AutoArt Mercedes-Benz 190SL As discussed in this month’s “Roadcar Profile,” in 1954, when Mercedes-Benz was laying the groundwork for a...
Talking with famed Indianapolis chassis builder A. J. Watson, the question arises about the front, twin air inlets—the signature of...
August 2007 Cars at Speed By Robert Daley Some 46 years ago, Cars at Speed by Robert Daley first appeared in bookstores and was something of a bestseller in the U.S. and England. “It covers a period when the racing of fast motor cars bore little resemblance to what is...
The Resurrection of an Indy Icon Vintage car racer/restorer Philippe de Lespinay did not set out to restore the Kimberly...
As manager of racing public relations for Goodyear, Bill Neely accumulated a lot of interesting and outrageous stories—especially from the...
Le Mans, 1967. Giddy as a couple of kids, Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt are spraying champagne on everyone within range—race officials, photographers, crew members, even Henry Ford II. The calendar says June 11, but it’s really the Fourth of July and waving the Stars-and-Stripes is in high fashion. Driving...
July 2005 The Cruel Sport by Robert Daley Two years ago, I received this e-mail from Robert Daley: “I am...
There’s no middle ground with A.J. Foyt, no compromising your feelings. You either love him or hate him. You either...
Robert Daley’s name is pretty much unknown in racing circles these days, but he was at Zandvoort that afternoon in 1960 when Dan Gurney’s BRM P48 lost its rear brakes, plunged headlong into the sand dunes and killed a spectator. Daley overheard Gurney say as he surveyed the tragic scene,...
February 2005 Ferrari: A Champion’s View by Phil Hill It turns out that Phil Hill—America’s first world champion, three-time Le...
Hans Ruesch has had an amazing life. At age 23, he won the Donington Grand Prix (with Richard Seaman as...
It’s the stuff of Hollywood. Likeable, luckless Jimmy Stewart type, after a series of DNFs and an horrific accident that very nearly cost him his life, is about to go out and win his first race, only to discover his car is missing! With his racecar missing, Gurney confronts his...
You’ve just signed super-rookie Mario Andretti as your driver for the 1965 season, and you need a chassis. Everybody’s going...
