Sports car racing in the U.S. during the ’50s was unique. It was very different from the American circle-track or...
Garrie Cooper Keke Rosberg 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long-distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967)....
Garie Cooper Jurgen Barth 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long-distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967). 2 Peter Arundell wins a one-car “race” at Monza, Italy. Journalist Richard von Frankenberg had accused Lotus of using an illegal engine in Arundell’s car in a race there a...
John Von Neumann is an important name in the history of the second half of the twentieth century. A Princeton...
January 2008 Bugatti T35 by CMC We all seem to love highly detailed scale models of iconic racecars. Most highly...
During the early fifties, road racing in the United States took place, for the most part, at airports. While airports have a number of advantages, they lack the interest and drama of actual roads. Without the authority to utilize public highways, venues were hard to come by. As road racing...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs...
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list...
December 2009 Italian Monster Dear Editor, Beautiful job with the Cad-Alfa (also loved the Watkins Glen story and Kessler interview). The three Torrey Pines photos were all taken at the July meet, not the December ’52 one, which I know not only because I took one of them, but because...
Robert Donner Jr., whose interest in cars began as a toddler while his father was an Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California, in July of 1955, his first appearance in California. That’s Alan with the checkered flag. With this same car, Alberto Ascari and Nino Farina had won the 1953 Nürburgring 1000km,...
Quit Scraping the Paint! Photo: Roger Dixon Dear Editor, I would like to point out one quibble and one major...
A shooting star is an astronomical phenomenon which appears suddenly in the night sky, burns brightly for a few seconds...
Masten Gregory sits in the cockpit of the 1965 BRP Indycar as team manager Tony Robinson looks on. What brothers? Most motor racing aficionados know something about Masten Gregory. An American, he won Le Mans in 1965 and drove in Formula One. Few, however, remember that he had a brother...
Roberto Moreno Photo: Pete Austin Mike Hawthorne Photo: BRDC Archive 1 F1 race winner and six-time Le Mans victor Jacky...
Aston’s Spectre Dear Editor, What a ripper read your leading article was in the December edition of Vintage Roadcar! Become...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We were close friends and our times together go back to 1955 when he raced at Torrey Pines. A number of those among us stood head and shoulders...