Southern California has always been a hotbed of car aficionados. The hot rod craze started there and, after WWII, it...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, and ended with a horrific crash in a sports car race at Pomona in 1959, and it all happened in the span of six short...
Robert Donner Jr., whose interest in cars began as a toddler while his father was an Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road racing championship last month it was coming off its most successful season yet, with 11 races producing nine different winners, but the schedule for 1960 would feature only five races,...
Learning to race on a road course can be daunting. Even though it was almost 50 years ago, I remember...
A three-day “fun fest” known as the Ford-Cobra-Shelby Reunion will take place at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in...
Captive Readership Dear Editor, I must share a couple things with you. Due to firefighting injuries/wear and tear I had one hip replaced in late June and the other late July. Needless to say, this slowed me down quite a bit. I have always, ALWAYS enjoyed Vintage Racecar and, of...
A shooting star is an astronomical phenomenon which appears suddenly in the night sky, burns brightly for a few seconds...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Seventeen years ago, I started this magazine, in no small part, because I was finding it increasingly...
From gas station owner in 1954 to leading Le Mans in 1967, sports car racer Scooter Patrick enjoyed an amazing career. Perhaps best remembered for his prowess and speed at the wheel of Otto Zipper’s many Porsches in the ’60s, Patrick also enjoyed racing success in a wide variety of...
On the weekend of February 17-18, Mecum Auctions will join the long and historic list of car-related events to be...
AutoFest 2017 is the latest event to be organized by Dave Wolin’s Racing History Project, and it will take place...
The LA Roadster Show, America’s premier event for pre-1936 roadster and hot rod enthusiasts put on by the LA Roadsters car club, returns to the Fairplex in Pomona on Father’s Day weekend, June 15-16, 2018. One of the longest-running roadster exhibitions in the world, the event will feature the world’s...
Fairplex, Pomona, CA January 23-25, 2018 A 1927 Ford Concept by Daniel Hostetter.Photo: Howard Koby Become a Member & Get...
