If I said to you the words “historic racing” and “green,” what comes immediately to mind? A British racing green...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North...
The history of motor sport is, in many ways, a history of barriers being broken. In the automobile’s 19th-century infancy, 60 mph was thought an insurmountable barrier; doctors even hypothesized that the human body would be unable to breathe at that speed and, therefore, the driver would surely die. As...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
A Type 35B Bugatti, which competed in the first Monaco Grand Prix and later won the Targa Florio, has been...
In 1909, Ettore Bugatti set up a factory, in Molsheim, France, for the production of his own line of automobiles. Racing success came quickly, in 1914, and was followed by a string of innovative, if not beautiful, racing machines that continued on until the late ’40s and early ’50s. This...
Not for the first time, one of motor sport’s most successful cars was a huge flop when it made its...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
The Earl of March has announced the theme of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for July 3–5, as “True Grit—Epic Feats of Endurance” to celebrate the drive and determination of motor racing’s heroes who overcame huge physical, mental, and mechanical barriers in their quest for glory. Jackie Stewart’s...
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor racing greats, Robert Benoist, William Grover-Williams and, to a lesser extent, Jean-Pierre Wimille. The story told of their selfless devotion to their country, their indignation at the theft of their...
A year or so ago, I wrote here about the number of inquiries I was receiving on my view of...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
Following Bonhams’ much publicized sale of the barn-find Bugatti Type 57S in February, Bonhams & Butterfields is extremely proud to offer a beautifully restored example of the same model with an equally impressive pedigree. The 1937 Type 57SC, number 532, is a stunning one-off Gangloff coupe distinctive for its low...
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those...
Automotive Fine Arts Society member Bill Neale will honor two of the greatest European marques, Jaguar and Bugatti, with new paintings at the 2009 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. “Salute to a C-Jaguar” and “Earl and His Yellow Bugatti” will debut at the 24th annual AFAS exhibition, sponsored by Lincoln, on...
A rare piece of automotive history will go on the block with no reserve as the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as Mark Donohue’s is that there are so many tales to tell it becomes difficult to know, as Bob Seger says, “what to leave in, what to leave out.” Become a...
The world may be in an economic downturn, but there wasn’t much sign of that at the 2009 edition of...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man pursued his passion for speed and technology by building cars for competition....
No way did Elisabeth Junek look like a racing driver. She was, well, a woman to begin with, and there were not many of them hefting potent racing cars around in the 1920s. And she was petite, her fair hair framing a kind, gently smiling face. Even when she raced...
Motor racing was banned in Switzerland in the aftermath of the 1955 Le Mans disaster, one of the most catastrophic...
There has been much rejoicing over the return to F1 next year of Team Lotus and I cannot understand what...
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A full field of rare Bugattis is expected for the Bugatti Grand Prix at next year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races,...
Officials of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have announced that the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) will be the sanctioning body...
The Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Trophy race at the Spa Six Hours meeting organized by Motor Racing Legends drew a remarkable entry of 40 pre-1956 sports cars. It then proceeded to produce a surprise winner in Maserati 250SI driver Marc Devis when polewinner and early leader Ben Eastick’s D-Type Jaguar...