Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille...
Words by Sean Smith / Photos by Sean Smith & Michael DiPleco When you hear the word Duesenberg you have...
Recently I was traveling from Florida to West Virginia to race in the Jefferson 500. I stopped at the half way point, got a hotel room, slept briefly, & woke up to find my trailer having been broken into and the racecar GONE! I come from a family of car...
Roy Thomas, designer of the Titan formula cars for Charles Lucas Engineering and later co-owner of Titan Cars, passed away...
The 25 Hours of Thunderhill resumed on the first weekend in December after skipping the 2020 edition. The Team One...
As probably the most successful designer/builder of racing cars, Ron Tauranac was celebrated at a historic race meeting at Eastern Creek in Sydney which payed tribute to the man and his cars. This watercolor was used as a poster and program cover for the meeting. The original painting was presented to him...
With the Type 41 Royale, in 1926, Bugatti presented the strongest, largest and most luxurious automobile in the world, characterized...
I was given the opportunity recently to see an advanced screening of Ron Howard’s much-anticipated movie Rush. I was allowed...
One of the highlights of my many years of racing has to do with the 1966 Trans-Am Mustang that Jerry Titus (1928-1970) drove to victory for Ford and Shelby. Ford was tied up at the end of the series with Dodge, and as a result Shelby built this special, one-off...
The 2009 edition of Italy’s Mille Miglia Storica attracted its usual mixed bag of royalty, politicians, motor racing icons, and...
1922 Duesenberg More words have been written about Duesenberg per “car”-pita than any other marque in the history of the...
The history of Automobili Lamborghini is one that almost parallels the success of post-World War II Italy itself, and is synonymous with the word “Supercar.” The founder of the company, Ferruccio Lamborghini, was born in 1916 in Northern Italy, and as a young man studied engineering. Following World War II...
It was a word-of-mouth, invitation-only affair organized by his lovely wife Susie and a friend without Stirling Moss knowing a...
I don’t think there has ever been a car that has captured the public’s imagination more than the Jaguar E-Type....
At the Brits At The Beach car show in New Zealand recently, among the classic Jaguars, MGs, Triumphs and Morris Minors I saw an unusual looking little late 1960s British car I had never seen before called a Sunbeam Imp. The car looked pleasant, though unexceptional at first glance, but...
Unlike Vintage Racecar’s editors I don’t spend my working life thrashing the pants off other people’s rare and priceless racing...
Jochen Rindt (right) and Lotus boss Colin Chapman celebrate the Austrian’s 1970 British Grand Prix victory. Photo: Maureen Magee The poet...
Our Roger Dixon brings you a brief video overview of the sight and sounds of the 2018 Goodwood Revival. Click here for more Goodwood Revival coverage....
American racing fans will soon be able to enjoy a rare piece of ’70s Formula One history now that the...
Harold LeMay’s Humble Beginnings We’re all familiar with the expression “One person’s trash is another one’s treasure.” In the case...
Since the first race in 1911, the Indianapolis 500 has always been considered America’s greatest race, attracting huge crowds and media attention around the world. 200 laps around a 2.5-mile oval was a grueling test of driver and his car, a real test of endurance. From the beginning, the winning...
A unique annual titled “Nine Over Nine” features the work of nine professional photographers covering the Monterey Car Week Experience....
Sports car racing in the U.S. during the ’50s was unique. It was very different from the American circle-track or...
1935 Tripoli Grand Prix – The Victory Report By Rudolf Caracciola We stood by the cars and waited. Music drifting across in snatches from the grandstands was interrupted by the occasional roar of an engine, and on the terrace of the timekeeper’s hut the lottery numbers were drawn. I listened...
You take the train southwest out of Warsaw, Poland. 45 minutes later, you get off at the Otrębusy station and...
The Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile di Torino (The National Automobile Museum of Torino) showcases cars as works of automotive art. Style...
Synonymous with Zagato, but embraced throughout the automotive industry, double-bubble roofs are one of the most striking design cues ever to emerge from post-WWII Italy. An already established coachbuilder with a lot of experience in lightweight materials, namely aluminum, Ugo Zagato was also among the first to experiment with aerodynamics,...
There were a number of outstanding road-race weekends during the fifties. Phil Hill’s win at the first Pebble Beach comes...
He was elusive. Confined to a wheelchair, but more difficult to pin down than most people with the full use...
Tony Boynton was like many teenage boys whose primary interest in cars was looking forward to the day when he would become eligible to obtain a drivers license. While he was aware his uncle Ted Boynton, who lived a few miles away, had been racing sports cars for the previous...
