The 1920s and 1930s were not only a pivotal time in world history, they proved to be the crucible from...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
Perfect harmony between the public’s opinon and the Jury of experts enabled the Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B to gain a one-two victory at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este 2019. The stylishly captivating and technically sophisticated two-door coupé from 1937 was crowned overall winner of the world’s most traditional heritage beauty...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
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...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...
Soon after motor vehicles were invented they were raced. Initially the contests were held on open roads, often from city...
Prince Bira in his E.R.A. pursues Hans Ruesch’s Alfa Romeo 8C35 up the hill to South Tower corner. Ruesch won his preliminary heat over Bira, but the “eight stone of dynamite from Siam” (as the program called him) won the final at an average speed of 57.5 mph. Photo courtesy...
Five of these cars were built for racing in 1938—one uniquely for Le Mans—essentially derived from a road-going version of...
Hans Ruesch has had an amazing life. At age 23, he won the Donington Grand Prix (with Richard Seaman as...
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...
1936 Alfa Romeo 2900A Mille Miglia Photo: Peter Collins The Alfa cockpit has a number of refined details for a...
• The Jaguar XK120 that Norman Dewis drove to set the production car land speed record of 172.412 mph on...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
Viva Veloce! was an apt slogan for the 18th Goodwood Festival of Speed on the first weekend of July as...
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