The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting...
Antonio Brivio Mario Andretti 1 A.J. Foyt wins the USAC Championship race on the dirt track at Sacramento, California (1967)....
Three cars from the entry list for the first French Grand Prix in 1908 were recently reunited at the Vintage Sports Car Club sprint meeting at Curborough in the English Midlands. The Panhard, Itala and Mercedes that are now owned by Mark Walker, George Daniels and Ben Collings, respectively, took...
1957 Aston Martin DBR1 Aston Martin’s relationship with the 24 Hours of Le Mans goes all the way back to...
VR columnist Mark Brinker was at it again in his 750-cc Deutsch Bonnet HBR-5 during Bonneville Speed Week 2009. This year Team BoneEvil started the meet with several unexpected mechanical problems including a damaged gas tank, a broken carburetor jet, a dead engine timing gun and major gearbox problems. Chief...
Which sub-one-liter competition engine has the most international road racing victories of all time? OSCA? Bandini? Crosley? Abarth? Nardi? Moretti?...
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Panhard et Levassor Rene Panhard was an engineer whose business, based in Paris, made woodworking tools. In 1887 he, along with Emile Levassor and Belgian lawyer Edouard Sarazin established Panhard et Levassor for the manufacture of motor cars. The lawyer Edouard Sarazin, was Gottlieb Daimler’s “distribution partner” and his job...
Two Citroën Traction Avants at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, examples of fairly mild French styling of the Deco era....
This site is a tribute to specialist car builder Bill Devin, and is indeed labeled his “Home Page.” Its opening...
Would you trade a front-engine 12-cylinder Ferrari for a Devin SS in boxes? That’s what Harold Pace did—are you with him on that? When the name Devin comes up in conversation, too many in the hobby instantly think of kit bodies. Although important, that in no way describes the Devin...
It’s interesting how things evolve. While I have had no personal experience with the Invicta marque there has always been...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders...
Then. In a tiny village of 100 houses in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium, lives a man grinning from ear to ear. After 15 years of dreaming about a little car, the searching and hunting and yearning is over. In 1998, Iwan D. spotted a photograph of a special-bodied Panhard...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
With its revised and corrected rear suspension, the car is a blast to drive especially when steered with the throttle. Photo:...
The 26th Tour Auto Optic 2000 will take place from April 24-30, 2017, along a new route devised by Peter Auto for the 230 entrants. After the traditional exhibition under the glass dome of the Grand Palais in Paris, the cars will set off for Brittany for the first time...
Writing about vintage automobiles is great. There are rare cars to cover (“The Only One” Vintage Roadcar, December 2013), cars...
Who invented the motor car, or automobile? There have been several claimants to this title over the years; some justifiable, others hoping for a bit of glory. What is not in doubt is that Gottlieb Daimler and his associate, Wilhelm Maybach, were joint creators of the first lightweight, powerful, internal...
July 2018 Bobby Rahal Rene Panhard Donald Mitchell Healey Louis Chiron 1 – A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory...
La Festa Mille Miglia 2018, held in Japan, is now in its 21st year. As you can probably guess from the...
The D.B.-Panhard LM of Howard Hanna and Frank Manley is prepared in the pits before the start. The unlucky duo was however the second car to retire with valve failure. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203) 968-2970...