The 7th running of the fall races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., was held at the Interim Course, a 4.6-mile, 9-turn...
More than $325 million worth of collector cars were hammered sold over the Monterey Car Week Auction Season, with 70 of them bringing in $1 million or more as the market played mostly flat in comparison to last year. Top lot of the weekend, more or less as expected, was...
Photo: Casey Annis The story of the Corvette and how it came to race at Le Mans is one in...
Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North American road racing. He began as did so many others of his contemporaries in the 1950s, went on to race with Briggs Cunningham’s team, and from there went to the...
Founded by Kent Bain and Charles Webb in 1978, Automotive Restorations, and its racing arm Vintage Racing Services, has grown...
The 4th annual Catskill Conquest Rally commemorating the 1903 Automobile Endurance Run will take place on Saturday, September 26, 2020,...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He raced automobiles and yachts, manufactured sports cars, established a significant auto museum and distributed Jaguars. His overriding goal was to win Le Mans with an all-American car driven by Americans....
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically...
For the first time in his career, Marvin Panch posed for a photo before an event. He would never do so again. It could have all ended so differently, this confluence of seemingly random events that culminated that cold Valentine’s Day in 1963 at Daytona International Speedway, were it not...
More than 100 friends of John Fitch gathered at his home in Lime Rock, Connecticut, to honor him on the...
We walk through Don Murray’s spectacular classic and exotic car collection and dealership called Mesa Concours Cars in southern California, past Ferraris, Porsches, Aston Martins and other automotive masterworks, to arrive at a tiny blue Bug Eye roadster parked at the far end, in the corner, in the dark. This...
The 23rd annual Greenwich (Connecticut) Concours d’Elegance was held once again in the beautiful waterfront Roger Sherman Baldwin Park. This concours...
Frank Sinatra purchased his first hybrid car in 1957. So did pals, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Eddie Fisher, as...
An Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A Cabriolet emerged victorious at the 65th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Sunday, scooping Best in Show honors. The winning car has an extremely long 145-inch Italian 1924 Tipo 8A chassis, which was acquired in the early 1930s by Swiss Carrosserie Worblaufen to be used as...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as...
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More on the Missing Cunningham Dear Editor, On page 20 of the November, 2012 issue there is a letter with...
Quit Scraping the Paint! Photo: Roger Dixon Dear Editor, I would like to point out one quibble and one major error in the September 2012 issue of Vintage Racecar. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
Neil Cunningham always excelled in American V8-powered machines. He is seen here hurrying the Embassy Racing Corvette through the Thruxton Chicane on his way to scoring a well-deserved 2nd-place finish in a British GT race.Photo: James Beckett I always loved racing American cars with V8 engines, and I think there...
Mika Hakkinen Dario Franchitti Photo: Richard Dole 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and his first...
In late March, around the time of the New York Auto Show, Jaguar made the surprising announcement that it would...
Joseph Pendergast, historic racer, race organizer, and collector for nearly 40 years, succumbed to complications from pneumonia on September 14, 2008, at the age of 69. Pendergast was owner and general manager of West Coast Caterers, and upon selling it to Dobbs House in 1973, he sought his Bachelor’s degree...