Lance Reventlow Enzo Ferrari 1 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons drive their Penske-prepared Lola T70 coupe to victory in the...
A 1962 Shelby Cobra, serial number CSX2032 (above, photo courtesy of Mecum Auctions), that was once owned by Lance Reventlow...
There were a number of outstanding road-race weekends during the fifties. Phil Hill’s win at the first Pebble Beach comes to mind as well as Carroll Shelby’s at the last. In Southern California, one of the best-loved venues was Palm Springs. It had everything: a famous resort, wonderful winter weather,...
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...
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a fascinating character, I thought a column explicitly about him would be appropriate in order to wrap up the theme. I wrote what was hopefully an amusing story about a party...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B26 to victory in the sports car race at Welkom, South Africa (1972). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
Phil Remington, universally recognized as one of racing’s finest craftsmen, has passed away at the age of 92. Remington left...
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 &...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
Lance Reventlow was the son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. As most aficionados know, he was active in motorsport during...
Some of us – we know who we are – go all slack in the knees before certain racing machines. One example for me is the Reventlow Scarab sports car of 1958. They still rivet my eye more than 44 years after I first saw their lovely lines. Why? I...
Chris Amon Lance Reventlow 2 Achille Varzi dies in a low-speed accident while practicing in the rain at Bremgarten for...
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...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the...
Nigel Mansell John Surtees Photo: Pete Austin 2 Paul Tracy wins the CART Champ Car race through the streets of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2000). 3 Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche is named chairman of the Panzerkomission, which oversees development of armored vehicles for the German army (1939). Become a...
I don’t remember when I first met Lance Reventlow, but it must have been through my buddy, Bruce Kessler, who...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
For the 1955 season, Monza was refurbished and the Milan Auto Club considered an oval race. Contact was made with USAC, which had taken over Indy car racing from the AAA. USAC’s Duane Carter was interested because he wanted Indy car races in Italy (Monza), Germany (Avus), and France (Monthlery)....
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of...
Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans By Preston Lerner and Dave Friedman The...