My driving roots were from my Dad and my brother who both raced. I was brought up with and around...
King George V thought it was very funny. “You’re late, my boy,” he guffawed. The world’s fastest human being had...
• Simpson Performance Products has expanded its line of racing safety products with the acquisition of HANS Performance Products, makers of the HANS Device Head And Neck Restraint System. HANS Performance Products, formed in 1991 by five-time IMSA driving champion Jim Downing and HANS inventor Dr. Robert Hubbard, will be operated...
Sunbeam GP (1923) Car: Sunbeam GP / Engine: 4 Cylinder In-Line / Maker: Sunbeam / Bore X Stroke: 67 X...
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career,...
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...
Tiger Tales Dear Editor, I have to point out a rather large error in your article about the Sunbeam Tiger....
As you will have read in last month’s Vintage Racecar news, the automotive world lost one of its last remaining...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the Volvo P1800, Sunbeam Tiger and Austin-Healey in addition to the first Interceptor built from 1950 to 1957 with various engines under an attractive glass fiber body. The second iteration of...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the...
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The most famous race on earth may have a checkered past as part of the World Championship, but foreign flavor...
May 2010 The Strasbourg Sunbeams By Neville S. Webb It is amazing that the four Grand Prix Sunbeams built by...
Dario Resta competed in the first race ever held on Britain’s hallowed Brooklands circuit on July 6, 1907, and died there trying to set speed records on September 3, 1924. In between the two, his European career had its highs and lows, but his exploits in the United States were,...
In 1953, the Rootes Group in England, which had acquired the Sunbeam Company in 1935, produced a handsome sports car, the...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor...
One of the most successful relationships in motor sports during the sixties was between Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles. It resulted in transforming Cobras into world-class automobiles, not only on tracks, but also on roads. The relationship between the two was not just a business one, it was also very...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor...
Over-2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
The Napier-Bentley was created as a one-off special, built in 1968 by original owner Peter Morley on a Sunbeam Chassis....
The Aston Martin Owners Club has announced its competitions schedule for 2008 which includes five key race meetings and eight rounds of the club’s popular Speed Series. At each race meeting the AMOC Championship is split into two races, one for Historic Astons up to 1960, another for Classic Astons...
Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of...
From the birth of the automobile to the start of World War II, a host of French and British automobiles...
1962 Sunbeam Alpine Le Mans British motor manufacturers and wealthy private entrants have always been entranced with the Le Mans 24-Hour Race. Bentley started it all with their wins in 1924 and the four consecutive victories between 1927 and 1930. Lagonda inherited the crown in 1935, and then, of course,...
As explored in this month’s “Racecar Profile,” the Sunbeam Alpine was developed by the Rootes Group as a way of...
The Sunbeam Alpine has always had a slight stigma regarding its competition career. Early on it was labeled the “British...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Lance Coren Certified Appraiser (310) 370-4114 Jack Boxstrom Rm Auctions (613) 476-9132 Bruce Trennery Fantasy Junction (510) 653-7555 Mark Leonard Grand Prix Classics (858) 459-3500 These prices are suggested guidelines, they...
