Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the...
After being silent for more than half a century, the sound of Sir Malcolm Campbell’s record-breaking 350-hp Sunbeam once more...
The Sunbeam Alpine has always had a slight stigma regarding its competition career. Early on it was labeled the “British Thunderbird” with styling bestowed by Kenneth Howes who had only recently left Ford in Dearborn to take up the project with Rootes. The visual similarities of the Alpine and Thunderbird...
This month’s featured Web site is devoted to the long and rich history of the Sunbeam marque. Founded as early...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August,...
The historic Brooklands motor racing circuit echoed to the sounds of the past on February 16, when a group of Talbots and other historic cars celebrated the 100th anniversary of the occasion in 1913 when Percy Lambert became the first person in the world ever to travel 100 miles in...
King George V thought it was very funny. “You’re late, my boy,” he guffawed. The world’s fastest human being had...
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Sunbeam 1000hp breaking the 200mph barrier with a new Land Speed Record, the British National Motor Museum in Beaulieu will be breathing new life into one of its engines to make it run for the first time in over half a century. The...
The Andes adventure started in Antofagasta, on the coast of Northern Chile with 15 cars and teams from Belgium, Finland,...
In this month’s Racecar Profile [“Bound by Fate”], you’ll read that I recently had the opportunity to test drive the “King Cobra” that Shelby American built for the 1967 Can-Am season. While this is a fascinating tale of missed opportunities and misunderstandings, there are so many great pieces of history...
The National Motor Museum’s Land Speed Record breaking 1920 Sunbeam 350hp has been fitted with a replacement gearbox to match...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
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On the second weekend in July the Golden Anniversary of Hagley and District Light Car Club’s first sprint was celebrated...
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National Motor Museum mechanics have discovered time capsule finds during the start of the restoration of Land Speed Record breaker Sunbeam 1000hp. The historic finds were made while the workshop team removed its two colossal V12 aero engines, workings and body panels for the Sunbeam 1000hp Restoration Campaign. The campaign...
The most famous race on earth may have a checkered past as part of the World Championship, but foreign flavor...
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From the birth of the automobile to the start of World War II, a host of French and British automobiles were linked by a convoluted series of company failures, schisms and buyouts. As an example, The Clement Talbot Ltd. company was founded in 1903 under the patronage of the Earl...
At this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, we get to witness the fastest car of 1925 in action as it...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of green machines since I saw my first Jaguar. And MG. Triumph. Morgan. Lotus. Aston Martin. Austin-Healey. Bentley. Lister. Allard. Cooper. Lola. Jensen. Turner. Elva. Sunbeam. Singer. TVR. AC—as a youth...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
Working in his still-new medium of acrylic on canvas, Maritimes artist Chenard has craffted this painting, showing Sir Henry Seagrave...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor racing greats, Robert Benoist, William Grover-Williams and, to a lesser extent, Jean-Pierre Wimille. The story told of their selfless devotion to their country, their indignation at the theft of their...
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career,...
If you went looking for the true father of the Sunbeam Tiger, you might surmise that American Carroll Shelby would...
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