Cadillac is gonna do what?! I’m sure I’m not the only one who said that after hearing that Cadillac was...
Ferrari had a way with the small-bore cars. The 166 Barchetta, the TRC, the 196 S Dino, the 206 SP –...
Hi there. I am your new back-page columnist. I would like you to think of me as a friend, a special friend. How can I make you like me? I could start by telling you that I live just over a mile from the Goodwood Circuit, and what a pain...
How much “stuff” is enough? A seemingly simple question that historically has never been easy to answer. If you look...
Tom Wheatcroft is a man with a lot of energy and drive. Though in his seventies, he still goes to...
Thanks to the Ice Age, we were given the Bonneville Salt Flats upon which thousands of land speed racers have enjoyed nearly a century of high-speed, record-setting fun and excitement. The world’s biggest racetrack, some 4,214 feet above sea level, is also the world’s largest natural “dynamometer.” Located immediately east...
Sadler MkV Charles and John Cooper may have started the mid-engined revolution, but it was a maverick Canadian named Bill...
Brian Redman’s annual Jefferson 500 race weekend celebrated its 9th anniversary at Summit Point Raceway, West Virginia, on May 19-21....
Over 30,000 spectators streamed into Visalia, California’s Mooney Grove Park for the Second Visalia Motorsports Festival held May 27-28. Over 20 veteran racecars were joined by dozens of more modern racing machines for two days of spirited demonstrations. In addition to the on-track activities, there were 100s of hot rods,...
Maserati will be the honored marque at the 2000 Concorso Italiano to be held August 18th at the Quail Valley...
Organizers of the French Tour Auto and the Shell Historic Challenge have announced the resurrection of the fabled Targa Florio...
European historic F5000 has come into its own with the announcement of the newly formed Transatlantic Challenge Series. Promoter David McLaughlin of FORCE has recently announced that 25 cars have committed to compete in the new series, which will divide cars into two categories for cars built before or after...
On May 1st, 68 exotic racing and touring cars took part in the California Mille – a 4-day, 1119-mile rally...
Many phrases have come to be synonymous with the Indy 500: “Gentlemen Start Your Engines”, “Back Home in Indiana”, and...
From Barney Oldfield to Ayrton Senna, the greatest names in motorsport history are enshirined in the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. If you can’t make it in person to Talladega to visit the Hall of Fame and museum, then their web site might be the next best thing. Features of...
July 2000 Maserati Days By G. Cancellieri Maserati – the name brings to mind blood-red cars, high revving precision engines...
Road Atlanta, GA Apr. 27- 30 The 1970 Corvette of Harry Dineiddie. Photo: Walt & Louiseann Pietrowicz Become a Member...
Virginia Beach, VA May 5-7 The paint scheme of Jeff King’s 1969 Corvette honors the hosts of the Race at the Base event – The U.S. Navy.Photo: Walt & Louiseann Pietrowicz Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
From time to time someone asks how I got into this business – apparently it looks like fun – and...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Kent...
Jean-Pierre Jarier Jim Hall 2 Giancarlo Baghetti wins the French Grand Prix (1961). 2 Future F1 racer Piers Courage meets his future F1 team owner, Frank Williams (1961). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to...
If there’s one thing that sets a vintage racing car apart from a modern one, it’s the use of aluminum....
It was a hell of a party, part Mexican fiesta, part class reunion, part a gathering of the VFW, all...
Perhaps no one ever looked so much the part of the romantic ’50s driver as did the Roman Luigi Musso. Elegant, somewhat aristocratic, and (sadly) disdainful of his peers, he really did have the look. Teamed at Ferrari with the outgoing and boisterous Mike Hawthorn, he was never able to...
My father was in the Royal Air Force, so we tended to live on flat bits of England, a long...
So how did you spend this year’s Memorial Day weekend? Personally, I broke with a long-standing tradition. Historically, I’ve spent...
Bobby Rahal is one of the most well-rounded individuals to take part in motorsport. His reputation for using his brain in the cockpit was well deserved, and that intellect helped Rahal build a solid foundation for his post-driving career. Rahal retired from active CART competition in 1998 after a 17-year...
World championship rallying is a tough sport. Its drivers seldom compete on nice, smooth asphalt circuits where the worst that...
HRG was a very small British manufacturer of predominantly competition-oriented sports cars from 1936-1966 – the initials were drawn from...
In a move which has lit the auction world abuzz, David Gooding has left his position as Managing Driector of Christie’s Fine Car Division to take up a position as President of catalogue auctions at RM Classics. Said Mr. Gooding, “There is no question that RM is the most dynamic...
