The Oldtimer Grand Prix at Nürburgring is a great historic race event, and here, in his characteristic style, artist Ehret...
Bob Bondurant, who led the Shelby American Cobra team’s successful 1965 World Manufacturers Championship effort, and later established one of...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack. With the rebuilding and recovery of Europe ongoing six years after the end of World War II, Mercedes competition boss Alfred Neubauer was told that the resources for a resumption...
Competing as a production-based sports car, the new C5-R Corvette was developed to compete as a GTS-class race car that...
Chevrolet recently debuted the new Corvette Z06 GT3.R racecar, a year before it makes its competition debut at the 2024...
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...
• A unique 1953 Ferrari 166MM, bodied by Oblin with wonderful racing provenance will star in Artcurial Motorcars’ Retromobile sale...
Ken Miles in the Shelby Cobra, with Shelby’s personal racing number, leads Jim Hall in the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken...
Photo: Casey Annis History is a curious thing, we tend to think of it as fixed and absolute, when in fact, like most things in life, it is dynamic, it can change. Or sometimes, like in grade school, we learn about a piece of history at a very superficial level,...
Today, I’m going to confess two of my most deeply held, darkest secrets: 1) For the past two decades, I’ve...
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With June’s running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Corvette marked the 50th anniversary of its first participation in...
In honor of the 60th anniversary of Chevrolet’s Corvette, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has selected “America’s sports car” as the featured marque for next August’s edition of the annual vintage racecar festival at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. A large turnout of Corvette racers is expected to be on hand...
Sad news this morning as it was announced by the Guldstrand family that Corvette racing legend Dick Guldstrand has passed...
This month’s featured Web site is devoted to the history of the Corvette, with an emphasis on its racing history...
Beginning Friday, Aug. 9, LeMay —America’s Car Museum (ACM) will recount the six-decade evolution of the Chevrolet Corvette, a sports car whose iconic styling and performance will be showcased in the museum’s new “60 Years of Vette” exhibit that will run through the end of the year. Photo: GM “The...
Kevin Mackay officially opened Corvette Repair in 1985, renting a one-bay garage out of an auto repair shop in Valley...
The iconic purpose-built 1956 Corvette SR-2 will be one of the featured Corvettes at this Saturday’s Philadelphia Concours d’Elegance at...
The Corvette SR2 competition car was created by the design team of GM styling boss Harley Earl, and made for Earl’s son to race. It had 230 horsepower, and was raced through 1956 and 1957 with some sucess. Only three SR2s were ever made, and Corvette guru Zora Arkus-Duntov took his...
An eclectic selection of cars that raced prior to 1970 graced the lawn of the South Coast Botanical Gardens in...
For 70 years, the Chevrolet Corvette has captured the hearts and passion of car enthusiasts worldwide, whether it’s cruising down...
The future of the Monterey Historic Automobile Races was assured in the beginning of December when a new long-term agreement between Laguna Seca Raceway and General Racing Ltd. was reached after months of negotiations. “The Monterey Historics is a celebration of historic automobiles and the people who were responsible for...
The XP-755 concept car, also known as the Mako Shark, was designed by Larry Shinoda under the direction of General...
1965 Corvette XP-819 In 1965, famed General Motors designer Larry Shinoda designed a one-off concept car, the XP-819, that tested...
A lot of great names are associated with the racing of Corvettes. Many of those great names—racers like Bondurant, Fitch and Guldstrand—either were, or went on to become, successful professional racing drivers. But in the late ’50s and early ’60s the Corvette also attracted an extraordinary collection of “Gentleman Drivers”...
Several excellent examples of America’s favorite sports car will be crossing the auction block at Barrett-Jackson’s 2nd Annual Northeast Auction,...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan Fangio, Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby, John Fitch, Dan Gurney and Phil Hill immediately come to mind. Only one from that exhalted group, however, was proposed for President of the United...