I don’t have one favorite racecar; I have several: the Daytona Coupe I raced at Le Mans with Dan Gurney,...
Notable American Grand Prix Drivers Michael Andretti The son of a racing legend, Michael Andretti was the Indy Car Champion...
Bob Bondurant’s racing career has had many diverse facets including stints in small-bore production cars, big bangers such as the Corvette and Cobra, Formula One and finally Can-Am where his active career as a driver came to a nearly tragic end at Watkins Glen. However, in typical Bondurant fashion, he...
The International “Senior Service” Sports Car Race; Silverstone, July 10, 1965 Bob Bondurant doing what he could with John Willment’s...
On Friday, November 12, 2021, the automotive world lost one of the last, great American racing heroes of the ’50s...
The Fifth Annual Legends of Riverside Racing Film Festival in late March at the Riverside International Automotive Museum honored Bob Bondurant as its latest inductee. He joins Dan Gurney, Carroll Shelby, Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser as a Legend of Riverside. As the leader of Shelby’s FIA Manufacturers Championship-winning Cobra...
On June 12, the Motorsports Hall of Fame in Novi, Michigan, will induct racer and high performance driving school founder...
Bob Bondurant, who led the Shelby American Cobra team’s successful 1965 World Manufacturers Championship effort, and later established one of...
The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, the official High Performance Driving School of Dodge/SRT, has announced several new initiatives to commemorate its Golden 50th Anniversary next year — including track and facility expansions and improvements. The announcement was made during a press conference held in the Bondurant booth...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August,...
Pete Lyons The little Speedster stared out the dealership’s window like a puppy, its big eyes pleading mournfully: Won’t you take me home? A young couple kept stopping by to gaze in at the radiant red roadster. “Every week—sometimes more often—we fell in love with it.” Become a Member &...
On August 4, 2007, an icon of American racing and my dear friend, John Fitch, turned 90 years old! In...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Jack Brabham Richard Petty 1 Dereck Bell, Hans Stuck, and Al Holbert drive a Rothmans Porsche 962 to victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Jo Gartner dies in an accident during the early morning hours (1986). 4 Rick Mears drives a Penske PC-18 to victory in the CART...
• The Fabulous Fifties held its annual Lindley Bothwell Award dinner in early December at the Proud Bird restaurant near...
• The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) presented John Mecom Jr. with its Bob Russo Heritage Award at the 28th Annual MSHFA Induction Ceremony Presented By Bridgestone at The Shores Resort & Spa in Daytona Beach. The award, named in honor of the long-time motorsports journalist and historian,...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as...
Continuing the tradition of bringing together the former employees of Shelby American from the 1960s, this 17th edition of the...
Continuing the tradition of bringing together the former employees of Shelby American from the 1960s, this 17th edition of the reunion was held November 6 and 7, 2015, at the Cobra Experience Museum (www.cobraexperience.org) in Northern California. With more than 65 former mechanics, drivers, shop workers, craftsmen, managers and staff...
Shelby American and Shelby Legendary Cars is preparing to offer a limited number of Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe and FIA...
Dan Gurney shared this 4.7-liter Cobra Daytona Coupe with Bob Bondurant for the 1964 running of the 24 Hours of...
In addition to being a successful real estate developer, Ted Gildred was appointed Ambassador to Argentina during the Reagan administration. VR: You were born in Mexico, as I understand. TG: Yes, I was born in Mexico City in 1935. My dad was a civil engineer and had worked, when he...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were...
In this concluding installment of our interview with Trans-Am record-breaker Tom Kendall, we pick up the narrative just after he’s...
Learning to race on a road course can be daunting. Even though it was almost 50 years ago, I remember it well. I had entered a friend’s MGTD at Palm Springs. Those of us who were novices were lined up on the grid. We were told to follow the course...