Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
June 2009 Spewing flame on a downshift, Carroll Shelby presses onward with the Aston Martin DBR1 at Goodwood’s six-hour Tourist...
Aston Martin entered the1959 sports car season targeting just a single race, Le Mans, but walked away the deserving winner of an almost accidental Championship Away at the drop of the flag, Moss has already exited stage right to lead the early going, while the eventual winner (#5) can be seen...
Two events, one forever unforgettable, the other somewhat less memorable, shared the same Sunday, 40 years ago. Heading up the...
October 2009 Fast Ladies By Jean-Françoise Bouzanquet Women play the most crucial role in human life as mothers of us all, and many have enjoyed starring roles as monarchs throughout history, but too many have lived lives subservient to their men. In racing, however, this reality ensures that a woman...
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list...
My column in the October 2006 edition of Vintage Racecar was titled, “Shelby, the Early Years.” For the most part,...
The second annual Legends of Riverside racing reunion and film festival has named Carroll Shelby as its special guest of honor for the March 26–28, 2010, event at the Riverside International Raceway Museum. Although he earned his spurs as a champion driver, Shelby is best known for his creation of...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me...
In 1953, the Rootes Group in England, which had acquired the Sunbeam Company in 1935, produced a handsome sports car, the Sunbeam Alpine. Its styling promised more than it could deliver. With a wheelbase of 97.5 inches and an overall length of 168 inches, it weighed in at almost 3,000 pounds....
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of...
The second annual Legends of Riverside Film Festival and Gala took place at the Riverside International Automotive Museum in that...
When Japanese cars first came on the scene, although practical, most were somewhat stodgy. In the mid-’60s, however, Toyota decided to produce a sports car that would rival others of the genre. Japanese designer Satoru Nozaki penned a two-door coupe—the 2000GT—that some feel had styling influenced by the E-Type Jaguar....
From time to time, event organizers make the mistake of asking me to speak or MC at their event. You...
October 2010 At the sports car races in Palm Springs on the first weekend of December, 1955, Tony Parravano (third...
A total of 26 cars sold for more than $1 million during Classic Car Week in Monterey, California this August, topped by the world record bid of $7,260,000 for a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione at the Gooding & Co. Pebble Beach sale. Gooding, enjoying a 79...
By honoring 45 years of Carroll Shelby’s Mustangs and a full century of Alfa Romeos, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering,...
By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these...
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For the most part, it was an amateur sport governed by the Sports Car Club of America, but after noticing the large crowds at some SCCA events, the United States Auto...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
January 2011 Mark Donohue: His Life in Photographs By Michael Argetsinger In our review of Argetsinger’s previous book, Mark Donohue:...
“Revisited” because this is my second column about Ken. My March 2006 column was the first, but in rereading it there were some things I left out and would like to tell about. A short time ago, while looking for a photograph, I came across a negative of Miles I...
The original Trans-Am was part and parcel of one of the things that made the Golden Age golden. Many of...
You may have looked at this month’s cover car and said, “That’s not vintage!” You might also have looked at...
Raoul “Sonny” Balcaen may not be a name with which everyone is familiar, but he grew up in Southern California in a world filled with automobiles and explored many of the pathways on that landscape. From an initial baptism in hot rodding, he moved naturally into drag racing, working with...
“Gregg, Peter (FA),” was filed between “Greenwood, John” and “Gregory, Masten.” The file, dog-eared and stained with the outline of...
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 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The featured marque is the Shelby Cobra, in honor of the 50th anniversary of its creation. Approximately 550 cars will be accepted, with each entry scrutinized...