Bonhams has announced that it has been commissioned to sell a recently discovered 1928 Mercedes-Benz 26/120/180 ‘S’ Type Sports Tourer,...
Carrera Panamericana 1950–1954 As covered several months ago in our “Lost McAfee Tapes” feature, the running of the Carrera Panamericana...
Whether you are a fan of Formula One or not, it was hard to not read about the recent Bahrain Grand Prix. Due to the spreading “Arab Spring,” which has swept through many Middle Eastern countries as a backlash to oppressive or dictatorial governments, the Bahrain Grand Prix became a...
Stirling Moss and Juan Manual Fangio were partners at Mercedes-Benz in 1955. They later became rivals, Fangio at Ferrari with...
Niki Lauda Richard Petty 1 Willy Grover, better known as “W. Williams,” wins the ACF Grand Prix for sports cars...
Mercedes-Benz USA and members of the Mercedes-Benz Club of America (MBCA) will bring rare classic cars and contemporary models to Phoenix as the selected destination for their biennial premier national event, StarFest® 2012. Mercedes-Benz owners and enthusiasts are invited to this celebrity-studded, week-long event Sept. 28 – Oct 3 to...
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Cale Yarborough Juan Manuel Fangio 1 Jo Siffert and Brian Redman, sharing a Porsche 908 Spyder, win the 1000-kilometer sports...
The aristocracy of automobile marques in the days before the Great Depression was comprised almost exclusively of products from European manufacturers: Hispano-Suiza, Isotta Fraschini, Minerva, Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce. American buyers who wanted the finest luxury car that money could buy inevitably chose vehicles that were imported from the Old World;...
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Alain ProstPhoto: Maureen Magee Mike SpencePhoto: John Fenning Collection 1 Ivor Bueb wins the 1500-cc sports car race at Brands Hatch, England, driving a Copper-Climax (1955). 3 Brian Redman drives a Chevrolet-powered Lola T-600 to victory in the 100-mile IMSA sports car race at Laguna Seca, California (1981) Become a...
Billed as the United Kingdom’s answer to Pebble Beach, a display of historic motor cars from around the world will...
The finned Cunningham D-Types of Walt Hansgen and Sherwood Johnston, wait with Duncan Forlong’s AC/Bristol and Curtis Attaway’s XK-120.Photo: Bob...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he speaks of his early life with fondness, growing up in Nice. He later joined the Moto Club de Nice, which was sort of a junior league Automobile Club de Nice....
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
Fewer cars rolled across the block than in recent years during the auctions in Scottsdale, but the amount bid for the vehicles sold increased from last year, substantially in some cases. When compared to last year, sell-through was better, average prices per car sold were higher, more automobilia was purchased,...
Georges Lemaître actually finished 2nd in the 1894 Paris-Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition in this Peugeot 3hp, but was awarded victory...
I know a lot of people have opinions of Peter Gregg, but I would like to offer an alternative view to Hal Crocker’s recent two-part article, “Peter Perfect.” I first got to know Peter in 1970, then worked for him from 1972 to 1979 as President of Peter H. Gregg,...
The 1955 24-hour race at Le Mans was set to be an epic contest. Mercedes-Benz had entered the brilliant new...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
Every Brit in motor racing of a certain age blames Bill Boddy and Denis Jenkinson for the fact that we were diverted from leading useful lives. As youngsters, we read Motor Sport. Mike Lawrence Nothing about it made any sense according to any business model. It would drive any teacher...
Top seller at RM’s Monterey Auction was this exquisite 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Roadster that drew a winning bid of...
It was 11 in the morning. A 25-year-old German pastry cook was sleeping after a hard night’s baking. Until the...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel Fangio around the daunting Nordschleife of the Nürburgring, but one of them was certainly a suave German named Rudolf Uhlenhaut. Strangely, he wasn’t a racing driver at all but a...
This large, domineering man invented the job of motor racing team manager and in doing so changed the way the...
I’m celebrating 25 years of motor racing, and I say this without counting the years I spent karting. It’s difficult...
During the November 1952 running of Mexico’s fabled Carrera Pan-Americana, the Karl Kling/Hans Klenk Mercedes 300SL makes a pit stop for new tires in the Sierra Madre after Tehuantepec. Note that the windshield has been smashed by hitting an errant buzzard at high speed, and that Klenk is wearing goggles...
