Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
Due to the lead time it takes to print and distribute any given magazine, I sit here today, writing this...
This month’s Hidden Treasure comes to us courtesy of Gertrude Schmedley of Pascagoula, Mississippi. Schmedley found me via the internet and I quickly surmised from her initial email that she shares nothing in common with the usual Vintage Racecar crowd that I hear from. First, she’s never actually seen a...
RM Auctions has announced the consignment of one of history’s most important racing Ferraris, the 1953 340/375 MM Pinin Farina...
The euphoria associated with the end of WWII greatly contributed to the sudden global popularity of sports car racing. Large...
The prize money for winning the 1972 Formula One “Race of Champions” at Brands Hatch in a BRM P160 allowed me to purchase a 1934 Bentley 3.5-liter Drophead Coup, a love-at-first-sight purchase. In fact, motor racing allowed me to build quite a collection of iconic vehicles of both road and...
RM Auctions closed out its 2012 auction calendar with the early December sale of the John Staluppi “Cars of Dreams”...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary of his racing career. John FitchPhoto: Mercedes-Benz Before, after and during that career, however, John Fitch was much more than a racing driver. He served as pilot of both Light...
Would you trade a front-engine 12-cylinder Ferrari for a Devin SS in boxes? That’s what Harold Pace did—are you with...
More on the Missing Cunningham Dear Editor, On page 20 of the November, 2012 issue there is a letter with...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares the front row of the grid with Bob Schroeder’s Kurtis-Chevy (#233) as a pair of Corvettes give chase. Photo: Bob Jackson By late 1956 the production of Jaguar’s D-Type competition model...
Privateer Bruce Halford took part in the epic 1957 German Grand Prix, finishing 11th in his Maserati 250F. It was...
Near the Lancia factory in Turin during March of 1954, Piero Taruffi seems pleased after a test of the Lancia...
In 1903, Henry M. Leland began selling a $750, single-cylinder, automobile under the name Cadillac. Later touted as the “Standard of the World,” Cadillac would soon become consolidated under the General Motors banner in 1909. Over the ensuing years, the Cadillac brand would come to be known as a status...
The U.S. motorsports community as a whole, and the profession of motorsports journalism in particular, suffered a great loss on...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos...
Sir William Lyons, founder of the Jaguar car company, knew, as domestic car production returned to the UK, after World War II, that it would be a fast race for the hearts and minds of car enthusiasts around the world. Lyons also knew that while Jaguar—and in its earlier iterations...
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when...
Following their conquest of Mexico’s Pan-American Road Race in November of 1952, Mercedes-Benz factory drivers Karl Kling and Hermann Lang stand next to the pair of 300SLs that carried them to their one-two finish. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
How many of you would journey 500 miles across country to race a freshly built car whose engine had never...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California,...
There I was, on Los Angeles’ Imperial Highway, helplessly hanging on in the passenger seat. No grab bar, no seatbelt, just my feet burrowing into the floorboards. The scent of tires melting away under the strain of a 70 mph four-wheel drift was intoxicating, and the fact that the combined...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for...
Stirling Moss and Juan Manual Fangio were partners at Mercedes-Benz in 1955. They later became rivals, Fangio at Ferrari with...
This painting shows the Talbot Lago driven by Louis Rosier being tended by a mechanic at the very first World Championship Formula One race at Silverstone in 1950. This naturally aspirated 4.2-liter car finished 4th behind three supercharged 1.5-liter Alfa Romeos. The artist says he likes this image for its grass field...
“For nearly a half-century, wherever Americans powered their way to automobile glory, whether on the two-and-a-half-mile Speedway at Indianapolis, the...
In order to understand the Pegaso story, it’s first necessary to understand the man behind the car and the tumultuous...
The author puts his back into steering the Trimax through a left hander at Mallory Park.Photo: Andy Thorpe Was Alvin “Spike” Rhiando really Archibald Stansfeld Belaney? Well, the answer is no, but if you haven’t got anything else to do for the next twelve hours you could find some good...
