Lancia, the Italian auto manufacturer known for its elegant originality and innovative spirit, will be celebrated as a featured marque...
After 53 Year Absence, ’34 Packard V12 and Its Owner Return to Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance In 1955, San Francisco...
Members of the renowned Automotive Fine Arts Society will return to the shores of the Pacific on August 17th for their 23rd annual art show during the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Sponsored by the Lincoln Division of Ford Motor Company, the exhibit will join the world’s premier vintage automobiles...
Gooding & Company, the official auction house for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, has announced early entries for its annual...
During the early fifties, road racing in the United States took place, for the most part, at airports. While airports...
March 2008 American Road Racing 1948-1950 By Joel Finn A heavy package arrived addressed to me the other day. I...
January 2008 Bugatti T35 by CMC We all seem to love highly detailed scale models of iconic racecars. Most highly...
Gaston Chevrolet Ricardo Rodriguez 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice for the nonchampionship Mexican Grand Prix (1962). 2 The Mercury Division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California, to announce the formation of the Bud...
November 2007 Racing Sports Cars, Memories of the Fifties By Art Evans Readers of this magazine will no doubt be...
One of the most enjoyable—at least for me—of fifties events was the Pebble Beach Sports Car Road Races. The last one was held during April 1956 and, from then on, races in the area were held at Laguna Seca Raceway. In my May column in this magazine, I remembered the...
Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well...
In several sections of this month’s issue, you’ll find coverage of just a small sampling of the constellation of events that now make up the week of the Monterey Historics. It seems like every year, in this column, I make some comment on how it couldn’t possibly get any bigger...
Since the very beginning of motorsports competition, a common thread has run through the sport: It takes money to go...
Quite a few younger folk seek me out and want to hear about how wonderful sports car racing was during...
Sports car racing in the U.S. during the ’50s was unique. It was very different from the American circle-track or drag racing of the time. It was also different from previous decades or those that came after. First of all, it was an amateur sport. But unlike most amateur sports—except...
June 2005 Pebble Beach Remembered By Art Evans Shortly after World War II, road racing returned to the United States,...
The 53rd Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will showcase the magnificent cars of Ettore Bugatti on August 17, 2003, at...
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