I have driven numerous racing cars over my 30 years and many eras of motor sport. I drove in several...
Photo: Pete Austin At the Goodwood Festival of Speed just a few months ago a Mercedes Benz W196, once driven...
The 12-Hours of Sebring remains the oldest established sports car endurance race to be held in the United States, although with a partly glorious, somewhat patchy history. Always a popular spring break destination, Sebring enjoyed an oftentimes “wild” party atmosphere in the ‘70s-sometimes on a par with Watkins Glen’s infamous...
Photo: Pete Austin Where do we start with the story of the March 761? In true Sound of Music fashion—at...
Andrew Frankel from The Intercooler had the remarkable opportunity to take the wheel of a Porsche 917/30 at the prestigious...
The Porsche 934, first introduced in 1976, was the Group 4 GT race version of the Typ 930 Turbo road car. Group 4 in 1976 rules insisted that four hundred 930 Turbo road/street cars must have been produced in two consecutive model years. This is what the Porsche factory had done...
If there are so many of us desperately searching for our old racing cars, why in the heck are we...
Pete Lyons There is no great genius without a trace of madness,” declared the Roman philosopher Seneca, and can we have any doubt he was looking ahead 1.9 millennia to designers of Can-Am racecars? The wonderful old Canadian-American Challenge Cup series of 1966 through 1974 is justly famed for many...
Watch two Porsche 908/3 Group 6 Prototypes racing around a track....
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
Relive some of the best moments of the 1977 Brazilian Grand Prix held at Interlagos in Sao Paulo, Brazil....
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and...
At the Paris Auto Show in October 1968, Ferrari introduced the 365 GTB/4 as their V12 flagship. The press informally...
Maranello, Italy, November 1979. The introduction of the new Ferrari 312/T5 at Ferrari’s Fiorano test track. Standing behind the new car are (left to right) chief designer Mauro Forghieri, Gilles Villeneuve, Team Manager Marco Piccinini, Enzo Ferrari and Jody Scheckter. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member &...
1970 Phil Henny IMSA GT Chevrolet Camaro (Chassis#124870L515127) Phil Henny is one of those guys you’ve probably never heard of....
The Porsche 928 was the company’s first production car with a V-8 engine and the only coupe powered by a front-mounted...
Jacky Ickx reset the lap record for the Circuit de la Sarthe multiple times during his virtuoso night stints in the Martini-sponsored factory Porsche 936 at Le Mans in 1977. Ickx was joined by Jürgen Barth and Hurley Haywood in securing victory for Porsche in that year’s 24-hour classic. The...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to...
Jeremy Houghton trained as an artist at the Slade School of Art and the University of Provence. His formative years...
The year 1988 beckoned for the presence of an automotive marvel, the Lamborghini Countach 5000 Quattrovalvole (QV), a cherished relic amongst the limited production of approximately 610 Quattrovalvole variants ever built. This distinguished Italian exotic boasts an intriguing history, an ode to a bygone era, where it resided, undisturbed, under...
The Porsche 935 K3 was constructed by German tuner, Kremer Racing, in accordance with Group 5 regulations. Its notable achievement...
During the Monaco Grand Prix, in Monte Carlo, on May 10, 1970, Pedro Rodriquez looks for the apex before turning his...
1978 Eagle DGF There is a historical trope in the racing world, which suggests that a talented craftsman could build a simple, small displacement racecar—like a Formula Ford—and his prototype’s success would catapult that individual into becoming a major racing car manufacturer, eventually reaching the pinnacles of the sport, F1...
When Jim Gehkre returned from his tour in Vietnam, in January of 1970, the first thing he needed was a...
South African racing legend Dave Charlton, who started 11 World Championship Grands Prix from 1967-1975, has died at the age...
I was down in New Zealand recently with my good friend, photographer Dave Gooley on a working vacation, searching out unique cars. We struck pay dirt at the annual Ellerslie Concours in Auckland, which is New Zealand’s equivalent to Pebble Beach, and features classic cars from all over the world....
When Chevrolet introduced the 1972 Corvette for the fifth year of C3 production, the basic car remained essentially unchanged from...
Unveiled at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, the 365 GTC/4, a rare model with limited production, shared the platform with...
1972 Surtees TS9B The relationship between money and success in an F1 team has always been a subject of interest and debate. There have been teams with very little money, in real and relative terms, that manage to do reasonably well—Minardi is perhaps a good example of that at present....
