From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and...
As you’ll read in this issue’s news, the much-revered Lyndley Bothwell collection was recently sold by Bonhams. Of particular interest...
RM Sotheby’s third Manhattan sale, entitled ICONS, produced $45.5 million worth of sales last Wednesday night, December 6, at Sotheby’s York Ave headquarters, with 84 percent of all lots sold. Eleven cars posted individual million-dollar-plus results, with strong prices evident for exceptional historic racecars and high-performance models of the 1990s,...
The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 11, 2018, at the Golf Club of Amelia Island on...
A 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix car will cross the auction block with No Reserve at RM Sotheby’s upcoming...
The only time I ever met Eddie Cheever was one weekend when we were at the Hockenheim circuit, in Germany, for the 1979 Formula Two race. He was a tall 21-year-old American who had lived in Rome for much of his early life and spoke immaculate Italian. I felt very...
The official entry list for next month’s third running of the Classic 24 Hour at Daytona presented by IMSA has...
The 16th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance, one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing automotive and motorsports...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
Attendees at next weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to reflect upon 60 years of racing history at...
The first thought after looking around the garage has to be “why would a woman with four Ferraris have an Isetta?” In the profile of her 512 BBi (Vintage Roadcar, January 2017), Julie Ibrahim gave the answer to that question, “I was always a car girl.” And that she is....
1 Chuck Daigh, driving a Lotus 19-Climax, wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at Mosport, Ontario, Canada (1963). 2 Henry...
On Saturday June 24 at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization will bring together families...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s still at the “sharp end” today. Motor sport fans in the UK will know him for his commentary on the ITV network coverage of the BTCC, but not too many...
“Where have all the young teams gone?” the words of that famous song with a one word alteration could well...
Imagine you are a designer in late 1952. One day you are sitting, staring out of the window, when your...
1 David Pearson wins the NASCAR Winston Cup race at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia (1973). 2 Tommy Milton...
The 75th renewal of Goodwood’s annual Members’ Meeting took place last weekend at the historic Chichester circuit, awarding classic cups...
Electric vehicles are suddenly all the rage. Showing one’s “green” credentials is very popular in this low or zero emission age, and in my neighborhood I often see a Tesla with “Zero Emissions” as its license plate, which does give out the message to some of us fossil fuel engine...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and...
From 1964-1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Jr., however with that category’s demise at the end of ’63, F2 was reformed...
A 1969 Maserati Ghibli 4.9 Spyder took top honors for the highest sale price at last week’s Mecum Kissimmee Auction...
Paul Rosche, the engine wizard who guided BMW to multiple international racing successes, including the Formula One World Championship and...
There have been so many great cars in my life and they have all been such fun. The wildest racecar I ever drove was a three-liter Abarth prototype that had hillclimb gearing in it. That car would do 138 mph at 8,000 rpm in fifth, so it got there in...
November 2016 FITZ: My Life At The Wheel By John Fitzpatrick John Fitzpatrick started racing in a Mini 850 and...
Gareth Burnett and Jez Haylock emerged as winners of the Endurance Rally Association’s Alpine Trial with their 1934 Talbot 105 Alpine (above, Gerrard Brown photo), duplicating their success in the event’s inaugural running. The all-British team faced fierce competition from runners-up John Abel and Leigh Powley in their 1937 Lagonda...
