The Greenwich Concours d’Elegance will celebrate its 23rd year of showcasing significant cars, motorcycles and one-off automobile creations on June...
The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 11, 2018, on the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island...
Environment affects evolution. Case in point: racing sedans. European sedans, contending with high fuel costs and operating on winding and narrow roads, ended up looking different from their American counterparts, raised on cheap fuel in more open spaces. Racing venues also differed, with sedan racing in Europe dominated by road...
1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, born in Japan (1947). 2 Briggs Cunningham, racer,...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 When speaking to Brian Lister, some years ago, I asked him about the secret of his success....
1 Paul Frere drives an Ecurie Belge Cooper T51-Climax to victory in the 80-lap Formula Libre South African Grand Prix in East London (1960). 2 Franco Cortese wins the III Grosvenor Grand Prix near Cape Town, South Africa, at the wheel of a Maserati 6CM (1939). 4 Graeme Lawrence drives...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He...
In late March, around the time of the New York Auto Show, Jaguar made the surprising announcement that it would...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism” that was sweeping across other forms of motorsport began to exert its influence at Le Mans. With increased money and prestige now flowing through professional racing, the caliber of teams...
The story of the Corvette and how it came to race at Le Mans is one in which the dreams...
1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 Michael Andretti...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary of his racing career. Before, after and during that career, however, John Fitch was much more than a racing driver. He served as pilot of both Light Bombers and P-51...
At the 12 Hours of Sebring on March 25, 1961, John Fitch shared this Briggs Cunningham-entered Maserati T61 “Birdcage” with...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as...
By late 1956 the production of Jaguar’s D-Type competition model had come to an end, but of a total of 71 cars built since 1954, 16 remained unsold. In an effort to find a different market for its increasingly obsolete inventory, the factory decided to convert each remaining competition car...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent...
In honor of the 60th anniversary of Chevrolet’s Corvette, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has selected “America’s sports car” as...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race at all. The previous year there had been a fatality on the 6.6-mile course that ran right through town on Franklin Street. Facing the organizers, as Henry Valent succinctly put...
It was still very early days for the small, but growing firm of Lotus Cars. In just nine short years,...
The Don Dear Editor, These days I tend to read Vintage Racecar from the back forward, in as much as...
Over the years Texas has seen its share of oilmen who were actively involved in sports car racing. One of them was Dallas resident Samuel Allen Guiberson, who was of distant Dutch descent. Already the owner of various big Ferraris in the early ’50s, Guiberson bought a new Ferrari 750...
Frank Sinatra purchased his first hybrid car in 1957. So did pals, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Eddie Fisher, as...
The second gathering of automobiles made or owned by Briggs Cunningham will be held at the Fairfield County Concours at...
To say that Roy Gane has strong opinions would be to say that Cadbury’s makes chocolates. It’s evident as soon as you open a conversation with Roy that he has strong opinions on people in racing, races, racecar preparation and on racing politics. Perhaps it’s because he has done nearly...
At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in June 1963. Americans Briggs Cunningham and Bob Grossman drove this Cunningham-entered, works-supported...
1988 Jaguar XJR9 & 1991 Jaguar XJR12 Almost all of Jaguar’s competition effort in the post-war period became directed at a...
June 2010 Ode to Briggs Dear Editor, Vintage Racecar’s April article celebrating the 60th anniversary of Briggs Cunningham’s Le Mans effort was excellent! I have had the privilege and pleasure of celebrating Briggs Cunningham’s special contribution to motorsports driving one of his C4Rs in a spectrum of vintage motorports events: racing at nostalgic venues like Sebring, Le...
Soon after motor vehicles were invented they were raced. Initially the contests were held on open roads, often from city...
Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America...
It is astonishing what you can learn about different countries if you follow motor racing. I have no real knowledge about tax except for those tear-stained begging letters I receive from the Inland Revenue, but I have picked up a few things. Cunningham, Scarab, and Chaparral were all major American...
