August has again arrived, and the collector car auctions of Monterey Classic Car Week will soon be providing the industry...
Portland International Raceway played host to the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) Racing Festival the last weekend of July with...
August 2017 Cobra Pilote – The Ed Hugus Story By Robert D. Walker Ed Hugus was one of Carroll Shelby’s original cohorts in the Cobra project and, having owned the second Ferrari distributorship in the USA, provided business acumen that Shelby may have lacked. Plus, he actually funded the first...
Mecum Auctions took its collector-car auction show to the Mile High City this past weekend, July 22-23, with 591 vehicles...
The UK’s Salon Privé Chubb Concours d’Elégance, scheduled for August 31 through September 2 at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, has...
Salon Privé, the UK’s longest-standing, professionally judged Concours d’Elégance, now in its 12th year, has added an all-new day of Concours celebrations alongside the existing Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance at Blenheim Palace. This makes it the first event to hold two completely separate event within the same meeting, which is...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the...
The 5th Annual Carroll Shelby Tribute & Car Show will take place on Saturday May 20, at Shelby Headquarters, which...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras winning the 1965 FIA GT championship, Shelby took over command of Ford’s struggling GT40 program and in 1966 finally handed Henry Ford II the 24 Hours of Le Mans victory...
In this month’s Racecar Profile [“Bound by Fate”], you’ll read that I recently had the opportunity to test drive the...
The sixth annual Mecum Houston collector-car auction will take place April 6-8 at NRG Arena, with an estimated 1,000 American...
NEC Birmingham November 11-13, 2016...
A 1962 Shelby Cobra, serial number CSX2032 (above, photo courtesy of Mecum Auctions), that was once owned by Lance Reventlow...
1952 Allard J2X At a sports and exotic car show a while ago, I was feasting my eyes on sculpted...
Peter Auto’s final event of the 2016 season took place on the weekend of October 22-23 on the Enzo & Dino Ferrari circuit in Imola, Italy, allowing drivers in five of the event’s categories to go head-to-head one last time before season’s end. In the majority of classes the season...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with...
I could talk about David Purley, or Dave as I’ve always known him, all day long, but for the sake...
Ken Miles in the Shelby Cobra, with Shelby’s personal racing number, leads Jim Hall in the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken Miles won the GT class and finished 2nd overall, as the Grand Sport driven by Hall, Roger Penske and Hap Sharp finished 3rd overall behind the winning Ferrari 250LM with...
Carmel, CA August 15, 2016 ...
This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel...
Sixty cars were sold for more than $1 million during the various auctions held last week as part of Monterrey Classic Car Week, but while the top end of the market continues to look good, some erosion is appearing at the lower echelons. Of the major houses, Gooding & Co....
Many might find it unusual that the 58-year old son of legendary racecar driver Dave MacDonald had never driven a...
A pair of million-dollar Shelby Cobras took top honors at Dana Mecum’s 29th Original Spring Classic, at the Indiana State...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie raced as slowly as he talked he’d never have won anything! Charlie did win, however, and he won big. He finished 3rd in his very first race in a jalopy...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
Augie Pabst: Behind the Wheel By Robert Birmingham Augie Pabst grew up an heir to the family brewing business, and one...
Cleverly Proportioned & Intuitively Perfect Let’s be clear about one thing. The Shelby Cobra is one of the most iconic sports cars of all time. Since its release, the Cobra’s popularity has continued in version after version, as kit cars, “continuation cars” and tribute cars. Both Ford and Shelby have...
A pair of million-dollar Shelby Cobras took top honors at Dana Mecum’s 29th Original Spring Classic, at the Indiana State...
This Saturday, May 21, the faithful will gather once again at Shelby headquarters — 19021 South Figueroa St., Gardena, California...
Six cars from the Ford Performance Collection of megadealer Jim Click will be offered for sale by RM Sotheby’s at the Portola Hotel & Spa and Monterey Conference Center this August 19-20 during Monterey Classic Car week. Click began vintage racing with these cars a quarter-century ago and has decided...
