The Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) created a website devoted to the education of racing drivers, with top champion drivers...
Review by Wallace Wyss With John Bentley doing the ghostwriting, Carroll Shelby wrote his book The Cobra Story in 1965,...
The BMW Museum in Munich is devoting a special exhibition to the development of the big BMW Coupes and Convertibles, starting October 28, 2011 and running through the end of September 2012. Entitled “The Line of Beauty”, it features 14 outstanding exhibits that span the years 1937 to 2011 and...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers assigned to the Outbound Enforcement Team (OET) at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport...
British enthusiast Martyn Corfield aims to revive the pre-war British car marque Atalanta Motors by producing a new traditionally coach-built...
All three of the major endurance races will celebrate notable anniversaries in 2012. The most famous race of them all, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, will celebrate its 80th running in 2012, while in America both the Rolex 24 Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring race will celebrate...
Margie McNally Petersen, wife of Robert E. Petersen and co-founding benefactor of the Petersen Automotive Museum, passed away at her...
By Edward Lenahan Among the many reasons to read Michael Cannell’s newest novel “The Limit,” which accurately reanimates the 1961...
A 1965 Lotus 35 Climax powered Tasman Series/Formula 2 race car has been added to the collection of automobiles at the LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM), courtesy of a donation by John and Marilyn Dimmer. ACM, set to hold its grand opening in June 2012, took delivery of the...
By Will Silk Spark Models has been around for a little over a decade now, and recently the company released...
Several prominent cars from the famed Ralph Lauren Collection are currently offered for sale, and at prices that will make...
Sports Car Digest is taking a break for the holidays, but we will be back in the New Year with the latest and greatest from the classic car world, including previews of Arizona Auction Week, a profile of the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona by Louis Galanos and much more....
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 published 569 stories in 2011 for an average of nearly 11 per week. They included timely coverage...
A museum dedicated to Enzo Ferrari and motorsport will open March 10, 2012 in Modena, Italy. The Enzo Ferrari House Museum will open its doors to the public with an exhibition titled, “The Origins of the Myth” that will explore the story of Enzo Ferrari the man, the driver and...
For more than four decades, the Porsche 911 has been deemed an automotive icon and the epitome of the sports...
Giannino Marzotto Biography He was born at Valdagno on 13 April 1928, the son of the king of the Italian...
The car whose name means “she goes” will be the focus of activities on April 21-22, 2011 at the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen. The Elva is described as “deceptively simple—and surprisingly competitive” by the publisher of an award-winning book about the marque, Elva: The Cars, The...
An exhibition examining Andy Warhol’s fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society is on display until May...
On Monday 5 March 2012 the clock was turned back exactly 75 years at the Royal Automobile Club when a...
Racing drivers Hans Herrmann, Geoff Brabham, Denise McCluggage, Johnny O’Connell and Jim Downing were inducted into the Sebring Hall of Fame on 16 March 2012, the day prior to the 60th Anniversary Twelve Hours of Sebring. Hans Herrmann is a two-time Sebring winner in addition to his Le Mans victory...
Rental car company Hertz announced that the McLaren MP4-12C sports car is now available for hire, offered exclusively by Hertz...
By Martin Swig Every few weeks we read of a new world record price paid for a collector car. Are...
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve, better known as Gilles Villeneuve, passed away May 8th, 1982 in a crash during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder. The memory of Gilles Villeneuve is still vivid and alive in the minds of many; his talent, his speed, his bravery which bordered...
Review by Wallace Wyss It was a long time coming; a near complete authorized biography of a giant in American...
The 2012 International Motor Racing Research Center speaker series will focus upon “America’s Great Tracks,” highlighting the great tracks at...
Championship racer and innovator Jim Hall was honored on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) Evening with Jim Hall presented by Firestone. This was the fourth annual RRDC West Coast banquet, held prior to the running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The...
On 14th April 1927, the first mass-produced Volvo rolled off the production line at the Lundby factory in Gothenburg, Sweden....
Three times Formula One World Champion, motorsport safety campaigner and former F1 team boss Sir Jackie Stewart will join leading...
Over 20 Ferrari cars lit up the slipways of Titanic Belfast May 11-12, 2012 as Ferrari Owners’ Clubs from Ireland and Scotland gathered in the city as part of a special Ferrari event in Ireland. There, in front of the world’s largest Titanic attraction, were twenty-two Ferrari cars being photographed...
