A mere hundred years have passed since the first Grand Prix d’endurance de 24 heures, a somewhat humble beginning for...
Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy: Automobili Lamborghini, an emblem of automotive excellence, has long been synonymous with daring and exclusive color palettes....
Cartainers, a pioneering force in state-of-the-art automotive display and storage solutions, is launching a limited production series of exclusive containers made for fine collectible and exotic automobiles. Created as a no-compromise solution for car collectors, the new Ceres 001 Founders Edition design from Cartainers presents an incredible way of displaying...
Bonus Photo Gallery from the Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival, held June 17, 2015....
Built in series from 1919 to 1927, the 30-98 was, in its day, the fastest cataloged production car in Great...
With the Concours season starting in California, my memory was jogged to my first and only Pebble Beach Road Races. In 1956, as a freshman engineering student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (SLO) several friends and I heard of a sports car race in Carmel, just up the coast...
From Hiroshima cork producer to global car manufacturer, 2020 sees Mazda celebrate a century of engineering success. One hundred years...
Goodwood, and in particular the Revival, is without doubt a Mecca for motoring enthusiasts the world over however, that isn’t...
“A technical product is not perfect until it is aesthetically impeccable as well,” Ettore Bugatti once said. And the company founder applied this standard not just to his own automobiles but to other everyday items too. If he was not satisfied with something he had bought, he often improved it...
In nature, there’s a phenomenon known as “convergent evolution” – the way different creatures in different places evolve the same...
The road was as straight as the crow flies without any trace of the slightest change of scenery. Driving down...
Photos from opening night at the Petersen Museum’s new “The Porsche Effect” exhibition, which will run throughout 2018....
To celebrate its debut in Formula One, as well as its assault on a selection of other high-speed disciplines, Alpine...
Aston Martin is known worldwide for its high-profile successes in sports car racing. A famous outright win at Le Mans...
Nearly 70 years ago to the day, on April 10, 1950, the great champion Tazio Nuvolari ended his racing career behind the wheel of a Abarth 204A, the first model constructed by Carlo Abarth. The time trial ran from the Sicilian capital of Palermo, up Monte Pellegrino, a steep, evocative...
On Thursday, July 16th, in Bruntal, Czech Republic, a special and unique project was born. People from the small Czech...
It’s been 70 years since SEAT was founded on May 9, 1950, the company that helped democratize mobility in Spain...
More than 70 classic Ferraris from all over the world gathered in Sardinia for the second edition of the Cavalcade Classiche. The event, which attracted owners from over 20 different nations, was created to allow Ferrari owners to share their passion for driving the cars that wrote some of the...
Thanks to the local newspaper, I learned about Bug-a-Palüza. It is an annual event that draws VWs of all types...
It was early 1977 and I was having a beer in the Riverside International Raceway’s media hovel with Robert E....
The Volkswagen Beetle is an icon. Over the years, it has symbolized many different things to many different people, from a classic example of German ingenuity to the calling card for a counterculture movement to a reminder that the simplest of things can sometimes be the best. Above all, it...
Recently I was traveling from Florida to West Virginia to race in the Jefferson 500. I stopped at the half...
For you automotive history buffs, the name Sir David Brown should ring a bell. He owned Aston Martin from 1947...
Located in the mid-west of England, Prescott Estate is home to The Bugatti Owners’ Club, a unique organization that houses its very own competitive hill climb course and the Bugatti Trust, a store of almost 40,000 historic documents and images dedicated to the Bugatti marque. Its connections with the Bugatti...
Vintage Racecar|Vintage Roadcar is now available in a downloadable Digital Edition! Now you can download a screen optimized Digital Edition of...
Unlike Vintage Racecar’s editors I don’t spend my working life thrashing the pants off other people’s rare and priceless racing...
There are a few coachbuilders whose art and workmanship is immediately identifiable, but none as obvious and flamboyant as that of the Paris firm of Giuseppe Figoni et Ovidio Falaschi. When a true classic car enthusiast sees a Figoni et Falaschi body, the coachbuilder’s iconic styling becomes evident and the...
The romantic notion of vintage cars racing on a woodsy road, bordered by cobblestone walls, bridges, hay bales and snow...
Roger Penske’s video remembrance of driver and Penske teammate Craig Fisher, who passed away in August at 82. [button link=”https://sportscardigest.com//craig-fisher/”...
A little more more than 50 years ago, Montreal, Canada was busy preparing to host the 1967 World’s Fair, to be known as Expo ‘67. The theme for this celebration of Canada’s Centennial was “Man and his World”, which was to celebrate the many technological advances modern humans were making,...
