David Duthu’s appetite for interesting and eclectic cars seems to be boundless. He vintage races a Bugatti Type 35A and...
Sir William Lyons, founder of the Jaguar car company, knew, as domestic car production returned to the UK, after World...
1988 Jaguar XJR9 & 1991 Jaguar XJR12 Almost all of Jaguar’s competition effort in the post-war period became directed at a single target, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was an effort that was immensely successful, and having done it once, Jaguar waited for a period of years and...
Sometimes, knowing someone results is a surprise. I’ve known Mike Marsh for a number of years. He created the EuroFest...
Photo: Sean Smith Watkins Glen, New York, September 19, 1953. On lap 19, of a scheduled 22-lap race, Walter Hansgen...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, and ended with a horrific crash in a sports car race at Pomona in 1959, and it all happened in the span of six short...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically...
1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the...
May 2018 The first major car show I attended was the 1971 L.A. Auto Expo. As a wide-eyed nine-year-old, everything seemed special. Bright colors, racy shapes, and a handful of pretty ladies (still a few years away from becoming a distraction from cars) the event was largely dominated by the...
John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on...
1956 Lycoming Special The immediate post World War Two years were best described as austere times for many countries, even...
The annual support race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most important events in all of historic motorsport. On Saturday morning June 22, 2013, the Le Mans Legend will return once again to Le Circuit de la Sarthe with a sensational grid of 61 Le...
Martin Swig is a former multi-franchise new-car dealer based in the San Francisco Bay area who is an avid vintage...
Jaguar had entered three XK120s for the 1950 Le Mans race and while two cars finished 12th, and 15th respectively,...
Seventy years ago, on November 5, 1950, the first Pebble Beach Road Race took place — and the Pebble Beach Concours was born with it. To mark this historic event, Pebble Beach organizers invited Derek Hill to retrace the old road race course driving the very same Jaguar XK120 that...
Jaguar’s XK120 Roadster was introduced at the London Motor Show in the fall of 1948. A year later, cars began...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into...
From gas station owner in 1954 to leading Le Mans in 1967, sports car racer Scooter Patrick enjoyed an amazing...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
This is a little-known story, but the real father of Riverside Raceway was Jim Peterson. I thought this would be a good time to tell it, because the new Riverside International Raceway Museum is having a “Legends of Riverside” celebration on March 27-29. It might be appropriate to include at...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs...
The racing surface didn’t have time to cure properly, so it had to be repaired at intervals by work crews with shovels of asphalt and rakes to smooth it out. A 1956 Ford served as transport for the repair crew. The Porsches of Howard Fowler (#63) and Buel Kinne (#112)...