Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary of his racing career. John FitchPhoto: Mercedes-Benz Before, after and during that career, however, John Fitch was much more than a racing driver. He served as pilot of both Light...
Kessler Cooper? Dear Sir, I just saw part of your article on Bruce Kessler [VR, Oct. & Nov. 2009] that...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the Sports Car Club of America. U. S. professional racing was governed by the American Automobile Association, but the function was taken over by the United States Auto Club in 1956...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to start what would come to be recognized as the defining race of his life. Bruce Kessler Can you describe the main race at Lime Rock in 1957, where you were...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
I don’t remember when I first met Lance Reventlow, but it must have been through my buddy, Bruce Kessler, who...
Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well as tragic to see how it happened. Interesting in that a lot of circumstances had to come together; tragic in that it involved the death of a good friend. First,...
Sexual debauchery, a regime’s imminent downfall and a kidnapping fit for a gentleman were some of the highlights of the...
