Cadillac is gonna do what?! I’m sure I’m not the only one who said that after hearing that Cadillac was...
In my book Vintage American Road Racing Cars, I wrote, “Of all the Kurtis road racing cars, the 500X is...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle in the late ’30s that he had to keep down the street at a gas station because my grandparents didn’t want him to own it. One day he was following...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
Frank Sinatra purchased his first hybrid car in 1957. So did pals, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Eddie Fisher, as well as music legends Hoagy Carmichael and David Rose, and other celebrities of the time. These cars, however, were not the environmentally friendly hybrid cars of today; Sinatra’s clan, motored...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford...
• The Branson Auto Museum has pledged to rebuild and reopen at the same location after a tornado with 130-mph...
Few auctions in the world can match Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic for variety, and fewer still are able to compete with the sheer number of vehicles offered for sale. Billed as the “World’s Largest Collector Car Auction,” this annual rite of spring stretches across six days at the Indiana...
As a racecar driver, Jack McAfee needs no introduction. He was one of the greats of early sports car racing...
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The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race at all. The previous year there had been a fatality on the 6.6-mile course that ran right through town on Franklin Street. The Austin-Healey 100 pace car leads the pack...
Under warm and sunny skies at the 3rd annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California,...
The 2012 Santa Fe Concorso, a gathering of more than 100 rare and exotic cars and motorcycles, will take place...
It’s been a very long time since Bill Pollack raced his Cadillac-powered Allard to victory through the forested road course of Pebble Beach. His back-to-back wins in ’51 and ’52 over Phil Hill and others cemented his place in history as one of the best ever. He remains the only...
In 1903, Henry M. Leland began selling a $750, single-cylinder, automobile under the name Cadillac. Later touted as the “Standard...
Another little piece of our motoring heritage is about to be banished to the rubbish bin of automotive history. Like...
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...
RM Auctions closed out its 2012 auction calendar with the early December sale of the John Staluppi “Cars of Dreams”...
In addition to being a successful real estate developer, Ted Gildred was appointed Ambassador to Argentina during the Reagan administration....
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the Cobras and Ford GT40s (Marks I, II and IV) all over the world, Phil Remington stood on the leading edge of racing technology for some seven decades until his peaceful...
High-powered Italian automotive exotica has always had an attraction for a select number of prominent people of means. Today it’s...
Roy Brown Jr.—designer of the much maligned, ’50s flop the Ford Edsel—passed away on Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,...
• The 12th annual Winter Park Concours d’Elegance, will be held Sunday, November 10, 2013, on Winter Park, Florida’s scenic Park Avenue. Free to the public, more than 120 of the world’s most prestigious automobiles will be on display. For more information visit www.winterparkconcours.com. • Auctions America will offer the...
The only other Lemans convertible that still exists was returned to the factory in 1959 and restyled by Harley Earl...
A striking midnight blue 1931 Cadillac 452A owned by 90-year-old Charles Gillet of Lutherville, Maryland, was awarded the Best in...
A rare Cadillac, once owned by 1940s Silver Screen starlet Rita Hayworth, will be one of several iconic automobiles of note displayed at the 2015 Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance on Saturday, May 2 at Pinehurst Resort. The 1953 Cadillac coupe Series 62 with bodywork by Ghia is one of only two...
Cavallino Classic at Mar-a-Lago Beach, Florida January 22-24, 2015 (Click to enlarge images) Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
This year’s 4th Annual Pinehurst Concours, scheduled for April 30 on the fairways of North Carolina’s Pinehurst Resort, will showcase the Best in Show winners from the three previous events. Attendees will have an extraordinary opportunity to take a close look at the 1919 Pierce-Arrow Model 66 A-4 Tourer that...
