Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos...
The 1950s and ’60s were to many involved in Australian historic motor sport, the halcyon years. It was the time...
A special panel of “Junior Judges” organized by Hagerty Insurance made their way to the UK’s Cholmondley Castle on Sept 8-9, to select their favorites at Chris Evans’s popular CarFest. These judges, aged from 8 to 14 years old, were charged with voting for their favorite classic car on the...
• McCormick’s Palms Springs Collector Car Auction will be held November 16-18, 2012. Among the early entries are a 1953...
Sir William Lyons, founder of the Jaguar car company, knew, as domestic car production returned to the UK, after World...
Founded by Kent Bain and Charles Webb in 1978, Automotive Restorations, and its racing arm Vintage Racing Services, has grown to become one of the largest, full service restoration shops in the United States. With 35 employees, a 40,000-sq.ft. primary facility for restorations and a 15,000-sq.ft. warehouse for storage, Automotive...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with his passion for speed and technology. These...
Bahamas Deputy Prime Minister Phillip Davis has confirmed his government’s continuing support for the Bahamas Speed Week Revival by pledging...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of the long-distance sports racing cars you’ve seen or learned of over the years, and that you still hold in reverence. Cunninghams, Jaguars, Ferraris, Fords, Porsches, classic enduro racers that you...
The Paddock at Watkins Glen in 1954 is filled with a representative sampling of the caars being raced, including Jaguar...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar...
Noted Duesenberg expert Randy Ema runs a successful restoration business in Orange, California. VR: I would imagine, like every consummate car guy, cars must have been a very early influence for you? RE: As a little kid, I played with Matchbox and AMT models. I only liked those because they...
The photo caption on page 31 of the November 1953 issue of Road & Track read: “A strange assortment of...
Pete Lyons Any idea what we’re looking at here? Don’t wait for me to tell you, I only have the faintest of notions. These are scans of 4×5 negatives that I’ve just found in my father’s archive while prowling for something else. He left these images unlabeled as to place,...
When event patron Peter Ricketts was asked what he had done in a previous life to bring so much precipitation...
The Dana Point Concours d’Elegance was a spectacular success, attracting huge crowds and a stunning field of vehicles including a 1934 Voisin C-25 Aerodyne that won the prestigious Best of Show title during the 30th anniversary event on Sunday, June 24, at the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort in Dana...
The story of the production model 300 SL really picks up where our story about the W194 Le Mans racecar...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack....
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when leading”…under protest. That was at Le Mans after the big crash when one of our cars was involved and the Mercedes board in Stuttgart decided to withdraw the other cars....
Without doubt, I have to say my greatest racecar is the Jaguar XJR-9 LM that took me, Jan Lammers and...
Sir Jackie Stewart Alain Prost Photo: Maureen Magee 4 Al Rogers drives a Coniff-Offy to victory in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb in Colorado (1950). 5 George Follmer drives a Porsche-powered Lotus 23 to victory in the USRRC Road America 500 in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin (1965). Become a Member &...
In celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the coming London Olympics, Rodeo Drive became decidedly British on June 17,...
The Lotus Elan was launched in October 1962 at the British Motorshow, making next month the car’s 50th anniversary. The...
A Jaguar XK120 Roadster was judged Best in Class in the Postwar Sports Open category at the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, held Sunday, August 19th on the Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. While winning Best in Class makes this particular XK120 significant on its own merit, it also...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the...
It’s nearly 50 years since Bob Smith started his business RS Panels in Nuneaton, England. Over that time he has...
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...
