The VSCDA has recently announced that MG will be the featured marque for this year’s Elkhart Lake Vintage festival to...
A consortium of Southern California Devin racecar enthusiasts have banded together to purchase the entire automotive estate of famed car...
Henry “Smokey” Yunick, one of motorsport’s great innovators and most colorful personalities, recently passed away from leukemia. Starting in the ’50s, Yunick built a reputation as an original innovator and a master of developing horsepower. Yunick’s many achievements as a mechanic and a racecar preparer include winning the Indianapolis 500...
The Ford Motor Company has announced a two-day festival to celebrate its 100th anniversary in motorsport. The Oct. 13-14 event,...
This year’s Concorso Italiano, to be held Friday August 17, will feature the long partnership between Ferrari and the Pininfarina...
Many enthusiasts are aware of Ettore Bugatti’s marvelous sports cars and exemplary GP cars. However, not many people know that in the late 1930s, Bugatti planned on building record-braking airplanes, as well. Therein hangs a tale. Ettore Bugatti departed from his usual creation of advanced racecars and hired Louis de...
Road America and the Historic Grand Prix racing group have announced that a grid of 30 3-liter Formula One cars...
Vittorio Brambilla, affectionately know as the “Monza Gorilla” died from a sudden heart attack at his home in Italy on...
It was recently announced in the Queen’s Birthday Honor List that Jackie Stewart will receive a knighthood this coming January. Stewart joins Sir Frank Williams and VRJ’s own Sir Stirling Moss as being one of the very few motorsport personalities to be bestowed this high honor. According to Stewart, “It’s...
The VSCC and the Historic Grand Prix Car Association joined forces with Donington Park to savor the return of Auto...
The long awaited debut of the 21st Century approach to racing in the UK finally came to be at Rockingham...
This year’s California Mille, held May 1-3, saw over 70 classic sports cars, tourers and racecars blast their way through some of Northern California’s most scenic roads. Some of the historic cars that took part included: two Ferrari 375 MMs; an OSCA MT4; a Cunningham C-1; several Porsche Spyders; and...
Quick on the heels of its recent announcement to bring 3-liter Formula One cars to Road America in 2002, the...
Louis Klemantaski, arguably one of the most influential motorsport photographers of all time, has passed away at the age of...
While the hype and hoopla at Le Mans was primarily focused on the return of Team Bentley and MG to the Sarthe, a number of “real” MGs and a wide assortment of historic Le Mans cars were tucked away in the Maison Blanche paddock, awaiting their chance to bring a...
How do you get into the best Italian classic hillclimb experience that 95% of the historic world knows nothing about?...
Another historic group has been formed to organize and run a Targa Florio Retrospective. The new group is made up...
Regulations and applications for the May 18-19, 2002, edition of the Monaco Historic Grand Prix have been recently released by the Automobile Club de Monaco. The event will be run much the same as in previous years, with the addition of a new category for pre-1979, normally aspirated Grand Prix...
After years of being locked away in a European customs impound, the ex-von Neumann 1956 Ferrari 625 TRC was recently...
Professional racer, John Morton, was recently reunited with the original BRE-prepared Datsun 510 that carried him to 12 wins and...
On September 25, the Petersen Automotive Museum will play host to a gala dinner celebrating the history of the famed Can-Am race series. Guests of honor will include Dan Gurney, Lothar Motschenbacher, Parnelli Jones, Chic Vandagriff, Dick Guldstrand and many others. Additionally, a wide range of historic Can-Am cars will...
The pundits say every year that Lord Charles March won’t be able to repeat his motorized extravaganza of a garden...
A number of sources, including AutoWeek, are reporting that a battle is brewing over control of the famed Monterey Historic...
The Formula One community lost one of its finest on August 25th, when former team owner Ken Tyrrell lost his silent battle with cancer at the age of 77. Tyrrell got his start in racing shortly after World War II, when he competed for six seasons in an F3 Cooper-Norton....
On August 11-16, a small band of vintage racers left the Chicago area on a mission – to break several...
Brands Hatch played host to the international Shell Ferrrari-Maserati Challenge on July 21-22, with a series of hotly contested races....
Bentley shined on center stage as this year’s featured marque at the Monterey Historic Automobile Races on August 17-19. According to John Crawford, Director of Public Relations for Bentley’s North American operations, this year’s event was the second largest gathering of Bentleys ever held, with well over 100 cars in...
Sales figures were dramatically down this year on the Monterey Peninsula at the Brooks, Christie’s and RM auctions compared to...
For the second year, the Historic Grand Prix (HGP) organization took to the track as a support event for the...
The 2001 Goodwood Revival, coming days after the shattering events in the USA, was even more of an Anglo-American celebration than usual, with WWII camaraderie and Mustang and Spitfire flypasts focussing attention on our “special relationship.” With all the period costume and special events at Lord March’s Revival meeting, the...
