As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bloomberg News recently confirmed that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has been sold...
As you will have read in last month’s Vintage Racecar news, the automotive world lost one of its last remaining...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California,...
Pete Lyons You’d need a piece of paper the size of Texas to write down all that should be said...
Carrera Panamericana 1950–1954 As covered several months ago in our “Lost McAfee Tapes” feature, the running of the Carrera Panamericana in the early ’50s was a wild and eclectic amalgamation of circus and international motor race. World-class drivers like Phil Hill, John Fitch, Louis Chiron and Karl Kling raced exotic...
This is the official site of the Shelby American Collection in Boulder, Colorado, which houses many examples of significant Shelby...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at...
In a world where the value of words is often diminished by over-use and misapplication, there is absolutely no doubt that the word “icon” applies to Carroll Shelby, who passed away on May 10. The charismatic Texan may be known primarily as the chicken farmer who created the Cobra, but...
1957 Lotus Eleven LM 150Photo: Shifting Focus It was still very early days for the small, but growing firm of Lotus...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the...
The finned Cunningham D-Types of Walt Hansgen and Sherwood Johnston, wait with Duncan Forlong’s AC/Bristol and Curtis Attaway’s XK-120.Photo: Bob Schroeder Over the years Texas has seen its share of oilmen who were actively involved in sports car racing. One of them was Dallas resident Samuel Allen Guiberson, who was...
Bruce Burness is one of those multi-talented behind-the-scenes players who lend so much richness to the world of motorsports, possessing...
• The Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance honored Carroll Shelby for his racing contributions and Edsel Ford for his involvement in...
Turn Up the Gane Dear Editor, Thanks for an enjoyable and diverse November issue. I would like to make a couple of comments on some of its contents. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid...
Evolution of the Porsche 911 In Competition–1965–2010 By Michael Keyser & Bill Oursler With distinction as the longest-lived sports car...
Gaston Chevrolet Peter Revson 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One World Title at Suzuka in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 4 Sportscar racer Bob Wollek born (1943). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
Raoul “Sonny” Balcaen may not be a name with which everyone is familiar, but he grew up in Southern California...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
Parnelli Jones was honored at the third annual Legends of Riverside, held at the Riverside International Automotive Museum on the last weekend of March, joining Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby as the third such honoree. The event also spotlighted the effort to raise awareness of traumatic brain injuries with an...
Augie Pabst, described as “one of the fastest, most charismatic and popular drivers in his day” by the Motorsports Hall...
“Revisited” because this is my second column about Ken. My March 2006 column was the first, but in rereading it...
Learning to race on a road course can be daunting. Even though it was almost 50 years ago, I remember it well. I had entered a friend’s MGTD at Palm Springs. Those of us who were novices were lined up on the grid. We were told to follow the course...
January 2011 Mark Donohue: His Life in Photographs By Michael Argetsinger In our review of Argetsinger’s previous book, Mark Donohue:...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or the Can-Am. It was the pinnacle of American road racing. The cars were the ultimate in racing machines, to the extent that they were faster than Indycars and those running...
By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these...
By honoring 45 years of Carroll Shelby’s Mustangs and a full century of Alfa Romeos, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, celebrated its eighth renewal during this year’s Monterey Classic Car Week. Crowds once again flocked onto the grounds of the Quail Lodge golf course in Carmel Valley to soak in...
