The addition of early first-generation Spec Miatas to vintage racecar grids has been expanded to include both the early 1.6-liter...
Sports car racing legend, engineer and innovator John Cooper Fitch will be the subject of a Center Conversations talk May...
Mecum Auctions will celebrate its 30th anniversary at its original Spring Classic Auction in Indianapolis from May 16-21, where some 2,000 consignments will cross the block at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. The six-day Spring Classic auction is considered the largest and best muscle-car auction anywhere, and has historically attracted valuable...
The Friends of Steve McQueen Rally, sponsored by Russo and Steele and benefiting Boys Republic, will take place May 20-21,...
Nearly two dozen cars from one of racing’s more golden ages took to the streets of Long Beach last weekend...
Emerson Fittipaldi, two-time Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and the 1989 Indycar National Champion, was the guest of honor at the ninth annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner held in conjunction with the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach last Thursday evening. The gala event at...
The concept of the annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner in Long Beach was expanded this year to recognize the...
When The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering sets up shop on the lush greens of Quail Lodge & Golf Club in...
At last weekend’s 15th Annual Palm Beach Auction in Florida, Barrett-Jackson totaled $20.5 million in sales and set 14 world records for collector car sales while enjoying an astonishing sell-through rate of 99.4 percent! The three-day event featured 498 collector cars crossing the auction block, while some 278 Automobilia lots...
The MG Vintage Racers have selected the Vintage Racer Group’s Historic Races at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville on...
Northern California’s Classic Sports and Racing Group will be hosting a Formula Vee Gathering during its 2017 Thunderhill Spring race...
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of his record-setting fourth Indianapolis 500 win (and the 50th anniversary of his third), the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum will present A.J. Foyt: A Legendary Exhibition, a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit honoring the famed Texan. The exhibit opens next Friday, April 14. Presented by ABC Supply,...
Jenson Button, the 2009 Formula One World Champion, will take part in August’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, set for the...
A special display of more than a dozen famously red Ferraris will open at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los...
The eighth annual Greystone Mansion Concours d’Elegance, set for May 7 on the grounds of the Doheny Greystone Estate in Beverly Hills, California, is an all-marque, judged concours of pre-1974 vintage and classic automobiles. Also on display will be a full field of period motorcycles. This year’s Concours will honor...
Master automotive craftsman Joe Cavaglieri was named the 2017 recipient of the Racing History Project’s Peter Bryant Challenger Award at...
Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and Aston Martins will be among the exoticars featured during Barrett-Jackson’s 15th Annual Palm Beach Auction at...
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1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
Only four names come to mind when one recalls which drivers have driven their self-constructed cars in World Championship Grands...
Kirk F. White took a circuitous route to his successful classic car business in Philadelphia, entering the workforce earlier than most young men after his father passed away when he was a pre-teen. Because he had to help keep the family afloat financially, he went to work as a gofer...
In this month’s Racecar Profile [“Bound by Fate”], you’ll read that I recently had the opportunity to test drive the...
The boys from Brazil just keep on coming: Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and, since 2002, Felipe Massa. The...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving for Ken Tyrrell. Ken expected feedback from his drivers during testing, qualifying and races. Without this feedback, it was impossible to set up or improve the handling and efficiency of...
I served my apprenticeship with Jaguar, initially working on the last models of the E-Type, then the XJS, the XJ6...
Imagine you are a designer in late 1952. One day you are sitting, staring out of the window, when your...
Uli Ehret’s latest watercolor artwork shows the Group C Toyota T87C—a racecar designed and built by Dome—roaring past the pits during the early minutes of the race. The four-cylinder, turbo-engined prototype was driven by Alan Jones, Geoff Lees and Eje Elgh, and raced against mighty opposition from Porsche (the eventual...
April 2017 Away from green at the Labatt’s 200 Can-Am race at Mosport on June 13, 1971, Jackie Stewart’s Lola...
If you’re reading this magazine, you’re probably passionate about vintage racecars. You love the sounds they make, the smells that...
Two-liter sports racing 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. There was even a European...
