Harris-Costin Protos F2 Many of the drivers who progressed through the standard single-seater stages of racing in Europe in the...
Lotus 30 The Lotus 30 was built for all the wrong reasons. Colin Chapman designed it basically to get even...
1961 Ferrari 156 F1 Ricardo Rodriguez at the wheel of the Ferrari 156, during the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.Photo: Archives Trips Icon is probably an over-used word in automotive journalism, and modern commercialism has seen it applied to many automobiles which are clearly not icons – and sometimes...
1929 Bentley Blower 1929 Bentley Blower. This Profile may be forced to veer somewhat from our usual format since the...
Works Sunbeam Rapier As a 1960 Sunbeam Rapier drifted through long fast bends on the top of the Downs above...
When the first “Birdcage” Maseratis burst onto the world racing stage in 1959, a number of people were shocked and many laughed at their “strange” chassis, made up of hundreds of pieces of small tubing. A few dominant racing victories turned the nay-sayers around pretty quickly, and it was not...
Miller “Burd Piston Ring Special” On December 9, 1875 an event occurred in Menomonie, Wisconsin, that would directly shape and...
Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica Sebring is a favorite race for underdogs. Who can forget Jim Hall’s Chaparral swimming down...
Ferrari 512S In 1967, the 512 was born out of a series of bad decisions by racing’s ruling body, the CSI, that were aimed at slowing down the 7-liter monsters like the Ford Mk IVs, which were dominating sports car racing. So the prototype class had a 3-liter limit imposed...
Porsche 356A Modern automobile manufacturers would tell you – if you ran the Porsche history past them without putting a...
1959 Lister Jaguar Few of the 30,000 spectators, bundled warmly against the biting wind, realized they were to witness the...
Alfa Romeo TZ2 By 1963, Alfa Romeo was looking for a replacement for their Giulietta SZ, which had been very successful in European racing and rallying. It had heralded Alfa’s first use of Girling front disc brakes and had seen inroads made in aerodynamic technology with efficient use of the...
1958 Lola Mk1 The Broadley cousins were racing enthusiasts from an early age. Both built and raced Austin specials before...
1935 Maserati 4CS Photo: Peter Collins Ken Painter’s 1935 Maserati 4CS has had a highly active and dramatic existence, and...
1972 Giannini Gruppo 2 Corse The story of Giannini is the tale of the Italian car tuners, the specialists who took many of the big manufacturers’ road-going products and changed them, modified them, raced them, sold them, and supplied accessories for them. Abarth was one of the great “tuners,” however...
European Editor Ed McDonough recently became the first person outside Team Lotus to drive one of the best kept secrets...
HRG was a very small British manufacturer of predominantly competition-oriented sports cars from 1936-1966 – the initials were drawn from...
Sadler MkV Charles and John Cooper may have started the mid-engined revolution, but it was a maverick Canadian named Bill Sadler who carried the torch to the ranks of the big, whumpin’ V-8s. His ground-breaking 1961 Sadler MkV was the first of a species that would evolve into the thundering...
Have you ever sat in front of the television watching a beautifully filmed documentary about the archaeological wonders of Egypt,...
MG-N Monoposto Back in late 1934, a rather proud and reasonably affluent father decided his son should have something special...
Maserati 300S The modern era in motor racing began shortly after the end of WWII, when there was a huge leap in technological development and a serious shift toward racing becoming a professional sport. Ever since that time, now 50 years ago, enthusiasts and racers have argued nonstop about the...
BMW CSL In the world of production sedans – touring cars, as they are known in Europe – few if any...
Ferrari 250 SWB The combination of Stirling Moss and the Rob Walker Ferrari 250 SWB were near unstoppable in British...
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