Some of us – we know who we are – go all slack in the knees before certain racing machines....
Harry Heuer, whose father was the CEO of the Peter Hand Brewing Company, decided in the late ’50s to go...
Like many other drivers in the West, Chuck Daigh arose out of the California hot rod culture and became one of the premier drivers of his generation driving the virtually invincible Scarab sports racing cars and moving on to the unsuccessful Scarab Formula One car. An especially efficient and brilliant...
The 2007 Gold Cup Historic Races, scheduled for June 8-10, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Virginia...
Bet you’re thinking of Fangio’s transcendent victory at the ’Ring. The launch of the Fuelie Corvette. The beautiful Scarabs. Jaguar’s...
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy eight years later. It was September 3, 1967, at Road America, when his Can-Am team began a five-year run of dominance in the fastest kind of road racing the world...
I don’t remember when I first met Lance Reventlow, but it must have been through my buddy, Bruce Kessler, who...
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, and ended with a horrific crash in a sports car race at Pomona in 1959, and it all happened in the span of six short...
My column in the October 2006 edition of Vintage Racecar was titled, “Shelby, the Early Years.” For the most part,...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
It is astonishing what you can learn about different countries if you follow motor racing. I have no real knowledge about tax except for those tear-stained begging letters I receive from the Inland Revenue, but I have picked up a few things. Cunningham, Scarab, and Chaparral were all major American...
Rick Parsons and Don Devine have formed the Vintage Indy Racing Group to facilitate the further inclusion of Indycar racing...
This month’s site, Prairie Street Art, features the work of Chicago-based photographer Ron Nelson, whose wide recognition includes having examples...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take part in the motor racing revolution there that changed motor sport forever in the USA. The list of people and projects he worked with would fill a book. He initially...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford – whose disregard for art was very public – had to give up his Model T and allow a little style to creep into his designs in order to encourage...
“MAYA –Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable”– was the acronym industrial designer Raymond Loewy used to describe his design philosophy. To catch...
Pete Lyons Any idea what we’re looking at here? Don’t wait for me to tell you, I only have the...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos we showed him started a discussion so interesting that I’m keen to share it with you. The picture was made by Art Evans at Palm Springs in November, 1956. It...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
Phil Remington, universally recognized as one of racing’s finest craftsmen, has passed away at the age of 92. Remington left...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the Cobras and Ford GT40s (Marks I, II and IV) all over the world, Phil Remington stood on the leading edge of racing technology for some seven decades until his peaceful...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Photo: Neil Rashba A 1937 Horch 853 and a 1958 Scarab won the Best In Show honors on Sunday, March...
If you grew up in the United States, then you were weaned on “The American Dream” —the idea that anyone can do anything, if they work hard and put their mind to it. For American road racing enthusiasts, there is a racing equivalent of the American Dream, but for the...
• Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) has announced that American racing legend Bobby Rahal has entered the second annual Classic 24...
Coker’s Lines Dear Editor, Your story about the recreated 1953 Austin-Healey 100S Record Car was interesting. The caption notes how...
Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans By Preston Lerner and Dave Friedman The story is a familiar one. After Henry Ford II’s attempt to buy Ferrari is rebuffed, he vows to defeat the Italians at Le Mans, creates a bold new car that...
