Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America...
It is astonishing what you can learn about different countries if you follow motor racing. I have no real knowledge about tax except for those tear-stained begging letters I receive from the Inland Revenue, but I have picked up a few things. Cunningham, Scarab, and Chaparral were all major American...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
The 7th running of the fall races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., was held at the Interim Course, a 4.6-mile, 9-turn...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs a shop repairing, restoring, and preparing vintage racecars, usually Porsches. Once you dig a little deeper into his background, however, you find a more than merely competent racecar driver, one...
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has been holding a series of “Demonstration Days,” at noon on the fourth...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor...
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...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In...
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...
Pete Lyons Did you hear about the diesel backhoe that did 350 mph at Bonneville? Yes, really…sort of. Become a...
October 2004 The Art of the National Automobile—The Thomas Mittler Collection By Art Eastman Throughout the summer of 2004, five...
I’m currently in the process of filing a lawsuit against Honda and Toyota, but it also looks like I might...
April 2004 From R to GT3R: The Racing Porsches 911 & 930 By John Starkey Hats off to John Starkey for having the gumption to take on the daunting task of attempting to chronicle all of the racing 911s and 930s for the last 50 years. As even the most...
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