Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He...
Grand Prix Origins The origins of Alfa Romeo’s legendary 6C 1750 model can be traced to 1923, when Nicola Romeo...
Alfa TZ 2-Much – A Summer Friday Drive on the Monterey Peninsula By Rick Carey I got a chance to drive an Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ2, the ultimate postwar Alfa, at Monterey. The Monterey week is full of marvelous sights and sounds, but for the most part onlookers are just...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Martin Swig is a former multi-franchise new-car dealer based in the San Francisco Bay area who is an avid vintage...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man responsible for establishing Ferrari in the United States and patron of his own highly successful motor racing team. Almost too much to be rolled into one man, but that, in...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as...
The 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will host a special gathering of Alfa Romeo 8C automobiles–predicted to be the largest...
The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering will return to Quail Lodge & Golf Club on Friday, August 13, 2021. The event will honor the “50th Anniversary of the Alfa Romeo Montreal” and “Automotive Couture, French Cars Featuring the 50th Anniversary of the Citroën SM.” “The Peninsula Signature Events team is excited for...
As enthusiasts and students of racing history, we have a natural tendency to idolize, if not deify, the great men...
From the very beginning of the automobile man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
The “Half-and-Half” Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Zagato of Corrado Lopresto won the FIVA preservation award at the 2016 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, held 20-22 May at the Grand Hotel Villa d’Este on Lake Como in Cernobbio, Italy. The pictures tell it all — half the car is cleaned but not...
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For the 2011 edition of the historic Mille Miglia tribute, the Alfa Romeo Historic Motoring team will be lining up...
Monoposto! The racing record of the Alfa Romeo Type B is the stuff of legends. The name evokes the images of astounding victories over the mighty German teams of Mercedes and Auto Union and is forever intertwined with the names of Tazio Nuvolari, arguably the greatest Grand Prix driver of...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
A one-off Alfa Romeo RL Normale Coupé de Ville (above) will be featured at the Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance at...
History Under the direction of Dr. Giuseppe Luraughi the development of an Alfa Romeo sports racing car became an important objective for Alfa Romeo in the mid-1960s. By pulling together the talents of Carlo Chiti and Lodovico Chizzola and their newly founded Auto-Delta company the company effectively developed a motorsport...
July 2010 Lister Jaguar– Brian Lister and the Cars from Cambridge By Paul Skilleter In my humble opinion, this is...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Jack...
By late 1955, Alfa’s motorsports engineers had developed the Alfa Romeo 750 Competizione, which was specifically designed for racing. The car was based on the Giulietta and featured a bespoke lightweight aluminum “speedster” body developed by Felice Boano and a boxed steel chassis designed by Carlo Abarth. The running gear...
As a young boy James Mitchell shared his father’s hobby and passion for classic and historic cars. Always fascinated by...
A 1934 Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 (above, Tim Scott photo courtesy of RM Sotheby’s) will be offered for public...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor racing greats, Robert Benoist, William Grover-Williams and, to a lesser extent, Jean-Pierre Wimille. The story told of their selfless devotion to their country, their indignation at the theft of their...
February 2010 The Spirit of Competition By frederick a. Simeone, M.d. Dr. Simeone began collecting cars before he could drive,...
The Sprint Speciale came to life under the hand of Bertone designer Franco Scaglione. You can trace its lineage back...
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance is planning an impressive selection of Alfa Romeos for their 2009 event. Celebrating the 100th birthday of the founding of the famed Italian brand will be numerous ultra-rare Alfa Romeo models from the early 20th century to today. 1938 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 B Mille...
1981 Ralt RT3. Photo: Peter Collins If you were racing a Formula Three car between late 1979 to the end of...
This car, which ran as the Multi-Union and was quite modern in look, was actually built up from an Alfa...
October 2008 Carlos Lepro’s Giulia—The First Winning GTA By Bernardo D. Martínez, MD For ten days, in October 1965, a grueling, 4,236-km touring car race—the Gran Premio Internacional de Turismo—was held around Argentina. During that race, a young teenager named Bernardo Martínez watched the race and was spellbound by the...
