Designed by Franco Scaglione and built by Carrozzeria Sargiotto, the Lamborghini 350 GTV prototype made its debut at the 1963...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is teaming up with Spotfund – an all-new and innovative fundraising platform that supports only 501(c)(3) non-profits – to close out the funding required to get Dan Gurney’s legendary Lotus 29/1 back on the racetrack. The IMS Museum’s Restoration department is getting ever closer to...
If you visited a car show in 1963 or 1964, you would have seen concept cars on display from many...
This was going to be an important year for me. My win at Oulton Park, in Richard Attwood’s Cooper, had...
When I was a college student, some friends told me about a woman who ran a hair salon in her West Los Angeles apartment. She ran a steady business cutting hair for most of us attending UCLA. Perfectly positioned near campus and offering haircuts at student rates, short, perky Karen...
It is always interesting to learn why people enjoy certain types of cars. I’m half English and half Italian, and...
Elsewhere in this issue you’ll read of the passing of an individual that you’ve likely never heard of. Yet, this...
The year 1963 gave us the Lava Lamp, touch-tone phones, instant coffee and Johnny Depp. That same year Jim Clark captured his first Formula One championship, Ferrari won Le Mans for the seventh time, and Parnelli Jones chugged the milk at Indy. Down under, Australian-born John Dickenson gave the world...
Legendary, iconic, brute and monster are all words that can be used to describe the world’s ultimate performance muscle car—the...
At the beginning of the 1963 season we had a choice, whether we wanted to work in Formula One or...
What do Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Max Balchowsky and a ’63 Corvette Split Window Coupe have in common? Read on! Ken and Gary Nabers have lived in Houston, Texas, all of their lives. The brothers first laid eyes on a Chevrolet Corvette in 1953 at the General Motors Motorama at Houston’s...
The Anglo-European Trophy, Brands Hatch, September 14, 1963. Tim Mayer was a very talented young American driver and the brother...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from pole position, turned out...
This year is the 50th anniversary of the 911. Its first public viewing was at the September 1963 Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany, though at that time it was know as the 901. However, in 1929 Peugeot had introduced the model 201. The company registered with the French government’s office...
It could have all ended so differently, this confluence of seemingly random events that culminated that cold Valentine’s Day in...
This month we offer you, courtesy of YouTube, a two-part review of the 1963 running of the 12 Hours of...
All right, I suppose I should start off with a confession. I am a mad, keen Austin-Healey enthusiast, and have had one example or another locked away in the garage for over 40 years. In fact, I have been quite taken by anything that was done by the Donald Healey...
I’ve been associated with many great racecars over the years, and for the most part Indycars. I’m particularly proud of...
The Daytona Continental (3 Hours) Race; Daytona, February 17, 1963. Pedro Rodriguez in the N.A.R.T.-entered Ferrari 250 GTO leads Skip Hudson’s...
Heavy Duty Lightweights The year 2011 marks 50 years of the E-Type Jaguar or, as some of you know it better, the XKE. It’s a bit unsettling to find myself being unphased by remembering things that happened 50 years ago—a sure sign of advanced age. Fifty years ago, in August...
This month’s Hidden Treasure begins with the sound of J. Why do I bring this up? Because for years I’ve...
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for Formula Junior. We have covered some important ground with this significant racing formula, and gotten to grips with Elva, Lotus, Stanguellini, Volpini, Autosud and more. As 2008 marks 50 years...
My first experience with a front-engine roadster was when I first went back east to race. I wound up driving...
1963 Scirocco By the time you read this, a superb collection of famous, bizarre, futile and fantastic Grand Prix cars...
