Driven to Crime by Robert W. Butsch The Formula Junior race at Brands Hatch in 1963 that saw Mike Hailwood,...
Ugly Grand Prix Cars by Robert W. Butsch The debut of the Lotus 49 awakened in me the realization that racing...
Many cities and countries have automobile museums. The Principality of Monaco has a collection—a collection of cars first begun in the 1950s by the late Prince Rainier III and continued by his son Prince Albert II. On the vast spectrum of sports cars...
The newly improved Lamborghini Museum at the company’s headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese near Bologna has been inaugurated. The museum’s layout...
Historic automobile specialist Fiskens celebrated its 25th anniversary year with the launch of an updated showroom located in London’s Queens...
Sixteen racers were inducted into the United States Road Racing Championship Hall of Fame during the annual USRRC Tribute dinner last Saturday evening at the Wally Parks NHRA Museum in Pomona, California. The USRRC was a road racing series for big-engined sports racing cars that ran from 1963 to 1968,...
An evening of reunion and tribute to the United States Road Racing Championship, which ran from 1963 to 1968 and...
Nick Pratt shares what Canadian vintage racers turn to, during the cold winter months. My brief foray into ice racing...
By Dennis Gray, Bill Wagenblatt, & Rex McAfee On my way home from the Velocity Invitational held at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca, I have a few thoughts I would like to share. Event organizer Jeff O’Neill and his band of jolly pranksters have brought European-style vintage racing to America, period....
The Velocity Invitational is a festival of food, wine, luxury, and motorsports. Formerly known as the Sonoma Speed Festival, they...
Velocity: The Art of Motion is the largest, stand-alone automotive fine art exhibition in the United States and the first...
By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited The Sebring International Raceway has announced that legendary British driver Vic Elford will be honored as Grand Marshal at the 62nd running of America’s oldest and most prestigious sports car race, the 12 Hours of Sebring. This year’s race will be held on...
Vic Elford, considered one of the fastest race car drivers of the 1960s and ’70s, was honored by the Road...
While closed during the Coronavirus pandemic, the Newport Car Museum has launched its first in a series of videos reviewing...
Fine Art Auto Racing Posters The artworks in this book show the history of the car from its creation up until the start of the 1970s. The posters have been chosen for their importance, rarity, beauty and innovation, as well as for what they represent in terms of significant historical,...
Like cars, there are buildings that demand your attention. A special car drives past you and you spin your...
Are you a Steve McQueen or Jaguar enthusiast? Leslie Kendall from the Petersen Automotive Museum provides an outstanding overview of...
All words and photos by Matt Stone. Transportation museums around the world vary—from purpose built, factory backed, artistic (and often architectural) wonders to old warehouses thinly repurposed into museum or personal (or foundation) collection display (and/or storage) duty. To take in and fully appreciate some of the world’s best, a...
The Mullin Automotive Museum will celebrate the life and work of designer Gabriel Voisin (1880 – 1973) with an exhibit...
The Volkswagen Beetle is an icon. Over the years, it has symbolized many different things to many different people, from...
On 14th April 1927, the first mass-produced Volvo rolled off the production line at the Lundby factory in Gothenburg, Sweden. Now, 85 years later, the Volvo Group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of commercial vehicles and Volvo Car Corporation sells almost 500,000 cars each year. At 10am on...
Volvo Cars of North America (VCNA) launched the new Volvo Heritage Club on November 1st, 2012 as a way to...
Bill Warner and the crew at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance continually produce a very entertaining and diverse collection of...
Indianapolis 500 fans worldwide have debated for decades about which drivers are the greatest in the race’s glorious history. Now those voices will be heard and counted. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has created the “The Greatest 33” website to give fans the opportunity to pick their dream all-time starting lineup...
What is your favorite race car that participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans? The Bentley Speed Six of...
“I started in art, switched to writing and didn’t get back to art until 40 years later,” recalls automotive historian...
Appearing for the first time in North America in over 30 years, “Andy Warhol: Cars – Works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection” will go on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The groundbreaking exhibition will open to the public on July 23rd and will present a...
Today, vintage racing is more popular than ever before and with packed fields of historic cars from virtually all eras...
With 5 minutes and 19.55 seconds on the stopwatch Timo Bernhard crossed the finish line of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife at the...
Porsche lands on American soil The story of Porsche’s phenomenal success in America is one of many chapters and couldn’t have been written based on the car itself. Initial reactions to the little car with the engine in the rear was like trying to be sold an expensive suit that...
