Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders...
I bought both a Volkswagen Type 1 and a Morris Minor more than 20 years ago when we started...
MG’s fabled Competitions Department enjoyed near constant success on the international racing stage. With victories in road racing, rallying, trials and Land Speed Record attempts, the postwar competition and special tuning department in Abingdon, England, was synonymous with “Giant Killing” performance right up through 1967. However, the late ’60s brought...
VSCC Cotswold Trials, Prescott Hill, Gloucestershire, UK, November 22, 2014 (Click to enlarge images) Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
One of the most successful relationships in motor sports during the sixties was between Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles. It...
For all the talk today of “level playing fields” and equal opportunities for all, it has to be understood that...
1934 MG Q-type The story of how, in 1923, the first MG—under the guidance of Cecil Kimber—grew from the Bullnose...
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...
There’s sun, sea, surf and sand on a summer Sunday morning — no it’s not California, but Weymouth on the...
Mark Donohue Bruce McLaren 1 “Big Daddy” Don Garlits becomes the first dragracer to run the 1/4 mile at more...
I was 19-years old and working nights at a Shell service station in San Jose, California, with my friend Jim Jett, when a tiny, roundish car rolled in that looked as if it had been inflated. A young woman stepped out of it and told us that a little red...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like...
If I asked you to pick a brand associated with high performance and motorsport, chances are good the name Volkswagen would not be one of the first names to pop into your head. Known as the “People’s car”—and forever linked to the bulbous but iconic “Bug” nee Beetle—by the 1960s,...
At the tender age of 15, John Fenning started his racing career competing in small, 500-cc racecars, like many postwar...
We all know that life isn’t a bed of roses and, sometimes, we are dealt the cruelest of blows. Don...
For two consecutive years—1969 and 1970—Porsche won the World Manufacturers Championship. Brian Redman was an important part of the teams, and his teammate was always Jo Siffert. In 1969, they drove 908/1s and 908/2s for the factory. In 1970, John Wyer’s Gulf team ran the Porsche effort in 917Ks and...