Over the past 100 years, Chevrolet has been responsible for many significant designs that have helped shape automotive history. The...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
Boy Meets Car, Loses Car, Finds Car By Steve Smith | Photographs as credited Every car guy has the automotive equivalent of the fisherman’s “the one that got away” story (“It was this big! Really!”). The car of a lifetime…loved and lost. Some car guys even have two such tales....
Photo: Mike Jiggle The legendary Argentine enjoyed a fantastic career in racing, and in Formula One he scored 24 Grand...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Mecum Auctions held its annual Bloomington Gold Corvette auction on June 24-25, 2011, in St. Charles, Illinois, resulting in total gross sales (excluding buyer’s premium) of $5.8 million. Headlining the Mecum Bloomington Gold Corvette auction 2011 was a collection of 23 Black Corvettes ranging from 1954-1969 with at least one...
RM Sotheby’s Motor City auction is the official auction of the Concours d’Elegance of America at the Inn at St....
My first racing was in motorcycles on a Triumph 350. That would be in 1958 while I was in Japan...
The Corvette C7.R was conceived, designed and constructed by Pratt & Miller Engineering based on the C7 Corvette Stingray developed by Chevrolet. It was developed in 2013 as a replacement for the out-going C6.R Corvette race car, whose retirement from racing mirrored the end of its commercial counterpart’s production run at the end of the 2013 model year....
A total of 26 cars sold for more than $1 million during Classic Car Week in Monterey, California this August,...
Our Pepsi Challenger Eagle from 1981 was sort of unique. It didn’t owe anything to Europe, it was developed right...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent example of this phenomenon took place at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion when BMW North America chief Ludwig Willisch drove a 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL—one of the five team cars...
The folks at RM Sotheby’s recently auctioned one of only two 1969 ZL-1 Corvettes ever made and it sold for...
Photo: Casey Annis The story of the Corvette and how it came to race at Le Mans is one in...
Another little piece of our motoring heritage is about to be banished to the rubbish bin of automotive history. Like the kerosene lamp, the 8-track cassette deck and the squeezable air horn, General Motors has recently announced that starting in the 2014 model year, there will no longer be an...
The seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette made its debut Sunday, January 13, 2013 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit....
The 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette will be celebrated at the 2013 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 15-18 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California.
Corvette’s recognition in Monterey, California, will come during its 60th anniversary model year, and a large contingent of Corvette racers is expected representing each of the car’s six generations in competition. Corvette also was the featured marque in 2002.
Russo and Steele announced the consignment of Greenwood Corvette, chassis 002, for their 9th annual Sports & Muscle at the Marriott, to be held August 13th-15th at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Monterey. The Greenwood Corvette, chassis no.002, was developed by Corvette specialist John Greenwood to battle the best from...
The first Z06 was actually an option package first offered with the 1963 Corvette. The package was developed by Corvette’s legendary...
The eighth generation Malibu is all-new for 2013, and is designed to be Chevrolet’s first global midsize sedan. Built with...
1967 Chevrolet Corvette Vintage Race Car Drivetrain: 1965 327 block, +.030 = 331 CID with reported 410 HP. The engine was freshened up last year with new rings, bearings, heads and aluminum intake. Richmond Super T-10 four speed. Color: Blue/Black (race interior) Miles: N/A Other Information: Reportedly weighs 2,800 lbs,...
RM Auctions announced the consignment of a 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88 ‘Scuderia Filipinetti’ Le Mans Race Car and a 1953...
The 1960 Chevrolet Engineering Research Vehicle known as CERV 1, that was used by Zora Arkus-Duntov as he developed the...
Bonhams & Butterfields announced that the ex-James Garner/American International Racing 1968 Corvette L88 will be added to the roster of cars to be sold at their seminal Quail Lodge auction, held August 15th in Carmel, California. The history of the three James Garner/American International Racing (AIR) cars is unique in...
This year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans will mark the 50th anniversary of Corvette’s first participation in the world’s most...
A 1929 Duesenberg J/SJ Convertible and a 1963 Ferrari 250/275P won the Best In Show honors on Saturday, March 10,...
The 50th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray will be celebrated at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance 2013, to be held March 8-10 in Amelia Island, Florida. By 1963 the Corvette had existed for a decade, but the addition of Chevy’s small-block V-8 engine, and the close attention of...
Mecum Auction will offer the historically significant 1963 Gulf Oil Corvette Z06 Race Car at their upcoming Mecum Kissimmee Auction,...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers...
The 1963 Corvette Sting Ray holds a special place in automotive history as it ushered in the second generation of America’s Sports Car. Designed by Bill Mitchell and Larry Shinoda, this Corvette featured a sleek and aerodynamic design, riding on a revamped chassis with the groundbreaking four-wheel independent suspension, a...