U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos...
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...
A 1928 Mercedes-Benz 680S Saoutchik Torpedo owned by Paul and Judy Andrews of White Settlement, Texas, was named Best of...
• McCormick’s Palms Springs Collector Car Auction will be held November 16-18, 2012. Among the early entries are a 1953...
Quit Scraping the Paint! Photo: Roger Dixon Dear Editor, I would like to point out one quibble and one major error in the September 2012 issue of Vintage Racecar. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of...
More than 100 friends of John Fitch gathered at his home in Lime Rock, Connecticut, to honor him on the...
As preparations proceed for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for November 24 through December 2 in Nassau, a number of exceptional cars and drivers have committed to the event. BSWR Patron Sir Stirling Moss and Event Ambassador Derek Bell, MBE, have recently been joined by Grand Marshal...
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is...
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. With the rebuilding and recovery of Europe ongoing six years after the end of World War II, Mercedes competition boss Alfred Neubauer was told that the resources for a resumption...
Pavel Kasik recently bid farewell to his beloved Tatra T77 only days after completing its 20-year restoration. The Tatra started...
Mention the words “Rudi” and “Mercedes” and what comes to mind? Chances are good it will be images of famed driver Rudolf Caracciola wheeling a giant prewar SSK or W154 “Silver Arrow” around some exotic circuit, like the Nürburgring or Tripoli. Yet, there was another Rudi at Mercedes-Benz who arguably...
As you’ll see, throughout both sides of the magazine, this month we recognize and celebrate the 60th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s...
Karl Kling was born too late to join Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred Von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang in their rampage through...
Nearly a decade after it had stunned the world with the original 300 SL, Mercedes-Benz faced the daunting task of replacing the world’s first supercar. Instead of constructing another pure sports car, with performance as the ultimate goal, Mercedes decided to turn the SL quest in a different direction, designing...
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when...
2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 Photo: Mercedes-Benz 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 While the 300 SL of the 1950s was unquestioningly a sports car...
Rudolf Uhlenhaut was born in London, during his father’s term as head of the London branch of the Deutsche Bank...
Following their conquest of Mexico’s Pan-American Road Race in November of 1952, Mercedes-Benz factory drivers Karl Kling and Hermann Lang...
In the world of classic cars, we’ve grown accustomed to the fact that if you want to restore a historic vehicle, you are essentially on your own—that is to say you will have to do it with parts and assistance from specialized vendors, not usually the original company that built...
Sir Jackie Stewart Alain Prost Photo: Maureen Magee 4 Al Rogers drives a Coniff-Offy to victory in the Pikes Peak...
AutoArt Mercedes-Benz 190SL As discussed in this month’s “Roadcar Profile,” in 1954, when Mercedes-Benz was laying the groundwork for a...
Step through this time portal and journey into the past for another look at the oft-examined history of Mercedes-Benz. The home page opens with seven rotating segments including (at press time) Goodwood Festival of Speed, Motorsports in Close-up, In a Thousand Miles, Hollywood Love Affair, Timeless—The SL and its Legendary...
Sixty years ago was when—for me—the world became modern. Many people will laugh at that; some will understand but have...
Bonhams has announced that it has been commissioned to sell a recently discovered 1928 Mercedes-Benz 26/120/180 ‘S’ Type Sports Tourer,...
Carrera Panamericana 1950–1954 As covered several months ago in our “Lost McAfee Tapes” feature, the running of the Carrera Panamericana in the early ’50s was a wild and eclectic amalgamation of circus and international motor race. World-class drivers like Phil Hill, John Fitch, Louis Chiron and Karl Kling raced exotic...
