Le Mans, 1960. You can imagine the scene. The coming decade was cresting the ’50s into oblivion. The vast high-speed...
1964 Porsche Bergspyder In the current era of Grand Prix and sports car racing, there is virtually no such thing...
The genesis for Volkswagen’s near-ubiquitous Transporter, or Microbus, was a combination of post-war necessity and the clever instincts of a Dutch importer. After World War II, VW’s Wolfsburg factory was in disarray and taken over by the Allied forces. While offered to a number of British and American car companies...
Listen to the glorious V8 sound of a Lotus 38 that won the 1965 Indy 500 with Jim Clark onboard....
1963 Scirocco By the time you read this, a superb collection of famous, bizarre, futile and fantastic Grand Prix cars...
The Lotus 25 is an example of outstanding absolute landmark design, and one which in many ways has proved to be the most defining technical development in the history of racing car construction. Watch it go racing around Spa-Francorchamps and enjoy the beautiful soundtrack of its 1.5 litre V8 engine....
Rob Dahm, an automotive YouTuber and Mazda enthusiast, meets up with Llyod Koehler, the owner of a vibrant yellow 1961...
The Holman & Moody Ford Honker II is one of the forgotten CanAm cars. Interestingly, it was overshadowed by its...
In this month’s Racecar Profile [“Bound by Fate”], you’ll read that I recently had the opportunity to test drive the “King Cobra” that Shelby American built for the 1967 Can-Am season. While this is a fascinating tale of missed opportunities and misunderstandings, there are so many great pieces of history...
1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB “Comp/61” Inevitably, when the name Ferrari is brought up in conjunction with racing, the first thing that...
After more than 40 years spent so well hidden that most believed it had been destroyed, the hero car from...
The initial design for the Amphicar—a contraction of Amphibious and Car—came from German racer and engineer Hans Trippel, who in 1932 began work on an amphibious vehicle for Volkswagen, the Schwimmerwagen. After the war, Trippel adapted his Schwimmerwagen design into a production, leisure vehicle that would be built under the...
Watch and enjoy this onboard footage of Horatio Fitz-Simon, in a Lotus 22, doing some laps before the 2022 Oulton...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
Photo: Casey Annis The story of the Corvette and how it came to race at Le Mans is one in which the dreams of a number of individuals intersect, over a prolonged period of time. While each of these dreamers came from vastly different backgrounds and held often times very...
February 2010 The Spirit of Competition By frederick a. Simeone, M.d. Dr. Simeone began collecting cars before he could drive,...
Photo: Steve Oom With just over 600 produced between 1954 and 1962 it can t be said that the Jensen...
Photo: Casey Annis History is a curious thing, we tend to think of it as fixed and absolute, when in fact, like most things in life, it is dynamic, it can change. Or sometimes, like in grade school, we learn about a piece of history at a very superficial level,...
The MGA’s looks harken back to MG designer Sid Enever’s one-off, envelope body that he created for an MG TD...
We spotted Don Murray’s gorgeous Iso Grifo coupe at his private collection in Irvine California, and wondered what it was....
Cedric SelzerPhoto: Mike Jiggle At the beginning of the 1963 season we had a choice, whether we wanted to work in Formula One or at Indianapolis. I had a long think about this and decided to stick to Formula One. I didn’t fancy the idea of being in one place...
Is there no end to the list of racecar manufacturers of the 20th century? Let’s have a show of hands. How...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
Considered as the first supercar in the world, the Lamborghini Miura definitely stood out in looks, technology, and performance. The Miura was the fastest production car in the world with a top speed of 163 mph and 0 to 60 mph in 6.3 seconds. Unlike almost anything on the road,...
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 highly...
The Porsche 910, also known as the Carrera 10, was introduced during the summer of 1966 and raced through 1967,...
1959 was a great year for Aston Martin Racing as they secured a one-two finish at the grueling Le Mans 24 Hours with Shelby/Salvadori and Trintignant/Frére. Unfortunately, the sport was deemed too expensive to maintain so David Brown decided to withdraw and let the private teams defend the marque with the DBR1. John Wyer, Aston Martin’s competitions...
The 190SL, a smaller and less expensive version of the Mercedes Benz 300SL, was introduced in 1954 at the New...
1964 Porsche 904 GTS Resplendent in its red and white Scuderia Filipinetti livery, 904 #079 looks lean and lithe and...
This relatively recently born site calls itself “An informative and entertaining antique automobile photo magazine,” and the release announcing its launch drew comparisons to the old Life magazine that was once one of America’s foremost links to what was going on—visually at least. Most of the photos here are accompanied...
