, with the first outing of the completely new...
Bentley Motors rolled out the red carpet to welcome over a hundred members of the Bentley Drivers Club (BDC) –...
The Gull Wing Group celebrated its 50th anniversary with Mercedes-Benz USA by recreating one of the group’s most famous photos taken in 1961 at Fort Point Park overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Founded in San Francisco, California on June 16, 1961 The Gull Wing Group, led by...
