Oran Park Raceway, Narellan, Australia June 28–29, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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Portland International Raceway, Portland, OR July 11–13, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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Pacific Raceways, Kent, WA July 4–6, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
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November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at Watkins Glen, the original Canadian-American Challenge Cup series was one of the most unique and awe-inspiring racing championships ever to grace the world motor sport stage. Part of the series’...
The passing of any legend will always generate a fresh wave of interest in his or her biographical history, and...
With the financial world still reeling from the ramifications of the subprime housing implosion, the four major auctions held in...
Among the 450 entries for this year’s Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races presented by Toyota was an ex–Ken Miles 1960 Dolphin Formula Junior driven by Californian Phil Binks. Beyond those basic facts is the reality that the event marked Binks’s 50th anniversary of his first driving school, his first involvement...
The Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and the Sports Car Club of South Africa will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the...
Need a change of pace from the usual closed-course vintage race events? Bored with the same corners on all-too-familiar tracks?...
Ed Justice Sr., who with brothers Zeke and Gus founded the international oil additives company that bears their name, has passed away due to complications from kidney failure. Prior to creating their own company, both Ed and Zeke worked for Frank Kurtis helping craft the racecars that made his name...
It is with sadness that we report the loss of British Le Mans–winner, Peter Jopp. Jopp began racing in the...
Assuming that somehow what racing really needs is another international Formula car class, the FIA recently announced plans to resurrect...
The 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C, owned by Jon and Mary Shirley of Medina, Washington, was named “Best of Show” at the 58th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, held Sunday, August 18. Shirley, Vintage Racecar reader and the former president and chief operating officer of Microsoft who resides in Medina, Washington, purchased...
The Jaguar XK series made its first public debut at the 1948 London Motor Show in the shape of the...
For the 35th renewal of the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, organizer Steve Earle decided...
1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” Across the annals of automotive history, few families can lay claim to more engineering genius than that of Rudolfo and Carolina Maserati. Between 1880 and 1898, Carolina gave birth to no less than six sons, Carlo, Bindo, Alfieri, Mario, Ettore, and Ernesto. All but one...
Al Stein’s Valvoline Twin Special Hanging on the wall of an auto body repair shop in Berkeley, California, is an...
Formula Atlantic celebrates its 35th season in 2008, standing as the second oldest training category in the world, behind only...
I write this month’s column from Monterey, as myself, most of our staff, and about 3,000-pounds of magazines are here for the annual Monterey Historics pilgrimage (of which, there will be a full report in next month’s issue). This year, because we had so many of our people up for...
Georges Louis Frederic Boillot Biography Georges Louis Frederic Boillot was born in Valentigney, France on August 3rd, 1884 A mechanic...
I drove the Birdcage Maserati for Lucky Casner’s Camoradi Team on three occasions in 1960, beginning with the 1,000 kilometers...
Without a doubt, the racecar that gave me the most pleasure, and therefore my greatest racecar, was the Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-6. I drove it at Silverstone, with Derek Warwick as my teammate, in the 1986 Kouros 1,000-kms race, which we won by a substantial two-lap margin over the Rothmans...
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a...
CAMORADI—an acronym for Casner Motor Racing Division—was formed by Lloyd “Lucky” Casner in late 1959. The intention was to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans using the Maserati Tipo 61, also known as the “Birdcage” due to its intricate tubular space-frame chassis. While victory at Le Mans eluded the...
