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Vintage Racecar Features
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north...
Though historic racers themselves tend not to become “famous,” there certainly are a handful of very talented drivers, across the globe, that have risen to such a high level, as to have garnered their historic “fame.” Certainly, British-racer Martin Stretton must rank near the top of these elite amateur racers....
Pinin Farina updated the 250 GT with the GT Lusso or GTL. Introduced at the 1962 Paris show, the car...
1954 Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing For Sale 1954 Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing Details: Seller Cars International Kensington is asking £595,000....
Gracing the cover of Griot’s Garage Handbook #276 is a very mean Kremer Brothers-modified Porsche 935. Porsche 935’s in their heyday were some of the most spectacular cars to watch. With twin turbo-charged flat six Porsche engines, they produced 600 hp at 7500 rpm. The cars threw out massive flames...
Victory by Design is a series of documentary films on the subject of famous racing automobile marques produced in the...
Mark Neary Donohue, Jr. (March 18, 1937 – August 19, 1975) was an American racecar driver known for his ability...
The 1972 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 40th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on June 10th and 11th. It was the ninth round of the World Sportscar Championship. The track layout was changed yet again for 1972, with a new section of turns being built between...
The ubiquitous Griot’s Garage mail order catalog sells everything a car guy needs for their garage, from power tools to...
The Porsche 910 was a purpose built race car based on the Porsche 906. The main difference to the 906...
1962 Maserati 3500 GT Vignale Spyder For Sale Details: Listed for sale on eBay; located in Georgia. The Maserati is currently bid to $140,100 with seven days left on the auction. Seller Comments: “Original engine, five-speed ZF transmission, and Webers....
Most people associate Abarth with Fiat, but a very successful liaison was also formed with Simca. The French company was...
1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In America, particularly by the late fifties, we had more racetracks and more cars because we were a bigger country. Americans had more money but had no home-grown production sports cars—with...
New Zealand—the homeland of the two most famous drivers of the Can-Am series, Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme—was the host...
Nigel Mansell Biography Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE was born the 8th of August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England. His...
Porsche made a serious move to dominate the 2-litre class of international Grand Touring car competition in 1964 with introduction of its advanced Typ 904 GTS Coupe. The new car combined a very durable...
1966 Chevrolet Corvette La Carrera Panamericana Racer For Sale Details: Listed for sale on eBay; located in Connecticut. The Corvette...
The “American Le Mans Memories” online video series is a Speedtv.com and AmericanLeMans.com joint venture that opens up the vast...
The three-liter, six-cylinder 300S model Mercedes-Benz was first exhibited in October 1951 at the Paris Salon and production began in 1952. It was designed for the discriminating sports car enthusiast, and was to follow on the pre-war concept of the famous 500K and 540K Series cars that matched elegance with...
After famously leaving Ferrari and ATS, Giotto Bizzarrini teamed up with Italian industrialist Renzo Rivolta, who was turning his Iso...
The 1970 12 Hours of Sebring is judged by many to be the greatest Sebring race of all time. The...
Introduced in 1954, the Aceca was a fastback version of AC’s Ace roadster. Built as an exclusive Grand Touring car, each Aceca featured a new curved windshield and hinged rear hatch. The front-end styling of the Ace and Aceca reportedly traces back to a design done by Pinin Farina for...
While Jay Kay is best known as lead singer of the band Jamiroquai, he is also fairly well-known in auto...
The Maserati Ghibli is a two-door, two-seater coupe that debuted at the 1966 Turin Motor Show. The V8-powered Ghibli was...
The Ford Galaxie’s strong NASCAR and drag racing legacy is well known among Ford racing enthusiasts. Not so widely known, though, was the Galaxie’s memorable mark on the Touring Car and Saloon racing classes, as part of Ford’s “Total Performance” plans outside of the USA. Starting with the 1963 British...
The Porsche 911 Carrera RS is considered by many to be the greatest 911 of all time. Using the standard...
Gracing the cover of Griot’s Garage Handbook #272 is a very unusual car, a 1948 Daimler DE36 Drop Head Coupe....
1969 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG 1969 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG. Photo: Mercedes-AMG It seems hard to believe that most of the past 50 years of Mercedes-Benz motor sport history is, in large part, due to a small German company that, until recently, was not Mercedes-Benz. The little company...
