Five Decades of Historic Motorsport It’s a bit daunting to think five decades have past since the first Monterey Historics...
Just looking at the cover of VR this month, you’ll realize something is different. For only the second time, in...
This site is a tribute to specialist car builder Bill Devin, and is indeed labeled his “Home Page.” Its opening image is almost minimalist, but when you go exploring, clicking on the various tabs and links, the site comes alive. VUnder the first of these tabs, “The Man” you’ll find...
Al Moss, known to almost everyone who reads this journal, died peacefully on September 25 at his home in Sedona,...
As a racecar driver, Jack McAfee needs no introduction. He was one of the greats of early sports car racing...
With Porsche as the featured marque for the 36th Monterey Historic Automobile Races, attendees were treated to a broad variety of machinery from the Stuttgart concern that comprised nearly a third of the 450 total entries for the event. Porsche brought a number of cars from its museum to supplement...
Call me a jinx if you like. No sooner did I put the finishing touches on last month’s column about...
In early July, HMSA the sanctioning body for the annual Monterey Historic Automobile Races sent an email to all its members informing them that Steve Earle and his company General Racing, Ltd., would no longer be organizing the famed Monterey peninsula event that Earle founded in 1976. HMSA president Cris...
The under-2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports;...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
With the financial world still reeling from the ramifications of the subprime housing implosion, the four major auctions held in...
For the 35th renewal of the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, organizer Steve Earle decided...
I write this month’s column from Monterey, as myself, most of our staff, and about 3,000-pounds of magazines are here for the annual Monterey Historics pilgrimage (of which, there will be a full report in next month’s issue). This year, because we had so many of our people up for...
Photo: Dennis Gray If you’ve ever attended the Monterey Historics, the Wine Country Classic, a Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG),...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna Seca track map to the right, over the course of those 35 years, a wide variety of significant automotive marques have been honored with the distinction of “featured marque.” Interestingly,...
In Zen Buddhism it is called a Koan, a question that can only be answered through intuition, not rationale understanding…what...
On this, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Monterey Historics, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This...
Over-2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
As we’ve done each of the ten years we’ve now been in publication, this month we focus all of the content within this issue around the featured marque at this year’s Monterey Historics. In this year’s case, we pay tribute to the famed Indy Roadster. Oddly enough, over the course...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
General Racing, Ltd., organizers of the Monterey Historic Automobile Races, have announced that the featured marque for the 2007 Historics...
In several sections of this month’s issue, you’ll find coverage of just a small sampling of the constellation of events that now make up the week of the Monterey Historics. It seems like every year, in this column, I make some comment on how it couldn’t possibly get any bigger...
Monterey, California August 18–20, 2006 Mary Grant-Jonkers in a 1953 Cooper Bristol T-23.Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get...
This year’s Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races, held August 18–20, was the 33rd running of what has arguably become the...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 it became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category, thus starting the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula...
