24 Hours of Le Mans, June 20–21, 1964 The Chevrolet-engined Bizzarrini A3 Grifo of Pierre Noblet and Edgar Berney en...
During the late ’50s and early ’60s American racers were doing battle in a wide variety of homebuilt racecars and...
GT 3.0 Class-winning Équipe Nationale Belge Ferrari 250 GTO 64 finished 5th overall, driven by Lucien Bianchi and Jean Blaton (“Beurlys”). Black and white pen&ink on 12″x 9″ brown paper. For more from the artist: Paul Chenard Automobiliart.com [email protected] 1 902 817-9273 www.pinterest.com/automobiliart www.facebook.com/automobiliart.ca...
There were many interesting and familiar cars parked at the 2018 Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance. Ferraris, Packards, Jaguars and some vintage...
1964 Elva-Porsche One of the most important characteristics of a performance or racing car is the power-to-weight ratio. The goal...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how Surtees had his first test in a Formula One car in a Vanwall, and later became the only person ever to race Vanwall’s short-lived rear-engine car in 1961. As part...
Oscar Wilde wrote, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” This sounds a lot like the car hobby to...
We all love to be gob-smacked. It’s part of what keeps the hobby fresh and exciting. You know what I’m...
It’s confession time again. For my entire automotive collecting career, now entering its third decade, I’ve been both intrigued and confused by the early MOPAR performance and racing machinery. For years, I’ve been nodding with a wide smile and a blank cranium as people talk about Ramchargers, Max Wedge, Super...
The Sunbeam Tiger is a car well-known to enthusiasts. European cars with powerful American V8s are intriguing. Most of the...
I love Italian sports cars, and if they were built in the 1950s or 1960s, even better. At the top...
Aristotle Socrates Onassis was a Greek shipping magnate with enormous wealth, an iconic style and a passion for objects of beauty. He is, however, most widely remembered for marrying Jacqueline Kennedy in 1968. Five years ago, Onassis would have been the only Greek shipping magnate I could have named if...
The epic battle between Ferrari and Cobra had begun, but initially the Italian cars were still the best. The winner...
Our story begins with the Mustang’s introduction on April 17, 1964, at the New York World’s Fair. It turned out...
It’s a simple fact that the most popular form of motor racing in Australia today is sedan racing. Of course, this is much to the chagrin of the purist who would walk over hot coals to watch open-wheelers or sports racing cars. It was quite the opposite during the 1960s...
By the early 1950s, several British automotive manufacturers had completely devoted themselves to satisfying the seemingly insatiable postwar appetite for...
Talk about a gift from the heavens…LeMay – America’s Car Museum announced the surprise arrival of a 1964 Lincoln Continental...
The Royal Automobile Club has awarded the historic Segrave Trophy to John Surtees OBE. Speaking at the award ceremony, RAC chairman Tom Purves said: “John is one of the most accomplished and versatile sportsmen of all time, winning seven motorcycle World Championships and then victory in the 1964 Formula One...
From the 24 Hours of Le Mans, June 20-21, 1964, here’s Andy Hedges in the special works MGB that he...
Dan Gurney shared this 4.7-liter Cobra Daytona Coupe with Bob Bondurant for the 1964 running of the 24 Hours of...
With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the lens of his greatest achievements—the revered Cobra and GT350 being but two that will immediately pop to mind for most casual enthusiasts. But Shelby’s career as a constructor and team...
An unabashed devotee of The Simpsons, Fred Phillips is living the slightly-north-of-American dream. Nestled away among the snow drifts of...
If you were going to build an 850-cc sports racer in the 1960s, which engine would you choose? Larry Kropp...
In Monte Carlo on May 10, 1964, Jackie Stewart made one of his early international drives in this Cooper Formula Junior support race for the Monaco Grand Prix. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax:...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings...
1964 Lotus 30 Racing car enthusiasts, on the whole, treasure every innovative idea manufacturers have managed to conjure up. However,...
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in a car of your own design must have been overwhelming. For Bruce McLaren, the introduction of the Tasman Series, incorporating not only the New Zealand GP, but also the Australian...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped...
The Aston Martin DB5 was made famous in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, and from then on it has...
My time with the BMC competitions department saw me racing the big Austin Healeys, and later racing at Le Mans in an MG. The Mini Cooper and Mini Cooper S came along and they became world beaters in every racing and rallying competition category they entered. This was due to...
