Leake Auction Company completed its fall auction in Dallas Market Hall, November 17-19, recording sales that totaled $6.6 million with...
Among the 450 entries for this year’s Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races presented by Toyota was an ex–Ken Miles 1960...
The 16th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance, one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing automotive and motorsports enthusiast event weeks, will this year pay tribute to the grit, gruel and glamour of endurance racing. Now in its ninth year, the Festival’s “Life” exhibits honor automotive culture and...
Corvette Racing By David Kimble As you readers may know, author Kimble is one of our industry’s finest cutaway artists,...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim...
Among the cars that Russo and Steele will offer at its 5th annual auction in Newport Beach, California, on the weekend of June 2-4, will be examples from three different collections, those of Richard Smith and Ronald Scanlon, as well as a Private “No Reserve” Collection. Following his 2008 retirement...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent...
Primarily, my racing with BMW was through Teddy Mayer and McLaren, as BMW and McLaren had been partners in a...
To celebrate the 100th year of Chevrolet, Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., will host a special tribute to the marque on the weekend of August 18–21, as the Sunday finale of the circuit’s American Le Mans Series weekend. One part of the Corvette World Tribute will be a rededication...
1965 Corvette XP-819 In 1965, famed General Motors designer Larry Shinoda designed a one-off concept car, the XP-819, that tested...
I have to confess to being Corvette prejudiced. Growing up I was never a fan of the Corvette, in fact...
The Lime Rock Park Historic Festival will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette as the featured marque this Labor Day weekend (Sept. 1-5). First shown to the public at General Motors’ Motorama as a “dream car” in January, 1953, the Corvette has captured hearts and dreams ever since. The...
What if Chevrolet offered a 2+2 Corvette? There was once a British 2+2, with a Corvette engine that might have...
Sometimes a slogan doesn’t mean very much. Take for example Exxon’s “Happy Motoring” or Pontiac’s “We Are Driving Excitement” – given the ever-increasing price of gas and the recent demise of an entire GM brand, these slogans may ring hollow in many ears. However, at Philadelphia’s Simeone Foundation Museum, home...
Drawing from two hemispheres, four continents and numerous states up, down, between and beyond America’s two coasts, Lime Rock Park’s...
Pete Lyons Corvette didn’t show well at Le Mans this year, which is unusual, and I suppose in time we’ll...
Mecum Auctions will return to Kissimmee, Florida, for the world’s largest annual collector-car auction, offering more than 3,000 classic and collector cars at Mecum Kissimmee 2018 this coming January 5-14. Now in its 12th year at Osceola Heritage Park, Mecum Kissimmee will once again provide a fantastic showcase of vehicles...
Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can...
Recent discussion in these pages about a supposed sixth Grand Sport racing Corvette rang two bells with me. First, I can confirm at least part of the story. Zora Duntov himself once told me that he’d built an extra GS, in secret, for Chevrolet engineers to play with. But he...
An opportunity to own the 27th Corvette ever produced in 1953 will present itself at this weekend’s Mecum Daytime Auction...
Robin DonovanPhoto: Mike Jiggle Unlike many other Le Mans drivers, I didn’t ever sleep during the whole 24 hours. Adrenalin...
The second annual Classic 24 at Daytona will be staged by Historic Sportscar Racing at Florida’s Daytona International Speedway on the weekend of November 12-15. Name drivers confirmed for the event include Jochen Mass, Bobby Rahal, Hurley Haywood, Danny Sullivan, Gijs van Lennep, Patrick Long, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Scott Sharp, Dieter...
Today, I’m going to confess two of my most deeply held, darkest secrets: 1) For the past two decades, I’ve...
One of the most enjoyable—at least for me—of fifties events was the Pebble Beach Sports Car Road Races. The last...
Famed Corvette racer John Greenwood has died at the age of 71. The son of a General Motors executive, Greenwood grew up around cars and first rose to prominence in the early 1970 when he won consecutive SCCA A Production National Championships in a Corvette. For 1972 Greenwood secured backing...
A lot of great names are associated with the racing of Corvettes. Many of those great names—racers like Bondurant, Fitch...
The International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, N.Y., annually raffles off a desirable car as a way to...