Background The Bugatti factory in 1927 was at the peak of its automobile production with multiple lines to handle the...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley After he had finished the restoration of his 1936 Stout Scarab, Ron Schneider took it to...
The Bugatti Type 35 may be the most successful racer ever, having secured more than 2,500 race victories during its active time. Its beauty, technical ingenuity and driving brilliance remain just as appealing a century later. To understand the Bugatti Type 35, one must first understand its creator, Ettore Arco...
The Maserati 6CM stands as a diminutive monoposto racecar which showcases the genius of design and independent spirit that characterized...
The Maserati Tipo 6CM, an amazing single-seater racer, was designed by Ernesto Maserati and began to take shape in 1935....
Witness Jay Leno as he takes a drive in one of the most legendary Bugattis ever created. The 1937 Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic stands as the epitome of beauty, solidifying the French marque’s esteemed reputation....
Eddie Hall is known for being the only person the drive the entire 24 Hours of Le Mans race on...
Check out this 91 year old Aston Martin race car driven as it should be at Le Mans....
Designed by aeronautical engineer William Stout, the Scarab would ultimately become one of the most influential vehicles of the 20th century as it would become the pioneering foundation of the modern-day minivan. However, it wouldn’t be enough just to call the Stout Scarab the world’s first minivan, although it does...
Jay Leno’s Garage featured the “Twenty Grand”, a car unveiled at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair and considered by many...
Motor Racing Legends’ ‘Mad Jack’ race for Pre-War Sports Cars is an ever-popular highlight of the Donington Historic Festival, which...
Introduced in February 1933 at the Berlin Motor Show, the Mercedes-Benz SS was a six-cylinder automobile that was produced until 1934. Due to several models with similar names produced by Mercedes-Benz during the 1930s (and again in the 1980s), the car is now commonly identified using the manufacturer’s Works Number,...
One of the most revered sports cars in the world is the SSK and this one features the most dramatic...
The motorsport industry considers the Goodwood Festival of Speed as a sacred site. This event takes place in late June...
Creating his own car company was “an old idea of my father’s,” Ferry Porsche recalled. The idea dated back at least to 1923. “When he left Austro Daimler in 1923 to go to Mercedes,” Ferry continued, “he had the idea to do something a little like what Bugatti had done....
Bugatti presented the Type 59 Sports for the first time on September 24, 1933, at the San Sebastian Grand Prix....
The 1932 season would be fought without the German cars from Daimler Benz. It would also be one with an...
Nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winning driver, Tom Kristensen, managed to get behind the wheels of a 1930 Blower Bentley and drives it around Silverstone Circuit....
When introduced, the Mercedes-Benz 540K Autobahn Kurier was applauded not only for its long, sweeping hood and aerodynamic design, echoing the...
1 The Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD is homologated for Group A rallying (1992). 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to...
2023 dawned fair and mild in the UK, perfect for a drive in the countryside and where better to head for on the 1st of January than the Queen’s Head pub at Hawkedon, buried deep in rural Suffolk. By 10:30 the inn’s car park was disappointingly populated with vintage sports...
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COPMPETITION HISTORY The 1931 Bugatti Type 51 Dubos Coupe has a fascinating history of competition, design and reincarnation. Originally built as...
Nineteen thirty-five was an excellent Grand Prix season, the best against strong and varied opposition that Mercedes-Benz enjoyed in Year Two of the new 750-kilogram G.P. formula. In its second season the W25 was fully proven and raced as part of a team that was at last operating as a...
The Albi Grand Prix; Albi, France, July 16, 1939 Arthur Dobson in the very fast E.R.A. E-type which set pole...
July 3, 1938; French Grand Prix; Reims-Gueux Hermann Lang, in the Mercedes-Benz W154, at full speed across the fields of...
[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...
We met up with Gary Humecke in Thousand Oaks, California to see and drive his remarkably preserved 1937 Mercedes 170V...
Fed up with seeing their major races won by the Germans in the 1930s, the Italians allowed only 1½-liter entries...
David Dunbar Buick David Dubar Buick was born in Arbroath, Scotland, in 1854, and brought to Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 2. By the 1880s, he was a successful inventor in the plumbing field, inventing among other things, the lawn sprinkler and a new process for coating metal bath...
