My first racing was in motorcycles on a Triumph 350. That would be in 1958 while I was in Japan...
As you’ll see throughout this month’s magazine, this issue prominently features and highlights the rich, 100-year history of BMW. For...
Ritzy and opulent, grand tourers offer the most accomplished automotive experience, granting a balance of sheer power, luxury, and comfort. For ones with a greater desire for freedom, each journey gets even more majestic without a roof. Nearly five decades after the 507 ambitiously entered the US market, BMW saw its...
As a result of my 1967 win in the Kyalami Nine Hours, in South Africa with Jacky Ickx in the...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Kent...
I know a lot of people have opinions of Peter Gregg, but I would like to offer an alternative view to Hal Crocker’s recent two-part article, “Peter Perfect.” I first got to know Peter in 1970, then worked for him from 1972 to 1979 as President of Peter H. Gregg,...
Last month we ran the first half of the tale of Hal Crocker’s relationship with Peter Gregg, encompassing the early...
Over the years, Vintage Racecar has been fortunate to have been able to include the work of talented cutaway artist...
A virtual museum tour of the famed BMW Art Car Collection is now available, with an extensive overview of the origin, history and development of the collection. In addition to extensive photographic material, a film has been devoted to every single one of the 17 “works of art on wheels”,...
When he was a kid in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Patrick Depailler’s idol was French motorcycle champion and racing driver Jean Behra....
As the 2016 Rolex Motorsports Reunion rolls into history this weekend, celebrating the centennial of the Bavarian Motor Works, those...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, and the International Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Lichtenstein. Warhol. Koons. Stella. Calder. Rauschenberg. Holzer. Elíasson. Since a BMW 3.0 CSL painted by Alexander Calder lined up for...
British racing legend, Formula One television analyst, 2009 Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee, businessman and all-around raconteur David Hobbs will share his escapades as the highlighted guest speaker during the annual Picnic in the Park at this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion on Saturday, August 20. The annual picnic is...
Marc Surer March-BMW 792 Nürburgring.Photo: BRDC I came from a family of Swiss farmers, which is not really the ideal...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast in a record 32 hours and 51 minutes to win the fifth and final Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (1979). 3 Vern Schuppan and Naohiro Fujita...
Primarily, my racing with BMW was through Teddy Mayer and McLaren, as BMW and McLaren had been partners in a...
Vintage Racecar was stunned to learn of the tragic death of Henry Surtees while he was competing in Round 4...
Some 550 vintage racecars competing in 15 race groups filled the paddocks at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for last weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, as the event marked the 100th anniversary of BMW, this year’s featured marque. What raceway officials called a record four-day crowd of 70,525 spectators partook of...
Amelia Island, Florida March 13-15, 2015 David Sydorick’s 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Zagato Spider. John Campion’s assembled collection of...
The German marque BMW will be featured at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2016, scheduled for August 18-21 at Mazda...
The 2013 Mille Miglia to Argentina. Where Juan Manuel Fangio was unable to succeed back in the ’50s, his countrymen Juan Tonconogy and Guillermo Berisso did so almost 60 years later. They won the much more sedate regularity commemorative event last May in their Bugatti T40, which was built the...
By Will Silk The latest Classic Cars for Sale is a 1959 BMW 507 found in the September 1978 issue...
The third annual New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing will take place next January 20-22 and 27-29 at the superb...
And now for something completely different—an endurance rally for microcars! In July 1958, the Royal Motor Union of Liège organized a special once-only “mini” version of its legendary Marathon de la Route, specifically for cars of under 500-cc engine capacity: It ran from a Thursday evening to Sunday evening, nonstop,...
The BMW Museum in Munich is devoting a special exhibition to the development of the big BMW Coupes and Convertibles,...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
July 19th through the 22nd will be a weekend of horsepower in the Horse Capital of the World. Since it began in 2004, the Keeneland Concours d’Elegance has become a community event with national participation. This year, over 160 cars from brass era steamers to exotic future classics will compete...