Moved up a day to avoid impending storms on Sunday, the 22nd Annual Amelia Island Concours took place March 9-11...
A selection of American muscle cars will highlight of this year’s 10-day Mecum Kissimmee Auction, scheduled to commence on January...
I remember that the Reader’s Digest used to have a series of articles titled some-thing like “The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Ever Met.” High on my own list of such characters is my close friend, Andy Porterfield. Andy is amazing for a number of reasons. Among other accomplishments, Andy has...
Longtime SCCA stalwart Andy Porterfield died in mid-April at the age of 80 from complications following heart valve surgery. Beyond...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions will include 11 lots with proceeds destined for charity in its 45th Anniversary Scottsdale Auction that begins this weekend in the Arizona city. Foremost of all would seem to be a trio of VIN #001 offerings, a 2017 Acura NSX (above), the sale of which will...
Barrett-Jackson’s 16th Annual Palm Beach Auction, set for April 12-15, at the South Florida Fairgrounds will offer one of the...
Barrett-Jackson helped raise $1,050,000 for charities supporting U.S. veterans and their families, youth programs and medical research during its 14th...
Despite hailing from a family essentially unconnected to motorized vehicles, Basil van Rooyen soon discovered motorcycles and after a brief fling in two-wheeled competition, switched to the relative safety of cars. Almost immediately he became involved in the manufacture of performance parts, and then began racing a Ford Anglia sedan....
Chevrolet’s answer to Ford’s class-creating Mustang, the Camaro, marks its 50th anniversary this year, and will be celebrated with a...
Charlie Kolb passed away June 15 at the age of age 85. The lanky Kolb, who played minor league baseball...
Last year the SCCA marked the 50th anniversary of its inaugural Trans-American Sedan Championship event at Sebring, Florida, on March 25, 1966. Eventually known as simply the Trans-Am, the series became the most closely contested road-racing series in America. The Tran-Am blossomed quickly, reached its zenith in 1970 and then...
This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel...
My first racing was in motorcycles on a Triumph 350. That would be in 1958 while I was in Japan...
Following the enthusiastic response from racers to the launch of the JD Classics Challenge, the new Historic race series for Groups 1 and 2, and Group A Touring Cars from 1977–’85, have come widespread requests to extend the eligibility back to 1972. Duncan Wiltshire of Motor Racing Legends, the company...
The Historic Motor Sports Association staged an exhibition race for Historic Trans-Am cars as part of the festivities surrounding the...
1970 Phil Henny IMSA GT Chevrolet Camaro (Chassis#124870L515127) Phil Henny is one of those guys you’ve probably never heard of....
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and said: “George, we’ve had several speakers here; I’m surprised the term ‘anger management’ hasn’t been used yet!” Poor George Follmer could only join the laughter filling the Petersen Museum’s banquet...
The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport...
Nino Vaccarella Ronnie Peterson 1 Ronnie Peterson wins the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in a John Player Special...
The inaugural Spring Classic vintage racecar weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca enjoyed flawless Monterey Peninsula weather as fields of well-turned-out historic racing cars populated eight race groups. Six drivers posted dual victories in their group races while the big winner was Connecticut’s Travis Engen, who swept the three Group...
In looking for some Formula 5000 video, we recently stumbled across this fantastic piece of a documentary on YouTube that...
Leake Auction Company will kick off its 2018 auction season at Oklahoma City’s Bennett Event Center February 23–24 with a...
November 2009 Canadian Hidden Treasures Dear Editor, I enjoyed your recent “Hidden Treasures” article on Roy Hayman. There are of course more things he has done, including converting Horst Kroll’s old Lola to a Frisbee look-alike. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Harsh Truth Photo: Allen Kuhn Dear Editor, It is a given that retired race drivers have a propensity for telling...
Drinking & Driving Photo: The Klemantaski Collection Dear Editor, In my dreams! The photo of the Aston at Spa in ’49 [Fast Exposure, April 2013]! That’s the way racing should be! It’s reminiscent of the photo of somebody being handed a Coke at Bivio Polizzi on the Targa Florio circuit—could it have...
Classic American Muscle Cars will headline Mecum Auctions’ third annual collector car sale in Denver, set for the Colorado Convention...
The sixth annual Mecum Houston collector-car auction will take place April 6-8 at NRG Arena, with an estimated 1,000 American...
Sales totals at Mecum Auctions’ spring 2017 Kansas City auction last weekend surpassed $7.3 million. More than 30 vehicles were hammered sold during the two-day event, in addition to 74 pieces of Road Art®.
A low-mileage 2005 Ford GT (above, photo courtesy of Mecum Auctions) with all four options hammered at...