The Sports Car Digest team is taking a brief holiday hiatus, but we will be back on December 29th ready...
January 2009 The Automotive Art of Alan Fearnley Foreword by Murray Walker While there are—and have been—many fine automotive artists,...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1937 Horch Type 853 Sports Cabriolet offered for sale in the June 1974 issue of Hemmings for $24,900. The Horch Type 853 Sports Cabriolet was popular among Germany’s rich and famous, as it was the only German-made car that offered...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1955 Maserati A6G 2000 Zagato offered for sale in the...
January 2009 Update: This very same Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder recently sold at Gooding’s Scottsdale Auction for $4,950,000....
Mario Andretti was presented with the first annual Spirit of Competition Award at dedication ceremonies for the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia on November 12. The dedication ceremony was presided over by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, and Andretti’s award was presented by former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil,...
This week’s look back at old classified advertisements features a Toyota 2000GT race car offered for sale in the April...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial offered for sale in the September...
A new book about Porsche’s extensive use of posters to further their iconic image will make its world debut on Saturday, March 7th, at the Porsche International Memorabilia and Literature Meet, held at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton....
Automotive Fine Arts Society member Jay Koka will demonstrate once again his ability to master multiple painting styles when he...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1952 Jaguar C-Type offered for sale in a 1962 issue...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1967 Ford GT40 Mk IV offered for sale in the November 1976 issue of Hemmings for $85,000. The Ford GT40 was built to win long-distance sports car races, ultimately winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times in a row, from 1966 to...
Ferrari 288 GTO specialist Joe Sackey is organizing the first-ever reunion of the cars in the United States to celebrate...
Neckarsulm on April 26, 1969: the first day of Audi NSU Auto Union, the company that would later develop into...
British Racing Motors (BRM) was a British Formula 1 motor racing team. Founded in 1945, it raced from 1950 to 1977, competing in 197 Grands Prix and winning 17. While BRM certainly created more successful F1 cars, the most astonishing has to be the BRM Type 15 with its inconceivable 1.5 litre V16 engine. The first post-war...
The Silver Arrows Story The history of Grand Prix Motor Racing through the lives of its greatest drivers, people and...
The International Motorsports Hall of Fame recently inducted five new members to its Hall of Fame, J.C. Agajanian, Donnie Allison,...
On this day in 1934 the German racing cars that were soon to acquire the nickname “Silver Arrow” were entered for their first race, on the Avus racetrack in Berlin. Although neither Auto Union, the company from which Audi in its present-day form developed later, nor Mercedes Benz won that...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1958 Maserati 250F offered for sale in the October 1962...
One of the seminal scenes in the movie Ferris Bueller was when Ferris’ friend Cameron kicked his Dad’s Ferrari 250...
Story and Photos by Greg Wing Hey SCD fans, did you ever wonder what Ken Gross, contributing writer to Playboy and John Fitch, the legendary 50’s sporty car driver would pick as favorite cars? Well…just stick with it here and you will find out. The Saratoga Auto Museum (SAM), in...
Works by motorsports artist Greg Davis of Westline, Pennsylvania, will be displayed at the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC)...
The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy motorcycle race is held annually on the Isle of Man and was for many...
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has been holding a series of “Demonstration Days,” at noon on the fourth Saturday of each month, with the program running through October. Each individual event features two or more racing sports cars from the Museum’s collection, making it one of the few...
Barn Find Jag in Los Angeles By Wallace Wyss Photos by Bob Petricca and Francis de Pouqueville Bob Petricca, of...
Andy Granatelli fielded cars at the Indianapolis 500 from 1946 until 1991, as a driver but more notably as a...
The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, is currently in the process of raising a photographic treasure. The project, which aims to scan a large proportion of the photographs housed in the Zoltán Glass archive, will systematically catalog the work of the artist, whose main creative periods came in the...
Famous Race Cars on Stamps 50 Jahre AVUS Rennen 1921-1971 – Berlin 1971 Opened in 1921 just outside of Berlin...
The Canadian – American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) – The Ultimate Guide Introduction John Bishop, Executive Director of the Sports Car...
To celebrate its centenary, the Audi brand is looking back on an exciting rally era. In a special exhibition entitled “The Cornering Wizards: Group B Rally Cars” from August 12 to October 31, 2009 at the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt, Germany, Audi Tradition is displaying no fewer than 12...
