The 1968 Ford Mustang offered incredible engine options and safety features that made it a stand-out Pony car from the...
It’s a common consensus that America is the land of motor cars and a cradle of modern automobiles. When it...
Vintage Road & Racecar is proud to announce that Associate Editor J. Michael Hemsley was awarded a bronze medal by the Automotive Heritage Foundation for his Roadcar Profile on the first Ford Mustang Fastback, Serial Number 1. Click here to read Hemsley’s award-winning article...
Charles Kettering, one time head of research at General Motors, once said: “People are very open-minded about new things –...
Jack Roush, racer, former Ford engineer, college physics teacher, and current CEO of a number of engineering-related companies, was honored...
Today, at Mecum Auctions’ Kissimmee Florida sale, the famed 1968 Ford Mustang GT that featured in the Steve McQueen movie “Bullitt” sold for a stunning hammer price of $3.4 million. One of just two Mustangs used to fill the role in the 1968 action/thriller “Bullitt,” named after main character Lt....
The chase begins … Using black and white markers on an 11″x 14″ piece of green paper artist Paul Chenard...
This month one of the most iconic Mustangs to ever hit the road is going up for auction, the 1968 Bullit...
Mecum’s recent Kansas City auction, held Dec. 5-7 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Missouri, saw sales reach an overall total of $9 million at the three-day event as a total of 410 vehicles hammered sold for a strong 70% sell-through rate. Both modern beauties and stunning classics made...
Examples from every generation of Mustang since the iconic sports car’s launch in 1964 converged on Ford’s Lommel Proving Ground,...
Every year the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance offers a spectacular showing of amazing cars. I am fortunate to get a...
After more than 40 years spent so well hidden that most believed it had been destroyed, the hero car from the Warner Bros. movie “Bullitt” reemerged in January 2018 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and it’s now slated to cross the Mecum auction block at the...
Growing up in Southern California offered a great deal of advantages. Nearby beaches, lots of sunny days and a constant...
The Mustang Owner’s Museum will host an event “55 Years of Mustang”, in conjunction with the Grand Opening of the...
In the earlier days of his racing career, Craig Fisher (who recently passed away) raced just about everything he could get his hands on, from used DKW Monzas at Harewood Acres to Abarth Simcas at Le Circuit Mont Tremblant and even the ferocious Comstock EXP at Mosport. He also raced...
Over the past several years, I’ve waxed whimsical in this space about various historical, psychological and emotional aspects of the...
Classic Recreations has been officially licensed by Ford Motor Company to build the first ever turn-key versions of some of...
The Historic Motor Sports Association staged an exhibition race for Historic Trans-Am cars as part of the festivities surrounding the 44thrunning of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach last weekend, featuring the pony cars that made the SCCA’s original Trans-American Sedan Championship a huge draw in the late ’60s...
March 2018 Stars & Cars Mythical Pairings By Jacques Braunstein Steve McQueen, a Ford Mustang and San Francisco. The ten-minute...
The Andes adventure started in Antofagasta, on the coast of Northern Chile with 15 cars and teams from Belgium, Finland,...
February 2018 Mario Andretti: A Life in Pictures By Mario Donnini The latest in author Donnini’s series of “Life in Pictures” reflections on prominent racers and events is devoted to the 1978 F1 World Champion and four-time U.S. National Indycar Champion Mario Andretti. Mario’s story should be familiar to most...
The 1966 Shelby GT 350H Fastback personally owned and driven by Cobra creator Carroll Shelby has been added to the...
Walter Maynard “Bud” Moore Jr., a decorated veteran of World War II and D-Day’s Normandy Invasion and a 2011 inductee...
The 2018 edition of the Silverstone Classic, billed as the world’s largest historic race meeting, has been given a provisional date of July 20-22. Highlighting the featured attractions is a return of ’60s muscle cars, with the Trans-Atlantic Touring Car Trophy contest set to fill huge grids with mighty V8-powered...
Barrett-Jackson rallied the collector car and local Las Vegas communities during its 10th Annual Las Vegas Auction, held last weekend...
I had dinner with Carroll Shelby in 1997. Among the dozens of things I remember him telling me, the most poignant...
September 2017 Stephen South – The Way It Was By Darren Banks Darren Banks has followed the careers of many drivers for a good many years now and has always had a passion for the career of Stephen South, a driver with much talent, but who failed to really make...
Drawing from two hemispheres, four continents and numerous states up, down, between and beyond America’s two coasts, Lime Rock Park’s...
Attendees at next weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to reflect upon 60 years of racing history at...
Mecum Auctions took its collector-car auction show to the Mile High City this past weekend, July 22-23, with 591 vehicles on offer at the Denver Convention Center. In just two days, 411 vehicles hammered sold for a total of $11.4 million, with a 70-percent sell-through rate. The eclectic mix of...
