Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
A sensational Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Spider by Zagato that was raced by Scuderia Ferrari during the 1930s has...
• The Jaguar XK120 that Norman Dewis drove to set the production car land speed record of 172.412 mph on Belgium’s Jabbeke Motorway in 1953 will be in competition in the “Post War Racing” class at this year’s Quail Motorsports Gathering in Carmel Valley, California, on August 16. Mr. Dewis...
Phil Bachman has been collecting Ferraris at a rate of about one a year since he got his first one...
If you ever see a photograph of Philippe Etancelin in action, chances are you will never forget him. Because he’s...
May 2009 Peter Collins: All About the Boy! By Ed McDonough Along with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn, Peter Collins was one of the “Golden Boys” of British motor racing in the 1950s. The trio may have shared common interests and obsessions, but they were not necessarily alike otherwise. While...
November 2005 Vukovich By Bob Gates With wins at Indianapolis in 1953 and 1954, it looked as if Bill Vukovich...
Photo: Pete Austin The UK’s Celtic county of Cornwall is a land full of mystical fables and folklore of piskies,...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and car stickers bore the legend: “Dan Gurney For President.” The designs mirrored the period campaign emblems of the 1960s, but this time were a signature and homage to the motor...
1936 Alfa Romeo 2900A Mille Miglia Photo: Peter Collins The Alfa cockpit has a number of refined details for a...
When Enzo Ferrari began building cars under his own name in 1947 he built racecars, satisfying a pent up desire...
In the 1920s and 1930s, British schoolboys devoured every word they could find about their favorite comic book heroes, like Biggles and Dick Barton, Special Agent. In Sir Henry Birkin Bt, however, they had a real live, walking, talking hero and they idolized him all the more. He was passably...
Prince Bira in his E.R.A. pursues Hans Ruesch’s Alfa Romeo 8C35 up the hill to South Tower corner. Ruesch won...
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t Monaco, the first significant race of the 1933 season, a new Grand Prix team made its debut: Scuderia CC,...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle in the late ’30s that he had to keep down the street at a gas station because my grandparents didn’t want him to own it. One day he was following...
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
One was born in Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1902 and the other in a cramped workshop in Bologna, northern Italy, 35...
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