“My name is Casey; and I’m a recovering Triumph owner.” Or at least that’s how I’ve felt for a number...
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Recently, I was judging at a racecar concours in Southern California, when I ran into an old friend named Dave...
Only four names come to mind when one recalls which drivers have driven their self-constructed cars in World Championship Grands...
On Tuesday, the British car community lost a dear friend and passionate lifelong advocate, Michael Cook, to pneumonia at the age of 85. Mike had a storied career in advertising and public relations for a host of British brands including Rover, Land Rover, Austin, MG, Jaguar and his beloved Triumph....
2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the successful move John Surtees made from motorcycles to cars, and he remains the...
The 14th annual Kastner Cup race will be held at Summit Point Raceway in Summit Point, West Virginia, as part...
MG’s fabled Competitions Department enjoyed near constant success on the international racing stage. With victories in road racing, rallying, trials and Land Speed Record attempts, the postwar competition and special tuning department in Abingdon, England, was synonymous with “Giant Killing” performance right up through 1967. However, the late ’60s brought...
1968 Lolita MkI & the 1969 Lolita MkII My first car was a British Motor Corporation Mini. I had just turned...
The annual support race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most important events in all...
A Triumph TR2, raced in the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans, far exceeded its pre-sale estimate for this past weekend’s Silverstone Auction, when it sold for £258,750 ($332,677), setting a new sales record for a TR2. The Triumph TR2 was launched in 1952 and was soon in great demand...
The LeMay – America’s Car Museum will have its grand opening on June 2, 2012 in Tacoma, Washington, having completed...
Pete Lyons We start the new season with two interesting notes on the subject of pulchritude. Near the end of...
Historics or Hysterics? Dear Editor, Bravo Harlan Halsey! A letter—actually a mini-article—over a page in length and I agree with all of it! Am I just mellowing, or does the dear man speak the truth? Look, I’m glad to see just about anything out on a road course. And I don’t want to...
Bricklin Company namesake and founder, Malcolm Bricklin. Malcolm Bricklin has more balls than a Christmas tree. Charismatic and effervescent, his...
The Morgan Motor Company With no thoughts of cars in mind, I first visited Malvern in the high summer of...
Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can keep gnawing on you ’til finally you just gotta explode? That’s what I’ve been nursing ever since a NASCAR telecast last year, when I heard announcer Darrell Waltrip say something...
Maserati recently celebrated the 80th anniversary of Luigi “Gigi” Villoresi’s impressive win at the 1939 Targa Florio at the wheel...
The Friends of Triumph (FOT) and the MG Racers Group have announced that both will come together at HSR’s “Walter...
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Triumph marque, more than 60 Triumphs took to the track for this year’s SVRA Sprint Grand Prix held at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on June 14-16. In addition to a large assortment of TR2s, 3s, 4s and 6s, there were also a number of...
Pioneering classic car electrification company Electrogenic has finalized two ‘World First’ conversions of classic vehicles to electric power; a 1976...
Dennis Firestone I began racing at age 18 in 1962, on TT motorcycles with my brother-in-law, Don Kratofil, and a...
This is the sad tale of my first chance to own a sports car and how I blew it—the chance, not the car. No harm came to the car—at least, not until the story was over. I invite you to step back with me 40-some years to the mid-1960s, when...
Nearly 10 years ago in this space (“Sleuths Wanted,” February 2002) I asked if anyone could ID a Can-Am car...
The Triumph Register of America will hold its 34th annual Triumph sports car show and Concours d’Elegance from June 11th...
This year’s Practical Classics Classic Car and Restoration Show, with Discovery, broke all records — record crowds, record number of cars and clubs, record fundraising and more restoration and rust than ever before! A record 28,151 motoring enthusiasts, an increase of more than 3,000 attendees, headed to Birmingham’s NEC over...