As a racecar driver, Jack McAfee needs no introduction. He was one of the greats of early sports car racing...
1936 De Soto Airflow The story of De Soto begins with a record for first year sales that stood for just over 30 years. It ends when Chrysler Corporation undercut its sales with a lower-priced Chrysler Newport and killed the brand. In between, it’s an amazing tale of ups and...
Roy Brown Jr.—designer of the much maligned, ’50s flop the Ford Edsel—passed away on Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,...
Gaston Chevrolet Ricardo Rodriguez 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice...
The original Trans-Am was part and parcel of one of the things that made the Golden Age golden. Many of the best U.S. drivers and teams participated, as well as most of the carmakers. One aspect of its huge success was that fans and aficionados drove and identified with the...
Derek Bell Gaston Chevrolet 2 The Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California,...
It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney...
July 2007 Surtees Choice Dear Editor: Like John Surtees [Greatest Racecars, VR May ’07], I also feel privileged to have raced the Mercedes Benz W-125. Indeed, I have now driven most of the 750 KG formula cars, yet the W-125 stands head and shoulders above the rest. Become a Member...
Lots of car buffs have fantasized about designing and/or building their own four-wheeler at one time or another. Fewer have...
Celebrated automotive historian, museum curator and author Ken Gross, who is also a Chief Class Judge and Selection Committee Member...
Homebuilt or custom-made racecars were not new to America’s racetracks as they had been appearing for decades on dirt ovals, at the Bonneville Salt Flats and at the Indianapolis 500. In the years prior to WWII, drag racing’s predecessor—speed runs on the dry lakes of the Mojave Desert in California—had...
Have you ever seen a Commuter? I’m talking about a 1959 Mercury Commuter two-door station wagon. Not many of us...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...