By Will Silk In 1952, Schuco Toys of Nuremburg, Germany released a tin toy motorcycle powered by a wind-up clock...
Although Ferrari is among the most globally-recognized Italian brands today, the company was largely unheard of in 1953… Ferrari began...
The occurrences at the 2011 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans brought to mind those of 1955, the race that lives in infamy. During the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans, more than 80 spectators were killed plus some 120 injured in the most horrendous accident in motor...
Monterey Car Week has grown by leaps and bounds over the past several years, making it next to impossible to...
It was 35 years ago, in monsoon conditions, that a determined young Brazilian raced to his first Formula 1 victory...
With timeless classics such as the 356 and the 911, Porsche has been cultivating a unique reputation in the automotive world since 1948. Yet during the past six decades, Porsche has also managed to consistently develop highly exclusive super sport scars, many of which will be on show at the...
The Petersen Automotive Museum will debut its latest exhibition in the Bruce Meyer Family Gallery, “Seeing Red: 70 Years of...
The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany opened the “70 Years of the Porsche Sports Car” exhibition on Friday, June 8th,...
With over 50 years in motorsports – as a driver and team owner – American A. J. Foyt’s remarkable career has seen him make his mark nationally and abroad in at least four countries: Canada, Great Britain, France and New Zealand. His race record includes: winning the Indianapolis 500 four...
A growing number of businesses have committed to 2011 advertising campaigns with Sports Car Digest – and we’d like to...
By Will Silk With Alfa Romeo celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010, Auto Art released a line of Alfa replicas...
Alfa Romeo is celebrating its 105th anniversary by opening its historical museum in Arese, Milan, Italy to the public. The museum, which is named “La macchina del tempo – Museo storico Alfa Romeo”, is at the heart of a brand centre which also has a bookshop, cafe, documentation centre, test-drive...
The Allure of the Automobile exhibit is currently displayed at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia through June...
To celebrate 100 years of BMW, America’s Car Museum (ACM) is opening a new exhibit “BMW: Propelling a Century of...
Arnold Hubert Wagner, an original partner of Andial – one of America’s most successful and respected authorities on Porsche performance tuning – died at the age of 75. Wagner, who, along with partners Dieter Inzenhofer and Alwin Springer, worked at Vasek Polak Porsche in Redondo Beach before the three Porsche...
Mario Andretti will be honored on August 31 by the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) with the 2017 Cameron...
He was, without doubt, one of the most dominant and iconic personalities in the history of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway....
An exhibition of Art Deco automobiles will be displayed at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, from June 14 through September 15, 2013. The exhibition, entitled Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles, will be on view in the Center’s Ingram Gallery. Inspired by the Frist Center’s historic...
The Petersen Automotive Museum’s “The Art of Bugatti” opened October 23rd and features one of the rarest gatherings of Bugatti...
Augie Pabst, described as “one of the fastest, most charismatic and popular drivers in his day” by the Motorsports Hall...
Barn Find Jag in Los Angeles By Wallace Wyss Photos by Bob Petricca and Francis de Pouqueville Bob Petricca, of West Hills, CA, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, has been in the exotic car business for 40 years and has heard every “barn story”...
If you’ve ever visited a museum and left feeling like you didn’t get to fully appreciate every detail of a...
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of racing driver Bernd Rosemeyer, who was born on October 14, 1909...
An exhibition will gather more than 40 significant race and road cars from Gordon Murray’s 50-year career, in celebration of Murray’s five decades of vehicle design and engineering. The display will encompass almost every car that Murray has designed or influenced, including ground-breaking Brabham and McLaren Formula 1 cars, McLaren...
By Dennis Gray | Photos as credited Bob Bondurant has done a few things. The winner of a world championship...
“Design is what sets a vehicle apart, what separates a good car from a great car. It is what creates...
The British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) celebrated motor racing achievements of 2012 on Monday 3rd December, at the BRDC Annual Awards. The ceremony, hosted by BBC Formula 1 presenter Jake Humphrey, was attended by the great and good of British motor racing, including Sir Stirling Moss OBE, John Surtees OBE,...
The British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) celebrated motor racing achievements of 2010 on 6th December at the BRDC Annual Awards....
By Cary Estes The movie character Michael Corleone once famously said of being in the mob, “Just when I thought...
Brian Redman was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club at the “RRDC Evening with Brian Redman” in Long Beach, California, on Thursday, April 18, 2013, prior to the running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. A crowd of 350 people representing all forms of motorsports, from NHRA...