Mecum’s recent Kansas City auction, held Dec. 5-7 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Missouri, saw sales reach an...
The greatest racecar has to be the Ford Mustang, no question. I helped homologate it in the first place, and got one to England before it was announced. In 1964, we won the Touring Class in the Tour de France and over 40 years later we’re still running one. I...
Classic Recreations has been officially licensed by Ford Motor Company to build the first ever turn-key versions of some of...
This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel...
Members of Carroll Shelby’s “Original Venice Crew” including Ted Sutton, Jim Marietta and Duane Carling, were on hand in mid-February at California’s Willow Springs International Raceway for the 50th anniversary of the Mustang GT350R’s first victory. In a celebration put on by the Los Angeles Shelby American Automobile Club (LASAAC),...
Two months before the end of WWII, an American P-51 Mustang was shot down over Germany. The pilot was Captain...
1966 Shelby GT350H When Ford introduced its new Mustang in 1964, it was an immediate sensation. By itself, it created...
The 15th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will pay tribute to the Silver Screen in this year’s exclusive “Life on the Silver Screen” exhibit sponsored by the South Carolina Film Commission. Now in its eighth year, the Festival’s “Life” exhibits honor American automotive culture and era-specific...
The Historic Motor Sports Association staged an exhibition race for Historic Trans-Am cars as part of the festivities surrounding the...
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Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and said: “George, we’ve had several speakers here; I’m surprised the term ‘anger management’ hasn’t been used yet!” Poor George Follmer could only join the laughter filling the Petersen Museum’s banquet...
Over the last 28 years, the Italian Car Day at Brooklands (run by Ginger Beer Promotions) has become well established...
Jack Roush, racer, former Ford engineer, college physics teacher, and current CEO of a number of engineering-related companies, was honored...
Roberto Moreno Photo: Pete Austin Mike Hawthorne Photo: BRDC Archive 1 F1 race winner and six-time Le Mans victor Jacky Ickx is born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 4 Graeme Lawrence drives a Ferrari Dino 246 to victory in Tasman Cup race at Levin, New Zealand (1970). Become a Member &...
Mike Costin Bill Milliken.Photo: Bentley Publishing 1 Dario Franchitti wins the CART Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Ohio (2001). 2...
The inaugural Spring Classic vintage racecar weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca enjoyed flawless Monterey Peninsula weather as fields of...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in the early 1970s, would be brought about by the “economy car.” Perhaps even more interesting, and less well known, is the fact that the first car to officially enter this...
Still racers, after all these years. That’s what I was thinking as one veteran driver after another mounted the stage...
Drawing from two hemispheres, four continents and numerous states up, down, between and beyond America’s two coasts, Lime Rock Park’s...
Lola T70 Unlike Charles Cooper at Cooper Cars Lola’s Eric Broadley was quick to realize the sales potential for a car designed to accept a variety of production-based US engines. John Surtees and his early involvement with the Ford GT40 project, which had grown out of his Lola Mk6 GT...
This painting had been festering in Ian Guy’s mind for some time before he was finally able to capture it on...
Harsh Truth Photo: Allen Kuhn Dear Editor, It is a given that retired race drivers have a propensity for telling...
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...
GT350 Dear Editor, As a 30-plus year owner of a GT350H, the Hertz car on the cover of your Roadcar...
Eddie Rickenbacker Rick Mears 1 Roberto Lippi drives a Stanguellini to victory in the Formula Junior race at Vallelunga, Italy...
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...
Mecum Auctions returned to its suburban Chicagoland roots last weekend for Mecum Chicago 2016 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center,...
Mecum Auctions took its collector-car auction show to the Mile High City this past weekend, July 22-23, with 591 vehicles...
Overall sales totals at the Mecum Houston 2017 collector-car auction held last weekend at the NRG Arena in Houston, Texas, reached $21.7 million with a 70 percent sell-through rate for the 793 vehicles offered throughout the three-day auction.
Bidding was strong, evidenced by the LaQuay Collection of 54 vehicles achieving...