Before Palm Springs
Last month I wrote about the road race that took place in Palm Springs in 1950. It was the first such event in Southern California… Read More...
Browsing: The Golden Age
The First Palm Springs
Sports car road racing started after WWII on the East Coast during the late forties. The first wheel-to-wheel event was organized by the Sports Car… Read More...
Parnelli Jones
Parnelli is not his real name. Rufus Jones’ middle name is Parnell. His mother named him after a Judge Parnell whom she admired. Jones’ friend,… Read More...
Shelby’s Trans-Am
The original Trans-Am was part and parcel of one of the things that made the Golden Age golden. Many of the best U.S. drivers and… Read More...
Ken Miles Revisited
“Revisited” because this is my second column about Ken. My March 2006 column was the first, but in rereading it there were some things I… Read More...
Training to Race
Learning to race on a road course can be daunting. Even though it was almost 50 years ago, I remember it well. I had entered… Read More...
Racing Corvettes, the Early years
In 1953, the very first Corvettes hit Chevrolet Dealers’ show rooms. Hailed by some as the long-awaited American sports car, for the most part they… Read More...
Can-Am
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or the Can-Am. It was the… Read More...
USRRC Part Two
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For the most part, it was… Read More...
USAC Road Racing Championships
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the Sports Car Club of America.… Read More...
Racing My Jaguars
Jaguar’s XK120 Roadster was introduced at the London Motor Show in the fall of 1948. A year later, cars began to appear on American roads… Read More...