With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the...
Edited by Rex McAfee A Lifetime of Achievement: On the centenary of Shelby’s birth, January 11, 2023, Goodwood is delighted...
As part of the year-long celebration of Carroll Shelby’s 100th birthday, Clive Sutton, the high-performance and luxury car specialist has announced their plans to offer the widest ever selection of official Shelby-related vehicles. For more than 15 years, Clive Sutton has been importing Shelby vehicles to the UK. They are...
Shelby Legendary Cars, the official licensed builder of authentic 1960s Shelby continuation Cobras, Daytona Coupes and GT40s, has moved to...
Bonhams has been selected by the estate of Carroll Shelby to offer for sale cars from the personal collection of...
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...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the...
The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 11, 2018, on the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island in Florida, will honor MG, celebrating the cars from Cecil Kimber’s Morris Garages that helped launch American sports car road racing in the years after World War II. The M.G....
The 1966 Shelby GT 350H Fastback personally owned and driven by Cobra creator Carroll Shelby has been added to the...
Fifty years after its first victory, to the day, Ford returned to Le Mans and won again, this time in the GTE Pro class with its EcoBoost GT piloted by Sébastien Bourdais, Joey Hand and Dirk Müller. Unlike 1966, Ferrari pushed them all the way this time, and by finishing...
I had dinner with Carroll Shelby in 1997. Among the dozens of things I remember him telling me, the most poignant...
September 2017 Stephen South – The Way It Was By Darren Banks Darren Banks has followed the careers of many...
Carroll Shelby International and DenBeste Motorsports have announced that production of the highly anticipated 427 Shelby Cobra Competition racecar is continuing, with three cars finished and four more in process. These turnkey racecars represent the final offering from the original Competition big block Cobra series that started in 1965, and...
Bruce McLaren John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger...
Another sports car racing pioneer has left us as Bill Pollack has passed away just nine days after marking his...
Lots of car buffs have fantasized about designing and/or building their own four-wheeler at one time or another. Fewer have had the courage and stamina to actually follow their dream and construct one. Time and money were always the main obstacles. Building a sports racer that could compete with the...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that it will be offering a once-in-a-lifetime group of Aston Martins at its flagship Monterey auction...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the...
The 5th Annual Carroll Shelby Tribute & Car Show will take place on Saturday May 20, at Shelby Headquarters, which are located at 19021 South Figueroa, in Gardena, California. The event will feature a special autograph session with Aaron Shelby, Allen Grant, Don Prudhomme and Gary Patterson, as well as...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving for Ken Tyrrell. Ken expected feedback from his drivers during testing, qualifying and races. Without this feedback, it was impossible to set up or improve the handling and efficiency of...
The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport...
A 1962 Shelby Cobra, serial number CSX2032 (above, photo courtesy of Mecum Auctions), that was once owned by Lance Reventlow...
December 2016 Tony Bettenhausen & Sons: An American Racing Family Album By Gordon Kirby with Merle and Susan Bettenhausen Family “dynasties,” while rare, are not uncommon in motor racing, as the names Unser, Andretti, Petty, Earnhardt, Hill and Villeneuve attest, but the first of these in the modern era was...
1952 Allard J2X At a sports and exotic car show a while ago, I was feasting my eyes on sculpted...
Peter Brock, designer of the Cobra Daytona Coupe (above, photo courtesy David Newhardt), will be the honored guest at the...
Aston Martin DBR4/2 In Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, the tragi-comical Mr. Wilkins Micawber, despite his predicament, always had the most impeccable words of guidance and wisdom. In one part he takes his young and inexperienced tenant, Copperfield, aside and counsels him against being dilatory. Micawber says, “My advice is, never...
