The pundits say every year that Lord Charles March won’t be able to repeat his motorized extravaganza of a garden...
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Another historic group has been formed to organize and run a Targa Florio Retrospective. The new group is made up...
1929 Bentley Blower 1929 Bentley Blower. This Profile may be forced to veer somewhat from our usual format since the chance to have a close encounter with a very historic Bentley in the same place where it made its name and on the much heralded occasion of Team Bentley’s return...
Vittorio Brambilla, affectionately know as the “Monza Gorilla” died from a sudden heart attack at his home in Italy on...
2 Swede Savage dies from injuries suffered in a wreck 33 days earlier during the Indianapolis 500 (1973). Pedro Rodriguez Jim Hall 4 Eddie Rickenbacker and Dusenberg score their first major win, at Sioux City, Iowa (1914). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
When the first “Birdcage” Maseratis burst onto the world racing stage in 1959, a number of people were shocked and...
The pundits, who supposedly know something about these things, say that in racing, rain is the great equalizer. But from...
Miller “Burd Piston Ring Special” On December 9, 1875 an event occurred in Menomonie, Wisconsin, that would directly shape and affect the face of American motorsport for the next 70 years – Harry Arminius Miller was born. Despite having no more than an elementary school education, Miller went on to...
Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
Willow Springs, CA Mar. 10-11 John Morton made an unexpected return to 2.5-liter Trans-Am racing when he piloted, not a...
Sebring, FL Mar. 2-4 Ray Van Zelst leads a quartet of Porsche 356s. Photo: Art Eastman Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to...
May 2001 The Legendary 2.3 By Simon Moore Simon Moore doesn’t write often, but when he does it’s usually worth...
Dan Gurney has a serious conversation with Cosworth founder Keith Duckworth. Photo: Ed McDonough Collection The 1968 season was a...
Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives a Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeo to victory in the Grand Prix of Monaco (1934). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
West Palm Beach, FL Feb. 8-11 The Lotus Super Seven of Ken Walker. Photo: Art Eastman Become a Member &...
Ferrari 512S In 1967, the 512 was born out of a series of bad decisions by racing’s ruling body, the...
What else could it have been called? Born out of an established American idea, it probably didn’t take a long brainstorming session to come up with the title of Atlantic for 1971’s newest UK single-seater formula. After all – after nurturing in the UK – it was then exported back...
Porsche 356A Modern automobile manufacturers would tell you – if you ran the Porsche history past them without putting a...
Every so often you encounter an image which stops you in your tracks. For me it was a photograph of...
Savannah, Georgia Nov. 2-5 The 1970 MGB GT of Doug & Jim Campbell mixes it up with the 1959 Aston Martin DB4 of John Littlechild and the 1962 Porsche 356 of Tim Baker. Photo: Louiseann & Walter Pietrowicz Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Speed Festival, Coronado, CA Oct. 20-22 Try as they might, the Tomcat was always first into turn 1. Photo: Casey...
No one was exactly thrilled when word reached Maranello, Modena, Arese and points north that the automobile club of an...
Bruno Giacomelli was born in Brescia, Italy, in 1952. He was always enthusiastic about racing and especially about single-seaters, working his way quickly into Formula Two, where he won the European F2 Championship in 1978 driving a works March-BMW. He managed to break into F1 in a 3rd McLaren in...
Paul Newman Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams 1 Sports car racer James R. “Hap” Sharp is born (1928). 6 Indy racer...
Colorado Rockies Sept. 11-14 Dennis and Natalie Machul take in the sights of the Rockies in their 1933 Alfa Romeo...
The Conclusion of Boyd Harnell’s First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Mexico City-Leon, Leon-Durango: November 21, 1954 The carnage continued to mount on the next leg, Mexico City to León. There were four major crashes and one fatality, all of them occurring at a washboard curve outside Mexico City...
A First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Photos and Story By Boyd Harnell A white Jaguar convertible hurtled out...
The newly formed Vintage Sedan Racers Group (VSRG) and HSR-West have announced the creation of the Magnaflow 2.5 Challenge for...
1935 Maserati 4CS Photo: Peter Collins Ken Painter’s 1935 Maserati 4CS has had a highly active and dramatic existence, and though perhaps not as sinister as Stephen King’s continually resurrecting Christine, it certainly has had narrow escapes from destruction. Ed McDonough was lucky enough not only to get to grips...
