The MGA’s looks harken back to MG designer Sid Enever’s one-off, envelope body that he created for an MG TD...
The MGA should have happened several years before it did. The story of why it didn’t and how it came...
Equipe Classic Racing is planning to launch a new competition class in 2018, especially for Pre-1963 GT and Production racing...
September 2017 The well turned out factory team of MGAs lined up prior to the start of the 12 Hours...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie beneath the surface. He raced from the mid-1950s to around 1962, but he gave it all up for his business of selling cars in London, Ontario, Canada. Here was a...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie...
My first race was a small event at a BARC Goodwood Members Meeting, at the wheel of my Jowett Jupiter....
On his way to 5th place overall in the 1955 East London Winter Handicap, John Hanning (Aston-Nash) leads Roy Humphreys (#7 Consul Special) around Weavers’ Hotel corner on the dangerous Esplanade Circuit. South Africa has a rich motor racing history, and during the 1930s a number of International Grands Prix...
E.D. Martin’s all-conquering Ferrari 315S awaits the start of the Feature Race in April of 1958.Photo: Benita Lane The revised...
Tony Griffiths.Photo: Kary Jiggle For me, motors and motoring were in my blood and my genes. After the first World...
Canadian Big Healey Dear Editor, I enjoyed the article “Big Healey” in the March 2012 issue of Vintage Racecar. In...
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MG tradition continued at Watkins Glen this past September with SVRA’s 26th running of the historic “Vintage Collier Cup” all-MG...
Canada’s Mosport Park and VARAC’s Vintage Racing Festival served as the hosts for this year’s 15th annual “Focus Event” for MG Vintage Racers, and honors bestowed during the June event included MGVR’s Spirit Award, the Bill Parish Memorial and the MG V-8 Challenge Trophy. The first of these, chosen by...
While we don’t necessarily want to become a facilitator for YouTube, even if the company does appear to be investing...
It may be hard to imagine, but some vintage events are now becoming vintage themselves, and SVRA’s vintage Collier Cup race for MGs at Watkins Glen will celebrate its 25th running this September 10–13 at the Optima Batteries U.S. Vintage Grand Prix. It was initiated by SVRA in 1985 with...
THE STORY OF MALAYA’S RACING SPECIALS The Malayan-built Special has always been an integral part of the racing movement in...
The ex–Geoghegan 1960 Lotus Elite The ex–Chamberlain 1960 Lotus Elite The 1967 Lotus Elite Twin Cam No matter what year it is, there is always a celebration of something or other. Each month through Vintage Racecar’s Time Capsule page, we are reminded of significant events that have occurred throughout the...
There are few things that car guys love more than the story of a fabulous automotive find…the wilder, the better....
This is the sad tale of my first chance to own a sports car and how I blew it—the chance,...
1957 Climax-powered Jomar 1957 Climax-powered Jomar. Photo: Harold Pace You know the story. Start with a svelte English chassis, add an American V-8, clothe it in a lightweight body and go racing. It worked for Carroll Shelby. It worked for Sydney Allard. Worked for a lot of other folks too,...
Like any good race-nut, over the years I’ve tried to chip away at my list of the “great automotive wonders...
The Vintage Sports Car Club of America (VSCCA) will honor the 50th anniversary of the MGA at its October 7–8 vintage...
