Captive Readership Dear Editor, I must share a couple things with you. Due to firefighting injuries/wear and tear I had...
It was an eclectic gathering Saturday, June 2 at the grand opening of the LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM)...
Anatole “Tony” Lapine, respected Latvian-born designer, and former design chief at Porsche has died at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany. Lapine died just one month before his 82nd birthday. Born in 1930, Lapine started his design career with an apprenticeship at Daimler-Benz, before moving to the U.S. to work for...
Despite hailing from a family essentially unconnected to motorized vehicles, Basil van Rooyen soon discovered motorcycles and after a brief...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take...
There is a section in The Sunday Times called In Gear and it is basically boys’ toys, with cars as the headline, plus pod things, which I do not understand. Every week it features a new supercar, and even then it doesn’t get all of them, supercars are everywhere. England...
Say what you will about Bernie Ecclestone, but you cannot deny the fact that he has an eye for a...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs on an empty stretch of road in Arizona’s Saguaro National Park. Photo: Casey Annis It’s enough to make any self-respecting purist cringe. Take a seductive 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300,...
Frank Gardner was the classic sportsman, excelling in swimming, rowing, surfing, and boxing before he began to race speedway bikes...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less than seismic impact in the motor sports world at large. As someone emailed in to SpeedTV’s “Wind Tunnel,” the only reason for many fans to bother talking about IRL’s muffled...
The rules were: One lap of Lime Rock, driving backwards from a standing start. You could bring any car, use...
Dave Friedman in his book on American sports car racing in the golden era of racing called Dr. Dick Thompson...
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