Would you trade a front-engine 12-cylinder Ferrari for a Devin SS in boxes? That’s what Harold Pace did—are you with...
This site is a tribute to specialist car builder Bill Devin, and is indeed labeled his “Home Page.” Its opening...
Jaguar’s XK120 Roadster was introduced at the London Motor Show in the fall of 1948. A year later, cars began to appear on American roads and tracks. They came in three configurations: roadster, convertible and coupe. All three were raced, but most entrants preferred the somewhat lighter roadster version. The...
Like many other sports during WWII, automobile racing experienced a hiatus. Soon thereafter, however, competition resumed. The Formula One World...
During the early fifties, road racing in the United States took place, for the most part, at airports. While airports...
During the fifties, I not only had a business relationship with Bill Devin, but we were also friends. We saw each other rather frequently in later years when he and his wife, Mildred, (we called her “Middie”) moved close to my Palm Springs house. When Bill passed away in November...
A consortium of Southern California Devin racecar enthusiasts have banded together to purchase the entire automotive estate of famed car...
It remains beyond my sight whether the story of life has a happy ending, but I do see that some...
The racing world lost one of its most colorful characters on November 22 when Bill Devin passed away following a stroke. An accomplished racer in his own right, Devin teamed up with Ernie McAfee in the ’50s to import Siata V-8s before deciding he could build a better car on...
