Filmmaker and Sports Car Digest contributor Stephen Mitchell, along with Jeanetta Dumouchel of InterFUND and Ron Kellogg of the Kellogg...
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is not only been a leading manufacturer of sports cars for more than...
LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM) announced that the Tacoma, Washington project will have its grand opening on May 19, 2012. “We’ve managed to build a museum (which began construction in June 2010) during difficult economic times when nearly everybody said it couldn’t be done,” says ACM President and CEO...
For the first time since August 2009, we have updated the look and feel of Sports Car Digest. Readers will...
Steven E. Young, Chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation’s Board of Directors, announced that the Museum Foundation received a...
In front of a capacity crowd of 400 guests at the RRDC Evening with Roger Penske presented by Firestone in Long Beach, California, Rick Mears received the 2011 Phil Hill Award from Hill’s widow Alma and son Derek. The event was the third annual Road Racing Drivers Club’s West Coast...
Interview and photos (unless noted) by Dennis Gray Martin Swig is a San Francisco Bay Area-based vintage racer, car collector...
Story by Stephen Mitchell I spent a lot of time in a showroom at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and...
Discovery Communications announced plans to rename its HD Theater cable network to Velocity, effective fourth quarter 2011. The all-HD network will be available in approximately 40 million homes at the time of its introduction, and will be found at the channel location currently occupied by HD Theater. Velocity, described as...
By Will Silk The Schuco Rennsport-Legenden Auto Union Type C Stromlinienwagen (Stream-line car) is a leap back to the way...
The Revs Institute, a leading automotive research facility in Naples, Florida, announced the acquisition of a major archive by the...
From the Cisitalia of 1947 to the 2uettottanta of 2010, through the Flaminia Presidenziale, many of the milestones of Pininfarina design are now on exhibit (starting March 20) at the new National Automobile Museum of Turin. Among the 200 cars on display in the reborn Museum dedicated to the history...
By Will Silk With Alfa Romeo celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010, Auto Art released a line of Alfa replicas...
By Cary Estes The movie character Michael Corleone once famously said of being in the mob, “Just when I thought...
By Will Silk It’s not everyday that one comes across a vintage race car in the back of a garage or shop, but veteran F5000 driver Eric Haga has managed just that by finding and procuring six vintage Lola F5000 tubs, as well as several other key parts to go...
By Martin Swig Each Spring, the auto journalists in Northern California gather at Mazda’s Laguna Seca Raceway to evaluate an...
Brian Barr has joined Sports Car Digest as Director of Sales and Marketing, where he will grow and manage business...
When one thinks “car museum” what generally pops to mind are gorgeous and historically significant vehicles arranged in rows behind velvet ropes—very “Look but don’t touch.” LeMay – AMERICA’S CAR MUSEUM represents something of a departure from that traditional formula. Granted, the museum—currently under construction in Tacoma, Washington and scheduled...
The Bentley Drivers Club is celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Club’s formation in 2011, a wonderful achievement that will...
Dragone Classic Motorcars recently opened a new showroom for automobiles and gallery of vintage automotive art and automobilia in Westport,...
By Will Silk Automodello is producing 85 Griffith Series 200 race replicas in 1:43 scale for this year’s Ultimate Griffith Reunion to be held March 12th and 13th at Bill Warner’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Sports Car Digest previously reviewed Automodello’s 1:43 scale street going Griffith 200 replica, and just when...
Story and photos by Leigh Dorrington The Schlumpf Collection in Mulhouse, France has been described as the most prestigious automobile...
By Will Silk With traditional forms of investments seeing troubled times in a global economy that continues to only offer...
Among the major car collections in the world, there is one that stands out more than any other as synonymous with excellence: that of iconic American fashion designer Ralph Lauren. A selection of the most prestigious sports cars from the 1930s to present day is on view for the first...
On Friday 15 July 2011, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrated the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy with an historic event....
Thousands of images dating to the earliest days of Ford Motor Company are being hauled out of the Ford archives...
By Will Silk Speculative interest in using vintage cars as a means of investment have been in use for decades, but recently a new, more organized approach, has been unveiled by IGA Automobile. Headed by Ray Bellm, the former president of Grand Prix Racewear and himself a racer having won...
Ferrari revealed the first photographs and information about the new FF, the company’s most powerful, versatile four-seater ever, as well...
From Bloomberg: Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is helping an investment group that aims to buy $150 million worth of...
The story of Carroll Shelby will be told at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum through the special exhibition, Shelby: A Retrospective. Running from February 11th – April 24th, 2011, the exhibit will feature approximately 18 cars representing the manufacturers and body styles that chronicle Shelby’s history as...
