With the Concours season starting in California, my memory was jogged to my first and only Pebble Beach Road Races....
This year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion celebrated the 60th anniversary of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca rather than a featured marque....
Last Sunday, August 20, 204 of the most prized collector cars in the world rolled onto what is often called the best finishing hole in golf — the famed 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links — to take part in the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Originally a small social...
More than $325 million worth of collector cars were hammered sold over the Monterey Car Week Auction Season, with 70...
This coming Sunday, August 27, marks the first day of the 9th Annual Put-In-Bay Road Race Reunion, with the arrival...
Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have announced that the next Porsche Rennsport Reunion has been expanded to four days and will be held September 27-30, 2018, at the Central California track. Rennsport Reunion VI will bring together an extraordinary gathering of significant Porsche racecars, as...
The news has emerged that Roy Lunn, known to many as the Godfather of the GT40, passed away on August...
A 1954 Maserati A6GCS/53 Berlinetta by Pinin Farina, from the Monaco-based Destriero Collection (above, photo courtesy of Peninsula Classics), was...
For the very first time, the Simeone Automotive Foundation Museum in Philadelphia (above) has teamed up with Lime Rock Park to offer a special event celebrating the Legends of Lime Rock and the 60th anniversary of Lime Rock Park. On August 26, 2017, this one-of-a-kind event at the museum will...
Next April 13-14, fans at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach will get a look at the American pony...
The Mullin Automotive Museum has announced it will display six French classics at various events during Monterey Car Week, August...
The 9th annual Brits on the Lake Classic Motoring Revival will take place this weekend, August 12-13, in historic downtown Port Perry, Ontario. The event will be celebrating the 60th anniversaries of four prominent cars, the Lotus 7, the Lotus Elite, the Jaguar XK150 and the Triumph TR5/TR250. Beyond the...
Mecum Auctions registered $20 million in overall sales when it returned to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, last week with 858 vehicles on...
Carroll Shelby International and DenBeste Motorsports have announced that production of the highly anticipated 427 Shelby Cobra Competition racecar is...
August has again arrived, and the collector car auctions of Monterey Classic Car Week will soon be providing the industry with its annual reality check. The five main auction companies will all stage showcase sales during the week, each with its own selection of desirable machinery over a broad range...
The 2017 Palos Verdes Concours d’Elegance
will feature cars from the marques Packard and Porsche to exemplify this year’s theme...
Portland International Raceway played host to the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) Racing Festival the last weekend of July with...
1978 Eagle DGF There is a historical trope in the racing world, which suggests that a talented craftsman could build a simple, small displacement racecar—like a Formula Ford—and his prototype’s success would catapult that individual into becoming a major racing car manufacturer, eventually reaching the pinnacles of the sport, F1...
Environment affects evolution. Case in point: racing sedans. European sedans, contending with high fuel costs and operating on winding and...
Longtime readers of this magazine will know that we have been one of the few publications—of any kind or genre—that...
When I first started work for Porsche, I was naturally introduced to their ways of working, which I found in later years to become “the Porsche way.” Years later, I discovered that other automobile companies or racing teams did things a little different. The Porsche way wasn’t just talking around,...
August 2017 The Belgian Grand Prix; Spa-Francorchamps, June 18, 1967. Dan Gurney braking for La Source on his way to...
“And Now for Something Completely Different.” This mantra aptly characterized the boldness of Monty Python when it first aired in 1969. Fresh and fantastic; different in the best way possible. In my view, the same can be said of the racing machines and pilots of Great Britain. A bit more...
Bruce McLaren John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) 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 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included...
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