The inaugural Mecum Las Vegas Collector-Car Auction will feature 1,000 consignments on the weekend of November 16-18 at the Las...
Following victories for AC Cobra drivers at Donington and on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit earlier in the season, lithe sports racing cars had the upper hand at the Castle Combe Autumn Classic, an exciting — and very different — new third stop on the GT & Sports Car Cup’s...
Drawing from two hemispheres, four continents and numerous states up, down, between and beyond America’s two coasts, Lime Rock Park’s...
August has again arrived, and the collector car auctions of Monterey Classic Car Week will soon be providing the industry...
Portland International Raceway played host to the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) Racing Festival the last weekend of July with more than 110 competitors taking part in six race groups, an Enduro, Mazda Heritage Series and professional Trans-Am Series. The first of two Formula Ford feature races had its order...
August 2017 Cobra Pilote – The Ed Hugus Story By Robert D. Walker Ed Hugus was one of Carroll Shelby’s...
Mecum Auctions took its collector-car auction show to the Mile High City this past weekend, July 22-23, with 591 vehicles...
The UK’s Salon Privé Chubb Concours d’Elégance, scheduled for August 31 through September 2 at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, has announced two early entries to the first of the two Concours celebrations held during the event. One is an elegant and rare 1939 Horch 853A Cabriolet (above, Vaidotas Grigas photo...
Salon Privé, the UK’s longest-standing, professionally judged Concours d’Elégance, now in its 12th year, has added an all-new day of...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the...
The 5th Annual Carroll Shelby Tribute & Car Show will take place on Saturday May 20, at Shelby Headquarters, which are located at 19021 South Figueroa, in Gardena, California. The event will feature a special autograph session with Aaron Shelby, Allen Grant, Don Prudhomme and Gary Patterson, as well as...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
In this month’s Racecar Profile [“Bound by Fate”], you’ll read that I recently had the opportunity to test drive the...
The sixth annual Mecum Houston collector-car auction will take place April 6-8 at NRG Arena, with an estimated 1,000 American muscle cars, Italian exotics, Corvettes, classics, Hot Rods, Resto Mods and more crossing the auction block. This year’s event will be part of a true auto-enthusiast paradise, as the Houston...
A 1962 Shelby Cobra, serial number CSX2032 (above, photo courtesy of Mecum Auctions), that was once owned by Lance Reventlow...
1952 Allard J2X At a sports and exotic car show a while ago, I was feasting my eyes on sculpted classic Ferraris and Maseratis when the ground began to tremble under my feet. As the rumbling got more insistent, I instinctively looked for cover. It was then that I noticed...
Peter Auto’s final event of the 2016 season took place on the weekend of October 22-23 on the Enzo &...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with...
I could talk about David Purley, or Dave as I’ve always known him, all day long, but for the sake of this piece I’ll restrict it to a few lines to give readers a glimpse into my view of a truly great character and a very good friend. As boys,...
Ken Miles in the Shelby Cobra, with Shelby’s personal racing number, leads Jim Hall in the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken...
Carmel, CA August 15, 2016 Unusual 1964 Mazda R360 Coupe owned by Michael and Barbara Malamut The Shelby Cobra pit....
This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. Rod has semi-retired there after his championship-winning career, including toppling the Unser dynasty from Pikes Peak in the United States. Photo: Mark Dunstan What started five...
Sixty cars were sold for more than $1 million during the various auctions held last week as part of Monterrey...
Many might find it unusual that the 58-year old son of legendary racecar driver Dave MacDonald had never driven a...
A pair of million-dollar Shelby Cobras took top honors at Dana Mecum’s 29th Original Spring Classic, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, the largest muscle car auction in the world. A 1967 427 Roadster sold for $1,100,000, while a 1964 289 Roadster hammered for an even $1,000,000. With the Cobras leading...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
Augie Pabst: Behind the Wheel By Robert Birmingham Augie Pabst grew up an heir to the family brewing business, and one day in 1952 found himself, literally and figuratively, at a road race on an airport course in south central Wisconsin. The hook was set that day, even though four years...
