U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
On the heels of last month’s news that a Ferrari 250 GTO broke the all-time record for the most expensive...
On the 20th anniversary of the date the Volkswagen W12 broke seven world speed records on the famed Nardò circuit in Italy, we take a look back at the infamous supercar. Few are aware the first supercar to feature a functioning example of Volkswagen’s unique “W” engine was not the...
Any questions about the virility of the collector car market were quickly vanquished during this August’s Monterey classic car week,...
Ferrari’s record-breaking parade of 964 cars at Ferrari Racing Days at Silverstone on Saturday, September 15, has now been confirmed...
Roger Penske Fred Offenhauser 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on the beach at Daytona, Florida (1958). 4 Porsche 907s sweep the top three finishing positions in the 24 Hours of Daytona with the Elford/Neerspatch/Siffert/Stommelen/Herrmann car winning (1968). Become a Member...
“Mephistopheles,” the Land Speed record-breaking Fiat, was one of the most fearsome of the aero-engined specials popular in the 1920s....
A primer on in-car video systems for the historic racer. Humans are such visual animals that even when our eyes are closed, some form of imagery usually plays across the big screen of our consciousness as we remember, imagine, or dream of things both real and not. This reality 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 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...
Donald Campbell was a hero, like his famous father. But that is where the resemblance ended. Sir Malcolm, who broke...
Vintage Adventurer Rod Wade and co-driver Michael Flanders have created a new world record for driving a pre-war car across...
After being silent for more than half a century, the sound of Sir Malcolm Campbell’s record-breaking 350-hp Sunbeam once more echoed across the English countryside in late January as it was fired up for the first time since its complete mechanical rebuild by the National Motor Museum’s workshop team. Become...
Mecum Auctions’ 2013 grand finale event at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 5-7 was...
• The 2013 Desert Classic Concours will be held February 24, 2013 on the beautiful golf course of the Desert...
On June 14, as part of the celebrations for the re-launch of Coventry Transport Museum following an impressive £9 million transformation project, the museum is planning to break the Guinness World Records for both the Largest Parade of Classic Cars and the Largest Parade of Jaguar Cars. The museum aims...
More than a thousand modern and heritage Bentleys set a new record for the largest gathering of Bentleys in history....
Jim Clark Peter Revson 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing their W25 Grand Prix race cars as “Silver...
Examples from every generation of Mustang since the iconic sports car’s launch in 1964 converged on Ford’s Lommel Proving Ground, in Belgium on September 7, to help set a new world record for the largest number of Mustangs gathered in one place. Ford smashed its own record of 960 vehicles,...
Despite what have been arguably the worst economic times in over a generation, the mantra of the auction world for...
In the 1950s, one means of gaining publicity for car factories was to try and beat a category record. Pegaso,...
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...
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...
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...
Mika Hakkinen Dario Franchitti Photo: Richard Dole 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and his first...
Vintage Adventurer Rod Wade is aiming to set a new world record as he drives against the clock from New...
In 1896, in Suresnes a western suburb of Paris, Alexandre Darracq started his business, A Darracg & Cie. His business was building road and racecars. Darracq would go on to become famous for the success of his racecars. But by 1912, Darracq had sold off what remained of his business....