If you arrived at Goodwood just after the gates opened on any of the three days (September 16-18) there’s every...
Classes have been announced and entries have opened for the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 17–19 at...
The Daytona Continental (3 Hours) Race; Daytona, February 17, 1963. Pedro Rodriguez in the N.A.R.T.-entered Ferrari 250 GTO leads Skip Hudson’s Shelby American Cobra out of the infield loop. Rodriguez won by a wide margin while Hudson retired. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
A three-day “fun fest” known as the Ford-Cobra-Shelby Reunion will take place at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in...
VR: How did you start writing? CC: My wife had a job with the local police department working nights doing dispatch and secretarial work. So it worked out really well, I would get home from my job as a copywriter in advertising, feed the kids and put them to bed...
Bruce Burness is one of those multi-talented behind-the-scenes players who lend so much richness to the world of motorsports, possessing...
Few auctions in the world can match Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic for variety, and fewer still are able to...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963; and the International Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
In a world where the value of words is often diminished by over-use and misapplication, there is absolutely no doubt...
Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, Pomona, CA April 19-21, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
This is the official site of the Shelby American Collection in Boulder, Colorado, which houses many examples of significant Shelby Cobras and various other cars built and campaigned by Shelby American. Clicking on any one of a list of destinations arranged across the top of the home page will take...
Pete Lyons You’d need a piece of paper the size of Texas to write down all that should be said...
As you will have read in last month’s Vintage Racecar news, the automotive world lost one of its last remaining titans when Carroll Shelby passed away on May 10. Shelby’s life was remarkable on at least a dozen different levels. A truly accomplished racecar driver, he won countless races during...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bloomberg News recently confirmed that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has been sold...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews...
The Lotus Elan was launched in October 1962 at the British Motorshow, making next month the car’s 50th anniversary. The early ’60s marked a renaissance for sports cars—Jaguar launched the E-Type, AC had the Cobra and Ferrari the GTO. Big, expensive, powerful muscles cars. The Elan was very different, and...
Sixty years ago was when—for me—the world became modern. Many people will laugh at that; some will understand but have...
The Dana Point Concours d’Elegance was a spectacular success, attracting huge crowds and a stunning field of vehicles including a...
Jerry Grant was one of the many American racing drivers who could, and did, drive virtually anything he could get his hands on or his behind into. He may have started his competitive career in the visceral world of drag racing, but soon discovered the joys of road racing and...
When event patron Peter Ricketts was asked what he had done in a previous life to bring so much precipitation...
Dan Gurney shared this 4.7-liter Cobra Daytona Coupe with Bob Bondurant for the 1964 running of the 24 Hours of...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August, more than 500 historic racing cars crowded into the paddock at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on a warm and sunny weekend to take part in the show. Included among them...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos...
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...
The annual support race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most important events in all...
Tony Robinson: The Biography of a Race Mechanic By Ian Wagstaff Everyone knows that the best racing stories are those...
There are so many great racecars. I have always liked the Cobra, and I would be very pleased for someone to offer me a drive in one. My job gives me a very nice opportunity of driving historic racing cars for Renault. I get to drive many of their fantastic...