Ninety-six years after it was first run, the great Targa Florio road race is to have its own museum. After...
Winner of the 1956 Indianapolis 500 and Milwaukee 250, Pat Flaherty, passed away on April 6 at the age of...
During the late ’60s and early ’70s few racecar drivers better fit the image of the playboy racer than Frenchman François Cevert. Born the son of a wealthy Parisian jeweller, Cevert sought adventure and found it in the form of motor racing, winning the French Volant Shell driver training award....
July 2002 Red Arrows—Ferraris at the Mille Miglia By Giannino Marzotto There are few races in the annals of motorsport...
Sears Point, CA March 23-24 The 1930 Morgan Super Aero of Larry Ayers. Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member &...
Roebling Road, GA April 4-7 The 1959 MGA of William Bartlett leads the 1960 Austin-Healey Sprite of Chris Bross. Photo: Gordon Jolley Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes...
Lime Rock, CT April 12-13 The 1956 Jaguar XK140 of Ian Ross Jenkins leads the 1953 Jaguar XK120 FHC of...
In motor racing we meet some very able people, and some very fine ones. It’s wonderful when they’re the same people. We call them gentlemen. Our community has just lost two: Bob Akin and Rob Walker. Let’s honor their memories by stopping to think about how much gentlemen – yes,...
Prices – Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month...
Chris Amon Lance Reventlow 2 Achille Varzi dies in a low-speed accident while practicing in the rain at Bremgarten for...
Nothing is quite as dramatic as the sight of an endurance racecar prancing on during the night portion of an endurance race. Pedro Rodriguez is pictured here putting his Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 through its paces. The dreamy quality of this image is in sharp contrast to the barking song that...
I was going through a pile of papers when I found the order of service for John Cooper’s funeral. I...
It was June 1970, and I was en route from Los Angeles to Paris, France… this was a dream come...
Recently, I was invited to a birthday party. Now, in my current life, this always translates into jumping up and down in a scorching hot inflatable “bouncy castle” with ten sweaty toddlers amped up on frosting. So, with this thought in mind, I didn’t really pay much attention to yet...
Horst Kroll started off his involvement with automobiles as an apprentice in the Porsche factory in Stuttgart. Porsche sent him...
After years of research, Ed McDonough reveals the influences and pressures that drove Mexican racing hero Pedro Rodriguez to the...
1971 Tyrrell 002 His friends and racing opponents in F3 called him “Chopper,” not because of his on-track driving style but because of the axe painted on the side of his cars – a symbol representing his occupation as a lumber merchant. However, to racing historians he was known as...
This year marked the 5th anniversary of Jaguar authority Terry Larson’s C & D-Type Tour, held each spring against the...
In early May, the American motorsport community lost another member of its postwar road racing pioneers when Bob Grossman succumbed...
No, plans are not in the works for an amphibious supercar from Modena. However, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has successfully convinced the board of directors at parent company, Fiat to float the Ferrari subsidiary on the stock market. While part of the money raised is planned to be used...
Driving a 1937 BMW 328 Touring from the BMW museum in Munich, Bologna industrialist Giuliano Canè won this May’s Mille...
The 3rd annual Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, held on May 18-19, preserved the character of the world’s most famous Grand Prix with a combination of outstanding cars, a superb level of driving skill (among most of the competitors), unpredictable weather, parties, auctions and a frantic period of 10 days...
While not well known in the United States, this April’s Techno Classica Essen proved to be one of the largest,...
This month’s featured Web site is devoted to the history of the Corvette, with an emphasis on its racing history...
August 2002 La Dynastie Pilette—One Century, Three Men and their Cars By Bernard Geeraerd While the history of motorsport has seen several examples of families with two generations of drivers, it is extremely rare to have three generations of competitors from the same family competing in the top eschelons of...
Thunderhill, CA April 10-11 The 1983 Williams FW08C of Erich Joiner. Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Road Atlanta, GA April 25-28 The 1992 Aurora of Steve Cohen is about to be passed by eventual Historic GT...
Buttonwillow, CA May 4-5 The Austin Roadster of Leonard Vanderhoof was one of 21 cars taking place in a special race group for prewar cars. Photo: Casey Annis Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to...
