In what is shaping up to be its most historic lineup to date, RM Sotheby’s has announced the addition of...
The racing world lost one of its most colorful characters on November 22 when Bill Devin passed away following a...
Kevin Wheatcroft, son of noted collector and Donington Park owner Tom Wheatcroft, has announced that his father’s famous racecar collection and museum, The Donington Collections, will permanently close on November 5. Speaking to the local Leicestershire News, Wheatcroft commented, “Closing the Museum after 45 years has been a really difficult...
Iconic Drag Racer Tom “the Mongoose” McEwen, passed away on June 10. He was 81. While McEwen enjoyed a 35-year...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has announced that renowned engine builder Louis “Sonny” Meyer Jr. died Saturday, Nov. 7, in Crawfordsville,...
Jaguar’s famed test driver, race driver and engineer Norman Dewis has passed away at the age of 98. Dewis enjoyed a 33-year career at Jaguar, logging more than a million test miles, and is widely regarded as England’s foremost test driver. He developed many of the marque’s most famous models,...
On May 20, legendary West Coast Morgan and Cobra racer J. Lewis “Lew” Spencer II passed away from complications associated...
At some point in his time collecting, it occurred to Todd Werner that there was a reason the cars he...
The 40th anniversary of the world-beating Ford DFV F1 engine—the most successful F1 engine of all time—will be celebrated at Brands Hatch on June 30–July 1, during the Autoglym HSCC Historic Festival. Headlining the weekend’s program of top-level historic motorsport will be Round Six of the FIA Historic Formula One...
The 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C, owned by Jon and Mary Shirley of Medina, Washington, was named “Best of Show” at...
On May 23rd, during this year’s Monaco Grand Prix weekend, the legacy of Juan Manuel Fangio was honored when a...
On Sept 22–23, the countryside outside of Reims, France, will once again reverberate to the howls of a Mercedes W196, as the ex-Fangio “Streamliner” takes part in a two-day festival celebrating the history of this famous French circuit. Dubbed the “1st Week-End of L’Excellence Automobile” by organizer Franz Hummel, this...
Short, sharp, summer showers, didn’t dampen the spirit or enthusiasm of the many thousands attending the Flywheel Festival weekend event,...
Warm and windy weather welcomed a weekend of wings and wheels at the Flywheel Festival, Bicester Heritage, held at the...
Scott Wilson, the builder, chief test pilot and leader of the Bugatti 100P Project, was killed when the prototype of the experimental plane crashed during a flight test last week. Wilson, a highly qualified Air Force test pilot, had spent the past seven years carefully recreating Ettore Bugatti’s 100P, one...
Hans Mezger, famed engineer and father to the legendary Porsche 917 and boxer 6-cylinder engine, passed away on June 10,...
American Amy Lerner and her co-driver Sara Bossaert, of Barcelona, Spain crossed the finish line of the 2022 Dakar Rally...
The designer of the iconic 911 and the scion of the family that left an indelible mark on the history of automobile manufacturing in Germany, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was dedicated to functionality and that ethos is still evident in the visage of every new car from Zuffenhausen. According to current...
In 1951 Froilan Gonzalez raced to victory at Silverstone to win the British Grand Prix. It was the first Grand...
Brands Hatch played host to the international Shell Ferrrari-Maserati Challenge on July 21-22, with a series of hotly contested races....
The Peninsula Hotels recently announced the 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Competizione as the winner of the, Peninsula Classics 2021 Best of the Best Award. The exclusive accolade selects a winner from an elite group of exceptional classic cars that have won significant awards at the previous year’s most prestigious...
RM Sotheby’s made auction history when a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, chassis no. 3413 GT, long considered to be the...
A 1935 Voisin C25 Aerodyne and a 1964 Ferrari 250 LM were crowned Best in Show at The Amelia Concours...
The iconic Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa reigns as one of the most beautiful creations the industry has ever seen. The Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, or 250 TR, was introduced at the end of the 1957 racing season in response to rule changes that enforced a maximum engine displacement of 3...
As Ferrari’s successor to the long-running 250 GT, the 275 GTB debuted at the October 1964 Paris Auto Salon alongside...
RM Sotheby’s has announced the addition of a 1956 Ferrari 290 MM with a significant motorsport pedigree, for its Petersen...
This past Saturday, December 8, RM Sotheby’s achieved $39.8 million in total sales at the company’s final auction of 2018, at the renowned Petersen Automotive Museum. Leading the group of 64 vehicles and 77 lots of memorabilia representing a cross-section of significant eras and 10 categories in collector car history—of...
On the eve of the Finali Mondiali, which takes place at the Mugello Circuit between October 24 and 30, Ferrari...
The winning honor of the fifth annual The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award goes to a 1958 Ferrari...
Nobody could foresee the significance of the race they were about to watch when the starter’s flag dropped at the SCCA National Road Races at Pebble Beach on April 22, 1956. The season’s most prestigious race, all eyes were on the sleek Italian Ferraris that had come to do battle....
