Eventual winner, Harrison Evans, in a Ferrari Monza, chases the Jaguar D-Type of Bill Krause on Paramount Ranch’s opening weekend...
Colin Chapman Keke Rosberg 2 Roger Penske drives a Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the Tourist Trophy race at...
On April 16, the Fabulous Fifties Association staged a reunion of cars and participants that competed at Southern California’s Paramount Ranch road course in 1956 and 1957. Part of the festivities included a Concours d’Provenance that saw more than 50 cars and 200 attendees take part. Some of the personalities...
May 2006 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 By Peter Collins & Ed McDonough Of all the postwar, long-distance, sports racing prototypes,...
January 2008 Bugatti T35 by CMC We all seem to love highly detailed scale models of iconic racecars. Most highly...
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”...
I remember that the Reader’s Digest used to have a series of articles titled some-thing like “The Most Unforgettable Character...
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 enhanced his record as an all-around champion there. Some assume that post-WWII stock car road racing started at Riverside, but that’s not true. There were five stock car events on...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy...
Historic Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles will host its first ever National Park Service-sponsored Car...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We were close friends and our times together go back to 1955 when he raced at Torrey Pines. A number of those among us stood head and shoulders...