With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the...
Road America recently announced that the Kastner Cup would be the featured marque of the 2023 WeatherTech International Challenge with...
The Triumph Motor Company was a manufacturer started by two partners from Germany building bicycles under the trade name Triumph. There first automobile was manufactured in 1923, it was the Triumph 10/20. In 1928, the Triumph Super 7 was introduced, it would be their first mass produced car. They continued...
Pioneering classic car electrification company Electrogenic has finalized two ‘World First’ conversions of classic vehicles to electric power; a 1976...
T Top cars have been around since the 1940s. They were originally designed to offer a convertible-like experience in various...
Triumph—and later Nissan GTP—racing legend Robert “Kas” Kastner has passed away at the age of 92. Born in Batavia, New York, on August 30, 1928, Kas Kastner started racing in the early 1950s with an MG TD, followed by a pair of MG Specials of his own construction. By 1958,...
I was out walking the other day, and tripped on a grate in the pavement and fell hard… down hill....
The Triumph GT6 is a 6-cylinder fastback version of the Spitfire, styled by the Italian designer Giovanni Michelotti, and produced...
When you mention Spitfire, most people would envision the powerful World War II fighter aircraft taking to the skies such as during the Battle of Britain. But another Spitfire comes to the hearts and minds of Triumph lovers, a two-seater British sports car. The Triumph Spitfire was a huge export...
A Triumph TR2, raced in the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans, far exceeded its pre-sale estimate for this past...
Silverstone Auctions has opened its catalogue for entries to the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show with a very rare and...
The Kastner Cup is a race held each year at a different race track across the United States and Canada, specifically for Triumph and Triumph-powered, race-prepared cars. The Kastner Cup winner does not get any money and no points towards a championship. The true prize is the Kastner Cup trophy...
Maserati recently celebrated the 80th anniversary of Luigi “Gigi” Villoresi’s impressive win at the 1939 Targa Florio at the wheel...
On Tuesday, the British car community lost a dear friend and passionate lifelong advocate, Michael Cook, to pneumonia at the...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Canadian industries of aerospace and racecar design were at the forefront of a new wave of industrial design. Avro Aviation engineer James C. Floyd had come up with the CF 105 Avro Arrow, a 1500-mph delta-winged fighter aircraft, and Bill Sadler had...
If you’ve been reading this space for any period of time (yes, I’m talking to both of you), then you’ll...
This year’s Practical Classics Classic Car and Restoration Show, with Discovery, broke all records — record crowds, record number of...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We were close friends and our times together go back to 1955 when he raced at Torrey Pines. A number of those among us stood head and shoulders...
RM Sotheby’s recorded a sale total of €23,745,225 ($29,562,805) at its fifth annual Paris sale on February 7, with an...
The Vintage Auto Racing Association of Canada has announced that its annual Vintage Grand Prix will take place on the weekend of June 14-17 on the Mosport Grand Prix track at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, near Bowmanville, Ontario. The usual VARAC run groups will be featured, including: Vintage Historic cars...
Reg Hillary, 96-years of age as of this writing, is as sharp and lively as someone half his age. He’s...
There is but a short list of automotive names, from the post-World War II period, that shine brightly. Names that...
I have a Minichamps model of the legendary Lancia Stratos HF rally car in Alitalia’s green and white colors sitting on my desk and every time I look at it, Italy’s “Il Drago” or “the Dragon” comes to mind. That was world rally champion Sandro Munari’s nickname because, according to...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Not wishing to be fooled on the first day of April, VR ‘s European Editor, Mike Jiggle, visited to the...
Only four names come to mind when one recalls which drivers have driven their self-constructed cars in World Championship Grands Prix. Jack Brabham, Dan Gurney and Bruce McLaren, of course, and they won with them too, but the other was a lesser-known man hailing from the southern tip of Africa....
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car Author found the Maxi rally machine to be very responsive to driver inputs. Photo: Kary Jiggle...
Visitors to the 9th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion, scheduled for August 27-30, 2017, will discover a decidedly Italian flavor...
1965 Ford Cortina GT500 First used as a motor racing circuit back in 1938, for the Australian Grand Prix of that year, the Mount Panorama circuit at Bathurst, some 125 miles west of Sydney, has changed somewhat over the years from a dusty unpaved road into what is now an...
