Wisconsin’s rolling kettle moraine hills will resound to the roar of vintage racing Volvos when Elkhart Lake’s Road America hosts...
This is the sad tale of my first chance to own a sports car and how I blew it—the chance,...
This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely 50 years since I exposed the negative at Lime Rock, made a print in my dad’s darkroom, and air-mailed it overseas to England’s Autosport magazine. When we duly received our...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bertone Design, Concorso Italiano will feature several prominent concept cars from the Bertone Collection. Bertone has also confirmed that they will debut several prominent concept cars from its collection for the first time in North America including the continental debut of the Nuccio...
Artists and artisans have called Italy home for millennia, with pursuit of the arts a natural activity for countless Italians...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the...
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career, firmly establishing himself as one of the world’s greatest rally drivers. Markku was World Champion in 1978, the last year of the FIA Cup, and ruled the rally world again...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of a unique Volvo that, while unsuccessful, directly led to the creation of “sportier”...
The winner of the Classics division of the inaugural Road to Mandalay Rally was decided on the final day...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human and suffer many of the same issues and problems that we all do. Of course, our image of the professional racecar driver tends to be more along the lines of...
The 14th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will take place over two weekends beginning Thursday October...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
The 15th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will pay tribute to the Silver Screen in this year’s exclusive “Life on the Silver Screen” exhibit sponsored by the South Carolina Film Commission. Now in its eighth year, the Festival’s “Life” exhibits honor American automotive culture and era-specific...
The Ariens Art on Wheels Weekend, featuring the VSCDA Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival® XXXI presented by Volvo Cars USA, took...
The 75th renewal of Goodwood’s annual Members’ Meeting took place last weekend at the historic Chichester circuit, awarding classic cups...
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...
Vintage Bentleys dominated the Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Baltic Classic Rally, taking the three top spots in the Vintageants category....
Volvo Cars is revisiting the Art Deco era at this year’s Techno Classica Essen in Germany, the world’s largest historic...
What else can you do but build your own car, if you cannot afford to do anything else? And what else is there to do but to offer $101 to someone who has just wrecked his Volvo PV544 so you can get some parts with which to construct a racecar...
