The Port Jefferson Hill Climb will celebrate its 100th anniversary this July 18 with festivities including an automobile parade around...
It’s interesting how things evolve. While I have had no personal experience with the Invicta marque there has always been an interest. Little did I know how deep the story of Invicta was intertwined with the undertakings of one man. While disparate at first glance, the names of Eric-Campbell, Silver...
It was irresistible and I just had to have it. Back in 1976, my friend Keith had learnt the whereabouts...
Before WWII, the term “sports car” was an alien phrase in the USA. There was no such thing. Returning G.I.s...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race at all. The previous year there had been a fatality on the 6.6-mile course that ran right through town on Franklin Street. The Austin-Healey 100 pace car leads the pack...
In 1950, Gerry Coker got a job at the Donald Healey Motor Company as Healey’s body engineer. A short time...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for...
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...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the...
After a 15-year hiatus, organizers have recently announced a four-race Healey Challenge series will take pace in 2005, pitting American...
Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of green machines since I saw my first Jaguar. And MG. Triumph. Morgan. Lotus. Aston Martin. Austin-Healey. Bentley. Lister. Allard. Cooper. Lola. Jensen. Turner. Elva. Sunbeam. Singer. TVR. AC—as a youth...
Alfa Romeo enthusiasts around the world will mark the marque’s 100th anniversary on June 24, 2010, with celebrations from Italy...
In my experience, most auto enthusiasts tend to live dual lives, we have our automotive life (cars, car-friends, events, etc) and then we tend to have a separate parallel life (work, family, other hobbies). But I always find it a little surreal when—once in blue moon—these two separate lives intersect. As...
Photo: Pete Austin I have many memories of competing in rallies across Europe, but one that really sticks in my...
In the youth of our racing enthusiasm, we tend to think obituaries are for drivers. We don’t foresee, or at...
The Aston Martin Owners Club has announced its competitions schedule for 2008 which includes five key race meetings and eight rounds of the club’s popular Speed Series. At each race meeting the AMOC Championship is split into two races, one for Historic Astons up to 1960, another for Classic Astons...
The largest collection of Aston Martin racing cars ever to gather on a single track will meet at Brands Hatch...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of the Austin Healey at the 1952 Earls Court Motor Show....
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...
With 17,712 built between 1963 and 1968, the Austin-Healey 3000 MIII BJ8 represents just over 24 percent of total big...
I have raced and rallied all over the world during my long career and am still actively involved in motorsport,...
Donald Healey and his small team at the Donald Healey Motor Company in Warwick, England, were on a roll. Late 1952 brought the combining of Austin and Healey into the new marque of Austin-Healey. Part of the agreement between the newly formed British Motor Corporation and the DHMC was that...
As preparations proceed for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for November 24 through December 2 in Nassau,...
1985 Audi Quattro E2 Simply put, when the Audi Quattro appeared, it immediately had its detractors. The immense power output...
The Bentley Drivers Club’s popular annual race meeting — an institution on the British motor-racing calendar – once again produced a day of fantastic club racing on the National circuit at Silverstone on Saturday August 5. Regarded by the Club as “more than just a race meeting,” the event mixed...
In the early 1950s, Donald Healey turned the British automotive industry on its ear with his affordable, mass-produced sports car,...
Half a century ago, if your perfectly good sports car were damaged in an accident, you had options. One such option, available starting in the late 1950s, was rather than repairing the body, you could replace it with a completely different body that was made out of a relatively new...