Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
Historic Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles will host its first ever National Park Service-sponsored Car...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy of the Lost Tracks series at thechicaneblog.com, you can enjoy more clips of road racing action from the sport’s earlier days on the historic circuits of Torrey Pines, Pomona, Riverside,...
It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
I remember that the Reader’s Digest used to have a series of articles titled some-thing like “The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Ever Met.” High on my own list of such characters is my close friend, Andy Porterfield. Andy is amazing for a number of reasons. Among other accomplishments, Andy has...
On this, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Monterey Historics, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see...
January 2008 Bugatti T35 by CMC We all seem to love highly detailed scale models of iconic racecars. Most highly...
May 2006 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 By Peter Collins & Ed McDonough Of all the postwar, long-distance, sports racing prototypes, none has a longer or more convoluted history than the famed Alfa Romeo Tipo 33s. The brainchild of Alfa’s Satta, Busso and Carlo Chiti, in the mid-1960s, the Tipo 33...
On April 16, the Fabulous Fifties Association staged a reunion of cars and participants that competed at Southern California’s Paramount...
Colin Chapman Keke Rosberg 2 Roger Penske drives a Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the Tourist Trophy race at...
Eventual winner, Harrison Evans, in a Ferrari Monza, chases the Jaguar D-Type of Bill Krause on Paramount Ranch’s opening weekend August, 1956. Photo: Jim Sitz In 1921, Paramount Pictures bought a 2,700 acre parcel of land near Agoura, California, that had been part of the Rancho Las Virgenes Spanish land...
