With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the...
Mark your calendars because on June 18, Classic Car Auctions Summer Sale which will be held at the Warwickshire Event...
I don’t often reference values when discussing design, but a great deal of the success of a sports car resides in the price/value relationship experienced under ownership. If you poll most sports car enthusiasts and ask them to name a beautiful 1960s era open British sports car with a six-cylinder...
Ex-Donald Healey Motor Company works driver, Clive Baker first began his connection with Healeys and Austin-Healeys in Tasmania. Clive went...
It’s usually the other way around. A roadcar becomes a racecar. This 1956 Austin-Healey 100 was rescued from a certain...
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Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the April 10–14, 2021, running of the Copperstate 1000 in Arizona. 59 Porsche 356A-Eli Kogan...
In my experience, most auto enthusiasts tend to live dual lives, we have our automotive life (cars, car-friends, events, etc)...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, and the International Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
This year saw the seventh running of the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, an event that was open to cars...
Canadian motorsports owes a huge debt to the team of Jim Fergusson and his wife, Alice. Their efforts were almost...
Before WWII, the term “sports car” was an alien phrase in the USA. There was no such thing. Returning G.I.s changed that when they came home with MG TCs. This gave America its first taste of small, nimble, four-cylinder sports cars. Enthusiasts on this side of the pond said, “Please...
Built with an aluminum body, ostensibly for racing, only 50 production Austin-Healey 100S were made, plus an additional five works...
We walk through Don Murray’s spectacular classic and exotic car collection and dealership called Mesa Concours Cars in southern California,...
The Andes adventure started in Antofagasta, on the coast of Northern Chile with 15 cars and teams from Belgium, Finland, the U.S., Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and France. In all there were three Mustangs, two Mercedes Pagoda, a Mercedes 280 SL, a 1937 Lagonda, a 1957 Bentley, two Porsches, two...
Equipe Classic Racing is planning to launch a new competition class in 2018, especially for Pre-1963 GT and Production racing...
It was irresistible and I just had to have it. Back in 1976, my friend Keith had learnt the whereabouts...
There is but a short list of automotive names, from the post-World War II period, that shine brightly. Names that when they come to mind, cause us to think about significant marques or types of vehicles that are renowned amongst enthusiasts today. Someone like Enzo Ferrari, who started his career...
I have raced and rallied all over the world during my long career and am still actively involved in motorsport,...
The Bentley Drivers Club’s popular annual race meeting — an institution on the British motor-racing calendar – once again produced...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie beneath the surface. He raced from the mid-1950s to around 1962, but he gave it all up for his business of selling cars in London, Ontario, Canada. Here was a...
In 1950, Gerry Coker got a job at the Donald Healey Motor Company as Healey’s body engineer. A short time...
The 13th annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance will take place Sunday April 9 on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean...
The Sprite made its debut before the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix as an inexpensive motor “a chap could keep in his bike shed.” The little car was designed by the Donald Healey Motor Company and was produced in Abingdon at the MG factory. Originally to have had retractable lights, cost...
Visitors to the 9th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion, scheduled for August 27-30, 2017, will discover a decidedly Italian flavor...
The under two-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, and the International Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
During 2016 the UK’s Historic Sports Car Club celebrates 50 years since it’s founding. Looked upon by many as “Mr....
A 1953 Austin-Healey that raced in the inaugural New Zealand Grand Prix will make its public show debut at Race...
John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on that role has had to make many difficult and radical decisions to secure the future of Silverstone Racing Circuit—The Home of British Motor Racing. Some may ask who is John...
