1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing series that produced memorable races, fine drivers, and worthy champions. This was back in the days when road racing was ruled by the Sports Car Club of America, and at...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically think “Jaguar” upon hearing the words “Le Mans,” but the reverse linkage is more likely to be true. Although it had enjoyed prior racing success, Jaguar truly rose to international...
I sit here pondering: “How do you say something about Dan Gurney that hasn’t already been said?” It’s tough. Few,...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan Fangio, Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby, John Fitch, Dan Gurney and Phil Hill immediately come to mind. Only one from that exhalted group, however, was proposed for President of the United...
The famed Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will celebrate its 60th anniversary this August by recognizing the 75th anniversary of Jaguar....
From time to time, event organizers make the mistake of asking me to speak or MC at their event. You...
May 2010 The Strasbourg Sunbeams By Neville S. Webb It is amazing that the four Grand Prix Sunbeams built by...
The Road Racing Drivers Club has chosen Monterey Historics founder Steve Earle as the recipient of its Bob Akin Award,...
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of the American all-rounders who could, and would, drive virtually any kind of car. After a tour of duty as chauffeur for the head of NORAD Command in Colorado, the Washington...
Wealthy Belgian aristocrat Olivier Gendebien has the unique distinction of being Ferrari’s most successful GT and sports car racer. He...
Most readers should be familiar with the work of Bernard Cahier and his son Paul-Henri as chroniclers of the Formula...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series co-sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America and the Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs. Although there was a basic set of rules—the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights, and...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list was the highest price ever paid for an American car at auction, the $7.25 million brought in by the Mecum Auctions offering of the FIA Manufacturers championship-winning 1965 Shelby Daytona...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle in the late ’30s that he had to keep down the street at a gas station because my grandparents didn’t want him to own it. One day he was following...
1952 Ferrari 225 S While the history of the Ferrari you see here will forever associate it with the great...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement...
The legendary Phil Hill’s son, Derek, drove the historic 1952 Jaguar C-Type, s/n XKC-007 to a C-Type auction world record, selling for $2,530,000 at RM’s Sports & Classics of Monterey event in California. XKC-007 was one of the first C-Types delivered to North America. In 1952, a young Phil Hill...
To honor Phil Hill, a Formula 1 World Drivers Champion who had an unceasing passion for all manner of automobiles,...
A pair of historic Miller racing cars, an ex–Phil Hill Jaguar C-Type, and a rare Ferrari 225S headline the 24th RM Auctions “Sports & Classics of Monterey” event scheduled for August 13–15 at the Portola Hotel and Spa, 2 Portola Plaza, Monterey, California. The auction preview will commence August 12...
