Aston’s Spectre Dear Editor, What a ripper read your leading article was in the December edition of Vintage Roadcar! Become...
“Bellissima! The Italian Automotive Renaissance, 1945–1975,” will celebrate the visual dynamism and spirit of innovation embodied by Italian coachbuilt cars,...
The Lancia Fulvia Lancia was never short of talented engineers. Consider just Vincenzo himself, Vittorio Jano and, later in the 1950s and ’60s, Antonia Fessia. 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....
The Endurance Rally Association’s 10-day Sahara Challenge event from Madrid to Marrakesh was decided by less than 20 seconds as...
Now Auto Union’s number one driver after replacing the dead Bernd Rosemeyer, Tazio Nuvolari and his Auto Union Type D...
John Campion is a high energy guy and radiates that energy everywhere he goes. Perhaps it’s because he started his business career providing power for rock shows, but whatever it is, his sense of energy permeates his enthusiasm for his car collection, the centerpieces of which are four rare and...
Amelia Island, Florida March 13-15, 2015 David Sydorick’s 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Zagato Spider. John Campion’s assembled collection of...
RM Sotheby’s will hold its biennial Villa Erba sale, this Saturday, May 23, on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como....
While crafting a long history of innovation, the Italian automotive manufacturer Lancia has created some of the most technically advanced cars ever built, and its story will be told next week at the International Motor Racing Research Center. Geoff Goldberg, author of Lancia and De Virgilio, At the Center, will...
Last week, the Revs® Institute for Automobile Research in Naples, Florida, opened its first multi-media exhibition, The Rivals: A Golden...
The 33rd Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix will take place in the Pennsylvania city’s Schenley Park this July 18-19, with its...
Umberto Maglioli stands beside his Porsche 550A and looks up from the pits during a break in open practice for the 1955 Targa Florio. The car arrived in Sicily with a bare metal body that was painted white before the race. Photo: Porsche Umberto Maglioli was a man who clearly...
Mike Lawrence There is a minor industry in new James Bond novels and if we include Young James Bond and...
Lancia D50 Car: Lancia D50 / Engine: 90º V8 / Maker: Lancia / Bore X Stroke: 73.6 X 73.1 mm /...
Bandini in the Ferrari T1512/63 during the non-championship International Trophy race at Silverstone in the Spring of 1965, where he finished 7th. Milan was in mourning the first time I visited the cathedral city, in the late spring of 1967. In fact, all of Italy hung its collective head in...
More than 200 classic cars from around Europe took over the streets of Vernasca in Piacenza, Italy, for a weekend...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
In the 1930s there was little transportation more luxurious and prestigious than the Lancia Astura. This image is of the fourth series 1939 Lancia Astura Cabriolet. Just over 400 were produced until the outbreak of World War Two. In the 1930s, there was little transportation more luxurious and prestigious than...
Ode to ’53 Dear Editor, Really enjoyed the review of 1953 by Mike Lawrence (March 2014)—a terrific season with so...
Peter Brock Carroll Shelby 1 Stirling Moss drives a race car for the first time in over a year—since the...
The Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica (BAT) Alfa Romeos, by Scaglione, put Bertone on the map in the 1950s. Pictured here is BAT 7. Photo: The Blackhawk Collection For lovers of design over and above things automotive, Stile Bertone is housed in a building that just shouts 1950s Italian modernism. It’s a pleasure...
The 2013 Mille Miglia to Argentina. Where Juan Manuel Fangio was unable to succeed back in the ’50s, his countrymen...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
It is interesting to note that the two most iconic constructors of Italian road-going sports cars—Ferrari and Maserati—only grudgingly began offering Grand Touring cars in the 1950s. For founders Enzo Ferrari and the Maserati brothers, racing was their focus and their passion. Yet, in a post-war world screaming for sports...
The assembled gladiators, left to right: Alain Mahé, Jean-Francois Piot, Jacques Jauber, Jean Ragnotti, Jean-Louis Marnat, Michele “Biche” Petit, Jean...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century was not a great time for the Farina family to be bringing up eleven children in rural Italy. The tenth was christened Battista, and with all these mouths to feed...
Motor Racing at Thruxton – in the 1980s By Bruce Grant-Braham The latest volume in publisher Veloce’s “Those were the...
1952 Lancia Aurelia B50Photo: Peter Collins On a rare sunny day in late spring, on empty roads in Wiltshire, this car was a complete delight. It handled well, was very comfortable, had plenty of interior space and went well enough. So it should have done, it’s a Lancia, derived from...
