1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the...
Few cars have had more racing success and are more legendary than the Porsche 550 Spyder. From the model’s first...
This month’s awesome Hidden Treasure was discovered in 1995, sitting behind a house in Glendale, Arizona. How awesome? You tell me. It raced at Pebble Beach, was 1st in class at Santa Barbara with Bill Pollack at the wheel, was road raced with an Ardun-Mercury built by the legendary C.T....
March 2008 The Nürburgring 1000 km Race, June 1, 1958. Gino Munaron in the Karussell with the Ferrari 250TR/58, which...
There are few things that car guys love more than the story of a fabulous automotive find…the wilder, the better....
March 2008 American Road Racing 1948-1950 By Joel Finn A heavy package arrived addressed to me the other day. I couldn’t imagine what it was until I opened it and discovered it was Joel Finn’s latest book, American Road Racing: 1948 – 1950. The book is composed of a very...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
Few early American racers did more than Ak Miller. He was a well-known hot rodder, successful long-distance racer, had more...
One of the wildest racecar designs of the 1950s was penned by Mario Boano, for Carlo Abarth, in 1954. From the moment it was launched in 1955, the 207A Spyder had an unmistakable presence. Abarth built the 207A on a steel box frame based on a Fiat 1100 Model 103...
Those looking for vintage photographs frequently contact me. During the fifties, my partner, Dick Sherwin, and I published a short-lived...
Chris Wickersham is a Devin expert who has restored nearly ten Devin-bodied cars including seven of the original Devin SS...
The Berkeley Coachwork Company of Biggleswade was England’s top manufacturer of trailers in the 1950s. Company topper Charles Panter decided to expand the business’s line and introduced a diminutive economy sports car, designed by Laurie Bond, at the 1956 London Motor Show. These little cars from Berkeley had many unique...
November 2007 Racing Sports Cars, Memories of the Fifties By Art Evans Readers of this magazine will no doubt be...
1957 Climax-powered Jomar 1957 Climax-powered Jomar. Photo: Harold Pace You know the story. Start with a svelte English chassis, add...
Opening in 1921, AVUS (Automobil-Verkehrs-und Übungs-Straße) was devised by the AvD as a motorsport venue and test track for the motor industry. This unusually shaped racetrack had two long straights approximately 6 miles long linked at each end by flat, large, radius curves. In 1926, the track hosted the first...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy...
1957 Kurtis Kraft 500G2 The author gets up to speed on the banking of England’s Rockingham Speedway. Photo: Mike Jiggle...
Talking with famed Indianapolis chassis builder A. J. Watson, the question arises about the front, twin air inlets—the signature of the Watson Roadster. The first four Watson Roadsters, of 1956–1958, had a single air inlet and chrome grille, so why the change? Surely it had some advantage. Was it the...
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but...
For the last 20 years or so of his life, Rodger Ward and I were friends. Even though I had...
The German Grand Prix; Nürburgring, August 2, 1953. World Champion Alberto Ascari sits in his Ferrari 500/F2 in front of the pits with Mike Hawthorn in another of the Ferraris behind him. The Italian led from pole position, but his car retired. He then took over a similar car from...
The 1957 season was Juan Manuel Fangio’s swan song. With four World Championship victories under his belt, Fangio rejoined the...
Dark clouds begin to gather in my mind every spring as I park my car in Brescia and walk to...
Sexual debauchery, a regime’s imminent downfall and a kidnapping fit for a gentleman were some of the highlights of the 1958 Grand Prix of Cuba for sports cars. Racing during the fifties was noted for some remarkable events. The horrific 1955 Le Mans when almost 100 spectators lost their lives...
With coachwork designed by Michelotti and built out of aluminum by Vignale, the 1952 Ferrari 340 Mexico is undeniably beautiful....
1955 Zephyr Special Today, you would describe Eldred De Bracton Norman as a lateral thinker, but during the 1950s, “eccentric” in the kindest possible way would more easily come to mind. Now, over a half a century later, just to mention his name brings knowing looks and the slight nodding...
John Michael Hawthorn was a Yorkshire lad of 24 with hardly any top-level motor racing experience when he drove the...
Following the steep rise known as the Montee du Beau Rivage, the Virage de Massenet is a relatively quick and...
January 2007 Sunshine, Speed and a Surprise: The 1959 Grand Prix of the United States By Joel Finn In “Sunshine, Speed and a Surprise” author Joel Finn takes an extremely detailed look at the first USGP, held at Sebring in 1959, and the events that led up to it. The...
