Photo: J. Michael Hemsley After he had finished the restoration of his 1936 Stout Scarab, Ron Schneider took it to...
1964 Elva-Porsche One of the most important characteristics of a performance or racing car is the power-to-weight ratio. The goal...
Augie Pabst: Behind the Wheel By Robert Birmingham Augie Pabst grew up an heir to the family brewing business, and one...
Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans By Preston Lerner and Dave Friedman The...
Coker’s Lines Dear Editor, Your story about the recreated 1953 Austin-Healey 100S Record Car was interesting. The caption notes how “sleek and slippery” the 100’s lines are. The image of the 1954 “Streamliner” also demonstrates the beauty of the design of this Austin-Healey. The story might have included credit for...
• Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) has announced that American racing legend Bobby Rahal has entered the second annual Classic 24...
If you grew up in the United States, then you were weaned on “The American Dream” —the idea that anyone...
Photo: Neil Rashba A 1937 Horch 853 and a 1958 Scarab won the Best In Show honors on Sunday, March 9, at the 19th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, which attracted approximately 29,000 spectators throughout the weekend. The Horch 853, owned by Bob and Anne Brockinton Lee of Sparks, Nevada,...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
Phil Remington, universally recognized as one of racing’s finest craftsmen, has passed away at the age of 92. Remington left his fingerprints all over seven decades of racecar design innovation, with many of today’s standard practices being solutions he created on the run for problems that popped up in his...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos...
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,...
“MAYA –Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable”– was the acronym industrial designer Raymond Loewy used to describe his design philosophy. To catch...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road racing championship last month it was coming off its most successful season yet, with 11 races producing nine different winners, but the schedule for 1960 would feature only five races,...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take...
This month’s site, Prairie Street Art, features the work of Chicago-based photographer Ron Nelson, whose wide recognition includes having examples of his photography on permanent display at Soldier Field and Halas Hall, the public and private homes of the NFL’s Chicago Bears. Of interest to us, however, are his images...
Rick Parsons and Don Devine have formed the Vintage Indy Racing Group to facilitate the further inclusion of Indycar racing...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to start what would come to be recognized as the defining race of his life. Bruce Kessler Can you describe the main race at Lime Rock in 1957, where you were...
My column in the October 2006 edition of Vintage Racecar was titled, “Shelby, the Early Years.” For the most part,...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a fascinating character, I thought a column explicitly about him would be appropriate in order to wrap up the theme. I wrote what was hopefully an amusing story about a party...
I don’t remember when I first met Lance Reventlow, but it must have been through my buddy, Bruce Kessler, who...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy...
Bet you’re thinking of Fangio’s transcendent victory at the ’Ring. The launch of the Fuelie Corvette. The beautiful Scarabs. Jaguar’s fifth win at Le Mans, the third in a row for the immortal D-type. That year saw the end of the Mille Miglia, but Sputnik went up then, too. For...
