My first race was a small event at a BARC Goodwood Members Meeting, at the wheel of my Jowett Jupiter....
Coker’s Lines Dear Editor, Your story about the recreated 1953 Austin-Healey 100S Record Car was interesting. The caption notes how...
On his way to 5th place overall in the 1955 East London Winter Handicap, John Hanning (Aston-Nash) leads Roy Humphreys (#7 Consul Special) around Weavers’ Hotel corner on the dangerous Esplanade Circuit. South Africa has a rich motor racing history, and during the 1930s a number of International Grands Prix...
Photo: Pete Austin The UK’s Celtic county of Cornwall is a land full of mystical fables and folklore of piskies,...
Bugatti type 57 Grand Prix – A Celebration By Neil Max Tomlinson To dispel myths and legends of any subject...
More than 112 vintage racers and 760 collector cars filled Oregon’s Portland International Raceway over the Labor Day weekend with weather more befitting the English countryside. The 39th Annual SOVREN Columbia Classic and All British Field Meeting saluting Austin-Healey offered scattered sunshine Saturday, but the rest of the weekend was...
RM Sotheby’s will hold its biennial Villa Erba sale, this Saturday, May 23, on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como....
Donald Healey and his small team at the Donald Healey Motor Company in Warwick, England, were on a roll. Late...
Stephen Laing is curator of the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon. Stephen Laing is the current Curator of the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon, Warwickshire, England; he has worked for the museum, which houses more than 300 cars owned by the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, for over 20 years....
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher The famed Ford GT40 appears to be one of the most talked about and sought-after cars in...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
With 17,712 built between 1963 and 1968, the Austin-Healey 3000 MIII BJ8 represents just over 24 percent of total big Austin-Healey production. However, with its burl walnut dash, wind-up windows and a lockable glovebox it is seen by many as the Austin-Healey to own. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Photo: Pete Austin I have many memories of competing in rallies across Europe, but one that really sticks in my...
The largest collection of Aston Martin racing cars ever to gather on a single track will meet at Brands Hatch...
The historic Brooklands motor racing circuit echoed to the sounds of the past on February 16, when a group of Talbots and other historic cars celebrated the 100th anniversary of the occasion in 1913 when Percy Lambert became the first person in the world ever to travel 100 miles in...
Kiwi Stephen Bell relocated to Colorado when he was 18 to find snow-skiing glory. Along the way, however, he also...
MG’s fabled Competitions Department enjoyed near constant success on the international racing stage. With victories in road racing, rallying, trials...
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...
Two-time Canadian Formula B champion Craig Hill has died at the age of 78. Hill was an outgoing character who...
• Paris’ famed Retromobile automobile exhibition has announced that its next event, February 6–10, 2013, will pay tribute to the...
A special panel of “Junior Judges” organized by Hagerty Insurance made their way to the UK’s Cholmondley Castle on Sept 8-9, to select their favorites at Chris Evans’s popular CarFest. These judges, aged from 8 to 14 years old, were charged with voting for their favorite classic car on the...
As preparations proceed for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for November 24 through December 2 in Nassau,...
In celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the coming London Olympics, Rodeo Drive became decidedly British on June 17,...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the Volvo P1800, Sunbeam Tiger and Austin-Healey in addition to the first Interceptor built from 1950 to 1957 with various engines under an attractive glass fiber body. The second iteration of...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race...
For three short years, in the early 1960s, Christabel Carlisle, now Lady Watson, was the name on the lips of everyone who attended race meetings in the UK. At that time, it was controversial for women to race cars. However, from out of nowhere she was an instant success. During...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for...
Whether you read about it in Vintage Racecar—or almost any other automotive publication—over the past year, chances are good that you’ve already heard about our Associate Editor John Nikas and the remarkable Austin-Healey named Grace. Last year—as a fairly last-minute, “wild hair” idea—John decided that he would take a friend’s...
