In the wake of the success of this year’s inaugural event at the historic O’Donnell Golf Club in Palm Springs,...
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Despite mid-August being a predictably warm and sunny month, nothing was going to stop the climatic conditions, synonymous with the...
Joseph Pendergast, historic racer, race organizer, and collector for nearly 40 years, succumbed to complications from pneumonia on September 14, 2008, at the age of 69. Pendergast was owner and general manager of West Coast Caterers, and upon selling it to Dobbs House in 1973, he sought his Bachelor’s degree...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1960 Aston Martin DB4GT offered for sale in the March...
1962 Lotus 25 Formula 1 Race Car The top drawer of sporting history’s filing cabinet is open only to the...
The Bonhams & Goodman auction of the six-strong Dawson-Damer racing car collection realized over $2 million USD in Sydney on November 16th. Top lot was the 1963 Lotus-Climax 25 Formula 1 car as driven by legendary double-World Champion Driver Jim Clark to win seven Grand Prix races that season. It...
This week’s look back at old classified advertisements features a Alfa Romeo race car offered for sale in the May...
Bonhams & Goodman to Auction the Dawson-Damer Collection of Historic Lotus Race Cars The historic and highly valuable collection of John...
The latest look at old classified advertisements features a Ferrari 196 S race car offered for sale in the April 1978 issue of Road & Track magazine for $45,000. The Ferrari 196 S (1983 cc, 6 cylinders) was introduced in 1959 during the end of the front-engined sports car era....
The more in-depth summaries of the life and career of Phil Hill have focussed on three significant aspects: the racing...
Andre Boillot Rex Mays 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One world title at Suzuka...
November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at Watkins Glen, the original Canadian-American Challenge Cup series was one of the most unique and awe-inspiring racing championships ever to grace the world motor sport stage. Part of the series’...
The 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C, owned by Jon and Mary Shirley of Medina, Washington, was named “Best of Show” at...
12/6/08 Update: We sold the Alfa back to the person that sold it to us. He was very happy to...
RM Auctions will mark their 10th anniversary Automobiles of Arizona auction event in Phoenix, Arizona with the sale of one the rarest and most valuable Corvettes in history – an all mighty 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport (chassis no. 002). Often referred to as one of the most fascinating enigmas...
Media outlets are reporting that Tonight Show host and noted car collector Jay Leno is being sued by the estate...
The next installment in Sports Car Digest’s therapeutic look back at classified advertisements features two rare Porsche racing cars offered...
1960 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster For Sale Details: Seller Fantasy Junction is asking $595,000. Car is located in San Francisco Bay area. Seller Comments: “This particular car is a matching numbers US model car that was restored in Germany some years ago and fitted with European headlamps....
Sports Car Digest has an extensive library of automotive magazines from the 1950s through present day. We think you know...
Nigel Mansell Bernd Rosemeyer 2 PJ Jones drives a Toyota Eagle MkIII to victory in the final IMSA GTP race,...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
October 2008 Carlos Lepro’s Giulia—The First Winning GTA By Bernardo D. Martínez, MD For ten days, in October 1965, a...
Andrea Pininfarina, 51, has died as the result of a road traffic accident in Turin on August 7th. He was...
Porsche AG, in cooperation with lens manufacturer Sigma, ran the 2008 Sigma-Supercup Photo Competition at each Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup race, choosing the most unusual photograph after each race weekend. At the final round of the Supercup, the 30 entered drivers voted Andreas Beil’s “Airborne” photo as Supercup Photo of...
Toyota was the title sponsor of the 35th Monterey Historic Automobile Races. To honor the sponsorship, Toyota brought four historic...
On Sunday, September 14th, Lotus is opening its Hethel Factory gates to host a 60th anniversary open day and is...
Widespread during Monterey Week was the rumor that a Ferrari 250 GTO privately traded hands for a whopping $30,000,000. And yes, that is not a typo. Sports Car Digest has yet to definitively confirm the rumor, but the sale is very believable as Ferrari prices have been on a tear,...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor...
Jerry Marshall Tazio Nuvolari 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907)....
September 2008 Abarth–The Man, The Machines By Luciano Greggio As outlined in this month’s feature article (pg. 52), over the course of the ’60s and ’70s, Austrian-born, Italian-small-car manufacturer Karl “Carlo” Abarth produced an amazingly prodigious string of competitive sports and racing cars from very humble underpinnings. With countless models...
