1968 Lolita MkI & the 1969 Lolita MkII My first car was a British Motor Corporation Mini. I had just turned 17 and, with $200 burning… Read More...
The two-mile marker whizzed by. My Achilles tendon strained as my foot tried to shove the accelerator through the floorboard looking for more speed. The… Read More...
After church one Sunday in 1957, a 13-year-old Philadelphia boy named Tom Pomeroy was playing with some of his friends, when they discovered an out-of-service… Read More...
You’d swear Christmas came in October, as I rushed home with my newest acquisition. I was almost giddy as I pulled into the driveway, grabbed… Read More...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man, in 1950, Emilio Giuseppe (Nino)… Read More...
John Michael “Mike” Hawthorn won the Formula One World Championship in 1958, and in doing so became the first British driver ever to win it.… Read More...
I have driven numerous racing cars over my 30 years and many eras of motor sport. I drove in several different disciplines. I had so… Read More...
One of the most successful relationships in motor sports during the sixties was between Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles. It resulted in transforming Cobras into… Read More...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like what it might do to… Read More...
In 1938, Tazio Nuvolari left Alfa Romeo after narrowly avoiding serious injury when the uncompetitive car he was driving burst into flames. He declared that… Read More...
January 2009 The Le Mans 24 Hours; Le Mans, June 10-11, 1961. Augie Pabst seems serene at the wheel of the battered and besmudged Briggs… Read More...