The last of four Abarth 205 competition chassis to be constructed, this 1953 Abarth 1100 Sport is the only example...
Vintage Racecar Features
1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Due to Jano’s suspension modifications over the ’31-’32 season, the 8C enjoys surprisingly flat handling...
Lots of car buffs have fantasized about designing and/or building their own four-wheeler at one time or another. Fewer have had the courage and stamina to actually follow their dream and construct one. Time and money were always the main obstacles. Building a sports racer that could compete with the...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2017 was held 17-18 June at the 38-turn, 8.469 mile Circuit de la Sarthe...
On 19 June 1927, Rudolf Caracciola won the inaugural race for sports cars at the Nürburgring in a Mercedes-Benz Model S, marking the beginning of the Stuttgart car maker’s success in motorsport. For in the years that followed, the supercharged sports cars from Mercedes-Benz achieved many things in the racing...
The 1927 Hispano-Suiza T49 ‘Weymann’ Sport Saloon by H.J. Mulliner owned by Marco Gastaldi won the ‘Trofeo FIVA’ to the...
Girardo and Co. is offering for sale the Ferrari 512 S originally owned and raced by the Scuderia Ferrari in...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the keys to enjoying the performance available from Lola’s first venture into Group 7 competition. Photo: Roger Dixon If there was a racing car that most of the great and the good...
Engineer, Champion Rider, Champion Driver and Team Manager John Surtees, four-time motorcycle World Champion, aboard one of his title-taking MV Agusta...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
The first Classic Mazda Museum in Europe — and indeed the only one outside Japan — opened on 13th May in Augsburg, Germany. Mazda Classic Automobil Museum Frey, a project led by a local Mazda dealer Auto Frey with the support of Mazda Germany, spotlights Mazda’s almost 100 years of...
One of BMW’s most celebrated vehicles, the 507 has remained an icon of design for 60 years. Conceived by the...
The Petersen Automotive Museum opened its latest exhibition in the Bruce Meyer Family Gallery, “Seeing Red: 70 Years of Ferrari.”...
The one-millionth Porsche 911 model rolled off the production line — a Carrera S in the special color “Irish Green”, with numerous exclusive features following the original 911 from 1963. The two-door car remains the most strategically important model in the company’s product range and makes a huge contribution to...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
Last year the SCCA marked the 50th anniversary of its inaugural Trans-American Sedan Championship event at Sebring, Florida, on March 25, 1966. Eventually known as simply the Trans-Am, the series became the most closely contested road-racing series in America. The Tran-Am blossomed quickly, reached its zenith in 1970 and then...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s...
On 9 May 1937, the Mercedes-Benz W125 racing car celebrated its racing debut with a victory at the Tripoli Grand...
On March 12 1947, Enzo Ferrari fired up the 125 S, the first car to bear his name. That test-drive on the streets of Maranello marked the start of modern Ferrari history. The then-modest factory quickly grew into one of the great internationally-renowned icons. Now, exactly 70 years later, on...
The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster (W 198) made its premiere 60 years ago at the Geneva Motor Show from 14...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
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....
Kirk F. White took a circuitous route to his successful classic car business in Philadelphia, entering the workforce earlier than...
In June 1957, the Scottish team Ecurie Ecosse claimed its second consecutive victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans...
The storied history of then-named Laguna Seca Raceway officially began November 9, 1957 with the inaugural race called the Eighth Annual Pebble Beach Road Races. This was a continuation of the racing through the forest at nearby Pebble Beach that began in 1950 and ended six years later. But the...
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car Author found the Maxi rally machine to be very responsive to driver inputs. Photo: Kary Jiggle...
Photo: David Gooley, courtesy of the Don Murray Collection It is easy to examine an early Ferrari or a Maserati...
The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport ever, counterbalancing the equally potent combination of Ford and Carroll Shelby. Together, Hall and Musser, along with their teams of brilliant engineers and technicians, produced some of the most famous...
