1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs...
You may have looked at this month’s cover car and said, “That’s not vintage!” You might also have looked at this month’s cover car and thought, “Hmm, I wouldn’t mind something like that!” And therein lies the predicament. Having done numerous surveys and questionnaires of our readership, we know that...
As a young boy James Mitchell shared his father’s hobby and passion for classic and historic cars. Always fascinated by...
All six events at Pebble Beach’s fourth renewal were memorable for those lucky enough to be there, but ’53 was...
The organizers of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion have announced that Jaguar will be the featured marque for this year’s event, scheduled for August 19–21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. This will be the third time in the 38-year history of the event that Jaguar has been honored as the...
Motor Racing Legends has announced the return of the Le Mans Legend historic support race to next year’s Le Mans...
As expected, Alberto Ascari impressed everyone with his driving of the 340 hp Ferrari 375MM in the 1953 24 Hours...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned how, from a relatively modest background and upbringing in Northern Ireland, Grant rose to the high echelons of command at Ford both in Europe and the USA and how he...
The Other Gregory Dear Editor, Ever since I discovered your wonderful publication a couple years ago at Russo and Steele...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares...
The 1950s and ’60s were to many involved in Australian historic motor sport, the halcyon years. It was the time of the Australian Special, the racing of early model Holdens and the Tasman Series. Many names came and went, but quite a few remained and are still well known today...
Masten Gregory sits in the cockpit of the 1965 BRP Indycar as team manager Tony Robinson looks on. What brothers?...
Heavy Duty Lightweights 1961 Jaguar XKE “Coombs Lightweight” & 1963 Jaguar XKE “Qvale Lightweight” Photo: Pete Austin The year 2011 marks 50...
My first race was a small event at a BARC Goodwood Members Meeting, at the wheel of my Jowett Jupiter. Although my father enjoyed cars, there was no history of anyone in my family competing, so I was on new territory and learned as I went along from personal mistakes...
December 2007 Alfa Romeo Argentina By Christián Bertschi & Estanislao Iacona With nearly a 100-year continuous history, it may come...
In 1952, a young Ian Stewart, pioneer driver for Ecurie Ecosse, would visit Jaguar Cars in Coventry to collect his...
A pair of historic Miller racing cars, an ex–Phil Hill Jaguar C-Type, and a rare Ferrari 225S headline the 24th RM Auctions “Sports & Classics of Monterey” event scheduled for August 13–15 at the Portola Hotel and Spa, 2 Portola Plaza, Monterey, California. The auction preview will commence August 12...
A number of years ago, in the early days of Vintage Racecar when I think we were still in “black...
When you’re weighed down with a name like Prince Birabongse Bhanutej Bhanubandh, you’ve got to do something about it if you want to go motor racing, so this Siamese tongue twister became B. Bira. That was the pseudonym under which a small, doll-like grandson of King Mongkut, played by Yul...
The famed Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will celebrate its 60th anniversary this August by recognizing the 75th anniversary of Jaguar....
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
John Fitch Bob Tullius 4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near Brescia (1921). 5 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the F2 race on the Ahvenisto race circuit in Hameenlinna, Finland (1967). Become a Member...
Race Retro 2011 will celebrate one of Britain’s best-loved, if not the best-loved, sports cars next year when it returns...
March 2008 American Road Racing 1948-1950 By Joel Finn A heavy package arrived addressed to me the other day. I...
Frank Raymond Wilton “Lofty” England was not head and shoulders above many other men just because he was 6 ft 5 ins (196 cm) tall. He was also an amazing blend of racing motorcyclist, rally driver, bomber pilot, racing car engineer, race strategist and Jaguar’s chairman and CEO. But the...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
This son of a German garage owner had never raced a car until May 26, 1935, at the superfast Avus...
The photo caption on page 31 of the November 1953 issue of Road & Track read: “A strange assortment of cars lined up for the feature of the day.” The author was Bill Brant and the feature race noted was the Seafair Trophy at the inaugural Seafair Sports Car Races...