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...
1960 Jolus Formula Junior “Fair Dinkum?” Was my response to the question. Fortunate would be a good way of describing...
We haven’t sent you to YouTube for some time now, but feel that this clip, for those who may not yet have seen it, will prove quite worth the effort, as it is both enlightening and educational. For many years, companies that were involved in the sport for commercial or...
Pete Lovely said it best: “We couldn’t believe they would let us race through this beautiful park, which was almost...
Photo: Pete Austin Legendary, iconic, brute and monster are all words that can be used to describe the world’s ultimate...
Watch Tim De Silva push his 1982 Alfa Romeo 182 to the limits at the historic Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach....
Pete Lyons Come with me to Italy, if you’ve got a minute, I want to show you something neat. We’re...
The Jaguar XK120 was the fastest production car in the world when it was first released in 1948, with a...
In the early 20th century, the motor car was considered a killer. The culprit was the 1903 Paris to Madrid road race that never made it to Madrid. It was stopped by the French prime minister, Emile Combes, as it got to Bordeaux. The reason? The race had killed 10 people and...
The International Daily Express Trophy; Silverstone, May 9, 1953 American Tom Cole borrowed this yellow Ecurie Francorchamps Ferrari 500 F2...
In this month’s feature article, we pay tribute to one of Britain’s oldest racing circuits, Donington Park. Founded in 1931...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors on their collective ear with the sheer speed of his 1949 MG TC. In the Queen Catharine Cup race of 1952, he also shot out the window of the Grill...
Last Month, Mike Jiggle spoke with mechanic-turned-designer Tony Robinson about his early days in motorsport with Stirling Moss and the...
Top Gear Magazine’s Tom Ford was lucky enough to get the opportunity to drive the most powerful and most expensive...
By the early 1960s, Ford had carved a very specific niche for itself in the UK. Having built low cost, entry-level cars like the Anglia, in Great Britain since the 1930s, Ford had a dependable—if not somewhat stodgy—reputation for reliable, but basically bland offerings. On September 20, 1962, Ford UK...
As the years pile up, I find myself learning more about people I used to know than I ever appreciated...
The 2010 Tour Britannia had a small but very competitive entry in both the regularity and competition sections, the former...
Touring Car fans are in for an absolute treat at this year’s Donington Historic Festival (April 29-30), with five spectacular races featuring the ever-popular tin-tops. Coming just a week after Donington Park plays host to today’s cars and stars with the opening round of the Kwik Fit BTCC, the Festival...
Uli Ehret’s latest watercolor artwork shows the Group C Toyota T87C—a racecar designed and built by Dome—roaring past the pits...
Watch this onboard footage of a Toyota GT-One racing in Le Mans reaching speeds of over 334 kph (208mph) thanks...
As an unseasonably mild London was still shrouded by darkness, nearly 400 pioneering veteran cars, their drivers and passengers gathered in Hyde Park on Sunday November 3rd waiting for daybreak to signal the start of the Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. As daylight arrived – and as a curtain-raiser...
Lifting an inside wheel around a right-hand sweeper, the Rover gets its racing legs stretched despite the test day’s chilly...
A First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Photos and Story By Boyd Harnell A white Jaguar convertible hurtled out...
The Conclusion of Boyd Harnell’s First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Mexico City-Leon, Leon-Durango: November 21, 1954 The carnage continued to mount on the next leg, Mexico City to León. There were four major crashes and one fatality, all of them occurring at a washboard curve outside Mexico City...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bloomberg News recently confirmed that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has been sold...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is...
The ex–Geoghegan 1960 Lotus Elite The ex–Chamberlain 1960 Lotus Elite The 1967 Lotus Elite Twin Cam No matter what year it is, there is always a celebration of something or other. Each month through Vintage Racecar’s Time Capsule page, we are reminded of significant events that have occurred throughout the...
Photo: Pete Austin Cars don’t come much better than this. Born in a golden era of sportscar racing, this French...
Checkout this stunning onboard video of a TVR Griffith 400 as it races at the beautiful Bernina Pass in Switzerland. The TVR Griffith 400 is equipped with a Ford 289 ‘HiPo’ Windsor engine producing 271 horsepower and only 59 of them were made....
