Celebrating its 20th year, the Palos Verdes Concours d’Elegance, to be held September 16, will feature classic French coachwork with...
The Lotus Elan was launched in October 1962 at the British Motorshow, making next month the car’s 50th anniversary. The...
Count Giannino Marzotto, winner of the Mille Miglia in 1950 and 1953, died in Padua Hospital in July after a long illness. He was 84. Marzotto will forever be remembered as the 22-year-old who took on the cream of world motor racing in 1950 and beat them at their own...
Just days after his 1959 Le Mans-winning teammate, Carroll Shelby, and a matter of weeks since Ted Cutting, designer of...
Bonhams has announced that it has been commissioned to sell a recently discovered 1928 Mercedes-Benz 26/120/180 ‘S’ Type Sports Tourer,...
• Correction—In last month’s Villa d’Este Photo Gallery, the 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom I “Round Door” was attributed to Rene Herzog, when in fact the car is owned by the Petersen Automotive Museum, in Los Angeles. • RM Auctions further expands its 2012 calendar with the addition of The Charlie Thomas...
Sebring International Raceway has announced that Vintage Speed LLC will serve as the event manager for the Sebring Historics scheduled...
In excess of one million square feet of the Indiana State Fairgrounds were covered with over 2,900 automobiles, motorcycles, Road...
Under warm and sunny skies at the 3rd annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California, more than 340 historic cars took the checkered flag in 15 groups of racing. Cars ranging from a 1911 National to a collection of Can-Am cars from the 1960s and...
Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle...
It was an eclectic gathering Saturday, June 2 at the grand opening of the LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM)...
Seventy-six years after leaving the factory, one of the world’s most extraordinary Mercedes-Benz motor cars, the von Krieger Special Roadster, a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 K, will be presented at Gooding & Company’s Pebble Beach Auction on August 18 & 19. “As one of Mercedes-Benz’ ultra-rare 540 K Special Roadsters, the...
Longtime SCCA stalwart Andy Porterfield died in mid-April at the age of 80 from complications following heart valve surgery. Beyond...
Early in June, Bloomberg News confirmed that the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO (Chassis 3505GT) originally built for Stirling Moss to...
On May 23-24, on the banks of Lake Como, a select group of the world’s finest automobiles were displayed on the grounds of the picturesque Villa D’Este hotel. While prizes are given out in a number of categories, the highly prestigious Coppa d’Oro award (the event’s Best of Show) was...
German racer Paul Pietsch, the last surviving driver of the prewar Silver Arrows era and the oldest living Grand Prix...
ItalianCarFest (ICF), one of the best all-Italian automobile and motorcycle shows in the Southwest, returns to Grapevine, Texas, on September...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an accomplished drummer in the Clay Pigeons jazz band that included Belgian racer Johnny Claes. Leston’s racing career began in the late 1940s driving a Jaguar SS100, but he soon turned...
It has been 50 years since Graham Hill won the Formula One World Championship for BRM, and this achievement was...
The 6th annual St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance has been set for September 30 along the waterfront of the Chesapeake Bay...
The cars were very much the stars at the 2012 Mille Miglia Commemoration in May, the 30th such event to pay tribute to the original non-stop race on public roads from Brescia to Rome and back again from 1927-1957. For years the re-run was packed with the rich, famous, noble...
Legendary team owner Frank Arciero has died from the aftereffects of an aneurysm. Arciero was a 14-year-old Italian immigrant when...
• On August 17, Concorso Italiano at the Laguna Seca Golf Ranch, will feature an exclusive collection of Bertone-designed concept...
David Scotney was, for many years, the face of Lola Cars at motor racing events around the world. Born and bred in the Huntingdon area of Cambridgeshire, David honed his mechanical skills at local garages during and after his apprenticeship. In 1978 he joined Lola, working on the T500 USAC...
If ever an event deserved to be revived, it was the Nassau Speed Weeks. Originally held between 1954 and 1966,...
Two races at this year’s Silverstone Classic, scheduled for the weekend of July 20–22, will be dedicated to the memory...
Salon Privé, the Luxury Supercar Event & Concours d’Elégance, announces details of its 2012 line-up, featuring world exclusives and British debuts from the worlds of motorsport, automotive and luxury goods – all set to appear at London’s Syon Park from September 5–7. 2012 will be the seventh consecutive Salon Privé...
There was a flurry of events in Italy to mark the 30th anniversary of Gilles Villeneuve’s death in a crash...
2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GT and to celebrate that milestone, the Ferrari Museum has organized...
A new exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum will appeal to both the automotive enthusiast as well as those who love avant-garde design. Aerodynamics: From Art to Science opened June 16, 2012, and will run through May 27, 2013 in the museum’s Gordon R. Howard Gallery. During more than a...
