Photo: Peter Collins Cruise through Como on Saturday; line up for the Parma Poggio hillclimb on Sunday. Alfa Romeo: great...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders...
Lost and Found After 60 Years – A Truly Italian History By Giuseppe De Angelis Since the birth of the car at the end of the nineteenth century, cars have been a great passion in the De Angelis family. My grandfather and his brothers were founders of the local Automobil...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport...
It’s all change for the Mille Miglia Commemoration and the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti. The Mille Miglia has been brought...
It’s wrong to call Baconin Borzacchini the “eternal second,” as some motor sport historians do. Sure, he came 2nd in quite a number of races, but that’s very much to his credit, not his detriment. And he also won a lot during his short life. Events like the 1930 Grand...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary of his racing career. John FitchPhoto: Mercedes-Benz Before, after and during that career, however, John Fitch was much more than a racing driver. He served as pilot of both Light...
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has...
Sicily. Discuss. Well, it’s an island, it has, shall we say, a fearsome reputation and it was once home to...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as this. For starters, his namesake ancestor built the first successful steamboat 11 years after the Declaration of Independence severed the bond between colonial America and Mother England. In his own...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares...
The Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance judging day at Salon Privé London marked the close of the Luxury Super Car Show,...
The 2012 running of the famed Mille Miglia rally took place 16-20 May in Italy on the historic roads from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia. A field of approximately 375 cars built between 1927 and 1957 challenged each other and themselves in the modern revival. Far more than...
The California Mille, America’s salute to Italy’s most famous open road race, The Mille Miglia, returns for its 23rd year,...
Quit Scraping the Paint! Photo: Roger Dixon Dear Editor, I would like to point out one quibble and one major error in the September 2012 issue of Vintage Racecar. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with his passion for speed and technology. These...
Tried and True – Continued success on Japan’s oldest Autumnal rally Report and photos by Len Clarke La Festa Autunno...
The California Mille 2013 will be staged April 29th to May 2nd on 1,000 miles of secondary roads in Northern California. The rally returns for its 23rd year, continuing the tradition of spirited driving in vintage sports cars on the scenic backroads for which they were intended. The 2013 California...
More than 100 friends of John Fitch gathered at his home in Lime Rock, Connecticut, to honor him on the...
Karl Kling was born too late to join Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred Von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang in their rampage through Grand Prix motor racing of the Thirties, and too early to give Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss and Hans Herrmann any real competition in the W196 of 1954 and 1955....
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when...
The classic car community lost one of its great champions on July 3, when Martin Swig passed away as a result of a stroke. He was 78. A lifetime native of the San Francisco Bay area, Swig went to work for European Motors—selling Alfa Romeos and Fiats—after graduating from Stanford...
Count Giannino Marzotto, winner of the Mille Miglia in 1950 and 1953, died in Padua Hospital in July after a...
May 17–20, 2012 Brescia, Italy Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
The cars were very much the stars at the 2012 Mille Miglia Commemoration in May, the 30th such event to pay tribute to the original non-stop race on public roads from Brescia to Rome and back again from 1927-1957. For years the re-run was packed with the rich, famous, noble...
