The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial offered for sale in the September...
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, will offer this stunning 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa (Chassis # 0714TR) when the...
This 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Alloy Competizione did not sell at the high bid of $4,400,000 during the Gooding & Company “Scottsdale Auction” held January 17th in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the summer months of 1959, after completing the last 13 examples of the venerable 250 Tour de France models,...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as...
Dale Earnhardt Nino Farina 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona. First IMSA GTP race (1981). 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on the beach at Daytona,...
Pete Lyons News that Formula One is so financially distressed… Wait! Let us savor this! Become a Member & Get...
Given this issue’s focus on safety equipment, and knowing that most of our readers possess at least an appreciation for...
January 2009 Update: This very same Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder recently sold at Gooding’s Scottsdale Auction for $4,950,000. It is believed the seller bought the Ferrari from our profiled classified ad. Well bought in 1976 and very well sold. 10/15/08: The next chapter in Sports Car Digest’s look...
This distinctive early Ferrari Spider has bodywork...
John Michael “Mike” Hawthorn won the Formula One World Championship in 1958, and in doing so became the first British...
January 2009 The Father, the Son, and the 2900B Dear Editor, Your news article (VR, November 2008) on the Alfa Romeo 2900B that won the first Watkins Glen race in 1948, states that its driver was Stephen Griswold. In fact, the winning driver was Frank T. Griswold, father of Stephen,...
Rodger Ward Jim Hurtubise Photo: IMS 1 Jim Clark wins the South African Grand Prix driving a Ford Cosworth-powered Lotus...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Bonhams will hold its eleventh annual Ferrari and Prestigious Italians auction event on December 20th in Gstaad, Switzerland. Bonhams will offer 28 Ferrari, seven Italian cars and 120 automobilia for single-day event. The final highly publicized auction of 2008 promises another extraordinary collection of Italian automobiles, headlined by...
To celebrate 60 years of collaboration between Shell and Ferrari, the marketing geniuses at Shell decided to pay homage to...
There were a number of outstanding road-race weekends during the fifties. Phil Hill’s win at the first Pebble Beach comes to mind as well as Carroll Shelby’s at the last. In Southern California, one of the best-loved venues was Palm Springs. It had everything: a famous resort, wonderful winter weather,...
David McKay Keijo Eric “Keke” Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B26 to...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC, and quickly became known as the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars only had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights, and various safety requirements....
Grand Prix racing comes with a new look in 2009. Among other significant technical changes—wider cars, grooveless slicks, and Kinetic...
December 2008 La Carrera Panamericana By Johnny Tipler Among the many over-the-road races that spread or rekindled enthusiasm for auto...
Scottish racer, Bill Dobson, who passed away on October 13, 2008, was one of the first drivers to join David Murray’s Ecurie Ecosse team, along with fellow privateers Ian Stewart and Sir James Scott Douglas. Motor sport enthusiast Murray, a chartered accountant by trade, had persuaded Dobson to sell his...
Joseph Pendergast, historic racer, race organizer, and collector for nearly 40 years, succumbed to complications from pneumonia on September 14,...
Vintage Greeting Cards Dinstinctive collection of vintage-themed holiday greeting cards. 10 packs of cards starting at $35. www.viacelli.com/vintage Become a...
The latest look at old classified advertisements features a Ferrari 196 S race car offered for sale in the April 1978 issue of Road & Track magazine for $45,000. The Ferrari 196 S (1983 cc, 6 cylinders) was introduced in 1959 during the end of the front-engined sports car era....
ex-Phil Hill 1963 ATS F1 The 1961 Formula One World Champion Phil Hill did not learn that most of the important...
An opportunistic mix of Group 5 endurance racers and Group 7 thundercars enlivened Watkins Glen’s 1970 Can-Am Text and Photos...
The more in-depth summaries of the life and career of Phil Hill have focussed on three significant aspects: the racing accomplishments, the complex nature of the man, and the fact that he was an underrated driver. Phil died of respiratory complications due to Parkinson’s disease on August 28, 2008. He...
