From March 10–13, Florida’s Amelia Island played host to what, over the past 10 years, has become perhaps the East...
Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well...
This year’s Eighth Annual Lake Mirror Classic, to be held October 19–20 in downtown Lakeland, Florida, will honor the racecars and career of Sir Stirling Moss. Primary-sponsor Mercedes-Benz and event organizers expect to welcome more than 500 cars—including Concours d’Elegance beauties, classic American musclecars, and vintage sports and racecars, plus...
The 14th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, set for March 13–15, 2009, on the grounds of the Ritz Carlton Amelia...
The 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C, owned by Jon and Mary Shirley of Medina, Washington, was named “Best of Show” at...
In the wake of the success of this year’s inaugural event at the historic O’Donnell Golf Club in Palm Springs, California, the second annual Desert Classic Concours d’Elegance will honor Alfa Romeo as its featured marque. Also planned for the March 1, 2009, event is a focus on great racing...
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley...
Some of the world’s finest classic and antique automobiles will take center stage at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the...
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfa Romeo with a broad array of the famed Italian cars in Westport, Connecticut, on the weekend of September 12–13. Headlining the show will be a trio of classic Alfas, an original, unrestored 1938 8C 2900...
The 14th annual Concours d’Elegance at Amelia Island drew an estimated 20,000 onlookers to the fairways of the Ritz Carlton...
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A rare piece of automotive history will go on the block with no reserve as the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C Coupe that was Ettore Bugatti’s personal car is auctioned as part of Gooding & Company’s annual Pebble Beach sale. Bugatti is the featured marque of this year’s Pebble Beach Concours...
The grounds around Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, England, were alive to the sound of horsepower! On land, water, and in the...
Richard Petty will serve as the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Honorary Chairman for 2010. The seven-time NASCAR champion, winner of...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs on an empty stretch of road in Arizona’s Saguaro National Park. Photo: Casey Annis It’s enough to make any self-respecting purist cringe. Take a seductive 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300,...
Among the special awards presented at August’s 59th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was the Gran Turismo Award taken by the...
Citing the still-fragile state of the U.S. economy, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has announced that its Centennial Era Concours d’Elegance...
You’ve certainly heard many of us here at Vintage Racecar lament the fact that today’s racecar drivers seem to be so homogenized and politically correct, as to be seemingly devoid of any kind of real character or personality. Perhaps even worse, however, so many of today’s drivers seem to combine...
The 5th annual Fabulous Fifties Concours d’Provenance at the South Coast Botanical Gardens in the Los Angeles suburb of Palos...
In the February 2010 edition of Vintage Racecar, editor Casey Annis reported that a concours d’provenance had been held in...
The 15th Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance selected Best of Show winners in its two primary categories of Elegance and Sport on March 12–14, with the former award taken by Sam and Emily Mann’s 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster, and the latter going to Jonathan Feiber’s 1960 Maserati Tipo 61. The...
The famed Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will celebrate its 60th anniversary this August by recognizing the 75th anniversary of Jaguar....
Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, will feature consignments of three exceptional collector cars at its annual Pebble Beach auction this August. The trio was displayed publicly at the recent Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, with one car each from Ferrari, Maserati and Mercedes-Benz,...
Aficionados of fine automotive engineering will once again gather in the French town of Angouleme on the third weekend of...
Australia is preparing to present its finest public display of classic cars ever when it stages Motorclassica, the Australian International...
The Henry Ford Museum’s newly restored Lotus 38, the first rear-engined car to win the Indianapolis 500, made its North American debut at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Wraps were pulled off Jim Clark’s 1965 Indy winner during a pre-concours reception featuring Dan Gurney, who drove a similar car...
One year ago, our Hidden Treasures column by Mark Brinker featured a well-preserved Bonneville Streamliner, the Beast III, that had...
The fourth renewal of the Desert Classic Concours d’Elegance will be held February 27, 2011 at the La Quinta Resort...
The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner and three-time Indycar champion Bobby Rahal at its 16th annual renewal, scheduled for March 11–13, 2011, at The Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach. “One of the great pleasures about Amelia is that we can honor the...