Pete Lyons Hail the “Mod Scot!” Such a thought must have flickered through many minds as 27 Group 7 machines...
Well-known America racing driver Pete Lovely has died at the age of 85 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. Lovely’s career...
Pete Lyons I edged my toes to the brink of an abyss a thousand feet deep, issuing my own small dare to this mighty mountain, and from this precarious apex of the world I gazed a hundred miles out to the vast eastern horizon, where dawnlight was rising to join...
The Second Annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, which will take place June 4–5, at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, has...
Autocoast TI22 Peter E. Bryant (1938-2009) was born in England, and at a young age he caught the racing bug....
The noise and spectacle of the Can-Am Challenge Cup sees a rebirth in 2011. The revival of this iconic series has been due to the hard work of the organizers Peter Schleifer, Trevor Parfitt and Alison Parfitt, and will be administered by Schleifer GmbH & Co. Peter Schleifer explained the...
McLaren M8 Robin Herd had left and was replaced by Gordon Coppuck, who had worked earlier for the National Gas...
March 2011 Caribbean Capers By Joel E. Finn Subtitled “The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 & 1960,” this...
The organizers of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion have announced that Jaguar will be the featured marque for this year’s event, scheduled for August 19–21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This will be the third time in the 38-year history of the event that Jaguar has been honored as the...
McLaren M20 From 1968 to 1971 the McLaren M8 and its derivatives had dominated the Canadian-American Challenge Cup Series but...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
I had seen this well-used Lotus 18 sitting in a grumpy little foreign car repair shop hard along Ventura Blvd. in Studio City, California. The guy who owned the shop and the Lotus was named “Buck” something or another as I recall. I kept driving by and looking at that...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand....
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2011 will be held August 19-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The list of race...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or...
The man who facilitated Danny Sullivan’s rise to motor racing stardom has died of cancer at his home in Milan, Italy. Garvin Brown, whose great grandfather founded the Brown-Forman Corp. that produces Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey, and who’s best known in automotive circles as the patron who enabled a struggling...
Shadow DN4 “Don Nichols turned up in Can-Am in 1970 with that stupid car with tiny cotton-reel wheels, the first...
Can-Am McLaren M8B – The Perfect Race Car Story and Photos by Pete Lyons Some race cars come off the...
I think it is easy for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere to underestimate the global racing contributions of our southern brothers. Only the most knowledgeable northern enthusiasts know about such antipodean series like the Tasman Series, yet even the most ardent anoraks from the north will likely...
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For...
Louis Wagner Gaston Chevrolet 2 Jacky Ickx and David Hobbs drive a Gulf Ford GT40 to victory in the Rand 9 Hour Race at Kyalami, South Africa (1968). 7 The Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide is Ayrton Senna’s last F1 win (1993). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
November 2010 Can-Am Cars in Detail By Pete Lyons and Peter Harholdt Only in the 1960s could the Can-Am have...
A total of 26 cars sold for more than $1 million during Classic Car Week in Monterey, California this August,...
Ferrari 612 Can-Am Chris Amon never felt that the Ferrari 612 Can-Am ever reached its full potential. he always felt there was a lot left in the car but the project always had a low priority at the factory and its results reflected that. Enzo Ferrari never really appreciated how...
Bruce McLaren Biography Bruce McLaren was born to Les (Pop) & Ruth on 30th August 1937 at Auckland, New Zealand,...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in the Toohey’s 1000 at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia (1989). 2 Bernd Rosemeyer, driving an Auto Union, wins the last race of the 750kg racing formula, the...
