Miles Collier was named the recipient of the 2012 Bob Akin Award by the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) at...
By Andrew Newton Featured in this classified ad from March 1973 is not one but the example of a truly unforgettable and...
The Petersen Automotive Museum announced Peter Mullin has been elected Chairman to its Board of Directors. Joining him as Vice Chair are Bruce Meyer, one of the museum’s most ardent supporters and David Sydorick, a long-time board member. All three are respected business leaders and avid car collectors. As one...
A key part of Ford Motor Company’s heritage returns home as a Model A built in 1903 is again with...
A series of monthly “Driving Demonstration Days” have been scheduled for 2013 at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, located in...
Thirty race-car drivers have been voted into the Road Racing Drivers Club as Regular members for 2012. The group has won a collective 66 season championships and more than 700 races, including 32 overall victories at Le Mans. Also, 12 Associate and Honorary members were voted in, six in each...
The British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) celebrated motor racing achievements of 2012 on Monday 3rd December, at the BRDC Annual...
Between covering auctions, events, rallies and vintage races, in addition to profiling and reviewing modern and classic cars, collections, historic...
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette “America’s Sports Car,” the Petersen Automotive Museum is hosting two days of events and educational exhibits. On March 1-2, 2013, the Petersen will be filled with fabulous Corvette racecars, historic concept cars and rare production models, along with experts and icons...
Glorious sunshine, soaring temperatures and packed event fields combined to make this year’s Beaulieu Autojumble, held on September 8-9, one...
Sam Posey was presented with the Spirit of Competition award at a gala dinner at the Simeone Automotive Museum in...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and said: “George, we’ve had several speakers here; I’m surprised the term ‘anger management’ hasn’t been used yet!” Poor George Follmer could only join the laughter filling the Petersen Museum’s banquet...
Aston Martin will celebrate its centenary in 2013 with a year-long calendar of events. The British sports car company will...
By Andrew Newton Featured in this classified ad from the April 1971 issue of Road & Track is an example of one...
What is your favorite race car that participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans? The Bentley Speed Six of 1930, the Ferrari 166 MM that took the checkers in 1949, the Ford GT40 from 1969, the dominating Porsche 956 from 1982 or was it one of the modern Audis?...
Work has begun on a 1,000 square metre (10,760 square foot) extension to the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy, just...
• Paris’ famed Retromobile automobile exhibition has announced that its next event, February 6–10, 2013, will pay tribute to the...
Review by Wallace Wyss Now that even the 1966 Shelby GT350 is worth over $150,000 it is more important than ever that there be a single source to carry around to “authenticate” Shelby Mustangs that come up for sale through private sales or public auctions. Greg Kolasa’s new book The...
Review by Rick Carey, Auction Editor In the fast-changing world of collector car values it’s good to reflect from time-to-time...
An exhibition of Art Deco automobiles will be displayed at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee,...
The Silver Arrows Gala opened 11 October 2012 at the Louwman Museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The exhibition, which is open to the public, showcases the original Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows of the 1930s, in addition to their famed racing histories. The six exhibits on display in the “Silver Arrows 1934–1939”...
Volvo Cars of North America (VCNA) launched the new Volvo Heritage Club on November 1st, 2012 as a way to...
A motorsport photographer has raised £7,000 for charity in the last 18 months, by donating the profits from the sale...
An exhibition honoring the epic Ferrari and Maserati battles opened on October 15th, 2012 at the Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari in Modena, Italy. At the inaugural “The Great Challenges-Ferrari and Maserati” display, visitors will get to see nineteen historic race cars that were selected to represent the two manufacturers and their...
By Andrew Newton Featured in this classified ad from May 1972 issue of Road & Track is a fine example of...
The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany is bringing to life the Mille Miglia, the legendary Italian 1,000-mile road race. The...
For its fourteenth year of celebrating Legends of Motorsport, the Petersen Automotive Museum, along with the Checkered Flag 200 Group, will present a “Tribute to George Follmer” program to be held at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday, November 8, 2012 beginning with cocktails at 6:00 p.m. The...
The Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy will feature an exhibit focused on Sergio Pininfarina’s great Ferraris, starting Saturday, 27th October...
The Petersen Automotive Museum Chairman of the Board Steven E. Young has announced that Terry L. Karges has been appointed...
A new world record was established for the biggest parade of Ferraris ever organised. Confirmed as a Guinness World Record, a parade of 964 Ferrari cars drove around Silverstone Circuit for Ferrari Racing Days on Saturday 15 September 2012. Having previously set a record of 385 cars at Silverstone in...
