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...
Ex-Donald Healey Motor Company works driver, Clive Baker first began his connection with Healeys and Austin-Healeys in Tasmania. Clive went on to race Sprites in the UK and after being noticed by Donald Healey would drive Works prepared Sprites and 3000s culminating in steering the Healey SR at Le Mans...
It’s usually the other way around. A roadcar becomes a racecar. This 1956 Austin-Healey 100 was rescued from a certain...
Photo Gallery from the April 10–14, 2021, running of the Copperstate 1000 in Arizona. [button link=”https://sportscardigest.com//copperstate-1000-subscriber-photo-gallery-2/” size=”large” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the April 10–14, 2021, running of the Copperstate 1000 in Arizona. 59 Porsche 356A-Eli Kogan 61 Porsche 356 Super 90 Cab-Jon and Joan Wactor-Sedona 73 Ferrari 365GTB-4 Daytona-Brad & Lisa Tank 73 Porsche 911-Tomas Papadopoulos 55 Arnolt Bristol Competition Bolide-Marc and Lorraine Weiland 58 Jaguar...
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...
This year saw the seventh running of the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, an event that was open to cars produced prior to 1976. This event could be called a re-enactment of the original event held in 1907. That first event held not long after the dawn of motoring came...
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...
Built with an aluminum body, ostensibly for racing, only 50 production Austin-Healey 100S were made, plus an additional five works development/special test cars, which were hand built by the Donald Healey Motor Company. Arthur Schening is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator living in Arlington, VA. “I started working on this...
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,...
Equipe Classic Racing is planning to launch a new competition class in 2018, especially for Pre-1963 GT and Production racing cars running on Dunlop Historic tires. Building on the success of its clubman series for pre-’66 FIA GT cars under 2700 cc, and following a season in that series that...
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...
I have raced and rallied all over the world during my long career and am still actively involved in motorsport, but with historic cars now. Looking back, the rally that gave me the most personal satisfaction was the Spa-Sofia-Liege Rally in 1964, when I was paired with Tony Ambrose. I...
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...
In 1950, Gerry Coker got a job at the Donald Healey Motor Company as Healey’s body engineer. A short time into his employ with the company, Healey offers up a challenge: give me a design for a sports car. What Coker comes back with is one of the most beautiful...
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...
Visitors to the 9th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion, scheduled for August 27-30, 2017, will discover a decidedly Italian flavor at this year’s event as it celebrates racers of vintage Alfa Romeos, Fiats and (who knows?… perhaps even a few Isettas and Siatas). Beyond the tribute to Italy, the event...
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...
During 2016 the UK’s Historic Sports Car Club celebrates 50 years since it’s founding. Looked upon by many as “Mr. HSCC,” the man at the top of the organization, CEO Grahame White, has held the post for some 20 years. Recently, VR’s European Editor, Mike Jiggle, sat down with him...
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...
My first race was a small event at a BARC Goodwood Members Meeting, at the wheel of my Jowett Jupiter. Although my father enjoyed cars, there was no history of anyone in my family competing, so I was on new territory and learned as I went along from personal mistakes...
