VR: Like so many of us, I’m sure that you were influenced by the automobile very early on in your...
A new exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum will appeal to both the automotive enthusiast as well as those who...
The LeMay – America’s Car Museum will have its grand opening on June 2, 2012 in Tacoma, Washington, having completed a massive construction effort within budget and on time. “We’ve managed to build a museum during difficult economic times when nearly everybody said it couldn’t be done and we expect...
The Hill Family and L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum marked the 50th Anniversary of Phil Hill’s 1961 World Championship for Ferrari...
Phil Hill, who became America’s first F1 World Champion 50 years ago, is the subject of a special exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Scheduled to run from early September through Thanksgiving weekend, the exhibit, Phil Hill: The Life of a Legend, includes photos, trophies and memorabilia...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is going through a metamorphosis. The Museum Foundation, headed by chairman Steven E....
Parnelli Jones was honored at the third annual Legends of Riverside, held at the Riverside International Automotive Museum on the...
After closure for four years and speculation as to when, or even if, it was to reopen, the Museo Nazionale Dell’Automobile Di Torino, renamed in honor of the Agnelli family, finally threw open its doors to the general public on Sunday March 20 in order to coincide with the Italian...
For the seventh and final time, the Centennial of the historic Vanderbilt Cup races was celebrated on New York’s Long...
Tazio Nuvolari has found a new home, or at least his museum has. The museum devoted to him and his...
The Riverside International Automotive Museum has announced that Parnelli Jones will be the Honored Guest at the third annual Legends of Riverside, scheduled for March 25-27 in the Southern California city. Jones became a racing legend with exploits in a broad range of motorsport disciplines, headlined by his mastery of...
One year ago, our Hidden Treasures column by Mark Brinker featured a well-preserved Bonneville Streamliner, the Beast III, that had...
The Henry Ford Museum’s newly restored Lotus 38, the first rear-engined car to win the Indianapolis 500, made its North...
The Alfa Romeo museum at Arese, on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, has been placed under official supervision, the first step in a process that would make it part of Italy’s cultural heritage. The move has been requested by the Arese municipality, which feared the Fiat Group, to which Alfa...
The second annual Put-In-Bay Road Races Reunion took place June 28-30 on Ohio’s South Bass Island. The island, home to...
In the February 2010 edition of Vintage Racecar, editor Casey Annis reported that a concours d’provenance had been held in...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has donated the freehold of the 30-acre Brooklands Museum site in Weybridge to the Museum’s governing Trust, after a 25-year tenancy during which the Museum became established as one of the most important cultural destinations in the UK. During a special ceremony at which a plaque...
Still racers, after all these years. That’s what I was thinking as one veteran driver after another mounted the stage...
When I were but a lad, my notion of a perfect Saturday was to walk down to the train station...
In 2003, 50 years after Tazio Nuvolari’s death, Arrigo Granola, an employee of the Banca Agricola of Mantua, Italy, tore himself away from the rigors of banking to sort out a stack of battered old cardboard boxes the racing driver had left in his will to the town’s automobile club,...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November...
The famous Jaguar museum in Coventry, England, has been re-launched. This follows the renaming of the Trust that owns it...
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has been holding a series of “Demonstration Days,” at noon on the fourth Saturday of each month, with the program running through October. Each individual event features two or more racing sports cars from the Museum’s collection, making it one of the few...
The Tazio Nuvolari Museum in Mantua, Italy, has closed. It is supposed to open again at some time in the...
Porsche’s new museum, recently opened at corporate headquarters in Stuttgart, promotes the “Porsche idea” with a trip back in time...
Mario Andretti was presented with the first annual Spirit of Competition Award at dedication ceremonies for the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia on November 12. The dedication ceremony was presided over by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, and Andretti’s award was presented by former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil,...
The newly created Simeone Foundation Museum, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has recently announced that it has selected Vintage Racecar as...
The Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation has announced the election of historic racer and Los Angeles attorney, Steve E. Young, as...
Hot on the paws of Crufts, Brooklands Museum in Surrey is looking for a new dog star to make the headlines. But the specification of the canine required by the birthplace of British motorsport and aviation is very specific. It must be a white, male, standard poodle with a utility...
