Right from the company’s beginnings in 1924, Chrysler built powerful and advanced automobiles. The B70 was a 70-mph car with...
Austrian born Karl Alberto Abarth did so many things so very well. He was a motorcycle racing champion, multiple land...
I have had the good fortune to have raced many good cars in my career, from early days in Formula Three, to the excellent Bastos Ford Sierra Cosworth (a car I’ll never forget), my DTM Mercedes cars and now driving and demonstrating the Mercedes racing cars from a past era—...
The second gathering of automobiles made or owned by Briggs Cunningham will be held at the Fairfield County Concours at...
2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the Pau Grand Prix Formula 2 race in Pau, France (1967). 3 Leo Kinnunen drives a Porsche 917/10 to victory in the 300-kilometer Interserie race on the Nürburgring in West Germany (1972). 5 Jim Hall drives...
National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK January 12–15, 2012...
Bruce Burness is one of those multi-talented behind-the-scenes players who lend so much richness to the world of motorsports, possessing...
The International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen will honor the British sports car Elva with a weekend of activities on Saturday April 21, and Sunday April 22. The event will feature János Wimpffen’s award-winning book about the marque, Elva: The Cars, The People, The History, and the noted...
Having been born within earshot of the Le Mans 24-hour race in France, that François Migault took to motor racing...
Wakefield Park, Goulburn, NSW, Australia January 13–15, 2012...
Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, FL December 2–4, 2011...
Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA November 18–20, 2011...
Sebring International Raceway has announced the addition of the inaugural Sebring Historics on the weekend of October 25-28 to its...
We start the new season with two interesting notes on the subject of pulchritude. Near the end of January, Lorna and I spent most of a weekend planted squarely before the Flat Screen, surprised by how much we were enjoying Speed’s marathon coverage of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Surprised,...
Terror Over Brussels Dear Editor, I must urge you to reconsider the excellent winter vegetable the “brussel sprout” and draw...
My recollection of getting to know Archie was that my father went to Cambridge University and was a member of...
Was Alvin “Spike” Rhiando really Archibald Stansfeld Belaney? Well, the answer is no, but if you haven’t got anything else to do for the next twelve hours you could find some good entertainment by Googling both those names and taking a trip into fantasy land…it’s worth the trouble. Belaney turned...
Don Yenko and Yenko Stinger By Charlie “Bud” Doerge In 1957, Chevrolet racer Don Yenko set up his own tuning...
So, you might be asking yourself, “What happened to my Vintage Racecar? There seems to be another magazine stuck to...
The ashtrays were a collector’s delight. Shaped like Bugatti radiators and advertising the Le Chanteclair Restaurant and Bar at 18 East 49th Street, New York City. A gourmet’s heaven, with a very French menu of specialities that included coquille Chanteclair, Feuillet au Roquefort and, on Fridays, filets de sole Cardinal,...
Port de Versailles, Paris, France February 1–5, 2012...
Former Maserati Grand Prix driver Roberto Mieres has died at the age of 87. Mieres, who started 17 World Championship...
George Follmer, Can-Am champion, Trans-Am champion and a winner in virtually every form of racing he tried, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with its 2012 Phil Hill Award at the RRDC dinner prior to January’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. RRDC president Bobby Rahal presented the award. Since...
This month we offer you, courtesy of YouTube, a two-part review of the 1963 running of the 12 Hours of...
John Surtees, OBE remains the only person ever to win World Championships on both two and four wheels, scoring four...
Over the years Texas has seen its share of oilmen who were actively involved in sports car racing. One of them was Dallas resident Samuel Allen Guiberson, who was of distant Dutch descent. Already the owner of various big Ferraris in the early ’50s, Guiberson bought a new Ferrari 750...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
This year’s edition of the Harry Miller Club’s popular Millers at Milwaukee meet will honor the 100th anniversary of the...
Sandown Racecourse, Springdale, Victoria, Australia November 5–6, 2011...
