• The 12th annual Winter Park Concours d’Elegance, will be held Sunday, November 10, 2013, on Winter Park, Florida’s scenic...
Living in Southern California, we’re admittedly pretty jaded when it comes to the classic cars we see on the road,...
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
Mecum Auctions’ record-setting 10-day auction, held January 18-27, broke the record for the largest collector car auction, based on the...
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...
Pete Brock, stylist for the Corvette Sting Ray, designer of the Cobra Daytona Coupe, founder of BRE and a multi-disciplined...
Founded originally in Massachusetts in the 1980s, SLR Automotive Restorations started out specializing in Mercedes-Benz. In particular, their work with...
Bob Bondurant, who led the Shelby American Cobra team’s successful 1965 World Manufacturers Championship effort, and later established one of the leading racing schools in the world, has been named the fifth Legend of Riverside by the Riverside International Automotive Museum. He will be honored by the Museum during its...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim...
There are so many great racecars. I have always liked the Cobra, and I would be very pleased for someone...
Tony Robinson: The Biography of a Race Mechanic By Ian Wagstaff Everyone knows that the best racing stories are those told by the mechanics, and here is a book full of them, from a man who has assisted some of the great names of the sport. Become a Member &...
The annual support race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most important events in all...
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 we showed him started a discussion so interesting that I’m keen to share it with you. The picture was made by Art Evans at Palm Springs in November, 1956. It...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August,...
Dan Gurney shared this 4.7-liter Cobra Daytona Coupe with Bob Bondurant for the 1964 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. They finished 4th overall and won the GT category, and as none of the GT40s finished that year, were the highest placed Ford. Gurney’s drive is featured in...
When event patron Peter Ricketts was asked what he had done in a previous life to bring so much precipitation...
Jerry Grant was one of the many American racing drivers who could, and did, drive virtually anything he could get...
The Dana Point Concours d’Elegance was a spectacular success, attracting huge crowds and a stunning field of vehicles including a 1934 Voisin C-25 Aerodyne that won the prestigious Best of Show title during the 30th anniversary event on Sunday, June 24, at the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort in Dana...
Sixty years ago was when—for me—the world became modern. Many people will laugh at that; some will understand but have...
The Lotus Elan was launched in October 1962 at the British Motorshow, making next month the car’s 50th anniversary. The...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews he granted the magazine—one conducted by Editor/Publisher Casey Annis, the other by Associate Editor John Zimmermann—during which he discussed various aspects of his life in the sport. Behind the wheel...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bloomberg News recently confirmed that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has been sold...
As you will have read in last month’s Vintage Racecar news, the automotive world lost one of its last remaining...
Pete Lyons You’d need a piece of paper the size of Texas to write down all that should be said...
This is the official site of the Shelby American Collection in Boulder, Colorado, which houses many examples of significant Shelby...
Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, Pomona, CA April 19-21, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts...
