As you’ll see, throughout both sides of the magazine, this month we recognize and celebrate the 60th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
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. The missing Briggs Cunningham Chevrolet Corvette that competed at the 1960 Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race has been located...
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Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963; and the International Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
Boy Meets Car, Loses Car, Finds Car By Steve Smith | Photographs as credited Every car guy has the automotive...
Don Yenko and Yenko Stinger By Charlie “Bud” Doerge In 1957, Chevrolet racer Don Yenko set up his own tuning...
Frank Dominianni, who won the SCCA’s B Production National Championship in 1964, has passed away at the age of 86. Upon returning from multi-decorated service with General George Patton in Europe during World War II, Dominianni returned home to Valley Stream, N.Y., where in 1947 he opened Hi-Speed Power Equipment...
By Edward Lenahan This 1961 Chevrolet Corvette factory race car, soon to be auctioned at Mecum’s January 24-29, 2012 Kissimmee...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The...
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...
Over the past 100 years, Chevrolet has been responsible for many significant designs that have helped shape automotive history. The...
1990 Penske PC19-Ilmor Chevrolet I first saw Roger Penske racing a Maserati Birdcage at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. He...
Interview by Greg Wing and photos by author and Dan Tooker Jim Glass owns a Corvette shop and showroom in Kingston, NY, just a couple miles from the beautiful Rhinebeck Bridge over the stunning Hudson River and about ten minutes to the famed 60’s Woodstock, NY. This is the land...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
A total of 26 cars sold for more than $1 million during Classic Car Week in Monterey, California this August,...
John Gunn, an independent entrant who contested some of North America’s most prestigious auto racing championships during a career that lasted 20 years, has died of heart failure at his Florida home at the age of 71. Gunn began racing on the Club level in 1965, winning the SCCA’s SEDiv...
This year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans will mark the 50th anniversary of Corvette’s first participation in the world’s most...
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of...
A Grand Sport Corvette – one of only five ever built by General Motors – is the latest addition to the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Grand Sport joins the collection of over 60 of the most significant sports racing cars ever built. “The Corvette is...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers...
Racing’s fabled “Pink Lady,” Donna Mae Mims, the first woman to win an SCCA National Championship, has passed away at...
As everyone knows, after the 1960 racing season, Carroll Shelby retired as a driver and became even better known for creating Cobras and Shelby Mustangs. But perhaps fewer know that he ventured into car creation somewhat before. During the fifties, Shelby, Jim Hall, and Jim’s brother, Richard, had a dealership...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs a shop repairing, restoring, and preparing vintage racecars, usually Porsches. Once you dig a little deeper into his background, however, you find a more than merely competent racecar driver, one...
In looking for some Formula 5000 video, we recently stumbled across this fantastic piece of a documentary on YouTube that...
RM Auctions announced the consignment of a 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88 ‘Scuderia Filipinetti’ Le Mans Race Car and a 1953...
Mecum Auction announces the unique 1963 Harley Earl Chevrolet Corvette Convertible will cross the block during the Bloomington Gold Corvette Auction, June 26-27, 2009, in St. Charles, Illinois. This historic car joins 400 remarkable specimens of the Corvette marque offered for sale by Mecum at the only all-Corvette auction in...
