Monzapolis Kraft
1957 Kurtis Kraft 500G2 When Champ Cars made a very rare appearance in Europe a couple of years ago, many of us thought this would… Read More...
Monthly Archives: August, 2007
Winners Drove Watsons
Talking with famed Indianapolis chassis builder A. J. Watson, the question arises about the front, twin air inlets—the signature of the Watson Roadster. The first… Read More...
Jim Rathmann
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but also by an unusual name… Read More...
Roadster Revelation
As we’ve done each of the ten years we’ve now been in publication, this month we focus all of the content within this issue around… Read More...
Wilbur Shaw and the Maserati 8CTF
One was born in Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1902 and the other in a cramped workshop in Bologna, northern Italy, 35 years later. Yet, when the…
The Roadster Years
My first experience with a front-engine roadster was when I first went back east to race. I wound up driving a lay-down roadster that was… Read More...
1960 Watson Roadster
Prior to 1959, I ran pretty well on the mile tracks with the dirt cars, but at Indianapolis, I never had a car that was… Read More...
My Friend Rodger
For the last 20 years or so of his life, Rodger Ward and I were friends. Even though I had met him only once during… Read More...
The Indy Tradition
Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first to bear the title and… Read More...
Indy 500, 1959
My forty-third stained-glass window turned out to be a very special piece of art. It was commissioned by Jan and Larry Pfitzenmaier of Sonoita, Arizona.…
Fast Exposure
The German Grand Prix; Nürburgring, August 2, 1953. World Champion Alberto Ascari sits in his Ferrari 500/F2 in front of the pits with Mike Hawthorn…