Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at...
My column in the October 2006 edition of Vintage Racecar was titled, “Shelby, the Early Years.” For the most part, it was about Carroll Shelby’s racing career that culminated in winning Le Mans in 1959. I followed up on the column with the publication of my book, Shelby, the Race...
Learning to race on a road course can be daunting. Even though it was almost 50 years ago, I remember...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with...
Small independent shops are keystones of the automobile restoration industry, and among the more notable of these is Cavaglieri Restorations, recently relocated to a new 4,000-square-foot facility near Van Nuys airport in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley. Proprietor Joey Cavaglieri’s early automotive experience came as a racing mechanic, beginning with Pete...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August,...
Continuing the tradition of bringing together the former employees of Shelby American from the 1960s, this 17th edition of the...
Rob Brownlee-Tomasso has been selected as the winner of this week’s VR Caption Contest for his submission: “However tempting it was for Pete to be the one wearing the dress, he just couldn’t accept such a high coefficient of drag.” Peter Brock himself chose this selection saying it was “very...
For readers in the Los Angeles area — or, conceivably, further afield — a couple of upcoming events at the...
Northern California’s Classic and Sports Racing Group hosted its 3rd Annual David Love Memorial race meeting at Sonoma Raceway last...
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at the age of 75. Knepp made his first splash on the American motorsports scene working with Pete Brock’s Brock Racing Enterprises as it built 2.5-Liter Trans-Am-winning Datsun 510s for John...