All right, I suppose I should start off with a confession. I am a mad, keen Austin-Healey enthusiast, and have...
The first few years of the 1950s saw sports car events evolve from chummy club gatherings for “gentlemen racers” into...
The Canadian Grand Prix; Mosport, September 25, 1966 Phil Hill drove one of Jim Hall’s Chaparral 2Es. He finished second to Mark Donohue’s Lola. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203) 968-2970 E-mail: [email protected] • Web site: www.klemcoll.com...
The second Geared Online Phil Hill Automobilia Collection sale achieved $1,156,156 in sales with an impressive 100% sell-through rate of the...
The second Gooding and Company Geared Online Phil Hill Automobilia Collection will be held on February 8-19, 2021 with several new...
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...
Just looking at the cover of VR this month, you’ll realize something is different. For only the second time, in...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the sad passing of Dan Gurney so it has happened once more. Dan was part of that wave of American drivers from the ’50s sports car racing scene who all arrived...
The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 11, 2018, on the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island...
Ask anyone who was the first American to win a Grand Prix and chances are they will say Phil Hill...
RM Sotheby’s third Manhattan sale, entitled ICONS, produced $45.5 million worth of sales last Wednesday night, December 6, at Sotheby’s York Ave headquarters, with 84 percent of all lots sold. Eleven cars posted individual million-dollar-plus results, with strong prices evident for exceptional historic racecars and high-performance models of the 1990s,...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide Leather Tool Bag The GARNY leather tool bag was influenced by the traditional 1930s design. Handmade...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that its third New York sale, entitled ICONS, set for December 6 at Sotheby’s Manhattan headquarters,...
One week after the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring, the racing world experienced another tragic weekend, this time in France, at the Le Mans test. Probably due to the proximity of the Sebring event, both Chaparral and Ferrari chose not to attend, leaving Ford with little to compare their performance...
Fifty years after its first victory, to the day, Ford returned to Le Mans and won again, this time in...
With the Concours season starting in California, my memory was jogged to my first and only Pebble Beach Road Races. In 1956, as a freshman engineering student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (SLO) several friends and I heard of a sports car race in Carmel, just up the coast...
Another sports car racing pioneer has left us as Bill Pollack has passed away just nine days after marking his...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
Cars from the SCCA’s legendary Can-Am series will be in the spotlight at this year’s inaugural Monterey Spring Classic, scheduled for the weekend of May 19-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The unlimited, big-bore series first raced at the Central California circuit in 1966, when Phil Hill registered the only...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was...
Denny HulmePhoto: Hal Crocker Jim ClarkPhoto: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 The TWR Jaguar XJR-6 is driven for the first time in a test session at Snetterton, England, by Martin Brundle (1985). 3 Michael Kranefuss, NASCAR team owner and one-time head of racing at Ford, born (1938). Become a Member &...
A 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider, chassis no. 0510 M, that was successfully raced in period by three top American...
“Mr. Motor Racing,” Sir Stirling Moss, has confirmed his attendance at the second annual Flywheel Festival, scheduled for Bicester Heritage...
Next July’s Silverstone Classic has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Can-Am Series with a pair of special commemoration races at its annual summer event, set for July 29-31. The two races will be the culmination of a three-round Can-Am 50 Interserie Challenge being organized by...
It is early 1964 and having recently qualified as a doctor, I had signed up for a short-service commission as...
For the Brands Hatch Six Hours on July 30, 1967, Mike Spence is at the wheel of the winning Chaparral...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was an “unlimited” racing series co-sanctioned by the SCCA in America and the CASC in Canada. Although governed by a basic set of rules—the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights and various safety requirements—there were no...