Dave Friedman in his book on American sports car racing in the golden era of racing called Dr. Dick Thompson...
The rules were: One lap of Lime Rock, driving backwards from a standing start. You could bring any car, use...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less than seismic impact in the motor sports world at large. As someone emailed in to SpeedTV’s “Wind Tunnel,” the only reason for many fans to bother talking about IRL’s muffled...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
Frank Gardner was the classic sportsman, excelling in swimming, rowing, surfing, and boxing before he began to race speedway bikes...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs on an empty stretch of road in Arizona’s Saguaro National Park. Photo: Casey Annis It’s enough to make any self-respecting purist cringe. Take a seductive 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300,...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
Say what you will about Bernie Ecclestone, but you cannot deny the fact that he has an eye for a...
There is a section in The Sunday Times called In Gear and it is basically boys’ toys, with cars as the headline, plus pod things, which I do not understand. Every week it features a new supercar, and even then it doesn’t get all of them, supercars are everywhere. England...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take...
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
Despite hailing from a family essentially unconnected to motorized vehicles, Basil van Rooyen soon discovered motorcycles and after a brief...
Anatole “Tony” Lapine, respected Latvian-born designer, and former design chief at Porsche has died at his home in Baden-Baden, Germany. Lapine died just one month before his 82nd birthday. Born in 1930, Lapine started his design career with an apprenticeship at Daimler-Benz, before moving to the U.S. to work for...
It was an eclectic gathering Saturday, June 2 at the grand opening of the LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM)...
Captive Readership Dear Editor, I must share a couple things with you. Due to firefighting injuries/wear and tear I had...
In 1903, Henry M. Leland began selling a $750, single-cylinder, automobile under the name Cadillac. Later touted as the “Standard of the World,” Cadillac would soon become consolidated under the General Motors banner in 1909. Over the ensuing years, the Cadillac brand would come to be known as a status...
Another little piece of our motoring heritage is about to be banished to the rubbish bin of automotive history. Like...
VR: How did you first get bitten by the “bug”? Drew Alcazar is president and founder of Russo & Steele Auctions....
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as this. For starters, his namesake ancestor built the first successful steamboat 11 years after the Declaration of Independence severed the bond between colonial America and Mother England. In his own...
Bricklin Company namesake and founder, Malcolm Bricklin. Malcolm Bricklin has more balls than a Christmas tree. Charismatic and effervescent, his...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim Hall’s air dam problem and the Cooper that Howden Ganley mentioned in his letter. When we ran the Shelby Cooper that was at Laguna Seca in ’64 we did modify...
Roy Brown Jr.—designer of the much maligned, ’50s flop the Ford Edsel—passed away on Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,...
The 1929 Lincoln Aero Phaeton, by LeBaron, was one of the earliest American vehicles to employ a tailfin. Priced at a towering $7,400, it sold poorly and was not cataloged the following year. Today fins are remembered as the outward expression of our automotive engineering prowess during the height of...
Beginning Friday, Aug. 9, LeMay —America’s Car Museum (ACM) will recount the six-decade evolution of the Chevrolet Corvette, a sports...
1953 Chevrolet Corvette Motorama Show Car. As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Corvette, it is appropriate to reflect on...
John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on that role has had to make many difficult and radical decisions to secure the future of Silverstone Racing Circuit—The Home of British Motor Racing. Some may ask who is John...