Back in 1977, a group of Atlanta car folk had a need for speed but didn’t want to end up...
Vintage Racecar Features
What began as a study of Asian automobile advertising of the late 1950s has unearthed a rare tale of a...
Sometimes a slogan doesn’t mean very much. Take for example Exxon’s “Happy Motoring” or Pontiac’s “We Are Driving Excitement” – given the ever-increasing price of gas and the recent demise of an entire GM brand, these slogans may ring hollow in many ears. However, at Philadelphia’s Simeone Foundation Museum, home...
Five years after Whitney Straight’s historic trip to South Africa to take part in the First South African Grand Prix,...
In Italy, a country that’s home to numerous small, specialized companies making exotic sports and racing cars, few can compete...
Alfa Romeo has a long history in racing that dates back to 1910 and extends to Formula One today. Throughout its 112-year history, many Alfa Romeo drivers have made an indelible mark in the sport. In celebration of International Women’s Day, Alfa Romeo has taken a look back at the...
I have been road racing since the early 1980s and vintage/historic racing since the late ’80s; always in 105 series...
In 1965, I enjoyed a working holiday in London. On Friday 18 June that year I took the cheapest tour...
In the 1950s, home-made, one-off sports cars were being created everywhere across the country, the majority of them emerging from suburban garages built by weekend racers, mechanics, engineers and dreamers. The results of these efforts were mixed; some cars were crude creations cobbled together by shade-tree mechanics that were downright...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix,...
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was undoubtedly gifted at what he did, admittedly some of his cars were better than others...
America’s premier sports car endurance race started at an abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Florida. “The 12-Hours of Sebring” is one of the most important racing events in the U.S. Inaugurated in 1952, Sebring took its place among the ’50s-era international endurance races on which the World Manufacturers’...
Out of the shadows of World War II and its aftermath has come an unique Alfa Romeo sports car flaunting...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a...
The late ’60s were a revolutionary period in racecar design. Advances in aerodynamic research were creating a fiercely fast, new breed of racecar. From Can-Am to Formula One, cars were sleeker, quicker and sprouting inverted airfoils or “wings” as a means of harnessing the power of the rushing wind to...
A single-seater Brabham arrives in Singapore for the 1969 Singapore Grand Prix. On the nosecone reads “Costin Brabham”, not the...
The Peterson Museum in Los Angeles is filled with wonderful automotive treasures. The eye-catching post-war muscle cars, sports cars, exotic...
There were no rally cars, as such, during the sport’s first 50 years or so, just the bog standard daily transport people drove to work and back each day. Many car owners joined motor clubs, which organized boring regularity runs, manoeuvrability gymkhanas and navigational exercises. So for over 50 years,...
Ex-Donald Healey Motor Company works driver, Clive Baker first began his connection with Healeys and Austin-Healeys in Tasmania. Clive went...
Accused of sandbagging at Daytona, two WSC-95 spyders were in storage until called to duty by Team Joest. Porsches by...
In 2015, it was announced that the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur would hold a street Grand Prix for GT3 cars and a variety of sports cars. However, this was by no means the first time that Malaysia’s capital city had played host to racing in the streets. HUMBLE SPRINTS...
The engines roar, pushing the rev limiters to their limits. When the light turns green, the racecars accelerate at full...
By the mid-1950s international motor racing was beginning to flourish in Africa, south of the equator. In September 1957, international...
At 4pm on the June 23rd, 1991, Johnny Herbert crossed the finish line at the Le Mans 24 Hour race to mark a unique achievement. Mazda had become the first Japanese manufacturer to win the world’s most famous endurance race, not only that they’d done it with a totally unique engine...
On the Bubble One of the most exciting relationships in sports car history is that of Alfa Romeo and Zagato....
“It was lovely and fast-flowing, a wonderful and challenging circuit, and so gratifying when you manage to put it all...
In the world of exotic cars, there are few names that can compare with Ferrari. The very mention of the word brings to mind blood red cars with shapes and sounds that reach beyond reason and into the soul. It was through the sweet sound of its motor that I...
In many circles, the term airhead applies to someone who is silly or lacking in intelligence. However, it is also...
Ferrari SN: 18139 started life as a 365 GT4/BB. It was delivered to Chinetti’s 1970s NART shop in Connecticut –...
The self-styled “Home of British Motorsport”, Silverstone, is one of the originals—it hosted the very first World Championship Grand Prix in 1950 and it remains a part of the series today, despite a near death experience in 2010 when the race was supposed to move to Donington Park. It is...
