To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the marque’s 1965 FIA World Manufacturers Championship, Shelby American is set to produce a...
The inspiration behind the concepts and designs of Lister cars came from the pre-war Mercedes racing cars that would today...
Cameron R. Argetsinger has been named president of the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen. The appointment to lead this important facility dedicated to the preservation of the history of motorsport brings Argetsinger full-circle, as he was the founder of racing in Watkins Glen after World War II....
The Palm Beach Cavallino Classic 25 took place in Palm Beach, Florida, on the weekend of January 20-24, celebrating automotive...
Bruno Giacomelli was born in Brescia, Italy, in 1952. He was always enthusiastic about racing and especially about single-seaters, working...
Lotus 25 Car: Lotus-Climax 25 / Engine: 90 Deg V8 Coventry-Climax / Maker: Lotus / Bore X Stroke: 63 mm X 60 mm / Year: 1962 / Capacity: 1,498 cc / Class: Formula 1 / Power: 195 bhp at 8,200 rpm / Wheelbase: 2,286 mm Track: 1346 front, 1372 mm in rear...
I have competed in many good cars during my rallying career. My very first rally car was the Saab 96,...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
• Classic Motor Cars Ltd., a successful classic car restoration company in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, UK, which last year turned over £5.2 million, has been given to the staff by its owner. CMC employs more than 60 staff and has restored some of the world’s most important cars including many famous...
Billed as a “Summit Meeting of Automobile Passion,” the 28th renewal of Techno-Classica Essen will take place in the German...
The Alfa Romeo Owners Club will hold its annual National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, beginning on June 15. Alfa Romeo...
A shortish, miserable-looking man with a square moustache strutted into the room, his face non-committal, his uniform vaguely operatic. He had come to see what he had got for his money. He stopped in front of the silver racing car and scowled. A man in a business suit described the...
The Ferrari Classiche department in Maranello “sympathetically restored” a Ferrari 212 Export Vignale to its former glory. The car has...
In the youth of our racing enthusiasm, we tend to think obituaries are for drivers. We don’t foresee, or at...
Every year flocks of determined swallows return to mission San Juan Capistrano, California – a journey of 6,000 miles. It’s a sight that inspires many to reflect on certain things in life as a miracle. In 1954, a miracle could very well have changed the fate of a small car...
Danica Patrick Finally Wins – A few hours and 4,500 miles (flying “AirTranica”) after becoming the first female to win...
The annual Arizona auto auction festival will take center stage in Phoenix and Scottsdale in mid-January, when most of America’s...
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Race cars and springtime weather set the stage for the historic and contemporary racing at one of the premier road...
Pete Lyons Fair warning: I know very little about my topic, which is Rush, the new movie set in the...
From an unlikely partnership between lawyer Cesare Isotta and car enthusiasts Vincenzo, Antonio and Oreste Fraschini, came Italy’s most opulent automobile brand: Isotta Fraschini (Ee-So-ta fra-Skee-nee). A wide range of Isotta Fraschini models, from the very first to the last cars built, will be showcased in three full classes at...
An image of Reid Railton with his parents depicted the engineer at the time of his decision, supported by Henry...
An image of the dirty and pitted Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing practice car used for pre-race reconnaisance, prior to the 1955...
All the living Formula One World Champions are expected to participate in F1’s 60th Anniversary celebrations over the weekend of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, March 12-14. That group of survivors includes, chronologically, Jack Brabham, John Surtees, Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda, Mario Andretti, Jody Scheckter, Alan Jones, Nelson...
Attendees at next April’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach will get a taste of the golden age of Can-Am...
Kiwi Stephen Bell relocated to Colorado when he was 18 to find snow-skiing glory. Along the way, however, he also...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
There have seldom been races which have been held under such atrocious conditions that they remained in the imagination of...
A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO will headline the 2014 Bonhams Quail Lodge Auction, scheduled for Friday, August 15th at the...
The 2009 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix was held July 18-19 at Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix is unique in America, as it’s the only vintage car race staged on public roads amidst the public 456-acre Schenley Park....
