Wilbur Shaw Nanni Galli 2 Sportscar and F1 racer Nanni Galli is born in Bologna, Italy (1940). 4 Emerson Fittipaldi...
Grover-Williams Louis Stanley 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kayalami track near Johannesburg is won...
“Mephistopheles,” the Land Speed record-breaking Fiat, was one of the most fearsome of the aero-engined specials popular in the 1920s. Starting off as a 4-cylinder, 120-hp Grand Prix car with an engine of 18-liters, it was converted by Ernest Eldridge, who purchased it from John Duff after the engine blew...
A primer on in-car video systems for the historic racer. Humans are such visual animals that even when our eyes...
Jim Clark Peter Revson 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing their W25 Grand Prix race cars as “Silver...
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...
A Rogue, an XK120 and the World Record that Took 5 Years and Stirling Moss to Break. It was a...
Roger Penske Fred Offenhauser 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on...
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...
Donald Campbell was a hero, like his famous father. But that is where the resemblance ended. Sir Malcolm, who broke...
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...
On the heels of last month’s news that a Ferrari 250 GTO broke the all-time record for the most expensive...
Any questions about the virility of the collector car market were quickly vanquished during this August’s Monterey classic car week,...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and car stickers bore the legend: “Dan Gurney For President.” The designs mirrored the period campaign emblems of the 1960s, but this time were a signature and homage to the motor...
Ferrari’s record-breaking parade of 964 cars at Ferrari Racing Days at Silverstone on Saturday, September 15, has now been confirmed...
• The 2013 Desert Classic Concours will be held February 24, 2013 on the beautiful golf course of the Desert...
A new record was set for a Mustang selling at auction during Mecum’s 26th Original Spring Classic, May 14-19, 2013,...
A new mark has been established for automobiles sold at auction, as an ex-Fangio Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix car has...
Barrie Horne/Gordon Robertson Porsche 911.Photo: Jakob Ebrey A pulse-quickening parade of more than 1,200 Porsche 911 sports cars took to the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit on Sunday July 28—setting a new world record—as the Silverstone Classic celebrated the 50th anniversary of the iconic coupe. The plan to produce a parade of...
Vintage Adventurer Rod Wade is aiming to set a new world record as he drives against the clock from New...
Chassis 5111GT sells for $52 million A Series I Ferrari 250 GTO (Chassis #5111), once owned by American collector Paul...
During RM Auctions’ two-day sale in London’s Battersea Park 120 exclusive collector cars sold for a spectacular $34,085,045.00, an impressive 90.3 percent sell-through rate. The top selling lot over the two-day sale was the 1957 Maserati 250S from the Laidlaw Competition Car Collection. Chassis no. 2432, an ex-Carroll Shelby and...
In what may go down as one of the most remarkable collector car auctions of all time, RM Auctions and...
Vintage Adventurer Rod Wade and co-driver Michael Flanders have created a new world record for driving a pre-war car across...
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...
After being silent for more than half a century, the sound of Sir Malcolm Campbell’s record-breaking 350-hp Sunbeam once more...
The Historic Racing Drivers Club is anticipating a bumper season in 2014, as it has already received a record number...
Australians Rod Wade, aged 71, and Austen Ritchie, 38, have set a new World Record for driving a pre-war car across Australia and back in just 101 hours, 52 minutes and 32 seconds in a fundraising challenge for Kidney Health Australia. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...