For readers in the Los Angeles area — or, conceivably, further afield — a couple of upcoming events at the...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August,...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda crashes his Ferrari on the second lap and suffers serious burns that nearly kill him. Six weeks later, Lauda returns to racing (1976). 2 Ronnie Bucknum debuts the Honda RA271...
Northern California’s Classic and Sports Racing Group hosted its 3rd Annual David Love Memorial race meeting at Sonoma Raceway last...
November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at...
Continuing the tradition of bringing together the former employees of Shelby American from the 1960s, this 17th edition of the reunion was held November 6 and 7, 2015, at the Cobra Experience Museum (www.cobraexperience.org) in Northern California. With more than 65 former mechanics, drivers, shop workers, craftsmen, managers and staff...
Learning to race on a road course can be daunting. Even though it was almost 50 years ago, I remember...
My column in the October 2006 edition of Vintage Racecar was titled, “Shelby, the Early Years.” For the most part,...
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...
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at...
Rob Brownlee-Tomasso has been selected as the winner of this week’s VR Caption Contest for his submission: “However tempting it...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with Trevor Harris where they performed what he called “the ultimate male-bonding experience.” In this second part of VR Associate Editor John Zimmermann’s interview, Burness discusses the achievement he considers the...