Great Britain’s National Motor Museum has opened a multi-media display of four legendary British Land Speed Record cars as part...
The 1964 Ford GT40 lightweight prototype (chassis GT/104) that finished 3rd in the 1965 24 Hours of Daytona, has sold...
Photo: Getty Images Tony Gaze street and corner were christened at Melbourne’s Albert Park during this year’s Australian Grand Prix weekend at the city park venue. Emanuele Pirro, vice president of F1’s Grand Prix Drivers Club, was among those who witnessed the ceremony. Gaze was a highly admired and respected...
Photo: Michael Oliver Classic Team Lotus has completed the restoration of the chassis and running gear of the Lotus Type 56 chassis 3 that Graham Hill drove in the 1968 Indianapolis 500. Texan Milton Verret, the car’s owner, entrusted the restoration to CTL, and the work was undertaken by the...
Lynn St. JamesPhoto: Jim Hatfield The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced an “Indy Legends Pro-Am” race that will...
The 52nd National Rally of pre-war Austin 7 motor cars, organized by the 750 Motor Club, will take place at...
For its newest exhibit, The World’s Greatest Sports Coupes, the Petersen Automotive Museum invited 12 celebrities—ranging from rock ’n’ roll legends, critically acclaimed film directors, actors and world renowned car collectors—to guest curate one sports coupe each. The exhibit, which is now open, showcases some of the most beautiful sports...
The 2014 Concours d’Elegance of America—Sunday July 27 at The Inn at St. John’s in Plymouth, Michigan—will honor the work...
• RM Auctions posted its most successful Amelia Island sale to date, generating $35,947,500 of total sales, with 97 percent...
Photo: Chris Wynne Despite heading further north for this year’s Flying Scotsman Rally, it was a team from the south of the UK that went on to win the three-day 600-mile event, after a ferocious battle for the lead. Driver William Medcalf from Liss, West Sussex, and navigator David Kirkham...
Photo: Neil Rashba A 1937 Horch 853 and a 1958 Scarab won the Best In Show honors on Sunday, March...
Photo: Roger Dixon Participants on the first VR UK Tour “Trains, Boats and Planes” gathered on the platform of the...
Photo: Petr Homolka The ŠKODA 1000 MB, the first mass-produced car in Czechoslovakia, turns 50 years old this year. The compact car made its debut on March 21, 1964, as the successor to the former ŠKODA Octavia. As the first ŠKODA with rear-wheel drive, a rear engine and unibody construction,...
Photo: Hal Crocker Motorsport enthusiasts in Australia and throughout the world were saddened to hear the news of the passing...
Photo: Dan R. Boyd Legendary car builder A.J. Watson, whose front-engined roadster designs helped define an era at the Indianapolis...
Canadian racer Al Pease passed away in early May at the age of 92. Pease, who was elected to the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1998, may be best known for racing the ex-Dan Gurney Eagle-Climax in the first three Canadian Grands Prix in 1967, ’68 and ’69, but...
Photo: Jim Hatfield The 6th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion (PIBRRR), scheduled for August 25-27, 2014 on South Bass Island...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum has opened a new exhibit featuring the Turbine Cars that once raced at The Brickyard. Included will be the Strategic Air Command-designed SAC Fireboid from 1955 that was used for high-speed testing of Firestone tires, the John Zink Trackburner from 1962, the...
Photo: Fred Sickler The 20th annual Millers at Milwaukee vintage Indycar event, sponsored by the Harry Miller Club, will be...
Virginia International Raceway Alton,VA April 11–13, 2014...
Close to 15,000 guests visited the Lakewood Yacht Club, May 2 through May 4 for the 19th Annual Keels and Wheels Concours d’Elegance. Wayne Carini, host of the Discovery Network’s Velocity Channel program, Chasing Classic Cars, served as the 2014 Grand Marshal. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
Photo: John Hollansworth Jr. Mecum Auctions’ annual spring auction in Kansas City, Missouri, held in late April, yielded $8,678,668 in...
• The second annual Arizona Concours d’Elegance has announced four icons of automotive history will appear as featured classes during...
In April 1934, Citroën unveiled the 7A, a car that would go on to make motoring history with a series of innovations including front-wheel drive, or Traction Avant in French, which was a groundbreaking development in its time. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Photo: Dick Barnatt A 1954 Aston Martin DB 2/4, which is believed to have been the inspiration for James Bond’s...
The Meyers Manx has joined the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe as the second vehicle on the Historic Vehicle Association’s (HVA)...
Jaguar is to build six perfect reproductions of the original, race-bred Lightweight E-Type that was created in 1963. The new cars are being dubbed the “missing” six vehicles from the brand’s Lightweight E-Type project, which originally started in February 1963 with the objective of building 18 “Special GT E-Type Cars.”...
