Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
Phil Bachman has been collecting Ferraris at a rate of about one a year since he got his first one...
A.J. Foyt Donald Mitchell Healey 1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint car builder and Indy 500 crew chief Wally Meskowski dies at the age of 64 (1980). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The annual Arizona auto auction festival will take center stage in Phoenix and Scottsdale in mid-January, when most of America’s...
“Boy’s Own” Racer Personally speaking, I’m not an advocate of racing specials, especially those cars built that have little, or no period history. Having said that, I am always curious to investigate the background of interesting cars. The who, why, what and heritage of a vehicle sometimes holds an intriguing...
Peter Bourassa is the Publisher of the weekly MMR Community Newsletter and the online Motorsports Marketing Resources Directory (www.MMRsite.com) a...
December 2017 Comb through the history of 20th century car designs, and one name continually appears over and over again. Tom Tjaarda. Though Tjaarda never penned his name as a brand or touted his individual accomplishments, he quietly assembled an astonishing career of automotive achievements. Indeed, Tjaarda (a U.S.-born, Detroit...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide Leather Tool Bag The GARNY leather tool bag was influenced by the traditional 1930s design. Handmade...
Since it opened last June the Newport Car Museum has welcomed more than 14,000 visitors and become an instant hit with car clubs and tour groups exploring the Northeast — especially the popular vacation destination of Newport, Rhode Island. The museum’s location in a 114,000-square-foot building once devoted to missile...
One week after the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring, the racing world experienced another tragic weekend, this time in France,...
November 2017 Denis Jenkinson Alan Jones Photo: Pete Austin 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One...
The inaugural Mecum Las Vegas Collector-Car Auction will feature 1,000 consignments on the weekend of November 16-18 at the Las...
Some 152 members of the Vintage Sports Car Club took their cherished motorcars to Presteigne in Wales (above, Andrew Wright photo) over the weekend of October 7-8 for a historic Rally and two-day Vintage Trial. On the Saturday a fine array of 39 Pre-war cars entered the Scatter Rally, and...
Beaulieu, home of Great Britain’s National Motor Museum and its collection of more than 250 vehicles, has announced its full...
The Mecum Chicago 2017 collector-car auction held this past weekend, October 5-7, at the Schaumburg Convention Center in suburban Chicago...
Fifty years after its first victory, to the day, Ford returned to Le Mans and won again, this time in the GTE Pro class with its EcoBoost GT piloted by Sébastien Bourdais, Joey Hand and Dirk Müller. Unlike 1966, Ferrari pushed them all the way this time, and by finishing...
Reg Hillary, 96-years of age as of this writing, is as sharp and lively as someone half his age. He’s...
Juan Manuel Fangio Biography Affectionately known as “bandy legs” by his many fans, Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce,...
In a scene from the 1967 BUA International Trophy Meeting, on the May Spring Bank Holiday, at Crystal Palace, two Ford GT40s duel for position. Number 47, driven by Terry Drury, leads Frank Gardner in number 41. It was a brief moment of glory, however, as Drury failed to finish,...
Following its “Ferrari – Leggenda e Passione” single-marque sale in Maranello, Italy, RM Sotheby’s is turning focus to another segment...
Robert Newman You might well ask “Who the hell’s he?” when you read the name at the top of the...
The collection of one of America’s preeminent collectors and conservators of vintage automobiles, that of Lindley and Ann Bothwell, will be sold at auction by Bonhams on November 11 at the Bothwells’ Southern California ranch in Woodland Hills, just north of L.A. Lindley Bothwell and his wife Ann were charter...
Following another fast paced, high energy showing on Fisherman’s Wharf, downtown during Monterey, California’s famed collector car week, Russo and...
Carroll Shelby International and DenBeste Motorsports have announced that production of the highly anticipated 427 Shelby Cobra Competition racecar is...
August has again arrived, and the collector car auctions of Monterey Classic Car Week will soon be providing the industry with its annual reality check. The five main auction companies will all stage showcase sales during the week, each with its own selection of desirable machinery over a broad range...
