The second annual Benedict Castle Concours D’Elegance was held in Riverside, Calif. on March 28. An eclectic mix of more than...
An image of the dirty and pitted Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing practice car used for pre-race reconnaisance, prior to the 1955...
Michael Schumacher Biography Michael Schumacher was born on the third of January 1969 to Rolf and Elisabeth Schumacher. The family move to the town of Kerpin-Manheim, a working class town near Cologne, Germany. It was there that the family became involved with karting. Michael, only four at the time was...
Mike Lawrence Patrick Quinn’s feature on the front-wheel-drive Alvis in Vintage Roadcar struck a special chord with me, because his...
Enzo FerrariPhoto: Ferrari Juan Manuel FangioPhoto: Mercedes 1 Chuck Daigh, driving Frank Arciero’s Lotus 19-Climax, wins both heats of the...
Peter Brock Carroll Shelby 1 Stirling Moss drives a race car for the first time in over a year—since the crash that nearly killed him—in a test session at Goodwood, England. His driving is not up to his own standard, and he retires from competition (1963). 2 Driver Henri Toivonen...
We haven’t sent you to YouTube for some time now, but feel that this clip, for those who may not...
During the 1960s, Mercedes-Benz offered a series of convertible and coupe sedans based on its W111 chassis platform. Early variants...
The 2013 Mille Miglia to Argentina. Where Juan Manuel Fangio was unable to succeed back in the ’50s, his countrymen Juan Tonconogy and Guillermo Berisso did so almost 60 years later. They won the much more sedate regularity commemorative event last May in their Bugatti T40, which was built the...
Karl Kling Mark DonohuePhoto: Hal Crocker 1 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the F3 race at Skarpnack...
A new mark has been established for automobiles sold at auction, as an ex-Fangio Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix car has...
Mystery GT40 Dear Editor, While perusing Roadcar, on Page 49 (May 2013) I saw a picture of a white GT40 GT 108. I was wondering what, if any, relationship there is between that car and the two attached scans. They were taken at the October, 1965 Times GP with Chris...
Contracted to race as a senior driver for Mercedes-Benz in 1937, Lang validated his selection with victories in the Tripoli...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania,...
Founder Kevin Kay was working in the foreign car parts business some 30 years ago, when he purchased his first Aston Martin, a DB2/4. Kay decided to restore the car himself, and after showing his pride and joy at a number of events, he began to attract a following of...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Pagoda Watch By 69Pitstop In honor of the 50th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s “Pagoda” SL roadster, watchmaker 69Pitstop has released an...
Over the last 27 years, the Italian Car Day at the Brooklands Museum (May 4, 2013) has grown to become not only the UK’s top event for owners and admirers of all things Italian, but also the largest gathering of Italian cars in the country. Anyone arriving in any Italian...
The historic Brooklands motor racing circuit echoed to the sounds of the past on February 16, when a group of...
One of the legendary 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix cars raced by five-time World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio will be...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport for only a handful of years, and for three of those he was employed as a factory driver for Mercedes-Benz. This alone makes it extremely difficult to “get your hands”...
Due to the lead time it takes to print and distribute any given magazine, I sit here today, writing this...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
Founded originally in Massachusetts in the 1980s, SLR Automotive Restorations started out specializing in Mercedes-Benz. In particular, their work with...
Raymond Mays demonstrates the BRM V16 during an “Ancien Pilotes” demonstration race in the late 1960s. Photo: J Pearson Archive Aspiration...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made their very distinct contribution to the colorful playboy image that some aspects of motor racing projected before the Second World War and immediately after it. For the 1958 British Grand...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Paul Russell and Company, the automotive restoration and preservation specialists of this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Best of Show Winner, the 1928 Mercedes-Benz 680S Saoutchik Torpedo Roadster, brought the Mercedes star back east last November 3 to an eager crowd of enthusiasts, raising funds for McPherson College’s Automotive Restoration...
