August 2009 Porsche: Excellence Was Expected By Karl Ludvigsen As highlighted throughout this issue, the importance of Porsche to the...
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Well-known vintage racing enthusiast and patron Ford Heacock III was suitably honored with the VIR Gold Cup at the annual...
A rare piece of automotive history will go on the block with no reserve as the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C Coupe that was Ettore Bugatti’s personal car is auctioned as part of Gooding & Company’s annual Pebble Beach sale. Bugatti is the featured marque of this year’s Pebble Beach Concours...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to report the death of Tony Maggs. His drive in a Tojeiro-Jaguar at the 1959 North...
A pair of historic Miller racing cars, an ex–Phil Hill Jaguar C-Type, and a rare Ferrari 225S headline the 24th...
The 2009 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix was held July 18-19 at Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix is unique in America, as it’s the only vintage car race staged on public roads amidst the public 456-acre Schenley Park....
Andy Granatelli fielded cars at the Indianapolis 500 from 1946 until 1991, as a driver but more notably as a...
The 2009 Silverstone Classic was held July 24-26 at the Silverstone Circuit in England. On Saturday morning, the Under Two...
RM Auctions will hold its 2009 Sports & Classics of Monterey auction on August 13th to 15th at the Portola Hotel & Spa and Monterey Convention Center in Monterey, California. RM Auctions’ 24th annual auction will feature over 240 cars, headlined by the ex-Phil Hill 1952 Jaguar C-Type...
The Boat Tent at Henley-on-Thames was packed with collectors for the Bonhams sale of the Ward Brothers’ Reserve Collection on...
This 1931 Miller V16 Racing Car – the only V16-engined Miller racing car ever built – will be offered for...
In less than two weeks car collectors and automotive aficionados from around the continent will descend on Rochester, Michigan to enjoy an exceptional motoring weekend in the heart of the American automotive landscape when the Meadow Brook Concours d’Elegance and RM Auctions each celebrate 30th anniversaries July 31 to August...
The 2009 Portland Historic Races were held July 10-12 at Portland International Raceway in Portland, Oregon. The Portland Historics celebrated...
The Ron Pratte Collection will be featured at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2015 sale, scheduled for January 10-18 at WestWorld in...
The field for the 36th Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races is complete, with 450 entrants for the 36th running of one of vintage motorsport’s most revered racing traditions, set for August 14-16 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. Nearly 1/3rd of the field are Porsche cars, helping to...
Book Review, Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed In the first full biography of Mark Donohue, author Michael Argetsinger tells...
Bonhams held their annual Collectors Motor Cars and Automobilia auction on Friday, July 3rd at the Goodwood Festival of Speed....
1958 Jaguar 3.4 Saloon An unused flying boat base from WWII provided the “test track” where our man Quinn tried out the big Cat’s capabilities.Photo: Steve Oom It has had an impressive competition career in anyone’s language. In simple number of wins it’s up there with some of the greatest...
Two events, one forever unforgettable, the other somewhat less memorable, shared the same Sunday, 40 years ago. Heading up the...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling Moss, an intrepid explorer like Ernest Shackleton, or a political icon like Winston Churchill, true British, full-frontal, hero-dom is a level of reverence bordering on the fanatical—or perhaps the divine....
The Eagle Formula Ford that I won the SCCA Runoffs with in 1978 was a car I was involved with...
Like many other sports during WWII, automobile racing experienced a hiatus. Soon thereafter, however, competition resumed. The Formula One World...
Autosport Three Hours; Snetterton, 1963 At the Autosport Three Hours race held at Snetterton on September 28, 1963, South African driver Bob Olthoff pressed on aggressively with his AC Cobra, even though it was not yet a match for the Ferrari GTOs. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204,...
Fernando Alonso Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory...
Pete Lyons Take something for granted, and we risk having it ripped away. For me, foolish me, Peter Bryant was always going to be there. An interesting guy, a very human guy, fun, warm, witty—often scandalously so—bright and innovative, astoundingly energetic. A ball o’ fire whose boisterousness could be alarming,...
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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...
