The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
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Sears Point, CA March 28-30, 2003 Art Hebert, driving a 1957 Porsche 356, tries an outside maneuver on the 1967...
1968 Fiat-Abarth 1000 TCR Variations on a theme – that’s the one-liner which always comes to mind when encountering an Abarth creation, especially one of the many, many machines which encompassed humble Fiat origins with Abarth genius. But the theme was more a concerto or an opera, so many stories...
Giorgio Pianta started racing in the 1950s, raced and rallied at international levels through the 1970s, and has held important...
Rene Arnoux Achille Varzi 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, is born in Japan...
Carlo Abarth started his own car company in 1949 after taking over what was left of the Cisitalia company. In the following years, Abarth built a virtual automotive empire on the sale of aftermarket performance parts for Fiat-based cars and the limited production of small displacement sports and racing cars....
I recently had the good fortune to spend a couple of weeks in England on business this past February. Now,...
One of the races I remember well from my career was winning the 24-Hours at Spa in 1968. I drove...
The aspect of motor racing which I admire the most is the production racing car industry. You can make a mediocre road car – the Chrysler Neon springs unbidden to mind – and provided you advertise and price it right, you can sell them by the 100,000. Keep on making...
Brooklands, England Jan. 11 Jonathan Williamson’s 1935 MG PB, well-known as “Cream Cracker.” Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member &...
1910 LANCIA TIPO DA CORSA CHASSIS 307 A little earlier this year (VRJ, Sept. 2002), we had the exceptionally rare pleasure...
Revenge in Italy – doesn’t that conjure up images of Machiavelli and the Duchess of Malfi? A little known early variant of the late ’40s MT4 1100, this car featured several “one-off” details including moulded-in fenders and a raised hood vent. Photo: Ferret Fotographic One of OSCA’s greatest triumphs came...
Summit Point, W. VA. Oct. 3-6 Dick Tillinger, in his 1963 Datsun SRL311.Photo: Walt & Louiseann Pietrowicz Become a Member...
Rush hour, Monterey-style – the start of Sunday’s Trans-Am finale. When an actor or a musician becomes a mega-star –...
Lancia D50 VRJ European Editor Ed McDonough recently became the first journalist to seriously test a D50 of any type, original or recreation, and had many laps at a Silverstone test session in one of the most beautiful and charismatic of the all-time classics. In late May 1955, many newspapers...
On June 8-9, more than 170 historic racing machines descended on Vernasca, Italy, for this year’s Silver Flag Hillclimb. Known...
Driving a 1937 BMW 328 Touring from the BMW museum in Munich, Bologna industrialist Giuliano Canè won this May’s Mille...
No, plans are not in the works for an amphibious supercar from Modena. However, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has successfully convinced the board of directors at parent company, Fiat to float the Ferrari subsidiary on the stock market. While part of the money raised is planned to be used...
After years of research, Ed McDonough reveals the influences and pressures that drove Mexican racing hero Pedro Rodriguez to the...
I was going through a pile of papers when I found the order of service for John Cooper’s funeral. I...
James Hunt Juan Manuel FangioPhoto: Bob Dunsmore 2 Bruce McLaren dies in a testing crash at Goodwood, England (1970). 4 Off-road champion Ivan “The Iron Man” Stewart is born (1945). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is...
Cooper Mk IX 500-cc Stirling Moss, Peter Collins, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Graham Hill, Trevor Taylor, Les Leston, John Cooper – these...
In the last of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” –...
1959 Abarth Allemano Spyder The Abarth Allemano Spyder is about as curiously 1950s Italian as you can get. Carlo Abarth, of course, made his name and his fortune by taking vast numbers of Fiats and turning them into race or high performance road cars. He was so good at this,...
In the first of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” –...
Targa Florio – The Ultimate Guide The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of...
Is Renault French? Is the Pope a Catholic? I ask because Renault has bought the Benetton team and has renamed it, but the team’s headquarters is at Enstone in Oxfordshire and most of the employees are British. Benetton began life as Toleman, which was British. Benetton continued to be British...
Formula Junior was very much as it sounds, a junior category dreamed up by the Italian driver and race administrator...
Whatever the French might say, an American named James Gordon Bennett, Jr. is the great granddaddy of the modern Grand...
As first reported in VRJ in October 2000, the legendary Cisitalia has moved a little closer to making its comeback. Now Italo and Massimo Dusio, sons of the company’s founder and racing driver Piero, have signed a letter of intent to build a new factory in the Santa Fe province...
