By Martin Swig In the years just before and after World War II, a Cadillac was one of the best...
Catching the spirit of Can-Am is one of the goals of the new Unlimited Racing Championship (URC) that will feature...
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business By Martin Swig In the 1950s and 1960s, General Motors ruled the automotive world. Their market share in the United States was over 50%. Each of their brands (Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac) was the benchmark...
Filmmaker and Sports Car Digest contributor Stephen Mitchell, along with Jeanetta Dumouchel of InterFUND and Ron Kellogg of the Kellogg...
Contributor Stephen Mitchell has plans for a documentary on the original Carrera Panamericana races (!) and would like to tap...
Review by Wallace Wyss It was a long time coming; a near complete authorized biography of a giant in American sports car circles, Carroll Hall Shelby. The author is a surprising choice, British author Rinsey Mills, surprising only because in a couple of his earlier books on Shelby he seemed...
Famous Race Cars on Stamps 50 Jahre AVUS Rennen 1921-1971 – Berlin 1971 Opened in 1921 just outside of Berlin...
Story by Will Silk I recently received an email from a gentleman in Maryland that does wood carvings of sports...
Chip Ganassi, a former race car driver who is now one of the most successful race team owners, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with the 2017 Phil Hill Award. RRDC president Bobby Rahal made the presentation at the annual RRDC members’ dinner on January 25 prior to...
The achievements of Chris Economaki, the late dean of American motorsports, will be celebrated on Saturday, June 15, 2013 at...
Review by Rick Carey, Auction Editor In the fast-changing world of collector car values it’s good to reflect from time-to-time...
Review by Rick Carey, Auction Editor It isn’t until page 12 of the 2012-2013 Classic Car Auction Yearbook that authors Adolfo Orsi and Raffaele Gazzi slip in the paragraph that defines their conservative, reasoned take on the 2012-2013 auction results: “The question is: Are we at the crest of a...
In the collector car auctions’ relentless series of events there is rarely an opportunity to sit back and take stock....
Collectors, dealers, agents, auction houses and a few observers pick through the entrails of transactions and auctions seeking the portents...
Dr. Orsi and Mr. Gazzi have an enviable skill for considering vast amounts of data on the $1.2 billion-plus annual collector car market, presenting it in salient graphs and each year coming up with new and insightful ways to make sense of it. Even more remarkably they make reading about...
By Will Silk With traditional forms of investments seeing troubled times in a global economy that continues to only offer...
Classic Motor Cars Ltd, a classic car restoration company in England, has been given to the employees by its owner....
Climb Dance is a record-winning short film which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a four-wheel drive, all-wheel steering 600hp Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR at the 1988 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb....
By Will Silk Artists Nicolas Cancelier of Belgium, Paul Chenard of Canada, Anna-Louise Felstead of the United Kingdom and Rick Rucker...
By Will Silk Speculative interest in using vintage cars as a means of investment have been in use for decades,...
By Martin Swig Every few weeks we read of a new world record price paid for a collector car. Are these the good investments they’re claimed to be? I think not. Here’s why. When I was in high school and college in the late ‘40s, early ‘50s, a car was...
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is holding its first collectors fair for models, brochures, literature, pins and accessories on November 28th, 2009...
The Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Inc. in Naples, Florida is now open its automobile collection to the public on...
The Octane Party, a show for automobiles and motorcycles of all types including a display of the Larry H. Miller performance car collection, will hold its debut event on Sunday, July 27, 2014 at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. The Octane Party welcomes all types of cars and motorcycles...
JD Classics welcomed more than 500 guests to another of its breakfast mornings on 23rd October, headlined by an insightful...
Craig Breedlove – the first person to exceed 400, 500, and 600 miles per hour on land – will receive...
Damon Hill O.B.E. announced to the Board of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) that he plans to step down as BRDC President at the Club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 25 August, 2011. Damon was appointed BRDC President in 2006. During his tenure the BRDC has secured the long...
The new-and-improved Petersen Automotive Museum continues to impress with its selection of interesting exhibitions, including the latest titled “The Eagles...
The Petersen Automotive Museum awarded motorsports icon Dan Gurney with the Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award at its 22nd...
Endurance racing legend Derek Bell has been named Grand Marshal for the 58th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. A five-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Bell also won the two World Sports Car Championships. He ranks third on Sebring’s all-time podium finishes list...
