German racer Paul Pietsch, the last surviving driver of the prewar Silver Arrows era and the oldest living Grand Prix...
Jochen Rindt Henri Pescarolo 2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson...
VR: How did you first get bitten by the “bug”? Drew Alcazar is president and founder of Russo & Steele Auctions. DA: Well, that was an easy moment to remember because it was like an epiphany. I was probably in fifth grade and I was riding around in my friend Dale...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as...
Alfa Romeo will be the featured marque for a weekend of vintage racing on April 9-11, 2010 at Infineon Raceway,...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
A sensational Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Spider by Zagato that was raced by Scuderia Ferrari during the 1930s has...
1954 Fiat 8V Zagato If you lived through the ’60s and ’70s, then Sunset Boulevard, in Southern California, likely holds...
lfredo Ferrari (Dino) was Enzo Ferrari’s first son, born January 19, 1932. At the time, Enzo was still racing for Alfa Romeo, but he had pledged to give up his high-risk endeavors if he had a son. He made good on that promise, and refocused his efforts on his newly...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a...
The Baxter Auto Parts Portland Historic Races will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo at the...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Just days after his 1959 Le Mans-winning teammate, Carroll Shelby, and a matter of weeks since Ted Cutting, designer of...
From July 27–31, the city of Seattle was invaded by one of the largest gatherings of Alfa Romeo enthusiasts ever assembled in the U.S., when more than 600 members of the American Alfa Romeo Owners Club (AROC) attended the club’s national convention in Bellevue, Washington. Dubbed “Alfa Potlatch” for the...
I worked as the chief engineer at Lola (1969–1981) during one of their most productive and interesting periods. The number...
The under two-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
I love good pesto. It has all the right ingredients for a wonderful meal. Cheese, basil, olive oil, all ground (Italian “pestare” to crush) together with pine nuts and just a hint of at least one other secret ingredient which, depending on where you’re from, is a key ingredient that...
Italian marque Alfa Romeo will celebrate fifty years since the debut of the iconic Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, a model...
The under-2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports;...
July 2008 Hugh C. Hunter in his lovely 8C2900B Alfa Romeo on the Campbell Road Circuit. In ths race he finished a strong 2nd, 6.2 seconds behind Peter Aitken’s much faster E.R.A. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
Alfa Romeo P3 Car: Alfa Romeo P3 / Engine: 8-Cylinder In-line / Maker: Alfa Romeo / Bore X Stroke: 65...
Last weekend’s third edition of The London Classic Car Show featured an expanded format that also included the Historic Motorsport International exhibition occupying adjacent halls in London’s ExCel Exhibition Centre. Both events displayed a huge selection of desirable classics including in the Ferrari Tribute collection of 21 Italian icons whose...
Dr. Elio Zagato passed away in Milan, Italy, on September 15. The son of Ugo Zagato, founder of the famed...
1928 was the year of Alfa Romeo’s first win at the Mille Miglia, and the 2018 running of the endurance...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The Mirage story is, in some ways, a rather complex one, in that the Mirage was a rare example of a well-known racing car that had not been developed consistently year...
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
Over the years, Vintage Racecar has been fortunate to have been able to include the work of talented cutaway artist...
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t Monaco, the first significant race of the 1933 season, a new Grand Prix team made its debut: Scuderia CC, with Rudi Caracciola and Louis Chiron as its principals. Two of the finest, most successful drivers in the world, they each had broken away from their established works teams. The...