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...
Charles Kettering, one time head of research at General Motors, once said: “People are very open-minded about new things – so long as they are exactly like the old ones.” Studebaker tried to prove him wrong but lacked the capacity to make an impression. Then came the Mustang. Ford’s Pony...
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...
The chase begins … Using black and white markers on an 11″x 14″ piece of green paper artist Paul Chenard pays tribute to Steve McQueen’s iconic Bullitt Mustang. Paul Chenard Automobiliart.com paul.chenard@hotmail.com 1 902 817-9273 www.pinterest.com/automobiliart www.facebook.com/automobiliart.ca...
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...
Examples from every generation of Mustang since the iconic sports car’s launch in 1964 converged on Ford’s Lommel Proving Ground, in Belgium on September 7, to help set a new world record for the largest number of Mustangs gathered in one place. Ford smashed its own record of 960 vehicles,...
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...
Growing up in Southern California offered a great deal of advantages. Nearby beaches, lots of sunny days and a constant flow of exciting cars. The car culture of Los Angeles brought all manner of cars to my attention. Great muscle cars, sports cars and fun little British cars were seemingly...
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...
Over the past several years, I’ve waxed whimsical in this space about various historical, psychological and emotional aspects of the humble steering wheel. But a recent chain of events forced me to consider an aspect of the steering wheel I hadn’t contemplated before—the financial. A couple of months back, I...
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...
March 2018 Stars & Cars Mythical Pairings By Jacques Braunstein Steve McQueen, a Ford Mustang and San Francisco. The ten-minute pursuit in Bullitt has remained one of the all-time great movie car chase sequences for nearly 50 years. Iconic automotive pairings from cinematic history do not get much better than...
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...
The 1966 Shelby GT 350H Fastback personally owned and driven by Cobra creator Carroll Shelby has been added to the listings for Bonhams’ Scottsdale Sale, and will cross the Arizona auction block without reserve on Thursday, January 18. For complete information about this late addition please visit www.Bonhams.com/Scottsdale ...
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...
Barrett-Jackson rallied the collector car and local Las Vegas communities during its 10th Annual Las Vegas Auction, held last weekend October 19-21, at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. A record crowd of more than 74,000 witnessed 671 vehicles cross the block, delivering an impressive 99.25 percent sell-through rate. Total...
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...
Drawing from two hemispheres, four continents and numerous states up, down, between and beyond America’s two coasts, Lime Rock Park’s Historic Festival 35, presented by the Prestige Family of Fine Cars, has drawn nearly 275 authentic vintage racecar entries for its 36 races on Saturday, September 2 and Labor Day...
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...
June 2017 Racing to Riverside By Brad R. Leach This book is subtitled: “The Untold Story of Walt Hane and his GT350,” but it could also very easliy be called “The Story of You and Your Car Going Racing.” This in no way diminishes the tale being told, just recognizes...
