Photo: Hardy Mutschler The 2014 edition of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este competition, May 23-24, could not have gone better...
This month’s awesome Hidden Treasure was discovered in 1995, sitting behind a house in Glendale, Arizona. How awesome? You tell...
1964 ALFA ROMEO GIULIA Ti SUPER Not too long ago, I had the chance to take part in one of those great, little known events of which you find hundreds in the European racing calender, the 750 Meilen von Nürburgring, a 750-mile event for historic cars at the Nürburgring in...
Let’s look back at the highlights of the 1980 Monaco Grand Prix when Carlos Reutemann finished first while driving for...
De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French...
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but also by an unusual name change with his brother Jim…or rather Dick. Jim was underage in 1943 and could not race legally. So, he and his brother exchanged identities, Jim...
Austrian born Karl Alberto Abarth did so many things so very well. He was a motorcycle racing champion, multiple land...
July 2006 Speed, Frozen in Time : Vintage Racecar Images By Jamie Hankin Readers of Vintage Raecar will be familiar...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to lie in bed at night and fantasize…that I was Gilles Villeneuve. In an era before in-car cameras, I could close my eyes and visualize a complete lap of the U.S....
This month’s Hidden Treasure begins with the sound of J. Why do I bring this up? Because for years I’ve...
I want to be Rich Plavetich. Is he cool? Check. Does he have a wonderful and beautiful wife who also...
Ferrari’s history is based on its successful motorsport heritage, with Scuderia Ferrari being the oldest and most successful team in Formula 1. However, Ferrari’s first motorsport dominance was in sportscar racing before Formula 1, winning 14 World Sportscar Championships, 8 Le Mans victories, 8 Mille Miglia wins, and 8 triumphs...
One of the most intriguing post-war American automotive tales has largely been forgotten. It was a car story that began...
Photo Gallery from Sept. 7-9, 2018, from the 20th Goodwood Revival in Chichester, UK. Subscribers click here for additional, multi-page...
The Miura vehicle was created by Lamborghini engineers Gian Paolo Dallara, Paolo Stanzini, and Bob Wallace. It was first unveiled as a chassis without a body at the 1965 Turin Motor Show. Marcello Gandini from Bertone was then responsible for designing the bodywork. The result was the P400 GT prototype,...
The 1936 Duesenberg SJN (Supercharged) and the 1968 Ford GT40 “#1075” won the Best In Show honors on Sunday, March...
The introduction of the Sting Ray in 1963 sent shockwaves through the North American sports car market, causing a sensation...
Masters Historic Racing has released its U.S. calendar for the 2020 season, visiting some of the best American road circuits from the West Coast to the East Coast that any driver or motorsport fan could wish for. From Sonoma to Watkins Glen, then from Road America moving onwards to Road...
Then. Aristotle Socrates Onassis was a Greek shipping magnate with enormous wealth, an iconic style and a passion for objects...
At the 1966 Paris Auto Salon, Ferrari launched the GTB/4 with the new Tipo 226 engine. It benefited from a...
When it was first unveiled in late 2017, the Senna proclaimed itself as the ultimate street-legal McLaren. The Senna epitomizes a collaboration of the latest and greatest technologies, while paying tribute to a legend of the past – not so much to a car, as much as it is to...
There’s always been something magical about the H-Modified cars of the ’50s and early ’60s. These 750-cc (and later 850-cc)...
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Photo: Pete Austin Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been...
The story of Chet Herbert is pure inspiration. Afflicted with polio at age 20, Herbert spent his life building a string of record-smashers from his wheelchair…and apparently he thought nothing special of it. Following WWII, Herbert opened the doors to his speed shop, grinding some of the finest camshafts that...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley When you have the only one ever built, you might have trouble convincing people that it...
To prove that the Porsche 911 GT3 R Rennsport has a unique sound of its own, Porsche released video wherein...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from pole position, turned out to be his only one although at least three others slipped from his grasp through various misfortunes. In his rookie year of 1961, he was leading...
In 1958, former Huntington Park High School friends Larry Kent and Ray Weaver decided to take a shot at the...
The German Grand Prix; Nürburgring, August 2, 1953. World Champion Alberto Ascari sits in his Ferrari 500/F2 in front of...
Racer Hurdles Crowd and Lives.” This was the Sunday, August 31, 1952 headline story in the Buffalo Courier Express. The racer was 29-year-old Richard Thierry, the car was a Porsche 356, and the word “hurdles” hardly began to describe what really happened. Grand Island is nested away in the northwest...
