I remember that the Reader’s Digest used to have a series of articles titled some-thing like “The Most Unforgettable Character...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
Colin Chapman Keke Rosberg 2 Roger Penske drives a Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the Tourist Trophy race at Nassau in the Bahamas (1962). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African-American NASCAR racer, dies of spinal cancer at age 69 (1990). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy...
Eventual winner, Harrison Evans, in a Ferrari Monza, chases the Jaguar D-Type of Bill Krause on Paramount Ranch’s opening weekend...
Historic Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles will host its first ever National Park Service-sponsored Car Corral and Picnic, open to the public free of charge this Saturday October 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cars will be on display throughout the Western Town and...
On April 16, the Fabulous Fifties Association staged a reunion of cars and participants that competed at Southern California’s Paramount...
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...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney...
On this, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Monterey Historics, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see how it all started. The date was August 10, 1974. August 10 that year fell on a Saturday. There was no Sunday racing even though California has no “blue laws”...