Lots of car buffs have fantasized about designing and/or building their own four-wheeler at one time or another. Fewer have...
There’s sun, sea, surf and sand on a summer Sunday morning — no it’s not California, but Weymouth on the...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s still at the “sharp end” today. Motor sport fans in the UK will know him for his commentary on the ITV network coverage of the BTCC, but not too many...
George Lister & Son was a very old engineering company in my hometown of Cambridge, starting in 1895. I joined...
The MG Vintage Racers have selected the Vintage Racer Group’s Historic Races at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville on...
The Endurance Rally Association’s ninth Flying Scotsman Rally ended with a nail-biting finish as the winning crew of Paul Crosby and Ali Proctor suffered two breakdowns in their 1939 MG TB Supercharged (above) on the final run for the checkered flag at Gleneagles, Scotland. The event started at Slaley Hall...
The 75th renewal of Goodwood’s annual Members’ Meeting took place last weekend at the historic Chichester circuit, awarding classic cups...
Minnesota’s 5th annual 10,000 Lakes Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday July 30 on the shores of Lake Minnetonka on the...
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car Author found the Maxi rally machine to be very responsive to driver inputs. Photo: Kary Jiggle At the dying stages of the 1966 World Cup Finals at Wembley Stadium, BBC soccer commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme uttered words that would become a phrase forever synonymous with him. As...
Electric vehicles are suddenly all the rage. Showing one’s “green” credentials is very popular in this low or zero emission...
In this age of hi-tech carbon fiber car and aircraft construction, wood may now seem an odd material to use,...
February 2017 Scooter Passes Dear Editor, It was a sad surprise to hear of Scooter passing. 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...
Visitors to the 9th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion, scheduled for August 27-30, 2017, will discover a decidedly Italian flavor...
More than 80 years ago, two fabulously wealthy young American brothers, accompanied by their butler, flew a primitive plywood-based biplane...
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...
The 2016 edition of the Classic Sports Racing Group’s annual Charity Challenge will honor MG as its featured marque. The...
The under two-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He epitomized courage and daring and for 30 years he amazed the racing world with his exploits on both two and four wheels. He was born November 18, 1892, in Casteldrio...
The eighth Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion will again wake up the residents of sleepy South Bass Island (off Ohio’s North...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
Storm Frank, which battered and flooded many parts of the UK at the turn of the New Year, didn’t deter nearly a thousand hardy souls attending the first of the Bicester Heritage Brunch Scrambles of 2016. Held on a Sunday, the informal “Scramble” mornings are a way for enthusiasts to...
The Morgan Motor Company With no thoughts of cars in mind, I first visited Malvern in the high summer of...
Neville HayPhoto: Kary Jiggle After a very successful year in 1935, Prince Chula Chakrabongse, who financed Prince Birabongse’s racing, decided...
Any MG enthusiast would remember the sad day on October 23, 1980, when the last MGB left the famed Abingdon site. Workers paraded outside the factory as the following day marked the closure of the factory that had been the home of the MG sports car since 1929. Thankfully, the...
From the very beginning of the automobile man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Canadian MGA racer Jim Holody from London, Ontario, was awarded the prestigious “MG Collier Cup” at this year’s Collier Cup...
Wooden Memories Dear Editor, Just a friendly correction to your comment in the March “Mail Box” letter on “Wooden Racers” where you state that the Protos F2 car was made of balsa wood. I can assure you the monocoque was made of birch plywood. As an enthusiastic 14-year-old in 1967,...
In response to the repaving project scheduled to commence at Watkins Glen in August, the Glenora Wine Cellars U.S. Vintage...
Photo: Sean Smith Just prior to 1930, Pocantico Hills, New York, was the country home of Barron Collier, a wildly...
Stephen Laing is curator of the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon. Stephen Laing is the current Curator of the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon, Warwickshire, England; he has worked for the museum, which houses more than 300 cars owned by the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, for over 20 years....
