Story and photos by Paul Chenard The Lotus 49 was another of a long line of brilliant Colin Chapman (and...
Story by Will Silk I recently received an email from a gentleman in Maryland that does wood carvings of sports...
On October 15, 1953, Achille Castoldi sat in his boat on the water of Lake Iseo nestled between its more famous siblings Lake Como and Lake Garda. Surrounded by dense woodlands and soaring peaks, the lake remains the least known of Italy’s Lombard Lakes, but Achille was not there to...
Story by Stephen Mitchell Back in the day, the Ferrari Owners’ Club in Los Angeles held monthly dinner meetings with...
Story by Will Silk Perhaps no single man had more involvement in the development of West Coast racing in the...
The Jeff Koons BMW Art Car was unveiled June 1st, 2010 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the same place Roy Lichtenstein first presented and signed his Art Car in 1977. In the spirit of Calder, Stella, Lichtenstein, Warhol, BMW announced this year that the 17th Art Car created by...
Story by Will Silk Sports Car Digest is proud to revive our vintage classifieds column to reflect on the market...
Story and photos by Stephen Mitchell The 250GTO #3987 was the third car I’d ever owned. The first was a...
Sixty years ago today (13th May), Alfa Romeo completed an historic 1-2-3 finish at the first ever Formula One European Championship race, which was held at Silverstone motor racing circuit. Italian driver, Giuseppe Farina, dominated proceedings to bring home his 300bhp 158 race car – also known as the Alfetta...
The International Motor Racing Research Center announced a fund raising event called the Hot Lapz Experience as part of the...
The Important People Behind The Silver Arrows As part of our ongoing series, we take a look at the history...
The BMW Classic specialist workshop will not only be repairing and restoring its own classic vehicles, but also those belonging to customers. The BMW Classic Center thus closes the final gap in the complete range of services offered to the owners of classic models from every era of the blue-and-white...
The Mullin Automotive Museum, a facility that pays homage to the art deco and machine age design eras (1918-1941) that...
The Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) will honor racing icon Parnelli Jones at its second annual West Coast dinner prior...
Book Review: Porsche Showroom Posters: The First 25 Years Author: Everett Anton Singer Publisher: VintageAutoPosters.com Format: Hardcover, 12” x 12”, 50 pages ISBN: n/a Price: $78.96 Hardcover; $39.95 Softcover Review by Lee Robie The fun thing about writing for Sports Car Digest is that I get to read books that...
Bobby Rahal, president of the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC), named FIA Senate President Nick Craw as the 2010 recipient...
In the February 2010 edition of Vintage Racecar, editor Casey Annis reported that a concours d’provenance had been held in...
Sports Car Digest is pleased to announce our new Forum section, a great place for enthusiasts to talk about auction results, event photographs, vintage racing action, stories from the golden years and much more. The forum is a natural extension of the many interesting and great discussions that have taken...
The home of today’s Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has a very special sound in the world of...
Porsche scored its first major international overall victory at Sebring’s 12-hour classic in 1960 when Hans Herrmann and Olivier Gendebien...
The votes are in for your favorite car competing in the Etceterini Class at the 2010 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. The winner is the 1957 Bandini Saponetta owned by Marc Richelsoph. “Saponetta” means little soap bar, for being small and slippery. The unique patented oval tubing, lightweight engine, and aluminum...
Paintings from Barry Rowe, Charles Maher and Peter Hearsey of the Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) will be featured during...
Endurance racing legend Derek Bell has been named Grand Marshal for the 58th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours...
Bill Warner and the crew at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance continually produce a very entertaining and diverse collection of cars and those assembled for the 15th annual event will surely wow the spectators once again. Among the unique featured classes at the 2010 Amelia Island Concours will be Porsche...
Porsche has been successful in many branches of motorsports, scoring tens of thousands of victories worldwide over the course of...
Over thirty rare, unusual and beautiful sports and racing cars manufactured in England will be on display at the Simeone...
The Allure of the Automobile exhibit will be displayed at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia from March 21st to June 20th, 2010, presenting the world’s rarest and most brilliantly conceived cars from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. The exhibit aims to trace the evolution of the motorcar,...
What was once one of the most important collections of vintage and collector Ferraris in the world has been salvaged...
Steve Earle, creator and organizer of the Monterey (Calif.) Historic Automobile Races, was named the recipient of the 2009 Bob...
The National Automobile Museum, The Harrah Collection, has raffled 14 cars and generated $295,000 in proceeds to benefit the Museum over the years, with the winning ticket drawn at the anniversary party held each November at the Museum in Reno, Nevada....
