One week after the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring, the racing world experienced another tragic weekend, this time in France,...
November 2017 The Targa Florio; Sicily, May 4, 1969. This is the Nomad Mk II with BRM power. It was driven by...
In a scene from the 1967 BUA International Trophy Meeting, on the May Spring Bank Holiday, at Crystal Palace, two Ford GT40s duel for position. Number 47, driven by Terry Drury, leads Frank Gardner in number 41. It was a brief moment of glory, however, as Drury failed to finish,...
Is there no end to the list of racecar manufacturers of the 20th century? Let’s have a show of hands. How...
There is a certain indescribable thrill associated with the resurrection of a long lost automobile. It’s often more than the...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the keys to enjoying the performance available from Lola’s first venture into Group 7 competition. Photo: Roger Dixon If there was a racing car that most of the great and the good...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
In this month’s Racecar Profile [“Bound by Fate”], you’ll read that I recently had the opportunity to test drive the “King Cobra” that Shelby American built for the 1967 Can-Am season. While this is a fascinating tale of missed opportunities and misunderstandings, there are so many great pieces of history...
If you’re reading this magazine, you’re probably passionate about vintage racecars. You love the sounds they make, the smells that...
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car Author found the Maxi rally machine to be very responsive to driver inputs. Photo: Kary Jiggle...
Almost Famous is Cameron Crowe’s semi-auto-biographical film about a teenage journalist who lands a writing gig with Rolling Stone magazine and tours with an up-and-coming rock band and their fetching groupies. The boyish Crowe character travels alongside his musical heroes, falls in love with Penny Lane (played by Kate Hudson),...
How many vintage racing machines can you name that were originally powered by an ear-piercing DKW power plant? Not such...
1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB “Comp/61” Inevitably, when the name Ferrari is brought up in conjunction with racing, the first thing that...
1965 Ford Cortina GT500 First used as a motor racing circuit back in 1938, for the Australian Grand Prix of that year, the Mount Panorama circuit at Bathurst, some 125 miles west of Sydney, has changed somewhat over the years from a dusty unpaved road into what is now an...
Using his pioneering style of “photo realism,” Dutch-born artist Arthur Benjamins created this commemorative print of Tony Adamowicz and the...
Mecum Auctions returned to its suburban Chicagoland roots for Mecum Chicago 2016 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center, where 435...
Le Mans, 1960. You can imagine the scene. The coming decade was cresting the ’50s into oblivion. The vast high-speed straights of the new decade revealed technology and design that was radically different from the previous era. No one was slowing down, even in the corners. Materials and processes were...
Oscar Wilde wrote, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” This sounds a lot like the car hobby to...
Six cars from the Ford Performance Collection of megadealer Jim Click will be offered for sale by RM Sotheby’s at...
At the Ferrari Factory in Maranello, Italy in February of 1967, the Ferrari 330/P4s that had just returned from finishing 1st and 2nd in the Daytona 24 Hours are rolled out for a celebratory photo shoot. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
We all love to be gob-smacked. It’s part of what keeps the hobby fresh and exciting. You know what I’m...
It’s confession time again. For my entire automotive collecting career, now entering its third decade, I’ve been both intrigued and...
Continuing the tradition of bringing together the former employees of Shelby American from the 1960s, this 17th edition of the reunion was held November 6 and 7, 2015, at the Cobra Experience Museum (www.cobraexperience.org) in Northern California. With more than 65 former mechanics, drivers, shop workers, craftsmen, managers and staff...
With its revised and corrected rear suspension, the car is a blast to drive especially when steered with the throttle. Photo:...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
For the Brands Hatch Six Hours on July 30, 1967, Mike Spence is at the wheel of the winning Chaparral 2F that he co-drove with Phil Hill, chased by the Ferrari 330P4 of Ludovico Scarfiotti and Peter Sutcliffe, which finished 5th. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member...
I love Italian sports cars, and if they were built in the 1950s or 1960s, even better. At the top...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was an “unlimited” racing series co-sanctioned by the SCCA in America and the CASC in Canada....
Sex, infidelity, theft, intrigue, a lightly raced car, a tragic airplane crash and a pack of lifelong friends…some famous, some not—this is the twisted tapestry of this month’s Hidden Treasure. The story begins in Woodside, California in the 1950s. Locke de Bretteville says he fell in love with racecars at...
