One week after the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring, the racing world experienced another tragic weekend, this time in France,...
Many magazine editors waste their monthly column space, by summarizing the content in that issue. What’s the point of that?...
September 2017 Stephen South – The Way It Was By Darren Banks Darren Banks has followed the careers of many drivers for a good many years now and has always had a passion for the career of Stephen South, a driver with much talent, but who failed to really make...
The inaugural New England Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for June 17-18 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, and sponsored by Barrett-Jackson, will set the stage for the company’s 2nd Annual Northeast Auction, which will take place the following weekend, June 22-24. “We are extremely grateful to all those who supported our...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
In this month’s Racecar Profile [“Bound by Fate”], you’ll read that I recently had the opportunity to test drive the...
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...
One of the highlights of my many years of racing has to do with the 1966 Trans-Am Mustang that Jerry...
Many might find it unusual that the 58-year old son of legendary racecar driver Dave MacDonald had never driven a...
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...
Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans By Preston Lerner and Dave Friedman The...
Continuing the tradition of bringing together the former employees of Shelby American from the 1960s, this 17th edition of the...
The Sunbeam Tiger is a car well-known to enthusiasts. European cars with powerful American V8s are intriguing. Most of the time these Euro-American hybrids came with high-end, sexy bodies to house their muscular engines, such as the Facel Vega, Iso Rivolta and Griffo, and of course the Shelby Cobra. The...
As part of its annual time-warp journey through the past, this weekend’s Goodwood Revival will feature a 50th Anniversary Reunion...
The words “Shelby” and “GT” have become synonymous with performance and passion, striking a chord with just about any enthusiast....
The Other Gregory Dear Editor, Ever since I discovered your wonderful publication a couple years ago at Russo and Steele in Scottsdale, I have enjoyed every issue. The Dave MacDonald King Cobra article was outstanding! I know Rich, and am old enough to have been a fan of Dave when he...
The third annual Carroll Shelby Tribute and Car Show is aiming to host the largest Shelby GT350 gathering in history...
Members of Carroll Shelby’s “Original Venice Crew” including Ted Sutton, Jim Marietta and Duane Carling, were on hand in mid-February...
While it is true that this January’s onslaught of annual auctions held in Scottsdale, Arizona, set a new combined record total of $292.8 million (compared to last year’s $248.6 million), this new combined record was made possible due to Barrett-Jackson’s special consignment of the Ron Pratte Collection which tacked an...
The epic battle between Ferrari and Cobra had begun, but initially the Italian cars were still the best. The winner...
The late ’50s and early ’60s were a time of tremendous change in American road racing. The cars were changing—front-engine...
With this month’s cover Profile of the King Cobra, it seemed only natural to access this site where one can find out almost anything about the man who created it, Carroll Shelby. In that context, when reaching the home page, click on the period 1961-1964 on the blue bar across...
Modena Aerautodromo, June 1965. The great five-time World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio about to take off for a test...
Masha Pasichnyk is a 23-year-old artist living and working in Kiev, Ukraine, who is presently visiting the USA. Masha’s interest...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports for, successively, the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, and the International Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such...
1 Stirling Moss drives a race car for the first time in over a year—since the crash that nearly killed...
• Following a highly successful inaugural event, the date for the second-annual Arizona Concours d’Elegance at the historic Arizona Biltmore...
3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International Grand Prix at Riverside, California (1960). 4 Clemente Biondetti drives a 2-liter Ferrari to victory in the revived Giro di Sicilia, in Italy (1948). 5 Tom Pryce drives an F1 UOP Shadow to victory...
