There were a number of outstanding road-race weekends during the fifties. Phil Hill’s win at the first Pebble Beach comes...
In the wake of the success of this year’s inaugural event at the historic O’Donnell Golf Club in Palm Springs,...
Last month I wrote about the road race that took place in Palm Springs in 1950. It was the first such event in Southern California after WWII. Some of you were, perhaps, surprised to learn that the California Sports Car Club rather than the Sports Car Club of America organized...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos...
Robert Donner Jr., whose interest in cars began as a toddler while his father was an Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg...
The fourth renewal of the Desert Classic Concours d’Elegance will be held February 27, 2011 at the La Quinta Resort and Spa in La Quinta, California near Palm Springs. The event will cap the newly constituted Desert Classic Concours Speed Week that begins February 19–20 with a VARA weekend at...
October 2010 At the sports car races in Palm Springs on the first weekend of December, 1955, Tony Parravano (third...
The Ferrari Club of America International Meet will return to Southern California for the first time since 2002, to be...
Legendary team owner Frank Arciero has died from the aftereffects of an aneurysm. Arciero was a 14-year-old Italian immigrant when he arrived in America just prior to the outbreak of World War II, and despite speaking no English proceeded to craft a classic American Dream success story in three different...
Five years after HSR-West staged its first Palm Springs Revival at the Indio, California, airport, the second such event will...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs...
Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well as tragic to see how it happened. Interesting in that a lot of circumstances had to come together; tragic in that it involved the death of a good friend. First,...
I don’t remember when I first met Lance Reventlow, but it must have been through my buddy, Bruce Kessler, who...
With its revised and corrected rear suspension, the car is a blast to drive especially when steered with the throttle. Photo:...
June 2010 Ode to Briggs Dear Editor, Vintage Racecar’s April article celebrating the 60th anniversary of Briggs Cunningham’s Le Mans effort was excellent! Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes...
Quit Scraping the Paint! Photo: Roger Dixon Dear Editor, I would like to point out one quibble and one major...
For the last 20 years or so of his life, Rodger Ward and I were friends. Even though I had...
During the Fifties and Sixties, one of the most popular sports car racing venues in the West was Palm Springs. The very first race organized by the California Sports Car Club was held there on April 16, 1950. The location had a lot going for it. It is a resort...
HSR-West has announced the resurrection of historic racing in sunny Palm Springs with the creation of the Palm Springs Revival,...
Some 38 years ago, there was a vintage event like no other. It was the 1985 Palm Springs Vintage Grand...
Jaguar’s XK120 Roadster was introduced at the London Motor Show in the fall of 1948. A year later, cars began to appear on American roads and tracks. They came in three configurations: roadster, convertible and coupe. All three were raced, but most entrants preferred the somewhat lighter roadster version. The...
Pete Lyons You’d need a piece of paper the size of Texas to write down all that should be said...
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a...
Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA November 23–24, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts...
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This is a little-known story, but the real father of Riverside Raceway was Jim Peterson. I thought this would be...
Sports car road racing started after WWII on the East Coast during the late forties. The first wheel-to-wheel event was organized by the Sports Car Club of America on October 2, 1948 at Watkins Glen, NY. Even though Southern California was a hotbed of the car-crazy culture, road racing took...
Southern California has always been a hotbed of car aficionados. The hot rod craze started there and, after WWII, it...
Another in the continuing stream of new country club-style motorsports facilities has been announced, with the new Thermal Motorsports Track...
During the early fifties, road racing in the United States took place, for the most part, at airports. While airports have a number of advantages, they lack the interest and drama of actual roads. Without the authority to utilize public highways, venues were hard to come by. As road racing...