As someone whose own hands have all the finesse of lead knock-off hammers, I’ve always admired those deft artisans of...
Silverstone, England April 23, 2005 Alexander Boswell in his Ferrari 625, the car that won the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix....
Amelia Island, Florida March 10–13, 2005 This year a record breaking crowd of cars and aficionados filled the greens and fairways for the 10th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Photo: Hal Crocker Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full...
Pocono, Pennsylvania April 16–17, 2005 The rare 1948 Veritas RS of John Grella. Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Become a Member &...
Hockenheim, Germany April 22–24, 2005 Christian Glasel’s Brabham BT49 leads Richard Eyre’s Williams into the first turn. Photo: Jim Houlgrave...
Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, California March 25–27, 2005 Conrad Stevenson’s gorgeous 1939 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500. Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited...
July 2005 The Cruel Sport by Robert Daley Two years ago, I received this e-mail from Robert Daley: “I am...
On April 16, the Fabulous Fifties Association staged a reunion of cars and participants that competed at Southern California’s Paramount Ranch road course in 1956 and 1957. Part of the festivities included a Concours d’Provenance that saw more than 50 cars and 200 attendees take part. Some of the personalities...
Exactly 37 years to the month after Jim Clark was tragically killed in an F2 car at Hockenheim, the FIA...
Gooding and Company will be offering the first 275 GTS/4 Ferrari built during its August 21 auction following the Pebble...
Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auctions will offer another historically important Shelby factory Cobra racecar at its August 20 auction in Monterey, CA. This will be the second Factory Team racecar offered in 2005 by the Scottsdale-based company, and it will be sold at no reserve. Shelby Cobra chassis CSX2138...
America’s highest-altitude road racing course, Aspen Raceway, has announced the creation of The Aspen Racing & Sports Car Club. This...
Nico Rosberg, son of World Champion Keke Rosberg, took a major step in his father’s footsteps in early May when...
Long-time British saloon and sports car driver Gerry Marshall died at Silverstone on April 21 of a heart attack, while driving an ex-IROC Richard Petty Camaro. Born in 1941, Marshall was considered one of the winningest U.K. drivers on record. His professional driving career spanned four decades, having started winning...
The American Alfa Romeo Owners Club (AROC) will be holding its annual national convention in Seattle, Washington this year, from...
From March 10–13, Florida’s Amelia Island played host to what, over the past 10 years, has become perhaps the East...
Famed Italian carrozzeria Bertone has announced the opening of a new workshop, Bertone Classic, which will now offer restoration work on any Bertone-bodied vehicle. Based in Turin, Bertone Classic will be a service aimed at allowing collectors of Bertone vehicles access to restoration services certified by Bertone, which make use...
1939 2-Liter Monoposto Speed Model Back in 1966 I bought the second serious car I ever owned, a 1958 Aston...
A shortish, miserable-looking man with a square moustache strutted into the room, his face non-committal, his uniform vaguely operatic. He...
From an Austin A30 sedan to the wheel of a Formula One car is quite a journey. When growing up, Australian driver Tim Schenken had a burning passion to be a Formula One driver. It was this passion that proved successful with 34 Grand Prix starts and has kept him...
On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon, my wife walked into the kitchen to find me elbow deep in racing books,...
I first raced at Monaco in 1955, a famous year for the Grand Prix, when Ascari went into the water....
The new Bentley Continental has been such a success that there is to be a four-door model, the Flying Spur. Fine, except that it may be made in Germany along with other Volkswagen products. Some British newspapers have gone into shock! Horror! So far as I am concerned, Bentley ceased...
Briggs Swift Cunningham: one of the greatest racing figures, car engineers and team owners in America. Racing from the ’40s...
Vic Elford Lucien Bianchi 1 Derek Bell, Hans Stuck and Al Holbert drive a Porsche 962 to victory in the...
The over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
Sebring, Florida March 3–6, 2005 John Cloud finished 2nd in the Anglo-American GT race in his 1967 Camaro. Photo: Chuck...
PIR, Phoenix, Arizona February 19–20, 2005 The 1993 Chevy Lumina of Steve Schoellhorn was one of 20 historic stock cars making up the Group 6 grid.Photo: Wayne Kitano Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to...
