In 1896, in Suresnes a western suburb of Paris, Alexandre Darracq started his business, A Darracg & Cie. His business...
On the 20th anniversary of the date the Volkswagen W12 broke seven world speed records on the famed Nardò circuit...
On the heels of last month’s news that a Ferrari 250 GTO broke the all-time record for the most expensive car, at $35 million, sadly another record may have been broken this month, that of the world’s most expensive car crash. American collector Christopher Cox and his wife Ann were...
Australians Rod Wade, aged 71, and Austen Ritchie, 38, have set a new World Record for driving a pre-war car...
Bugatti is the first manufacturer to break the 300-mile-an-hour barrier. On a test track in Germany, a near production prototype derivative of the hyper sports car Bugatti Chiron surpassed the unbelievable speed of 304.773 mph (490.484 km/h). A new world record. “What a record! We’re overjoyed to be the first...
On June 14, as part of the celebrations for the re-launch of Coventry Transport Museum following an impressive £9 million...
• The 2013 Desert Classic Concours will be held February 24, 2013 on the beautiful golf course of the Desert...
Donald Campbell was a hero, like his famous father. But that is where the resemblance ended. Sir Malcolm, who broke no fewer than nine Land Speed Records and four on water, was an arrogant, domineering father. He ridiculed his son and actively tried to dissuade Donald from following in his...
Roger Penske Fred Offenhauser 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on...
Despite what have been arguably the worst economic times in over a generation, the mantra of the auction world for...
Early in June, Bloomberg News confirmed that the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO (Chassis 3505GT) originally built for Stirling Moss to race, had changed hands for a record $35 million. Reportedly purchased by U.S. collector Craig McCaw, Chassis 3505GT was the sixth GTO built and the first one to feature right-hand...
Chassis 5111GT sells for $52 million A Series I Ferrari 250 GTO (Chassis #5111), once owned by American collector Paul...
The Historic Racing Drivers Club is anticipating a bumper season in 2014, as it has already received a record number...
A Rogue, an XK120 and the World Record that Took 5 Years and Stirling Moss to Break. It was a car the likes of which had not been seen before. Fitted with a truly inspired DOHC six-cylinder engine and clothed by a streamlined flowing coachwork, evocative of that hopeful post-WWII...
Roberto Moreno Photo: Pete Austin Mike Hawthorne Photo: BRDC Archive 1 F1 race winner and six-time Le Mans victor Jacky...
Grover-Williams Louis Stanley 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kayalami track near Johannesburg is won...
Mario Andretti Photo: Pete Austin Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 2 Achille Varzi is killed when his Alfa Romeo 158 crashes in heavy rain during practice for the Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten (1948). 4 A.J. Foyt wins the Firecracker 400 NASCAR stock car race at Daytona, Florida (1964). Become...
Jim Clark Peter Revson 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing their W25 Grand Prix race cars as “Silver...
Elio de AngelisPhoto: Maureen Magee Colin ChapmanPhoto: Maureen Magee 2 Johnny Rutherford, driving a McLaren-Offenhauser, wins the USAC Indycar race...
Mecum Auctions’ 2013 grand finale event at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 5-7 was the cherry on top of yet another amazing year of success for the world’s largest collector car auction company. Of the 795 cars that went under the hammer in Kansas...
“Mephistopheles,” the Land Speed record-breaking Fiat, was one of the most fearsome of the aero-engined specials popular in the 1920s....
Vintage Adventurer Rod Wade is aiming to set a new world record as he drives against the clock from New...
A new record was set for a Mustang selling at auction during Mecum’s 26th Original Spring Classic, May 14-19, 2013, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Six days and 75 hours of auction action took a total of 2,350 lots cross the block—including Road Art and racing memorabilia from the “Grumpy”...
Vintage Adventurer Rod Wade and co-driver Michael Flanders have created a new world record for driving a pre-war car across...
More than a thousand modern and heritage Bentleys set a new record for the largest gathering of Bentleys in history....
In what may go down as one of the most remarkable collector car auctions of all time, RM Auctions and Sotheby’s “Art of the Automobile” sale, in late November, achieved $62,797,500 of sales in just over two hours of bidding. In the packed sale room, records tumbled across numerous lots,...
Mika Hakkinen Dario Franchitti Photo: Richard Dole 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and his first...
Wilbur Shaw Nanni Galli 2 Sportscar and F1 racer Nanni Galli is born in Bologna, Italy (1940). 4 Emerson Fittipaldi...
In the 1950s, one means of gaining publicity for car factories was to try and beat a category record. Pegaso, a new firm that was showing some promise, did such a try in 1953. They chose as the place for it a well known flat straight on a Belgian highway...