BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
Reg Hillary, long time Canadian racer and rallyist died on Tuesday, December 4th in his 98th year, a life well lived. Born in England, Reg started his motorsports career on a Speedway bike, sans brakes on dirt tracks around London, England. He came to Canada in 1957 and immediately became...
Canadian motorsports owes a huge debt to the team of Jim Fergusson and his wife, Alice. Their efforts were almost...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
The first efforts with the 924 rally car involved a non-turbo version, the Monte Carlo Rally 924, of Jürgen Barth and Roland Kussmaul in 1979. The stillborn 924 turbocharged record car that never turned a wheel in anger. A water-cooled engine? And it’s at the front? And it’s a Porsche?!...
I was blessed with car-friendly parents and grandparents. My mother, who took part in several rallying events as a driver,...
There were no rally cars, as such, during the sport’s first 50 years or so, just the bog standard daily...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a much more comprehensive 17 pages of regulations called Appendix J to better govern the sport. And that was the year a works Lancia team, later to become a mighty force...
It is unlikely that readers of this publication would not be familiar with the Mille Miglia (aka 1000 Miglia), but...
The Andes adventure started in Antofagasta, on the coast of Northern Chile with 15 cars and teams from Belgium, Finland,...
VR: It was recently announced that you have been chosen to be the chief judge for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance starting with next year’s event. I would imagine that—in classic car world terms—this has to be somewhat similar to being selected from the dean of cardinals to be made...
Aficionados of fine automotive engineering will once again gather in the French town of Angouleme on the third weekend of...
A journey through some of Italy’s most beautiful locations Automobili Lamborghini just hosted its “Giro Polo Storico” for international customers...
• RM Auctions posted its most successful Amelia Island sale to date, generating $35,947,500 of total sales, with 97 percent of all lots sold. Top lot of the sale was the late Malcolm Pray’s 1937 Delahaye 135 Competition Court Torpedo Roadster selling for a world auction record $6,600,000. • The...
1955 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Four days, four countries, more than 1,000 kilometers, in cars that are the envy of...
Photo Gallery from the 2019 running of the Copperstate 1000, in Arizona....
Coventry Transport Museum, Coventry, UK June 22, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
Newcastle to Peebles, UK October 30–November 1, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
James Beckett/Colin Beckett Skoda Favorit As changes swept through Eastern Europe, the Škoda Favorit became the car to bring Czechoslovakian...
I write this month’s column from Monterey, as myself, most of our staff, and about 3,000-pounds of magazines are here for the annual Monterey Historics pilgrimage (of which, there will be a full report in next month’s issue). This year, because we had so many of our people up for...
A fish that swims in the dirt? Well, no. Just North of the town of Snoqualmie, a historic Washington State...
1969 Austin Maxi Rally Car Author found the Maxi rally machine to be very responsive to driver inputs. Photo: Kary Jiggle...
We’re spectating on a rally special stage. The Monte Carlo, Britain’s RAC, the Acropolis in Greece. Anywhere, it doesn’t matter which. We’re halfway up a gentle roadside embankment stamping our almost numb feet and rubbing shoulders with dozens of other rally fans, waiting. It’s dark, cold, the bottle of whiskey...
Five times World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio competed in the 1948 Grand Prix of South America, and it was 70...
July 2017 George Dowson, the co-designer of this sophisticated pre-war Lightweight Special, is seen demonstrating it at the Cockfosters Rally...
Morgans were regularly used in England before World War II in Rallies, Trials and Speed Tests. This is a Morgan (a +4 perhaps) being driven by Mr. M.A.C. Simmonds at the Handling Test that was part of the Seventh Brooklands Rally on March 26, 1938. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION...
From June 21–24, over 100 drivers took part in the 2018 edition of La Leggenda di Bassano – Trofeo Giannino...
The Sicilian husband and wife duo of Giovanni Moceri and Valeria Dicembre, in their 1939 Fiat 508C, have won the 2020...
Photo: Gerard Brown Photo: Gerard Brown The original plan was to take my two-liter Low Chassis Lagonda. This was a “barn find” bought nine months previously. I subsequently found out that not only was it an original supercharged car, but had a rally history, including the 1931 London to Edinburgh...