There is a man who is not only unknown to the general public but also to much of the racing...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North...
Augie Pabst: Behind the Wheel By Robert Birmingham Augie Pabst grew up an heir to the family brewing business, and one day in 1952 found himself, literally and figuratively, at a road race on an airport course in south central Wisconsin. The hook was set that day, even though four years...
It’s probably to the good that Innes Ireland, Duncan Hamilton and Augie Pabst were never at a party together –...
Ken Miles in the Shelby Cobra, with Shelby’s personal racing number, leads Jim Hall in the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road racing championship last month it was coming off its most successful season yet, with 11 races producing nine different winners, but the schedule for 1960 would feature only five races,...
Harry Heuer, whose father was the CEO of the Peter Hand Brewing Company, decided in the late ’50s to go...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim...
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a fascinating character, I thought a column explicitly about him would be appropriate in order to wrap up the theme. I wrote what was hopefully an amusing story about a party...
Augie Pabst, described as “one of the fastest, most charismatic and popular drivers in his day” by the Motorsports Hall...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or...