Vintage race cars and their owners received a strange welcome to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this weekend as they encountered...
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1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
1930 Bentley Speed Six A bloke couldn’t think of anything more dissimilar if he tried. From a Boeing 737, to a modern Korean buzzbox, to a 1930 Bentley Speed Six. While both the jet and the Hyundai with its automatic transmission and power this-and-that were purely means of transport, the...
In addition to being a world-class powerboat racer, Lou Fageol was passionate about cars and racing. His twin-Porsche creations were...
1958 Fiat-Abarth 750 GT Zagato Photo: Steve Natale There is much to love about the Italian “Etceterini.” The term broadly...
As a teenager I sat in the Woodcote stand at Goodwood and watched Karl Foitek in a Giulietta TI come around at the end of the first lap in among the 3.8 Jaguars. I know I wasn’t dreaming as I have it on my cine film. On the next lap...
I’m sure, like many other racing drivers, the first race victory is an indelible moment in time and a memory...
April 2018 Jackie Oliver prepares to take the Gulf Mirage M2-Ford out for practice prior to the 1969 running of...
The world is full of confusing racecar stories. This is one of them. I read with great interest, Jonathan Stein’s recent article in Vintage Roadcar, “Going Supersonic” (December 2017) about the winding history of the 1949 Fageol Supersonic and how shortly following its world debut at the Indy 500 it...
Jim Hall, driving a Lister-Chevrolet, wins the sports car feature race at Hondo, Texas (1959). 1 • Dan Gurney, driving...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. There was even a European...
Bonhams has been selected by the estate of Carroll Shelby to offer for sale cars from the personal collection of...
A little bit of almost everything could be found at last weekend’s 76th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood, March 17-18, as...
The Peter Auto season of historic car races kicks off April 6-8 on the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit in Montmélo, with more than 200 racing cars — including some exceptional machines — expected at the Spanish track. The event has been called Espíritu de Montjuïc as an homage to the park of...
Following the announcement of a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster offered from long-term ownership at RM Sotheby’s 16th annual Fort Lauderdale...
A selection of 115 classic cars worth more than €20 million in total will be offered at the Coys Techno...
The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance was staged Saturday, March 10, 2018 in Amelia Island, Florida. The 2018 edition of the competition featured more than 300 cars and motorcycles into 35 classes to the 10th and 18th fairways of the Golf Club of Amelia Island. Emerson Fittipaldi was the...
A 1929 Duesenberg J/SJ Convertible and a 1963 Ferrari 250/275P won the Best In Show honors on Saturday, March 10,...
A pair of 1966 Ferrari 275 GTBs topped last week’s collector car auctions in conjunction with Florida’s Amelia Island Concours...
The Gooding and Company Amelia Island 2018 auction was held Friday, March 9th at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Florida, resulting in $35,937,250 in total sales and a 95 percent sell-through rate. Gooding’s 9th annual sale held during the Amelia Island Concours weekend featured more than 85 cars....
A 1968 Porsche 908K Coupe is an early entry for the 2018 RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale, set for 24-25 August...
1936 De Soto Airflow The story of De Soto begins with a record for first year sales that stood for...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We were close friends and our times together go back to 1955 when he raced at Torrey Pines. A number of those among us stood head and shoulders...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
From an early age Robert Blakemore had a passion for pre-war racing cars, particularly Aston Martins. His father owned a...
I recently crossed another one of those landmarks that make you pause and consider your age and life. My youngest daughter just got her learner’s permit. There’s something about seeing your youngest, behind the wheel, that is kind of bittersweet. After 15 and one-half years of me driving her around,...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the...
March 2018 Stars & Cars Mythical Pairings By Jacques Braunstein Steve McQueen, a Ford Mustang and San Francisco. The ten-minute pursuit in Bullitt has remained one of the all-time great movie car chase sequences for nearly 50 years. Iconic automotive pairings from cinematic history do not get much better than...