John Von Neumann is an important name in the history of the second half of the twentieth century. A Princeton...
During the Fifties, a number of women were involved in the sports car craze. This was during a time when...
Sports car road racing started after WWII on the East Coast during the late forties. The first wheel-to-wheel event was organized by the Sports Car Club of America on October 2, 1948 at Watkins Glen, NY. Even though Southern California was a hotbed of the car-crazy culture, road racing took...
Last month I wrote about the road race that took place in Palm Springs in 1950. It was the first...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors...
Track map from the event program (inset) and an aerial view (main image) taken after several years of racing. The airport’s main runway has since been reconstructed parallel to Hollister, the street on the far left, so the track could no longer be run as it once was.Photo: Michael A....