I’m writing this column during the waning days of 2006. Fifty years is traditionally a significant anniversary. What I remember...
Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well as tragic to see how it happened. Interesting in that a lot of circumstances had to come together; tragic in that it involved the death of a good friend. First,...
The H-Modified class in American road racing was derived from the FIA small-displacement sports racing machines popularized in Italy and...
Photo: Dennis Gray If you’ve ever attended the Monterey Historics, the Wine Country Classic, a Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG),...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle in the late ’30s that he had to keep down the street at a gas station because my grandparents didn’t want him to own it. One day he was following...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take...
Although better known for its style than its achievements on the track, the Moretti 750 Gran Sport Berlinetta is commanding...