Lance Reventlow was the son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. As most aficionados know, he was active in motorsport during...
There were a number of outstanding road-race weekends during the fifties. Phil Hill’s win at the first Pebble Beach comes...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos we showed him started a discussion so interesting that I’m keen to share it with you. The picture was made by Art Evans at Palm Springs in November, 1956. It...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
Pete Lyons The little Speedster stared out the dealership’s window like a puppy, its big eyes pleading mournfully: Won’t you take me home? A young couple kept stopping by to gaze in at the radiant red roadster. “Every week—sometimes more often—we fell in love with it.” Become a Member &...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
Lance Reventlow Enzo Ferrari 1 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons drive their Penske-prepared Lola T70 coupe to victory in the...
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of the American all-rounders who could, and would, drive virtually any kind of car. After a tour of duty as chauffeur for the head of NORAD Command in Colorado, the Washington...
Chris Amon Lance Reventlow 2 Achille Varzi dies in a low-speed accident while practicing in the rain at Bremgarten for...
I don’t remember when I first met Lance Reventlow, but it must have been through my buddy, Bruce Kessler, who...
February 2010 Second Coming Photo: Brian Green Dear Editor, In your First Turn column of December Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
Phil Remington, universally recognized as one of racing’s finest craftsmen, has passed away at the age of 92. Remington left his fingerprints all over seven decades of racecar design innovation, with many of today’s standard practices being solutions he created on the run for problems that popped up in his...
Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans By Preston Lerner and Dave Friedman The...
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a...
A 1962 Shelby Cobra, serial number CSX2032 (above, photo courtesy of Mecum Auctions), that was once owned by Lance Reventlow of Scarab fame, highlights an impressive selection of significant early muscle cars and vintage drag cars that will be on offer when Mecum Auctions hosts its biggest sale of the...
Some of us – we know who we are – go all slack in the knees before certain racing machines....
For the 1955 season, Monza was refurbished and the Milan Auto Club considered an oval race. Contact was made with...
My column in the October 2006 edition of Vintage Racecar was titled, “Shelby, the Early Years.” For the most part, it was about Carroll Shelby’s racing career that culminated in winning Le Mans in 1959. I followed up on the column with the publication of my book, Shelby, the Race...
Nigel Mansell John Surtees Photo: Pete Austin 2 Paul Tracy wins the CART Champ Car race through the streets of...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the Sports Car Club of America. U. S. professional racing was governed by the American Automobile Association, but the function was taken over by the United States Auto Club in 1956...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take...