One of the things to particularly love about ladies, is their ability to “multi-task,” something most men are not very...
The spirit of Maserati was high at the 2017 Goodwood Revival as the Italian marque celebrated 70 years of the...
The 1954 Maserati A6GCS/53 Berlinetta by Pinin Farina, owned by the Monaco-based Destriero Collection, was named winner of the second Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award. A total of eight Best of Show winners from top 2016 Concours around the globe competed for the title of the most exceptional...
A 1954 Maserati A6GCS/53 Berlinetta by Pinin Farina, from the Monaco-based Destriero Collection (above, photo courtesy of Peninsula Classics), was...
The Maserati brothers of Bologna founded their racing car manufacturing company in 1926. The company was pure-bred, real racers building...
August has again arrived, and the collector car auctions of Monterey Classic Car Week will soon be providing the industry with its annual reality check. The five main auction companies will all stage showcase sales during the week, each with its own selection of desirable machinery over a broad range...
Having been fortunate enough to receive an invitation to the London Premiere of the movie McLaren, a wonderful tribute to...
Lots of car buffs have fantasized about designing and/or building their own four-wheeler at one time or another. Fewer have...
You could have been forgiven if you thought the racing world were coming to an end on April 12th. That...
The Peninsula Hotels have announced the eight exceptional vehicles that will be eligible for the second annual The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, the international motoring world’s top accolade for most exceptional classic car. The selected nominees, ranging from early production to mid-1950s Italian racecars, represent “Best of...
George Lister & Son was a very old engineering company in my hometown of Cambridge, starting in 1895. I joined...
Imagine you are a designer in late 1952. One day you are sitting, staring out of the window, when your boss rushes in, hands you a large sheet of paper and two freshly sharpened pencils. “Design me a 2500-cc engine,” he commands. “That will be the capacity for the next...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World...
Paddy Hopkirk Helio Castroneves Photo: Jim Hatfield 1 David Pearson wins the NASCAR Winston Cup race at Atlanta International Raceway...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By Peter Darley Peter Darley served as Team Lotus’ official photographer during the glory days of the ’60s and ’70s, and while his images may have enjoyed widespread dissemination in period,...
Photo: David Gooley, courtesy of the Don Murray Collection It is easy to examine an early Ferrari or a Maserati...
Casey Annis (Editor) Photo: Dan R Boyd At the end of January, I was asked if I’d speak at the...
March 2017 Thrill of the Chase By Colin Crabbe If ever you wanted to know anything—everything—about the Scottish sportsman Colin Crabbe, it will be in this book, a most personal account of apparently everything that ever happened to him. And, of course, he led a full life, the arc of...
Joel E. Finn, author, racer and computer industry pioneer, died January 28 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 78. The...
Mike Hawthorn George Follmer 1 Paul Frere drives an Ecurie Belge Cooper T51-Climax to victory in the 80-lap Formula Libre South...
More than 80 years ago, two fabulously wealthy young American brothers, accompanied by their butler, flew a primitive plywood-based biplane many thousands of miles to take part in an obscure six-lap motor race near the southern tip of Africa. Neither of the brothers would have very long racing careers, but...
RM Sotheby’s staged its Duemila Ruote sale last weekend in Milan, Italy, coinciding with the classic and sports car show...
Maserati will be the featured marque at this Sunday’s 26th Palm Beach Cavallino Classic Sports Sunday at Mar-a-Lago in Florida....
From the very beginning of the automobile, men built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
A 1909 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost belonging to DeNean Stafford III (above, Rachel Shuler photo courtesy of Atlanta Concours d’Elegance) was...
A 1956 Ferrari 500 Testa Rossa (above) took Best of Show honors at last Thursday’s 11th Annual Salon Privé Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elegance at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK, with the People’s Choice Award bestowed upon a 1954 Maserati A6 GCS Berlinetta. The winning Testa Rossa was also the...