On New Year’s Eve in 1950, the first endurance race run at Sebring was won by a very unlikely car,...
In 1972, I was 10-years old when my dad drove home in a tiny little black convertible. I’d never seen...
I recently gave a talk to a collector car gathering in the Bay Area. The Q&A after these talks is always enlightening, so I try to remember those questions as a way to improve my presentations. After the group departed, we funneled into the parking lot where I greeted someone...
The Korean War went on from 1950 through 1953 and is often referred to as the “forgotten war.” It is little...
Societa Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori was an aftermarket company that produced parts to “hot rod” Fiats. The company was started...
This is the story of two men, born 45 years apart, each completely obsessed with the automobile, and both hopelessly smitten by the very same car. W.J. Ziegler was born in 1911 and quickly realized that his life would be immersed in cars. He was the first student of his...
Mike Lawrence Australia has decided to demote FF1600 and install Formula 4 as its national starter series. Formula 4 gives...
Mike Lawrence We are seeing some quite extraordinary prices paid for certain cars, and some people have recalled the late...
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...
Pete Lyons Did you hear about the diesel backhoe that did 350 mph at Bonneville? Yes, really…sort of. Become a...
Although there were a number of pre-WWII cars that can be described as sports cars, the craze in the U.S. began following the war with the invasion of MGs and then Jaguars. Some aficionados credit Chevrolet’s Corvette as the first American sports car. Others feel that the original Thunderbird fits...
The H-Modified class in American road racing was derived from the FIA small-displacement sports racing machines popularized in Italy and...
Chris Amon Lance Reventlow 2 Achille Varzi dies in a low-speed accident while practicing in the rain at Bremgarten for...
Trevor Taylor Colin Chapman 1 Ernesto Maserati dies of natural causes (1975). 3 Indy car racer Rick Mears is born in Wichita, Kansas (1951). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our...
