In a world where the value of words is often diminished by over-use and misapplication, there is absolutely no doubt...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the...
Few auctions in the world can match Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic for variety, and fewer still are able to compete with the sheer number of vehicles offered for sale. Billed as the “World’s Largest Collector Car Auction,” this annual rite of spring stretches across six days at the Indiana...
Bruce Burness is one of those multi-talented behind-the-scenes players who lend so much richness to the world of motorsports, possessing...
VR: How did you start writing? CC: My wife had a job with the local police department working nights doing...
A three-day “fun fest” known as the Ford-Cobra-Shelby Reunion will take place at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in...
The Daytona Continental (3 Hours) Race; Daytona, February 17, 1963. Pedro Rodriguez in the N.A.R.T.-entered Ferrari 250 GTO leads Skip Hudson’s...
Classes have been announced and entries have opened for the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 17–19 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The featured marque is the Shelby Cobra, in honor of the 50th anniversary of its creation. Approximately 550 cars will be accepted, with each entry scrutinized...
If you arrived at Goodwood just after the gates opened on any of the three days (September 16-18) there’s every...
As the 38th annual vintage racecar weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca rolled to a close, the circuit’s general manager,...
Pete Lyons Have you ever crushed an aluminum can, then found yourself wondering, “Could I straighten it back out, like new?” Of course you couldn’t … unless you’re a metalsmithing sorcerer like those at Classic Motor Cars Ltd. (CMC), one of those fabled restoration shops in the dear old UK,...
Raoul “Sonny” Balcaen may not be a name with which everyone is familiar, but he grew up in Southern California...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a week-long, end-of-year party disguised as a race meeting. It was an event that virtually everyone looked forward to and the cast of characters that wrote its history was truly world...
January 2011 Mark Donohue: His Life in Photographs By Michael Argetsinger In our review of Argetsinger’s previous book, Mark Donohue:...
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For...
A general homage to artist Wagger’s favorite Cobras, the USRRC 289s, in no particular race or at any particular track, just loud and messy, as they tended to be. And with Ken Miles at the wheel, naturally. Wagger’s message is straight and simple, hopefully leaving the same impact on those...
By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these...
A total of 26 cars sold for more than $1 million during Classic Car Week in Monterey, California this August,...
The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) at Watkins Glen International has announced it will once again offer a Cobra replica as its annual raffle car. “The selection of a Cobra for 2010 was an easy one based on the popularity of similar vehicles that were offered in 2005 and...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsport; the...
There was a summer of my life when I often walked back home from an evening ramble in a European...
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of the American all-rounders who could, and would, drive virtually any kind of car. After a tour of duty as chauffeur for the head of NORAD Command in Colorado, the Washington...
Edmund Rahal, who though mainly unknown was the first of the racing Rahals, passed away last December 16 at the...
February 2010 The Spirit of Competition By frederick a. Simeone, M.d. Dr. Simeone began collecting cars before he could drive,...
The 5th annual Fabulous Fifties Concours d’Provenance at the South Coast Botanical Gardens in the Los Angeles suburb of Palos Verdes once again displayed a wide variety of classic automobiles under classic Southern California sunny skies. John Morton served as the event’s Honorary Chairman, and in that capacity selected Michael...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers...
The second annual Legends of Riverside racing reunion and film festival has named Carroll Shelby as its special guest of honor for the March 26–28, 2010, event at the Riverside International Raceway Museum. Although he earned his spurs as a champion driver, Shelby is best known for his creation of...
