Long, long ago (50 years) in a city far, far away (Butte, Montana), I bought a racecar from Evel Knievel’s...
Italian car collector Michael Schwartz has been named this year’s Honored Collector, a unique feature of the annual Lime Rock...
The last surviving racer from America’s first post WWII road race, at Watkins Glen in 1948, Otto Linton, has passed away at the age of 100. Having fallen in love with the automobile at age 11, the Vienna-born Linton, engineering degree in hand, arrived in the USA during the early...
1961 Alfa Romeo SVZ Coda Tronca When you sit down and tot up the number of publicly available variations on...
Photo: David Gooley, courtesy of the Don Murray Collection It is easy to examine an early Ferrari or a Maserati of the immediate post-war era and see only their curvaceous coachwork or their gorgeous engines; but there is much more to those and other well-known Italian sports and racing cars...
Societa Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori was an aftermarket company that produced parts to “hot rod” Fiats. The company was started...
There is no hidden racecar in this story, but there are four treasures, one mechanical and three human. I love...
Scheduled to cross the block at RM Sotheby’s “Driven by Disruption” sale, set for December 10 in the company’s New York City showrooms will be a 1962 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato — one of only 19 ever built — that clothed AM’s powerful DB4 in Carrozzeria Zagato’s beautiful lightweight aluminum...
Then. Etceterini.com is the place to be if you’re obsessed with small displacement Italian wizardry of the 1950s. If it’s...
Another great American sports car driver of the fifties has left us. Dick Irish passed away March 19, 2015, of...
Over the last 27 years, the Italian Car Day at the Brooklands Museum (May 4, 2013) has grown to become not only the UK’s top event for owners and admirers of all things Italian, but also the largest gathering of Italian cars in the country. Anyone arriving in any Italian...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race...
The annual Italian Car Day at Brooklands is billed as the largest such gathering in the United Kingdom and the...
1970 De Tomaso 505-Cosworth The De Tomaso drew much admiration from the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo: Peter Collins Where do you start? Society weddings, the jet set racing crowd, brewery heirs, Mangustas, Grand Prix disaster. The De Tomaso story has it all, and the car you...
1954 Fiat 8V Zagato If you lived through the ’60s and ’70s, then Sunset Boulevard, in Southern California, likely holds...
April 2009 OttoVú By Tony Adriaensens While I have said it before, thank God for obsessive enthusiasts—they always produce the...
For as long as he can remember, James Peacock of Long Beach, California, has been afflicted with a palate for automotive curiosities…a proclivity for the unusual as it were. Worse yet, he’s had a grand master plan…a plan to retire at 40 and spend the second half of his life...
As evidenced in VR’s recent two-part feature, the diminutive under-1-liter Italian sports car affectionately known as “Etceterini” encompasses a broad,...
The H-Modified class in American road racing was derived from the FIA small-displacement sports racing machines popularized in Italy and...
