Few, professional drivers can lay claim to having active racing careers that span 40 years. One of the only drivers...
Professional racer, John Morton, was recently reunited with the original BRE-prepared Datsun 510 that carried him to 12 wins and...
For the last 20 years or so of his life, Rodger Ward and I were friends. Even though I had met him only once during the fabulous fifties when he drove a customer’s Devin SS when I was the Devin distributor. We became close friends when I asked him to...
We were very honored to be given the opportunity to work with Porsche Cars North America to produce this special...
We had run the Datsun roadsters for a season and a half before we ran the 510 and won the...
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With Porsche as the featured marque for the 36th Monterey Historic Automobile Races, attendees were treated to a broad variety...
The 5th annual Fabulous Fifties Concours d’Provenance at the South Coast Botanical Gardens in the Los Angeles suburb of Palos...
Bobby Unser was inducted as a Legend of Riverside at the 4th annual celebration of the same name at California’s Riverside international Automotive Museum on the last weekend of March. As the event’s featured guest, Unser sat down for the traditional post-banquet interview with Ed Justice Jr., and happily told...
Small independent shops are keystones of the automobile restoration industry, and among the more notable of these is Cavaglieri Restorations,...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
Some of the biggest names in Formula 5000 history will gather for a panel discussion in the paddock at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca during next month’s Rolex Monterey Motorpsorts Reunion. The panel lineup currently includes Brian Redman, Vern Schuppan, Tony Adamowicz, John Morton, Howden Ganley and Shadow team owner Don...
A panel discussion featuring some of the biggest names in Formula 5000 history will take place in the paddock at...
Continuing the tradition of bringing together the former employees of Shelby American from the 1960s, this 17th edition of the...
• The Fabulous Fifties held its annual Lindley Bothwell Award dinner in early December at the Proud Bird restaurant near Los Angeles International Airport, where it honored George Follmer with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Follmer is, of course, the only driver ever to win two major U.S. professional racing championships...
Editor Casey Annis moderates a panel discussion on the heyday of Formula 5000 with legends like series champions Brian Redman...
• The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) presented John Mecom Jr. with its Bob Russo Heritage Award at...
Master automotive craftsman Joe Cavaglieri was named the 2017 recipient of the Racing History Project’s Peter Bryant Challenger Award at the project’s “Tribute to IMSA Dinner presented by Mazda,” held last weekend at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California. RHP’s Doug Stokes introduced the award by discussing the...
John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at the age of...
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at...
To honor the 50th anniversary of a corporate involvement in motorsports that continues to this day, Nissan has been named the featured marque of this year’s 45th Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for California’s Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on August 23-26. The year was 1968 when Nissan captured the first...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
