Each June, Motor Racing Legends—organizer of the historic support race at the Le Mans 24 Hours—also runs a Le Mans...
The Tazio Nuvolari Museum in Mantua, Italy, has closed. It is supposed to open again at some time in the...
To celebrate the rich heritage of BMW, the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Association and the Allegheny Chapter of the BMW CCA are organizing 10 days of activities in conjunction with July’s 2009 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. More than 250 BMW show cars are expected to line the fairways of primary...
Frank Kurtis has been selected as the winner of the 9th Annual Shav Glick Award. This Justice Brothers–sponsored award recognizes...
The Vintage Sports Car Club of America has announced the creation of its first official VSCCA Triple Crown, formal recognition...
Some of the world’s finest classic and antique automobiles will take center stage at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the one-time-only Centennial Era Concours d’Elegance on June 18-20, 2010. The event was announced by Speedway president, Joie Chitwood, at the recent Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in Florida. The event will...
Lloyd Ruby was best known as an excellent Indy car driver who nearly won two Indianapolis 500s, but in truth,...
The glorious sunshine and exceptional calibre of racing stars brought motorsport enthusiasts out in their thousands to visit Race Retro...
This year’s 12th annual Quail Lodge Classic Auto Auction, to be organized by Bonhams & Butterfields in Carmel, California, on August 12, will feature a 1939 Auto Union Grand Prix car last driven by the legendary Austrian Hans Stuck. The machine in question is D-Type chassis 19, and is hailed...
Peter Bryant, best known in motor racing circles as the creator of the Titanium-chassied Ti22 Can-Am car, died of a...
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfa Romeo with a broad array...
One of South Africa’s most recognizable motor sports personalities, Jackie Pretorius, died March 30, succumbing to injuries received during a home-invasion robbery. That incident was a virtual repeat of a similar break-in five years ago that took the life of Jackie’s wife, Shirley, and is thought to have been committed...
The 24th running of the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival will be held at Road America on the weekend of September...
When the greats of historic motoring racing reappear at Silverstone in July for the Silverstone Classic, many fans will have...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a century, has passed away at the age of 93. Garage owner and master mechanic Riley was granted one of America’s early Volvo franchises in 1957. “As soon as I drove...
It’s been 21 years since the last race was run at Riverside International Raceway in California, the historic venue succumbing...
The 14th annual Concours d’Elegance at Amelia Island drew an estimated 20,000 onlookers to the fairways of the Ritz Carlton...
The familiar trademark Marlboro Stetson was bobbing about in the pit lane at the Mores circuit in Sardinia, Italy, in mid-April, warning anyone who wanted to take notice that Arturo Merzario has not finished yet. And he proved it. At 66 years old, the former Ferrari and Williams Formula One...
With the 12th annual Goodwood Revival set for September 18–20, the organizers are planning to celebrate a pair of prominent...
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has been holding a series of “Demonstration Days,” at noon on the fourth...
Tony Marsh left nothing to chance during his long motor racing career. Indeed, he tried the whole gamut the sport had to offer from trials to sprints, rallies to racing. In fact, all forms of 4-wheeled competition came under his radar at some time during his career. He excelled, however,...
It may be hard to imagine, but some vintage events are now becoming vintage themselves, and SVRA’s vintage Collier Cup...
A hardy group owning 32 cars made the sojourn to Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia, for the running of the...
The 2009 edition of Italy’s Mille Miglia Storica attracted its usual mixed bag of royalty, politicians, motor racing icons, and showbiz folk, all presided over by Italian TV actress Manuela Arcuri, whose love life is of constant speculation in the country’s media. The regularity race’s impressive collection of 378 spectacular...
A pair of historic Miller racing cars, an ex–Phil Hill Jaguar C-Type, and a rare Ferrari 225S headline the 24th...
Three hundred kilometers south of Le Mans can be found another ancient French city with a lengthy motor sport history,...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to report the death of Tony Maggs. His drive in a Tojeiro-Jaguar at the 1959 North Staffordshire Motor Club meeting at Silverstone epitomised his guile and determination on the track. Coming into Woodcote corner for the final time, he cut inside leader Peter Mould’s Lister-Jaguar. Carrying...
A rare piece of automotive history will go on the block with no reserve as the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C...
The oldest of only three Morgan SLRs returned to Silverstone after last racing there 34 years ago. Entered in the...
No fewer than 20 4-cylinder Morgans—a potentially record turnout—have been invited to compete for the Morgan Techniques Trophy at the two-day Bentley Drivers Club 60th Anniversary meeting scheduled for Silverstone on August 8-9. Morgans of all shapes and sizes will also be out in force for the Power Torque Morgan...
