The Bentley Drivers Club celebrated the 60th anniversary of its annual race meeting at Silverstone on August 8-9, 2009. “This...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man pursued his passion for speed and technology by building cars for competition....
Glorious weather blessed the 60th Anniversary Bentley Drivers Club weekend at Silverstone on August 8-9, a meeting first held in 1949 and has taken place every year since. “This was surely one of the biggest gatherings of Bentleys of all ages you could ever hope to see—and so many of...
Many car enthusiasts appreciate and collect fine watches. This should not be surprising as it mirrors their passion for both...
Former Formula One driver of the 1970s, Loris Kessel, has succumbed to his long-term battle with leukemia. Kessel’s early dream...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports...
In the 1920s and 1930s, British schoolboys devoured every word they could find about their favorite comic book heroes, like...
Danny Margulies was but a boy when he visited his home Grand Prix of Bucharest in 1937 and first opened...
It hardly seems credible, but the 13th Goodwood Revival Meeting has just taken place and it was as good as ever. It is all credit to Lord March, who was a professional photographer, mainly in advertising, before duty called and he had to learn to take over the Goodwood Estate....
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a...
Finland’s four-time world rally champion Juha Kankkunen drove a Bentley Continental Supersports convertible on the hazardous frozen waters of the...
The Bentley Drivers Club is celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Club’s formation in 2011, a wonderful achievement that will be honored with several special events. Founded by Kelston Pelmore in the Spring of 1936, starting with a simple postcard placed on all Bentleys in the Brooklands car park that...
The most famous race on earth may have a checkered past as part of the World Championship, but foreign flavor...
Bentley Motors rolled out the red carpet to welcome over a hundred members of the Bentley Drivers Club (BDC) –...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed, as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports car...
Motor Racing: The Pursuit of Victory By Anthony Carter This new book is not a treatise on the competitive spirit...
Woolf Barnato is the man with a perfect score. He entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times and...
Fewer cars rolled across the block than in recent years during the auctions in Scottsdale, but the amount bid for...
Pete Lyons We start the new season with two interesting notes on the subject of pulchritude. Near the end of...
VR: How did you start writing? CC: My wife had a job with the local police department working nights doing dispatch and secretarial work. So it worked out really well, I would get home from my job as a copywriter in advertising, feed the kids and put them to bed...
Billed as the United Kingdom’s answer to Pebble Beach, a display of historic motor cars from around the world will...
Five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell MBE returned to Circuit de la Sarthe on 6-8 July, 2012 to participate in...
Just 35 miles away from the fabled Brooklands race circuit where eight decades ago this single-seat racing Bentley astonished spectators by sprinting its way into the record books, Sir Henry “Tim” Birkin’s dramatic 4.5 Liter Supercharged “Blower” Bentley returned to record-breaking form by reaching a sale price of £4.5 million...
In celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the coming London Olympics, Rodeo Drive became decidedly British on June 17,...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of the long-distance sports racing cars you’ve seen or learned of over the years, and that you still hold in reverence. Cunninghams, Jaguars, Ferraris, Fords, Porsches, classic enduro racers that you...
Photo: RM Auctions During this year’s Classic Car Week in Monterey, 53 cars were sold at auction for prices above $1...
Founded by Kent Bain and Charles Webb in 1978, Automotive Restorations, and its racing arm Vintage Racing Services, has grown...
The 10th annual The Quail—A Motorsports Gathering, proved another resounding success with a sellout crowd of 3,000 guests in attendance to view 180 specially selected automobiles and motorcycles. This year, The Quail paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of Iso Automobili, with Piero Rivolta, author, former managing director and designer...