There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria...
Kirk F. White took a circuitous route to his successful classic car business in Philadelphia, entering the workforce earlier than...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time This photo montage shows (clockwise from bottom) Haywood in Bruce Leven’s Porsche 956, at Porsche-palooza in 1981, all smiles after his third victory at Le Mans in 1994, and celebrating...
The racing surface didn’t have time to cure properly, so it had to be repaired at intervals by work crews...
1964 Porsche 904 GTS Resplendent in its red and white Scuderia Filipinetti livery, 904 #079 looks lean and lithe and...
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...
My first racing was in motorcycles on a Triumph 350. That would be in 1958 while I was in Japan...
1982 Porsche 956 & 1988 Porsche 962 It is now 25 years since the Porsche 956 first appeared and started...
The Brumos Porsche 911 Carrera RSR of Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood finished 1st overall in the 1975 edition of the 24 Hours of Daytona, leading a sweep of the first six places by Carrera RSRs. The Toad Hall Racing RSR of Michael Keyser, Billy Sprowl and Andres Conteras finished...
Lord March opened the gates of his estate to members of the media for the annual taster for Goodwood’s Festival...
Fon de Portago Michael Andretti 1 Sarah Fisher, the first woman to compete in the Indy Racing League, is born (1980). 2 The first road races are held through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York. They are also the first post-WWII races held in the United States and the...
November 2016 FITZ: My Life At The Wheel By John Fitzpatrick John Fitzpatrick started racing in a Mini 850 and...
For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put...
The first efforts with the 924 rally car involved a non-turbo version, the Monte Carlo Rally 924, of Jürgen Barth and Roland Kussmaul in 1979. The stillborn 924 turbocharged record car that never turned a wheel in anger. A water-cooled engine? And it’s at the front? And it’s a Porsche?!...
During the November 1952 running of Mexico’s fabled Carrera Pan-Americana, the Karl Kling/Hans Klenk Mercedes 300SL makes a pit stop...
Russo and Steele Collector Automobiles’ inaugural Newport Beach sale, held June 20-22, attracted 10,000 attendees and posted an impressive $6.5...
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...
Umberto Maglioli stands beside his Porsche 550A and looks up from the pits during a break in open practice for...
Photo: Art Evans Gildred & Friend Dear Casey, I very much enjoyed the article about Ted Gildred. I learned some...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
1973 Porsche Carrera RS This could be an opera in several parts. It might have been written by Verdi or Wagner. It has a number of stars. For the purpose of this tale, the car–a 1973 Porsche Carrera RS—is one star, and for history another star is the late, lamented...
Sportsman, dilettante, racer, comedian are all words that have been used at some point in time to describe the irascible...
Porsche’s Spyders stole the limelight, but in the 1950s they had serious rivals in both BMW and EMW, who produced...
