Bond: “Where’s my Bentley?” Q: “It’s had it’s day I’m afraid.” Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
This month’s Hidden Treasure comes to us courtesy of Gertrude Schmedley of Pascagoula, Mississippi. Schmedley found me via the internet...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were very lucky to be close to Dan and his family. Casey Annis and I sat in his office and he told revealing stories, and occasionally from the other room Evi...
The 1963 Corvette Sting Ray holds a special place in automotive history as it ushered in the second generation of...
Highlights from the1964 Italian Grand Prix. John Surtees won the race as he started from pole position driving a Ferrari...
Dan Gurney shared this 4.7-liter Cobra Daytona Coupe with Bob Bondurant for the 1964 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. They finished 4th overall and won the GT category, and as none of the GT40s finished that year, were the highest placed Ford. Gurney’s drive is featured in...
As the years pile up, I find myself learning more about people I used to know than I ever appreciated...
During the Sebring 12 Hours on March 25, 1961, heavy traffic in the Webster Turns finds the factory-entered Austin-Healey Sebring...
Artist John Rice created this watercolor painting of Dan Gurney and his Eagle 104-Weslake racing in his home GP, the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, in 1967, where he qualified 3rd but retired with suspension problems. Rice grew up about 100 miles from Watkins Glen, and was 9...
The Porsche 906 or Carrera 6 was the last street-legal racing car from Porsche. A total of 65 were produced...
My time with the BMC competitions department saw me racing the big Austin Healeys, and later racing at Le Mans...
Several months ago I received an irate email from a VR reader with one simple, albeit piercing, question; “Mark, why in the hell don’t you ever write about British drag racing cars?” British drag racing? What did I know about that? And how would I ever find a “hidden” one...
The 1965 Le Mans-winning NART Ferrari 250LM driven by Jochen Rindt and Masten Gregory and currently owned by the Indianapolis...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
1969 Lola T70 Mk3B Forget, for a minute, the origins of the Lola GT, the Mk6, the connections with the GT40, the Spyder, the Lola-Aston, and the differences between an Mk3 and 3B. We’ll get to some of that shortly. First, let’s get down to basics. When I first arrived...
I open the tiny door, diffidently point my toe toward the foot well, and fall into the driver’s seat by...
In his newest video, Jay Leno explores a highly unconventional experimental race car powered by a helicopter turbine engine: the...
The Shelby Daytona Coupe is the best American car ever built. Maybe even the best in the world. I can say this with a fair measure of confidence as this is my 100th car design article for this publication! That’s just over eight years of articles evaluating the automotive design...
The L88 was a special option package developed under the direction of Zora Arkus-Duntov, director of GM’s performance division. First introduced in 1967, the L88 Corvette featured a...
In Monte Carlo on May 10, 1964, Jackie Stewart made one of his early international drives in this Cooper Formula...
When Jim Gehkre returned from his tour in Vietnam, in January of 1970, the first thing he needed was a set of wheels. He sold his ’57 Chrysler New Yorker just before he left to serve his country. Being a Mopar man, he went to the local Dodge dealer and...
Photo: Casey Annis History is a curious thing, we tend to think of it as fixed and absolute, when in...
The Anglo-European Trophy, Brands Hatch, September 14, 1963. Tim Mayer was a very talented young American driver and the brother...
Spa-Francorchamps, May 1967, the fourth round of the ’67 World Championship. The Ecurie Belge Ferrari 412P Chassis No. 0850 (driven by Willy Mairesse) leads the 4th placed Ferrari P4 of Mike Parkes and Ludovico Scarfiotti at the start of Spa’s 1000-km race as they enter Eau Rouge for the first...
The British Grand Prix, Brands Hatch, July 20, 1968 Jochen Rindt drove a Brabham BT26-Repco, with the Repco 860 twin-cam...
There is a certain indescribable thrill associated with the resurrection of a long lost automobile. It’s often more than the...
The 1969 ZL-1 Corvette came equipped with an entirely new big-block engine option that produced more horsepower than any Corvette that had come before it. Any Corvette, when ordered with RPO ZL1, came fitted with an all-aluminum 427 C.I. engine that featured a dry-sump oil system and which weight approximately...
The Ferrari 330 P4 was the Scuderia’s weapon of choice for the 1967 World Manufacturers Championship. The car’s 4-liter V-12...
The 1936 Duesenberg SJN (Supercharged) and the 1968 Ford GT40 “#1075” won the Best In Show honors on Sunday, March...
In 1958, former Huntington Park High School friends Larry Kent and Ray Weaver decided to take a shot at the C Sports Car record at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Racing under the banner “Northern Continent Engineering” and gunning for George Hanson’s class record of 144.322 mph, Kent sped to a...
