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Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the age of 84 following an extended illness. Leonard, a San Diego native who moved to San Jose, California, as a 16-year-old to chase his racing dream, established himself as one of America’s foremost motorcycle racers by winning AMA Grand National Championships in 1953, 1954, 1956 and 1957, and finishing 2nd in 1955, 1958 and 1959. Realizing, however, that the fun of racing motorcycles had faded since he’d won “everything,” Leonard quit the bikes in 1961 to pursue rides with four…

Vintage Racecar Profiles 1959 Costin-Lister BHL133. Photo: Peter Collins
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1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 When speaking to Brian Lister, some years ago, I asked him about the secret of his success. Just how did those Lister cars become world-beaters and icons of the era? Modestly, he replied, “My belief, in those days, was simplicity being the art of good construction, although today’s computer-aided design would challenge...

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Last year the SCCA marked the 50th anniversary of its inaugural Trans-American Sedan Championship event at Sebring, Florida, on March 25, 1966. Eventually known as simply the Trans-Am, the series became the most closely contested road-racing series in America. The Tran-Am blossomed quickly, reached its zenith in 1970 and then decayed until 1972 when the...

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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 will know him for the...

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Vintage Racecar Profiles 1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am. Photo: Kyle Burt
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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 he and the Blue Oval...

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Only four names come to mind when one recalls which drivers have driven their self-constructed cars in World Championship Grands Prix. Jack Brabham, Dan Gurney and Bruce McLaren, of course, and they won with them too, but the other was a lesser-known man hailing from the southern tip of Africa. Louis Douglas Serrurier, the creator...

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Kirk F. White took a circuitous route to his successful classic car business in Philadelphia, entering the workforce earlier than most young men after his father passed away when he was a pre-teen. Because he had to help keep the family afloat financially, he went to work as a gofer in a summer camp for...

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Vintage Racecar Profiles 1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car. Photo: Kary Jiggle
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1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car At the dying stages of the 1966 World Cup Finals at Wembley Stadium, BBC soccer commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme uttered words that would become a phrase forever synonymous with him. As striker Geoff Hurst walloped the ball goalward, Wolstenholme’s dulcet tones rang out those memorable words, “Some people are on the...

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Vintage Racecar Feature Photo: David Gooley, courtesy of the Don Murray Collection
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It is easy to examine an early Ferrari or a Maserati of the immediate post-war era and see only their curvaceous coachwork or their gorgeous engines; but there is much more to those and other well-known Italian sports and racing cars of the 1950s and 1960s if we look beneath their skin. Let us shed...

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The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport ever, counterbalancing the equally potent combination of Ford and Carroll Shelby. Together, Hall and Musser, along with their teams of brilliant engineers and technicians, produced some of the most famous racecars ever: the Chaparrals. In...

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