In 2009 Sports Car Digest toured the Mario Righini Collection, one of the more exceptional private car collections in Italy,...
The heart of Porsche beats in Zuffenhausen, Germany. It was here in 1963 that the first 911 rolled off the...
Twenty-six race-car drivers and motorsports professionals have been voted into the Road Racing Drivers Club in 2015. The group includes 11 Regular Members from the open-wheel and sports-car racing ranks, 10 Associate Members and five Honorary Members. The current roster of RRDC members now numbers 486. Voting was held among...
Historic Porsche race cars represent many victories at the 24-hour classics of Le Mans and Daytona. And they also celebrated...
Endurance racing legend Tom Kristensen heads the list of 2016 inductees into the Sebring Hall of Fame. Joining Kristensen are...
An exhibition of Italian automobiles will be displayed at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, from May 27 through October 9, 2016. The display, entitled Bellissima! The Italian Automotive Renaissance, 1945–1975, will be on view in the Center’s Ingram Gallery. Bellissima! The Italian Automotive Renaissance, 1945–1975...
The Royal Automobile Club played host to a special event on Wednesday 9 September 2015, when five-time Le Mans winner...
The Nardo Technical Center recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. Since its foundation on 1st July 1975 the testing centre in...
Alfa Romeo is celebrating its 105th anniversary by opening its historical museum in Arese, Milan, Italy to the public. The museum, which is named “La macchina del tempo – Museo storico Alfa Romeo”, is at the heart of a brand centre which also has a bookshop, cafe, documentation centre, test-drive...
Born in London on June 10, 1935, Vic Elford was one of the fastest drivers in the highly competitive 1960s...
A new book celebrating the life of designer, inventor and visionary Gabriel Voisin has emerged. VOISIN: La Différence is a...
Automobili Lamborghini is relaunching its restoration center under the name of Lamborghini Polo Storico. The new department includes the brand’s historical archives, the vehicle restoration center, vehicle certification, and guarantees the availability of numerous genuine spare parts for all historical Lamborghini models. With its new Polo Storico, Automobili Lamborghini emphasizes...
By Jeff Walker, Chubb Collector Car Insurance It’s no secret that classic car values generally have been on the rise...
The first Sebring 12-hour race took place in March of 1951 and within a short ten-year period the annual racing...
Nissan legend Yutaka Katayama, the man known as “Mr. K,” has died at the age of 105. Katayama, the first president of Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A, passed away on February 20, 2015. Katayama ran Nissan’s U.S. operations in the 1970s and is widely known as the father of the Datsun...
The Magnificent Monopostos – Alfa Romeo Grand Prix Cars, 1923-1951 By Simon Moore, Edited by Malcolm Harris, Parkside Publications, Seattle,...
In the collector car auctions’ relentless series of events there is rarely an opportunity to sit back and take stock....
Vic Elford, considered one of the fastest race car drivers of the 1960s and ’70s, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with the 2015 Phil Hill Award. RRDC president Bobby Rahal made the presentation at a dinner prior to the running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the...
Brian Lister, one of Britain’s greatest unsung racing car builders, died aged 88 on December 16, 2014. From its inception...
The Ralph Lauren Car Collection was featured at the 2014 Lime Rock Historic Festival, held August 29th to September 1st...
Do you remember the moment when you fell in love with cars and racing? For Chris Workman, the author / illustrator of a new children’s book project called The Longest Day, his passion for racing was born when he attended his first live race event. “I kept thinking about the...
Sir Stirling Moss is an exceptional motor racing talent. Born September 17, 1929, Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss OBE is still...
By Rick Carey, Auction Editor | Photos by author and Rhonda Kiblinger Wind back the clock on your DeLorean to...
An exhibition dedicated to the Centennial of Maserati will be held at the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena, Italy through January 2015. The “Maserati 100 – A Century of Pure Italian Luxury Sports Cars” display retraces the story of the Italian car manufacturer through an exhibition featuring some of the...
The Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Inc. in Naples, Florida is now open its automobile collection to the public on...
By Stephen Mitchell I was talking to a Ferrari friend coordinating a visit to the Ferrari factory in Maranello for...
Hurley Haywood, winner of more endurance classics than any other driver in racing history, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with the 2014 Phil Hill Award. RRDC president Bobby Rahal presented Haywood with the award at a dinner prior to the running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona,...
He was, without doubt, one of the most dominant and iconic personalities in the history of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway....
Review by Rick Carey, Auction Editor It isn’t until page 12 of the 2012-2013 Classic Car Auction Yearbook that authors...
Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari, the Modena, Italy-based museum that opened in 2012 on the site of the house in which Enzo Ferrari himself was born in 1898, is now focusing on the pinnacle of open wheel racing with its current exhibit, entitled “Grand Prix: the Formula 1 Championship Single-Seaters”. The...
