A Race To Remember – Recollections of 1970 12 Hours of Sebring By Louis Galanos In 1970 my fiancé and...
Vintage Racecar Features
When Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche unveiled the Porsche 917 at the Geneva International Motor Show on March 13, 1969,...
Our recent 1967 24 Hours of Daytona Photo Gallery continues to be a very popular story, as it featured great vintage pictures of the fabulous Ferrari P series prototypes and Ford’s GT40 and their who’s who list of drivers. Our second photo gallery features more vintage race...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into...
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance racing’s Big Three signature events, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 12 Hours of Sebring, and the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He is also one of just two to...
This 1937 Bentley 4 1/4 Liter Fixed Head Sport Coupe sold for $1,320,000 at the 2009 Gooding and Company Scottsdale...
“Design is what sets a vehicle apart, what separates a good car from a great car. It is what creates...
Bitter from multiple sports car racing defeats at the hands of the potent Ford GT40 in 1966, Ferrari was determined to change course in 1967. Ferrari had high hopes their upgraded P series prototypes would be the winning ticket for the first round of the 1967 World Sportscar Championship, the...
Pegaso was an established company noted for its trucks and motor coaches, but also produced sports cars for seven years. Pegaso...
The new Porsche Museum, located in the heart of the Porsche factory in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany, officially opened to the public...
Artcurial is offering a Matra MS650 (s/n 01) at its 2009 Classic and Racing Cars auction on Sunday, February 8th at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. Three Matra 650s were built: 01-02-03. The 650 is probably the most sought after and important sports “barchetta” from Matra. Contrary to the...
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, will offer this stunning 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa (Chassis # 0714TR) when the...
This 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Alloy Competizione did not sell at the high bid of $4,400,000 during the Gooding...
By Paul Chenard, Racing History Collector and Illustrator I’ve been collecting vintage toys since 1982. I started slowly and methodically, partly for lack of information, mostly for lack of finances. I used to collect any metal transportation toy that I found interesting, anything that caught my eye (and that I could afford)....
1967 Brabham BT24-Repco Sometimes all your birthdays and Christmases come at once. Shaking down the BT24 on Australia’s legendary Phillip...
In our annual special devoted to the latest trends and developments in personal safety gear we examine: • The Future...
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar enthusiasts in the UK. Eventually, Fenning worked his way up to factory rides with Lola and Lotus before a devastating road accident topped the trajectory of his driving career. However,...
Frazer Nash has the distinction of being the only British car ever to win the Sicilian Targa Florio. This was...
The 47th running of the 24 Hours of Daytona will take place January 24-25 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona...
“Barn finds, rally cars and needles in the haystack” is the very fitting tag line for one of our favorite sites, Bring a Trailer. On a daily basis, Bring a Trailer brings its readers the very best and neatest vintage cars that are hiding, typically not in actual barns, but...
This distinctive early Ferrari Spider has bodywork...
1968 Lolita MkI & the 1969 Lolita MkII My first car was a British Motor Corporation Mini. I had just turned...
After church one Sunday in 1957, a 13-year-old Philadelphia boy named Tom Pomeroy was playing with some of his friends,...
For the 1974 season, Porsche produced yet another evolution of the 911. Developed around the 3-litre RS homologation special, the...
By Greg Wing What is it about things being small and going unnoticed? The three French team Deutsch-Bonnet Panhards that ran at the infamous 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans qualify! These small displacement (750cc) racecars become ever more amazing the more one learns about them. The Marques’s namesake comes...
This Talbot-Lago sold for £312,500 at RM Auctions’ Automobiles of London auction held October 29th at the Battersea Evolution in...
Not for the first time, one of motor sport’s most successful cars was a huge flop when it made its...
Bob McKee had chutzpah. He believed he could build racecars that were as good as anyone else’s and build them safer. Not only did he build racecars, he also built components like early transaxles, which many people in the early days of mid-engined racecars sought out from him. However, a...
