For 2023, the Put-in-Bay Sports Car Races, to be held Tuesday through Thursday September 19-21, will honor Japanese marques with...
The original Datsun 240Z made its debut in the fall of 1969 and immediately set the sports car world on...
Hardly a month goes by without some bygone marque being resurrected. The majority, thank the Lord Harry, sink with barely a ripple. News that Fiat finally intends to do something with Abarth made my day more pleasant. Initially, the new Abarths will be variations of Fiat models, as often they...
The assembled gladiators, left to right: Alain Mahé, Jean-Francois Piot, Jacques Jauber, Jean Ragnotti, Jean-Louis Marnat, Michele “Biche” Petit, Jean...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
Founded by Kent Bain and Charles Webb in 1978, Automotive Restorations, and its racing arm Vintage Racing Services, has grown...
Vintage Bentleys dominated the Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Baltic Classic Rally, taking the three top spots in the Vintageants category....
Bob Holden For anyone involved in motor sport within Australia, the name of Bob Holden has been a prominent one for many years. After starting out during the 1950s in a Holden (no relation) sedan Bob tackled a variety of events in both racing and rallying with a number of...
In October 1969, a sleek new two-door sports car was presented at the Pierre Hotel, New York in front of...
Founded in 1911 by a Japanese engineer trained in the United States, the Datsun Motor Car Company ranks as one...
In 1964, Nissan Motor Company introduced a two-door sports coupe named the Silivia 1600 Sports Coupe. One year later, at the New York Motor Show, the Silvia made its one and only appearance in the U.S. The car was not well received by the U.S. motoring press, perhaps because it...
Gordon McCall is founder of the Motorworks Revival at the Monterey Jet Center and co-founder of The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering...
John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at the age of...
Over the years, Vintage Racecar has been fortunate to have been able to include the work of talented cutaway artist Shin Yoshikawa in numerous features and Racecar Profiles. Japanese-born Yoshikawa began drawing cars when he was 10 years old, and over the past 50 years has come to be known...
Still racers, after all these years. That’s what I was thinking as one veteran driver after another mounted the stage...
Drinking & Driving Photo: The Klemantaski Collection Dear Editor, In my dreams! The photo of the Aston at Spa in ’49 [Fast Exposure, April 2013]! That’s the way racing should be! It’s reminiscent of the photo of somebody being handed a Coke at Bivio Polizzi on the Targa Florio circuit—could it have...
Martin Swig is a former multi-franchise new-car dealer based in the San Francisco Bay area who is an avid vintage...
Professional racer, John Morton, was recently reunited with the original BRE-prepared Datsun 510 that carried him to 12 wins and the 1971-1972 Trans-Am Championships for 2.5-liter sedans. Morton shook down the recently restored car at California’s Buttonwillow racecourse in preparation for August’s Trans-Am race at the Monterey Historics. When asked...
If you read my column this month on the other side of the magazine, you’ll see I take a little,...
While this news has been somewhat eclipsed by the virtual implosion of the U.S. auto industry, after more than a...
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at the age of 75. Knepp made his first splash on the American motorsports scene working with Pete Brock’s Brock Racing Enterprises as it built 2.5-Liter Trans-Am-winning Datsun 510s for John...
Last month we ran the first half of the tale of Hal Crocker’s relationship with Peter Gregg, encompassing the early...
1971 Datsun 240Z Photo: Peter Collins The aristocratically named Giuliano Musumeci rather boxy machines called the Cedric, believing these would Greco is the president of Nissan Italia, and for five sun-filled days, he and Nissan Italia’s general manager, Alessandro Cacciotti, guided the Datsun 240Z rally car round the coast of...