How many of you would journey 500 miles across country to race a freshly built car whose engine had never...
Almost Famous is Cameron Crowe’s semi-auto-biographical film about a teenage journalist who lands a writing gig with Rolling Stone magazine...
Homebuilt or custom-made racecars were not new to America’s racetracks as they had been appearing for decades on dirt ovals, at the Bonneville Salt Flats and at the Indianapolis 500. In the years prior to WWII, drag racing’s predecessor—speed runs on the dry lakes of the Mojave Desert in California—had...
Maverick, land-speed record-holder Art Arfons passed away on December 3, 2007. He was 81 years old. An accomplished drag racer...
Giuseppe Campari Riddelle Gregory 3 The ISRS race at Zolder, Holland, is won by Didier Theys and Freddy Lienhard, driving...
Betty Skelton, a pioneer in both aviation and auto racing who was once known as the fastest woman on Earth, has died at the age of 85. Half a century ago she was setting speed records on the sands of Daytona Beach and Utah’s Bonneville salt flats. She was a...
I went to the Salt Flats at Bonneville in Utah for the first time in 1957. John Thornley from MG invited me to come and make an attempt on the International Class F record. MG had been there in 1954 when one of the MGA prototypes had been fitted with...
Salon Privé returns to Blenheim Palace on September 1-5, 2021, with its celebrated mixture of modern supercars, iconic racers, great...
Built and raced by Hot Rodding pioneer Bill Burke of San Gabriel, California, the Harley-Davidson-powered Bonneville Streamliner Super Shaker made...
On Thursday, August 13, 2020, Canadian racing legend and noted BMC factory driver Edward Leavens passed away after a battle with dementia. Leavens, of London, Ontario, was an extremely successful sports car racer from 1955 to 1962, who competed with the likes of Stirling Moss, Bruce McLaren and other notables...
Carroll Shelby once remarked, “There are only two people I can think of who could sit down, take a welding...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We were close friends and our times together go back to 1955 when he raced at Torrey Pines. A number of those among us stood head and shoulders...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie...
This is the debut showing of Reed Railton’s land speed record car, its tire fairings here removed, in front of the Thomson & Taylor showroom at Brooklands in April 1938. It was called the Railton Special and was powered by two Napier Lion W12 airplane engines. The Special broke the...
1949 Kurtis Sports Car [dropcap]F[/dropcap]rank Kurtis built racecars. He built many of the cars entered in the Indy 500 from...
The name of Noel Macklin is writ large in the history of British sporting cars. Marques such as Eric-Campbell, Silver...
Back in the June 2008 issue of Vintage Racecar we announced that two special 4-cylinder Austin-Healeys were being prepared in Australia for the purpose of retracing the steps made by the Donald Healey Motor Company at Bonneville in 1954. Back then, with the likes of Carroll Shelby, Roy Jackson-Moore, and...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Racing swiftly in the swirling dust from the clay pans of the Dry Lakes of Southern California in the SCTA...
“Once upon a time”— is the way most children’s fairytales start, but this is no French fairytale. Although it is not unlike Jean Rédélé’s (the father of Alpine) dream of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright. Just as with that story, this dream may yet become reality. The...
Mika Hakkinen Dario Franchitti Photo: Richard Dole 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and his first...
• The 14th Automédon Show in Hall 4 of the Parc des Expositions Paris Le Bourget will take place this October 18-19 with the theme of Competition and Performance. The 20,000 square meter Parisian hall will hold some 350 exhibitors from clubs, bookshops, automobilia and spare parts vendors, and sales...
One year ago, our Hidden Treasures column by Mark Brinker featured a well-preserved Bonneville Streamliner, the Beast III, that had...
Hot Rods are more than just auto-mobiles. They define a culture; a way of life. And at their best, they...
VR columnist Mark Brinker was at it again in his 750-cc Deutsch Bonnet HBR-5 during Bonneville Speed Week 2009. This year Team BoneEvil started the meet with several unexpected mechanical problems including a damaged gas tank, a broken carburetor jet, a dead engine timing gun and major gearbox problems. Chief...