My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when...
2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 Photo: Mercedes-Benz 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 While the 300 SL of the 1950s was unquestioningly a sports car...
Following their conquest of Mexico’s Pan-American Road Race in November of 1952, Mercedes-Benz factory drivers Karl Kling and Hermann Lang...
How many of you would journey 500 miles across country to race a freshly built car whose engine had never...
Like so many early automobile manufacturers, the Auburn Automobile Company started out as an evolution of carriage making. Charles Eckhart started a company, the Eckhart Carriage Company, building carriages in 1875 in Auburn, Indiana. As the 19th Century wound to a close, his two sons, Frank and Morris, wanted to...
After World War II, Enzo Ferrari began the work of retooling his small company from manufacturing parts for Italy’s war...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bloomberg News recently confirmed that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has been sold via private transaction for an all-time record $35 million. I’ll let that sink in for just a moment…$35 million. Considering record auction sale prices have been floating in the stratospheric...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California, in July of 1955, his first appearance in California. That’s Alan with the checkered flag. With this same car, Alberto Ascari and Nino Farina had won the 1953 Nürburgring 1000km,...
There I was, on Los Angeles’ Imperial Highway, helplessly hanging on in the passenger seat. No grab bar, no seatbelt,...
Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle...
ItalianCarFest (ICF), one of the best all-Italian automobile and motorcycle shows in the Southwest, returns to Grapevine, Texas, on September 8 for its 9th annual gathering. The Italian Car Club of the Southwest (ICCS) is once again putting all the pieces together to present another wonderful display of Italian machines...
The 6th annual St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance has been set for September 30 along the waterfront of the Chesapeake Bay...
The cars were very much the stars at the 2012 Mille Miglia Commemoration in May, the 30th such event to...
Billed as “The Aristocrat of the Automobiles,” the vehicles produced by the Fabbrica Automobili Isotta Fraschini were owned by some of the most exclusive clientele ever boasted by one marque: movie stars like Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino, athletes like Jack Dempsey, magnates like William Randolph Hearst and all manner...
A number of years ago, in the early days of Vintage Racecar when I think we were still in “black...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for...
Stirling Moss and Juan Manual Fangio were partners at Mercedes-Benz in 1955. They later became rivals, Fangio at Ferrari with the new Ferrari-Lancia D50 and Moss leader of the Maserati team with the 250F. Here, at the 1956 Monaco Grand Prix, Moss made an excellent start and led all the...
Bruce Bromme Sr. was born in 1917, and shortly thereafter was thrust into the world of racing. His father,...
Back in the free-and-easy days when you still could cozy up to naked racecars right out in plain sight, some...
Salon Privé, the Luxury Supercar Event & Concours d’Elégance, announces details of its 2012 line-up, featuring world exclusives and British debuts from the worlds of motorsport, automotive and luxury goods – all set to appear at London’s Syon Park from September 5–7. 2012 will be the seventh consecutive Salon Privé...
Mercedes-Benz USA and members of the Mercedes-Benz Club of America (MBCA) will bring rare classic cars and contemporary models to...
Delahaye, for those who recognize the name, conjures up a mixed vision of large and long French Grand Prix, sports...
In all my career, the very best cars I ever drove were the 1986 Benetton B186-BMW and the 1987 Ferrari F1/87 V6. Both cars had the really big turbo power, the big rear wheels, and went like rockets. They were so fast they were nearly uncontrollable, but I liked those...
The Watkins Glen 6 Hours, on July 21, 1973, served as the final round of that year’s World Sportscar Championship...
An unabashed devotee of The Simpsons, Fred Phillips is living the slightly-north-of-American dream. Nestled away among the snow drifts of...
Arturo and Deborah Keller’s stunning 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the prestigious Louis Vuitton Classic Award. Although it is understood that the competition for the coveted Louis Vuitton Annual Award was fierce, Arturo and Deborah Keller’s 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Autobahn Kurier was selected...
