Prices – Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Kent...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Kent Bain Vintage Racing Services (203) 377-1658 Lance Coren Certified Appraiser (310) 370-4114 Chris Chistansen Fantasy Junction (510) 653-7555 Paul Lane Automotive Restorations (203) 243-1984 These prices are suggested guidelines, they...
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for...
Formula Junior was very much as it sounds, a junior category dreamed up by the Italian driver and race administrator...
Photo: David Gooley, courtesy of the Don Murray Collection It is easy to examine an early Ferrari or a Maserati of the immediate post-war era and see only their curvaceous coachwork or their gorgeous engines; but there is much more to those and other well-known Italian sports and racing cars...
1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” Across the annals of automotive history, few families can lay claim to more engineering genius...
Italian privateer racing driver Gino Munaron has passed away at the age of 81. Munaron was always considered to be...
Following their highly successful “GT & Sports Car Cup” race series now in its third season, Flavien and Vanessa Marçais have announced a new race series to compliment GTSCC, for genuine Pre-’74 Italian Sports, Sports-Prototype, and GT cars of a type that were raced in the World Endurance Championship and...
Photo: Peter Collins As one of only 22 OSCA cars bodied by Carrozzeria Fissore, this pretty little twin-cam-powered GT2 coupe...
Like his uncle Gianni Agnelli, Ludovico Scarfiotti was a suave, well-mannered gentleman who was no stranger to the privileges of...
May 2011 Kiwis are Regular too! Dear Casey, I have just received my February issue of Vintage Racecar and read your interesting article on Regularity events, which you experienced at the recent HSRCA Tasman Revival meeting at Eastern Creek (a great event which I have raced at in 2008 and...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
Frank Williams Erik Carlsson 3 The Intrepid, with Wayne Taylor driving, makes its IMSA GTP racing debut with a 2nd place finish at West Palm Beach, Florida (1991). 5 Rally champion Erik Carlsson is born in Trollhattan, Sweden (1929). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
All six events at Pebble Beach’s fourth renewal were memorable for those lucky enough to be there, but ’53 was...
In Zen Buddhism it is called a Koan, a question that can only be answered through intuition, not rationale understanding…what...
Sir Stirling Moss was recently reunited with the diminutive OSCA MT4 that he and Lloyd Ruby drove to an astounding overall victory 50 years ago at Sebring. The occasion for this special reunion was this year’s running of the 12-Hours of Sebring, where Moss was one of an elite class...
Sir Stirling Moss, winner of 16 Formula One Grands Prix and countless other races, has been awarded the Royal Automobile...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy...
In 1947, OSCA–Fratelli Maserati was new to the racing scene, but the Maserati brothers that founded the marque were not, and their unassuming OSCAs would go on to dominate the small capacity racing world for more than a decade. The coming Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will celebrate OSCA as a...
The last surviving racer from America’s first post WWII road race, at Watkins Glen in 1948, Otto Linton, has passed...
February 2003 Formula A and Formula 5000 in America By Wolfgang Klopfer From 1968 to 1976, open-wheeled road racing was dominated by an exciting, thunderous series of V8-powered racecars known as Formula 5000s. Originally founded as a high-horsepower, low-cost race series, Formula 5000 evolved over its eight-year life span to...
1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth The De Tomaso drew much admiration from the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo:...
The indomitable Sir Stirling Moss made a popular comeback after his frightening accident at his home in March to join...
E.D. Martin’s all-conquering Ferrari 315S awaits the start of the Feature Race in April of 1958.Photo: Benita Lane The revised January 1960 layout of the Dunnellon Park course resembled an arrowhead. Program cover for the inaugural SCCA races at Dunnellon. The course was actually 3.4 miles long. Located in North...
Revenge in Italy – doesn’t that conjure up images of Machiavelli and the Duchess of Malfi? A little known early...
Mike Lawrence We are seeing some quite extraordinary prices paid for certain cars, and some people have recalled the late...
The OSCA 1600 GT Zagato is perhaps one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood GT cars of the post- war era. Signaling a close to the Maserati Brothers dynasty and remaining in the shadow of the legendary OSCA MT-4 (overall winner at Sebring in 1954), the 1600 GT emerged with...
