Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
The Ford GT40 MkII with which Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon scored Ford’s initial victory at Le Mans in 1966 has been acquired by RK Motors Charlotte and will be given a full restoration in preparation for a coming-out party at Pebble Beach in 2016, 50 years after it led...
Another little piece of our motoring heritage is about to be banished to the rubbish bin of automotive history. Like...
Pete Lyons There is no great genius without a trace of madness,” declared the Roman philosopher Seneca, and can we...
• Three fixtures of American racing have been inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame. Carroll Shelby, Bobby Rahal and Skip Barber were enshrined during a March 2 dinner in Las Vegas for their contributions to SCCA racing. Shelby, more widely known as winner of the 1959 Le Mans 24...
January 2011 Mark Donohue: His Life in Photographs By Michael Argetsinger In our review of Argetsinger’s previous book, Mark Donohue:...
April 2011 Out of the Shadows By Roger Lane In the late 1960s, by a chance meeting, Roger Lane was...
December 2016 Tony Bettenhausen & Sons: An American Racing Family Album By Gordon Kirby with Merle and Susan Bettenhausen Family “dynasties,” while rare, are not uncommon in motor racing, as the names Unser, Andretti, Petty, Earnhardt, Hill and Villeneuve attest, but the first of these in the modern era was...
March 2008 American Road Racing 1948-1950 By Joel Finn A heavy package arrived addressed to me the other day. I...
May 2005 Louis Rosier—Une Vie Extraordinaire By Pascal Legrand The story of French racing star Louis Rosier reads like an...
Headrest Mount In this age where we not only want to have more and more life experiences, but want to share these experiences with a global audience, the ability to film is essential. Becoming a racing driver for a day, or driving your car around iconic racing circuits such as...
Mid-Atlantic American Sports Car Races, 1953-1962 By Terry O’Neil This latest volume from author O’Neil turns his inquisitive eye toward...
The Bahamas Speed Weeks Revised Edition, including the Revival Meetings By Terry O’Neil From 1954 to 1966, the Bahamas Speed...
De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French Grand Prix, a race run barely a month before the onset of WWI. One of the greatest, and nice with it—that was Ralph De Palma. He won well over 2,500...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders...
Long time readers of Vintage Racecar Journal will be aware of the husband-and-wife photographic team of Walt & Louiseanne Pietrowicz who have been a cornerstone of VRJ’s event coverage on the East Coast since the very early days of the magazine. While you are likely familiar with their beautiful photography,...
Pete Lyons Corvette didn’t show well at Le Mans this year, which is unusual, and I suppose in time we’ll...
Gentlemen, please put the pens down. Now, place your checkbooks on the table and slowly back away from the podium…no...
Pete Lyons Forgive me, please, but I can’t tell you much about any of these oddities. I present them here and now for the same reason that made me and, I presume, my dad take their pictures—astonishment. “Hey, isn’t this a weird one?” Some were quite good-looking, but others…well, maybe...
If you grew up in the United States, then you were weaned on “The American Dream” —the idea that anyone...
Many were the similarities shared by young American racer Bobby Marshman and the Scottish Legend Bobby Marshman Photo: IMS Colin Chapman...
Although there were a number of pre-WWII cars that can be described as sports cars, the craze in the U.S. began following the war with the invasion of MGs and then Jaguars. Some aficionados credit Chevrolet’s Corvette as the first American sports car. Others feel that the original Thunderbird fits...
Once, I set out to write the “Great Motor Racing Novel.” There was no firm plot in my mind, but...
Masten Gregory sits in the cockpit of the 1965 BRP Indycar as team manager Tony Robinson looks on. What brothers?...
My column in the October 2006 edition of Vintage Racecar was titled, “Shelby, the Early Years.” For the most part, it was about Carroll Shelby’s racing career that culminated in winning Le Mans in 1959. I followed up on the column with the publication of my book, Shelby, the Race...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of...
One of the curious offshoots of America’s involvement in WWII was the fact that many American GI’s developed a taste...
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