Over the last 27 years, the Italian Car Day at the Brooklands Museum (May 4, 2013) has grown to become...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in the 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race (1967). 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes W154 to victory in the Grand Prix in Pau, France (1939). Become a Member & Get...
Bertha Benz, one of the first female automotive pioneers, was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in July. As...
Mike Lawrence There is a minor industry in new James Bond novels and if we include Young James Bond and...
The Bothwell Ranch is a self-contained 16-acre working citrus farm situated just over the hill from Los Angeles, ringed with towering palm trees and sprinkled with WWII-era ranch buildings. It’s an oasis of green and calm surrounded on every side by suburbs; a holdout from a half-century of rapid development...
Who invented the motor car, or automobile? There have been several claimants to this title over the years; some justifiable,...
Contracted to race as a senior driver for Mercedes-Benz in 1937, Lang validated his selection with victories in the Tripoli...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Elsewhere in this issue you’ll read of the passing of an individual that you’ve likely never heard of. Yet, this gentleman is probably responsible for preserving more significant racing history than nearly anyone else in the past 50 years. His name was Bill Spoerle and from 1963...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania,...
Founder Kevin Kay was working in the foreign car parts business some 30 years ago, when he purchased his first...
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...
1909 Benz Type RE 200 PS “Blitzen Benz” It may seem somewhat incongruous that the story of one of Mercedes-Benz’s...
More than 400 pioneering veteran cars, their drivers and passengers gathered in London’s Hyde Park before dawn last Sunday, November...
Due to the lead time it takes to print and distribute any given magazine, I sit here today, writing this column on February 23. Not an insignificant date in that it happens also to be the day, 85 years ago, that a man by the name of Hans Herrmann was...
Elio de AngelisPhoto: Maureen Magee Colin ChapmanPhoto: Maureen Magee 2 Johnny Rutherford, driving a McLaren-Offenhauser, wins the USAC Indycar race...
Hermann Lang Bernd Rosemeyer 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912). 3 George Follmer wins the SCCA Trans-Am race at Riverside, California in an AMC Javelin (1971). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Pagoda Watch By 69Pitstop In honor of the 50th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s “Pagoda” SL roadster, watchmaker 69Pitstop has released an...
Mike Lawrence Patrick Quinn’s feature on the front-wheel-drive Alvis in Vintage Roadcar struck a special chord with me, because his...
Delahaye, for those who recognize the name, conjures up a mixed vision of large and long French Grand Prix, sports and touring cars of the late 1930s and a variety of extraordinary coach-built luxury machines constructed in the post-war decade of the late 1940s through the middle of the 1950s....
A new mark has been established for automobiles sold at auction, as an ex-Fangio Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix car has...
