Continuing the tradition of bringing together the former employees of Shelby American from the 1960s, this 17th edition of the...
By Will Silk Spark Models has been around for a little over a decade now, and recently the company released...
Mecum Auctions’ second annual collector car auction in Las Vegas was topped $25.2 million in overall sales, as 667 vehicles hammered sold for a 75 percent sell-through rate. The auction-headlining Academy of Art University collection saw 31 vehicles hammer sold for an overall total of $4 million, and four cars...
As highlighted in this month’s Racecar Profile (pg. 20), the Porsche 914-6 competed at both the professional and amateur levels...
In terms of sheer ambition, the Lotus Elise GT1 was perhaps the ultimate Elise ever created. Conceived to replace the Esprit GT1...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is going through a metamorphosis. The Museum Foundation, headed by chairman Steven E. Young, has recently received a gift from the foundation of founder Robert E. Petersen that has been valued at a stratospheric $100 million. Included are the 300,000 sq. ft. building...
Pentti Airikkala, one of the famed “Flying Finns” of Scandinavian and then worldwide rally fame, died in Berkshire, England, at...
Ferrari’s latest limited edition, the Daytona SP3, joins the prestigious Icona series. It also features a mighty naturally-aspirated V12 engine....
Allan Tomlinson, winner of the 1939 Australian Grand Prix and perhaps Western Australia’s best racing driver, has passed away in Perth. While brief, his motor racing career was very successful. Just 12 months after joining his local car club in Perth during 1935, he was racing a Ford V8 at...
The heavy toll on people and machinery over the summer months resulted in a somewhat thinner entry than hoped for,...
The arrival of every new year heralds a raft of exciting anniversaries and, in the car world, 2019 is crammed...
I grew up designing on a drawing board, right to the end of my time in motor racing, and I’m still on a drawing board today. I’ve designed a lot of cars from scratch, and when I say from scratch I mean a blank piece of paper. Even in today’s...
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By the early 1950s, several British automotive manufacturers had completely devoted themselves to satisfying the seemingly insatiable postwar appetite for...
The Paddock at Watkins Glen in 1954 is filled with a representative sampling of the caars being raced, including Jaguar...
The Baxter Auto Parts Portland Historic Races will commemorate the legendary Shelby Mustang GT350R at this year’s 29th annual vintage...
The inaugural London Classic Car Show was staged 8-11 January 2015 at the ExCeL Centre in London’s Docklands. A strong crowd of more than 25,000 visitors attended the show over its three full days. “Our first London Classic Car Show has exceeded our wildest dreams,” said Event Director Bas Bungish....
Story by Ed McDonough and photos by author and Simon Wright The Classic Endurance Series again provided a superb entry...
The third annual Donington Historic Festival, scheduled for May 4-5, 2013, will celebrate the career of three-time Formula One World...
Kevin Bartlett, one of Australia’s most popular racing drivers of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, has joined the line-up of motorsport legends who will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Australian Grand Prix at the Historic Leyburn Sprints, on the Queensland Darling Downs, in August. Bartlett will attend the Sprints on August...
The Australian Grand Prix (practice): Warwick Farm, February 19, 1967. These were less fancy and more relaxed races: Jackie Stewart...
Report and photos by Vince Johnson The Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motorsport was held 18-20 March, 2011 at the...
Onboard footage of Niki Lauda in a Brabham BT46 during the 1978 Belgian Grand Prix....
Report by Rick Carey, Auction Editor By now most people have heard about the 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 NART Spider...
A rare Group IV Ferrari Daytona that finished 5th overall at Le Mans in 1971 will return to the mythical circuit later...
Most people when launching a new product normally try to come up with a new name to reflect innovation. Then it comes to cars, however, there is a trend to resurrect a name from the past so we have had Allard, Connaught, Osca, Lea-Francis, Jensen, Invicta, Spyker, Ermini and that...
The debut Bonhams Mercedes-Benz auction was held 12th July 2014 at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, resulting in €11,855,925...
Trevor Wilkinson started his engineering business, in 1946, in Beverly Grove, Blackpool. It was named Trevcar Motors and the business...
In a surprise announcement, the new General Manager of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, John Narigi, announced the return of several key staff members to the track’s management team, including event manager for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, Barry Toepke. Returning to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca after seven months in San...
