Debutante’s Ball On a list of the greatest Grand Prix races will be the names of several which will strike...
Which sub-one-liter competition engine has the most international road racing victories of all time? OSCA? Bandini? Crosley? Abarth? Nardi? Moretti?...
All six events at Pebble Beach’s fourth renewal were memorable for those lucky enough to be there, but ’53 was really special for two important reasons. That year began the new MG era of domination, the Ken Miles era, and for those present at the start of West Coast road...
The most famous race on earth may have a checkered past as part of the World Championship, but foreign flavor...
Is it possible to have too many racecars? We didn’t think so either. With a growing number of interesting “Track...
A Personal Recollection of Der Nürburgring by a young English Lad Who Grew Up to Become a Motorsports Photojournalist Later to drivve Formula 1 for BRM, Dr. Helmut Marko takes a works Alpina BMW 1600 Ti through the bottom of the Steilstrecke test hill approaching the Karussel. Photo: Peter Collins Having...
Each year we devote a portion of our February magazine to the issue of safety and safety devices in historic...
Pat Flaherty’s time on racing’s grandest stage may have been all too brief, but he managed to make it count....
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,...
Racemaker Press, The Winners Book • US$65 plus shipping and handling Noted racing historian James O’Keefe has compiled an incredible...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time This photo montage shows (clockwise from bottom) Haywood in Bruce Leven’s Porsche 956, at Porsche-palooza in 1981, all smiles after his third victory at Le Mans in 1994, and celebrating...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically...
A Rogue, an XK120 and the World Record that Took 5 Years and Stirling Moss to Break. It was a...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer to make a tough call It’s like tasking a parent to choose between children. Each is dearest for different reasons. Nonetheless, we believed it not inappropriate to ask Dan Gurney...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia....
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
The Car that Made McLaren McLaren In these modern days of disposable everything (or so it seems), one can quickly become accustomed to replacing rather than repairing whatever device it may be that requires attention. This is especially true for racing cars, where the advance of knowledge and technology in...
Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
Porsche’s Spyders stole the limelight, but in the 1950s they had serious rivals in both BMW and EMW, who produced serious 1½-liter machinery. Their battles on both sides of the Iron Curtain were the stuff of legend. A liter and a half—more or less a quart and a half—isn’t much...
Back in the June 2008 issue of Vintage Racecar we announced that two special 4-cylinder Austin-Healeys were being prepared in...
Lancia. Ever heard of them? If not, it’s not surprising. Their cars are not exactly sold all over the world....
Automobiles first came to Los Angeles just over 100 years ago. Roughly 23 manufacturers eventually set up shop in the ensuing years and the region grew in concert with the relatively new invention, producing what we might rightly call the first auto-based city in the United States. Novelty aside, early...
“Once upon a time”— is the way most children’s fairytales start, but this is no French fairytale. Although it is...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
Many car enthusiasts appreciate and collect fine watches. This should not be surprising as it mirrors their passion for both finer things and mechanical pieces. I have noticed this trend over the last 19 years as a purveyor of fine automotive memorabilia in Toronto. I cannot tell you how many...
The 7th running of the fall races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., was held at the Interim Course, a 4.6-mile, 9-turn...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement...
The very first Porsche spanned the Second World War like a bridge over troubled waters, from peacetime to peacetime. It was created by Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche and a handful of his close associates in 1937-38 and, despite the hideous wartime destruction, is still alive and well today, a...
