Cliff Reuter and I suffer from codependency. The phone calling and emailing is incessant. I regularly disturb him while he’s...
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There is a warehouse in Houston, Texas, that is the automotive equivalent of Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. There are no rivers of the liquid-brown confection and you won’t find even a single Everlasting-Gobstopper. There are sales people and mechanics and detailers, but sadly not-a-one Oompa Loompa. By comparison the place...
IMSA rolled into Lakeville, CT, and Lime Rock Park on the 15th and 6th of July to put on a...
MG tradition continued at Watkins Glen this past September with SVRA’s 26th running of the historic “Vintage Collier Cup” all-MG...
1957 Climax-powered Jomar 1957 Climax-powered Jomar. Photo: Harold Pace You know the story. Start with a svelte English chassis, add an American V-8, clothe it in a lightweight body and go racing. It worked for Carroll Shelby. It worked for Sydney Allard. Worked for a lot of other folks too,...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a...
Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1...
As we’ve said in this space many times before, thank heaven for the Internet’s ability to share one man’s obsession with the rest of us! This month’s featured Web site is another one of those obscure personal obsessions that turns out to be an interesting diversion/resource for the rest of...
Another of racing’s good guys left us on December 7, when Bill Scott lost his battle with cancer. The man...
This year’s 36th Lime Rock Historic Festival will present an amazing display of historic Bugatti vehicles – both race vehicles and...
When asked by my good friend Rick Roso to write a piece on how “to do” one of my favorite turns, my immediate reaction was to describe the awesome Eau Rouge at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium. However, that story has been done many times before, so my thoughts instead wandered...
• VSCCA October Berkshires Rallye-tour, will be held Oct. 24-26. The Rallye is open to all VSCCA members and friends...
The Scene: The #25 factory BMW CSL is well known for its rich racing history and many race wins. Epic...
This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely 50 years since I exposed the negative at Lime Rock, made a print in my dad’s darkroom, and air-mailed it overseas to England’s Autosport magazine. When we duly received our...
When his team’s pair of Porsche RS Spyders took the green flag for July’s American Le Mans Series round at...
The recently formed Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced three main feature races for F5000 cars in celebration of the...
Lime Rock Park’s annual Sunday in the Park Concours and Gathering of the Marques, held September 1, during Historic Festival 37, was a stunning display of machinery with more than 800 cars staged along Lime Rock’s picturesque 1.5 mile track. Among the winners of the judged Concours, two were honored...
Lime Rock Park’s Historic Festival 37 takes its place in its traditional Labor Day weekend home: Thursday, Aug. 29, through...
More than 100 friends of John Fitch gathered at his home in Lime Rock, Connecticut, to honor him on the...
Two of the longest established and most successful vintage racing organizations in the United States have announced a new series for historic single-seat racing cars. Murray Smith, chairman of the Lime Rock Historic Festival, and Peter McLaughlin, manager of SVRA, have announced a new category called Formula Historic for owners...
From West Coast Juniors comes word of a global celebration of the formula’s Diamond Jubilee that will begin this January...
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has unveiled a special, international series of 10 events to commemorate this year’s golden...
From West Coast Juniors comes word of a global celebration of the formula’s Diamond Jubilee that will begin next January and run deep into 2017. This Formula Junior festival will kick off in South Africa in January with a three-race series at Zwartkops (January 29-30), Killarney (February 5-6) and East...
Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, CT Date, 2006 Murray Smith’s Cooper T-51 leads the Group 4 open-wheel cars, at the start.Photo:...
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Lime Rock Park, CT August 31–September 3, 2007 Herb Wetanson’s Royale RT 3-4 leads Tom Malloy’s Lola T-70.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco 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,...
Lime Rock, CT Aug. 30-Sept. 2 The ex-Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type of Lou Sellyei, Jr.Photo: Walt & Louiseann Pietrowicz Become...
Lime Rock, CT August 29–Sept. 1, 2003 The 1928 Stutz Blackhawk of William Holman leads the 1929 Stutz Blackhawk of...
Lime Rock Park, Lime Rock, CT May 22–23, 2009 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 all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts...