Tim McGrane is the Executive Director of the Blackhawk Automotive Museum in Danville, California. VR: How did you get started...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
In 1936, Stuck returned to Shelsley Walsh. It was a very wet meeting and Raymond Mays’ Zoller supercharged, 2-liter R4B (not C or D as it became in 1938) managed a time of 41.6. The German driver, Walter Baumer, in the little 750-cc Austin and A.F.P. Fane’s Frazer Nash single-seater...
Among this year’s anniversaries is that of the Mini Cooper. John Cooper and Alec Issigonis became pals while competing in...
Few cars in the history of the automobile can be viewed as more revolutionary than the Mini. Designed by Sir...
Photo: Harold Pace Just in case anyone hadn’t heard the famous Sheb Wooley song, one car carried a license plate that spelled it out.Photo: Harold Pace The Minis raced in the SCCA’s Texas Region, which had its own popular Drivers Club for those competing in the 1960s.Photo: Harold Pace Everyone...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a...
The 58th National Austin 7 Rally will be held on Sunday July 5th, at Beaulieu in Hampshire, UK. For those...
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...
1981 Ralt RT3. Photo: Peter Collins If you were racing a Formula Three car between late 1979 to the end of...
Photo: Pete Austin The UK’s Celtic county of Cornwall is a land full of mystical fables and folklore of piskies, giants and mermaids, together with dramatically true stories of smuggling and pirates. It is situated on the southwest tip of England and has a coastline of around 445 miles. On...
Half a century ago, if your perfectly good sports car were damaged in an accident, you had options. One such...
More than 1,100 classic vehicles and more than 5,600 people assembled at Brooklands Museum to celebrate its annual New Year’s...
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car Author found the Maxi rally machine to be very responsive to driver inputs. Photo: Kary Jiggle At the dying stages of the 1966 World Cup Finals at Wembley Stadium, BBC soccer commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme uttered words that would become a phrase forever synonymous with him. As...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
This year’s Practical Classics Classic Car and Restoration Show, with Discovery, broke all records — record crowds, record number of cars and clubs, record fundraising and more restoration and rust than ever before! A record 28,151 motoring enthusiasts, an increase of more than 3,000 attendees, headed to Birmingham’s NEC over...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association staged its 3rd annual Vintage Racing National Championships the first weekend in November at Circuit...
A knight of the realm named Stewart will be taking part in July’s Silverstone Classic, but we don’t mean the wee Scot Jackie, rather famed actor Patrick. Sir Patrick Stewart OBE has been rehearsing for his role as a real-life racing driver at this summer’s Silverstone Classic, set for the...
Danny Margulies was but a boy when he visited his home Grand Prix of Bucharest in 1937 and first opened...
The Historic Grand Prix Association has been selected to support the return of Formula One Grand Prix racing to the...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century was not a great time for the Farina family to be bringing up eleven children in rural Italy. The tenth was christened Battista, and with all these mouths to feed...
MG’s fabled Competitions Department enjoyed near constant success on the international racing stage. With victories in road racing, rallying, trials...
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into thinking they could buy a production machine and go racing? This 1953 Healey did just that, essentially a production car that found glory at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia....
From 500-cc racing to a works ride with Cooper and later a British Hillclimb Championship, Mike MacDowel has had a...
Masha Pasichnyk is a young Ukrainian artist who is presently visiting the USA to promote her work. She holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts in Stage Design, which she received from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in the Ukraine. Her technique is influenced by world classical...