Bruce McLaren Scrapbook – A Pictorial Celebration of a Kiwi Legend By Jan McLaren and Richard Becht Bruce McLaren was...
The chaotic scene just after the #88 car of Huhn/Schwarz crashed at the Nürburgring in 1970. Photo: Porsche Werk Motor...
Parnelli Jones was honored at the third annual Legends of Riverside, held at the Riverside International Automotive Museum on the last weekend of March, joining Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby as the third such honoree. The event also spotlighted the effort to raise awareness of traumatic brain injuries with an...
Of all the race tracks that I have driven and raced on in North America, Road America is up there...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders and a separate bonnet, as opposed to the standard DB2’s forward-hinged front end. Photo: Kevin Kay Restorations After World War II, many of the world’s auto manufacturers returned to car production...
The second annual Legends of Riverside Film Festival and Gala took place at the Riverside International Automotive Museum in that...
Pagoda Watch By 69Pitstop In honor of the 50th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s “Pagoda” SL roadster, watchmaker 69Pitstop has released an...
From time to time, event organizers make the mistake of asking me to speak or MC at their event. You can’t really blame them, they don’t know any better. The most recent example of this poor judgment was the second annual Riverside Reunion, held here in Southern California. I was...
Lynn St. JamesPhoto: Jim Hatfield The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced an “Indy Legends Pro-Am” race that will...
Mantua, Italy, has a new Tazio Nuvolari Museum. After being evicted from its previous location by the town council in...
I became interested in motor racing during the one brief period when Aston Martin was really something special. There was the DBR1, the DB4, especially when fitted with the glorious Zagato body and, of course, there was James Bond’s car in Goldfinger. Somehow it was easy to overlook the fact...
Neville HayPhoto: Kary Jiggle After a very successful year in 1935, Prince Chula Chakrabongse, who financed Prince Birabongse’s racing, decided...
This is a little-known story, but the real father of Riverside Raceway was Jim Peterson. I thought this would be...
It’s been 21 years since the last race was run at Riverside International Raceway in California, the historic venue succumbing soon thereafter to the urban sprawl that has blighted most of Southern California. In recent years, however, local resident Doug Magnon has opened the Riverside International Automotive Museum to celebrate...
Mecum Auctions shocked the auction world with the late May announcement that they would be offering two icons from racing...
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