Last month I wrote about the road race that took place in Palm Springs in 1950. It was the first… Read More...
Sports car road racing started after WWII on the East Coast during the late forties. The first wheel-to-wheel event was… Read More...
Parnelli is not his real name. Rufus Jones’ middle name is Parnell. His mother named him after a Judge Parnell… Read More...
The original Trans-Am was part and parcel of one of the things that made the Golden Age golden. Many of… Read More...
“Revisited” because this is my second column about Ken. My March 2006 column was the first, but in rereading it… Read More...
Learning to race on a road course can be daunting. Even though it was almost 50 years ago, I remember… Read More...
In 1953, the very first Corvettes hit Chevrolet Dealers’ show rooms. Hailed by some as the long-awaited American sports car,… Read More...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or… Read More...
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For… Read More...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the… Read More...
Jaguar’s XK120 Roadster was introduced at the London Motor Show in the fall of 1948. A year later, cars began… Read More...